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 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 is PdH degree in Spanish Literature by Complutense University of Madrid with PhD thesis La imaginería en la poesía erótica de los Siglos de Oro (2021). At this time, he has a postdoctoral contract “Margarita Salas”, in whose context he is developing the project named La imaginería erótica en el romancero panhispánico: catalogación, análisisis y marcado digital (Erotic Images in Pan-Hispanic Ballad: Documentation, Analysis and Digital Markup). From March of 2022, he has been doing a research stay in Romanceiro.pt project at Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT – NOVA FCSH). He has teached in Complutense University of Madrid, in Perugia University and in Algarve University. Related with his scientific works, he has published in high impact journals and in national and international collective monographs and he is author of the edition Álbum de Venus, seguida de Arte de putear de Moratín (Visor, 2014) and the book Ramón Menéndez Pidal en la Sierra de Guadarrama. Crónica de un vecino de San Rafael (Fundación Ramón Menéndez Pidal, 2018). In addition, he takes part regulary in national and international conferences, being part of the organizing committee of 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 Digital Humanities, he is nowadays the administrator of Archivo del Romancero, from Ramón Menéndez Pidal Foundation, where he collaborates as a researcher too. In the end, he is also member of Menéndez Pidal University Institute at Complutense University of Madrid.
Ricardo Marques has graduated in English and Portuguese and holds a PhD in Portuguese Literature, granted by NOVA FCSH. In this institution he has been a researcher at some centres (CETAPS, IELT, IEMo) and has just began work on a FCT – approved project on the Literary and Artistic magazines that belong to the first phase of Portuguese Modernism. [Scientific outputs]
Irene Fialho has a Graduation and a Master’s degree by NOVA FCSH, where she defended a thesis entitled Popular e Popularizante nos Manuais Escolares do Estado Novo (Popular and Popularizing in the Textbooks of Estado Novo). She has dedicated herself to the study of the life and work of Eça de Queirós, regularly publishing articles on the author and his generation in national and international journals. She edited essays on Eça de Queirós A Morte do Diabo (2013), Eça de Queirós em Casa (2016) and the critical editions of Almanaques e outros dispersos (2011), A correspondência de Fradique Mendes (2014, with Carlos Reis and Maria João Simões) and Alves & Cia. (1994, with Luiz Fagundes Duarte). A member of the Cultural Council of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation, Irene Fialho served on the Board of Directors of FEQ between 2010 and 2019. Member of CLP of the University of Coimbra and CLEPUL of the University of Lisbon, at IELT is part of the team of Atlas of Literary Landscapes of Mainland Portugal project. [Scientific outputs]
Graduated in Modern Languages and Literature (Portuguese/English) by Faculdade de Letras (Lisbon University), Master in Comparative Literature, and with a PhD in Literature and Culture Studies. Her research is focused on Fernando Pessoa’s marginalia and Fernando Pessoa’s writings. She has participated in multiple meetings and conferences in Portugal and abroad and she has published several essays in literary magazines and online papers. She is a member of IELT and “Estranhar Pessoa” team. She has been working as a teacher at secondary schools and at university. Meanwhile, she has been working as teacher in the programme of secondary teachers professional training. [Scientific outputs]
Cristina Mendonça is a Ph.D. student in Modern Literatures and Cultures at NOVA FCSH. Graduated in Languages, Literatures and Cultures – French and English Studies and Master in Modern Literatures and Cultures, major in Romance Studies at the same institution. In 2021, she published her master’s thesis in Le Manuscrit (collection «Extopies») Identidades artísticas e dimensões da écfrase: Construção da personagem-artista em quatro obras de expressão francesa, as a result from the 1st Prize of “Jeunes Chercheurs en Études Françaises et Francophones au Portugal”, organized by APEF (Portuguese Association of French Studies).
Mariana de Freitas Branco has a degree in History from the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and is currently a master’s student in Women’s Studies at the same institution. Her interests include feminist theory, literature, and history. She is a research fellow of Portuguese women writers during the military dictatorship and the Estado Novo in Portugal, Africa, Asia and countries of emigration project of IELT.
Associate Professor of the Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Santarém. Head of the Department of Languages and Literatures. Teaching areas: Literature (Literary Theory; Modern & Contemporary Portuguese Literature) and Literary Education (Children’s Literature; Didactics of Language Development in nursery and kindergarten). Publishes in the area of gender and education. PhD candidate in Comparative Literature.
Ana Sirgado is a research fellow at IELT and team member of the project RELIT-Rom “Literary revisions: the creative application of ancient ballads (15th-18th centuries)”. She completed her PhD in Traditional and Oral Literature at NOVA University of Lisbon in 2017. She was also a Guest Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH where she teached Portuguese Renaissance Literature for undergraduate programmes (2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-24). Her research interests include Portuguese Literature of the 16th century and traditional literature, focusing mostly on the pan-Hispanic ballad and on its relationship with canonical works of literature. She is the co-author of Romances Tradicionais do Distrito de Bragança (IELT, 2019), along with J. J. Dias Marques, and author, amongst other publications, of “As jovens aventuras de Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar: reavaliação de um testemunho do romanceiro novo” (RCIM, 2022) and of “Romances e provérbios na literatura portuguesa quinhentista: o caso de «erros por amores»” (BLO, 2022). [Scientific outputs]