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 holds a PhD in Portuguese Studies, specializing in Literary Studies, from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Nova University of Lisbon, where she also completed her BA in Portuguese Studies. Her doctoral thesis, O Romance da Obra: Paradoxo e João Guimarães Rosa, proposes an original reading of the author’s work, mobilizing paradox as both a critical and creative instrument. Her research focuses on Brazilian literature, literary theory, philosophy, and interart studies. She has published on Machado de Assis and Adília Lopes in journals such as Machado de Assis em Linha and Journal of Lusophone Studies. She was a member of the organizing committee of the International Colloquium Ir à escola com a Adília. From 2021 to 2025, she held an FCT-IELT doctoral fellowship.

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.

Ricardo Marques

 

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

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]

Maria do Céu Estibeira

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

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

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.