Flávio Rodrigo Penteado

Post-Doctoral fellow within the scope of the research project Estranhar Pessoa of the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition. His work focuses on literary and theatrical modernity, with an emphasis on the works of Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Andrade. He has published more than a dozen articles in specialized journals and book chapters, most of them focused on Pessoa. He edited the compilation Me esqueci completamente de mim, sou um departamento de cultura (with Carlos Augusto Calil, IMESP, 2015), the anthology Primero de Mayo y otros cuentos (with Jorge Uribe, Uniandes, 2017), by Mário de Andrade, and the volume Mário de Andrade por ele mesmo, by Paulo Duarte (Todavia, 2022). He is also a member of the research group Estudos Pessoanos. [Scientific Outputs]

João Cruz

Graduated in Philosophy (2015-2018) from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon. At the same institution, he obtained a Master’s degree in General Philosophy (2018-2021), with the dissertation On Baudelaire’s Laughter: A Translation Problem Between Subject and Life, and was awarded the Merit and Excellence Prize for best Master. He is currently a doctoral student in Philosophy (2022- ), specializing in Ontology and Philosophy of Nature, developing his project The Problem of Everydayness in Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, with a research scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology. He is a collaborating member of IELT, where is part of the project Estranhar Pessoa, and also of IFILNOVA, thus covering the two aspects – literary and philosophical, respectively – of his doctoral research.

Nicolás Asensio Jiménez

 

Nicolas Asensio Jiménez is a researcher at the Institute “Seminario Menéndez Pidal” of the Complutense University of Madrid. During the years 2021-2023, he worked as a research assistant at the IELT thanks to a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. Together with Teresa Araujo, he developed the project The Golden Age of the Romancero: Echoes of Traditional Ballads in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature. His research interests focus on Spanish literature of the Middle Ages and the Golden Age, particularly in the romancero, hagiography, text editing, and digital humanities. [Scientific outputs]

Catarina Alhinha

Catarina Alhinha holds a bachelor’s degree in Portuguese Studies from the University of Lisbon. In 2022, she won the Excellence Award for the best graduate. Between 2022 and 2023, she integrated the research team for the European project VAST: Values Across Space and Time, dedicated to the area of fairy tales and digital humanities. She is currently a master’s student at NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA FCSH) and a member of the research project Estranhar Pessoa at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition. Her research interests centre on Fernando Pessoa’s studies, literary modernism (English and Portuguese), and contemporary literature. She is also a writer who enjoys combining her words with painting, photography, and theatre, notably through her project Desaniversário.

Mariana Nascimento

Mariana Nascimento is a PhD student in Comparative Studies at NOVA FCSH and the University of Warwick. She is developing a thesis on figurations of remains in the works of Fernando Guerreiro, Manuel Gusmão and Teresa Villaverde. It explores the possibility of a hybrid and dialogic language manifested in objects that are also compound and phantasmatic. She holds a Master’s Degree in Aesthetics and Artistic Studies, with a dissertation entitled The Residue as the Resistance of Matter: the Rematerialisation of the World through Poetry and Photography (FCSH). She has a degree in Arts and Humanities from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.

Isabel Henriques de Jesus

Degree in educational psychology, graduate degree in Romance Literatures, and PHD in Romance Languages and Literatures, specializing in Modern Portuguese Literature. Thesis entitled The image of women in Portuguese literature in the late 1960s. Besides the field of teacher education where she worked for most of my professional life, feminist and gender studies have been her main area of research during the last 20 years. Coordinator of the Portuguese women writers during military dictatorship and estado novo in Portugal, Africa, Asia and countries of emigration project, that aims to survey and study women who published between the years 1926 and 1974, as well as analyze their works and the contexts of their production. She coordinates a research team in the field of women’s studies and direct the journal Faces de Eva. Estudos sobre a Mulher, which is a biannual scientific publication.

Fátima Ribeiro de Medeiros

 

PhD student in Portuguese Studies, specializing in Literature Studies, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She has taught Portuguese and Portuguese Literature at various levels of education, from secondary to higher education. She has been carrying out research in different – yet interdependent – areas, focusing mainly on Portuguese literature of the 20th and 21st centuries and feminism in the early 20th century. She has published extensively on these subjects. [Scientific outputs]

Diana Duarte Ferreira

 

Diana Duarte Ferreira is a doctoral student in Portuguese Studies at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and has a degree in Portuguese Studies from the same institution. She has been developing her research on Brazilian literature, literary theory, and interart studies. Since 2021, she has been a PhD research fellow at IELT/FCT. [Scientific outputs]

Márcia Seabra Neves

Márcia Liliana Seabra Neves has an undergraduate degree in Teaching Portuguese and French from the University of Aveiro. She finished her PhD in Culture, in December 2010, at the same University with a thesis entitled Da francofilia no imaginário presencista: da NRF à presença. Between 2012 and 2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow and a member of the Institute for the Study of Literary and Tradition, at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Here she developed a research project under the theme Zooficções: figuras da animalidade nas narrativas portuguesa e brasileira contemporâneas (SFRH/BPD/80743/2011). Since February 2019, she has been a hired researcher at IELT / School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she also teaches Francophone Literature, 19th Century French Culture and Literature, in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Modern Literatures. Her current research focuses on the theme Zoofições e geopoéticas: cartografias da animalidade. She is also a collaborating member of the Centre for Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Aveiro. She has published several articles in the scope of cultural studies, comparative literature and the figuration of animality in the Portuguese narrative of the 20th and 21st centuries. [Scientific outputs]

Álvaro Piquero Rodríguez

Álvaro Piquero is PhD degree in Spanish Literature by the Complutense University of Madrid (2021) and he is currently a Substitute Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Between March 2022 and 2023, he had a research stay on the Romanceiro.pt project at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT – NOVA FCSH). He has taught at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Università degli Studi di Perugia and the University of the Algarve.   Related with his scientific works, he has published in high-impact journals and in national and international collective volumes, and is the author of the monographs El imaginario de la poesía erótica en los Siglos de Oro (Berlin, Peter Lang, 2023) and Ramón Menéndez Pidal en la Sierra de Guadarrama. Crónica de un vecino de San Rafael (Fundación Ramón Menéndez Pidal, 2018), and the edition of Álbum de Venus, seguido del Arte de putear de Moratín (Visor, 2014). In addition, he takes part regulary in national and international conferences, being part of the organizing committee of the VII Congresso Internacional do Romanceiro (Lisbon, IELT – NOVA FCSH, 2023) , the IX Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación en Lengua y Literaturas Hispánicas (Madrid, UCM, 2021) and the VI Congreso Internacional del Romancero (Madrid, UCM, 2019). Considering their work experience in cataloguing and Digital Humanities, he is nowadays the coordinator of Archivo del Romancero Menéndez PIdal-Goyri, from Ramón Menéndez Pidal Foundation, where he collaborates as a researcher since 2014. In the end, he is also a member of the Romanceiro.pt project at the University of Évora.