Associate Professor (School of Social Sciences and Humanities – Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Has a PhD in Portuguese Studies, Oral Literature. Founded the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT) from School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH). [Scientific outputs]
José Bértolo is a professor in the Department of Portuguese Studies and an Assistant Researcher at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (NOVA FCSH), Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His main research areas are photography studies, film studies, intermedial studies, and comparative literature. He focuses primarily on the Portuguese and Japanese contexts. He received his PhD in Comparative Studies from the University of Lisbon (2019), within the International Programme in Comparative Studies (FCT-funded PhD programme in partnership with the University of Bologna and KU Leuven).
Between 2023 and 2025, he co-coordinated, with Clara Rowland, the FCT Exploratory Project “Spectralities: Literature and the Arts (Portugal and Brazil)”. He has programmed film series in cultural and academic institutions, curated exhibitions, published articles, and presented papers in Portugal and abroad. Published essay books: Imagens em Fuga: Os Fantasmas de François Truffaut (Documenta, 2016); Sobreimpressões: Leituras de Filmes (Documenta, 2019); Espectros do Cinema: Manoel de Oliveira e João Pedro Rodrigues (Documenta, 2020); Ichi-go Ichi-e: Fotógrafos Portugueses no Japão / Portuguese Photographers in Japan (with Pedro Alfacinha, 2025). Edited volumes: A Escrita do Cinema: Ensaios (with Clara Rowland, 2015, Documenta); Morte e Espectralidade nas Artes e na Literatura (with Fernando Guerreiro, 2019, Húmus); Imitações da Vida: Cinema Clássico Americano (with C. Rowland and F. Guerreiro, 2020, Bookbuilders); Assombrações: A Inscrição do Fantasma (with C. Rowland, 2025, Documenta). Selected edited journal issues: “Photography, Cinema, and the Ghostly”, Journal of Communication and Languages, 53, with Margarida Medeiros, 2020; “Materialities of the Photobook”, Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, 8, with David Campany, 2022; “Prosopopoeia Today: Poetics and Politics”, 2i, 4–6, with Amândio Reis, 2022; “Frames of Expression: Photography and Other Art Forms”, Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, 8, with José Neves, 2025. Alongside his academic work, he maintains an artistic practice and published in 2024 his first photobook, Moraesu St. (Documenta): https://www.josebertolo.com
PhD student in Estudos Portugueses at NOVA FCSH, with an FCT scholarship, develops a project around Agustina Bessa-Luís and Manoel de Oliveira, based on the concept of melancholy. Bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Estudos Portugueses with the thesis “Modos de Cindir para Continuar. Uma leitura de A Noite e o Riso e Estação, de Nuno Bragança”. Has published two poetry books: Hidrogénio (Flan de Tal, 2020) and Rasura (Fresca, 2021) and received a literary creation scholarship from DGLAB. She is co-editor of Lote magazine.
Fernando Cabral Martins was Professor of Portuguese Literature at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. He has written on modern portuguese literature, namely three books on Cesário Verde, Mário de Sá-Carneiro and Fernando Pessoa, and on the portuguese painting and film history. He organized annotated anthologies and prepared several literary editions of Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa, Almada Negreiros, Alexandre O’Neill, Luiza Neto Jorge. He has edited one reference book on Fernando Pessoa, portuguese modernism and avant-garde, Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo Português. [Scientific Outputs]
Pedro Liberato has a PhD in Tourism Management and Planning and a Master’s in Management and Planning of Health and Inland Tourism from the University of Vigo. He is a lecturer and coordinator of the Department of Tourism and Leisure at the School of Hospitality and Tourism of the Porto Polytechnic Institute, where he teaches several courses in Tourism at undergraduate and master levels. He is coordinator of the Master in Tourism Management (ESHT – P.PORTO). His main research interests are Tourism Marketing, Tourism Destination Management and Regional Development, Tourism Management, Tourism Planning, Literary Tourism, Gastronomic Tourism, Creative Tourism, and etourism. He has supervised and co-supervised several MSc dissertations and PhD theses. He is involved in applied research and consultancy projects in Tourism and Leisure and is a member of organizing and scientific committees of international conferences. He authored or co-authored more than 75 book chapters and articles published in international journals and international conference proceedings, indexed Scopus and/or Web of Science.
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]
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.
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
Catarina Alhinha graduated in 2021 with a BA in Portuguese Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon. In 2022, she received the Excellence Award for Best Graduate. Between 2022 and 2023, she was a member of the research team of the European project VAST: Values Across Space and Time, dedicated to fairy tales and digital humanities. She completed her MA in Portuguese Studies at the NOVA University Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) in 2024. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Oxford, while continuing her collaboration with the research project Estranhar Pessoa at the Institute of Literature and Tradition Studies (IELT). Her main research interests include Pessoa studies, modernist and contemporary women’s writing in English and Portuguese literature. She is also a writer who enjoys combining her words with painting, photography, and theatre, notably through her artistic project Desaniversário.
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.