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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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]