PROJECT OUTLINE

PI (Principal Investigator)

Assistant Professor (FLUL)

E-mail: ricardogilsoeiro@campus.ul.pt

Biographical note

Ricardo Gil Soeiro is Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon). In 2009, he received his PhD in Comparative Studies from FLUL. He has taught graduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Lisbon, ranging from contemporary Portuguese literature and Comparative Literature to the MA course “Memory and Literature in a Globalised Culture” and specialises in Comparative Literature, Posthumanism, and Literary Theory. His publications include Gramática da Esperança (Vega, 2009), Iminência do Encontro (Roma, 2009), collections of poetry, and the edited volume The Wounds of Possibility (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and collections, including Ellipsis, Ítaca, Impossibilia, and the Journal of Romance Studies. He is the recipient of several national literary and academic awards, including a PEN Prize, awarded in 2010. He currently coordinates the Posthuman research project at CEC.

Main areas of research

• Comparative Studies
• Contemporary Portuguese Poetry
• Literary Theory 
• Posthumanism

Selected publications

• 2020. A Sombra que Ilumina: A Poesia de António Franco Alexandre. Lisboa: Edições Tinta-da-china. 
• 2019. O Enigma Claro da Matéria. Lisboa: Abysmo. 

• 2019. Volúpia do Desastre. Fafe: Labirinto. 
• 2018 (eds.). SOEIRO, Ricardo Gil & SERRA, José Pedro. Das Cinzas do Silêncio à Palavra de Fogo. Porto: Exclamação.
• 2014. (eds). SOEIRO, Ricardo Gil & CORREIA, Carlos João (eds.) (2014). Paul Celan: Da Ética do Silêncio à Poética do Encontro. Lisboa: CFUL.
• 2012 (ed.). The Wounds of Possibility. Essays on George Steiner. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

Teresa Fernandes Swiatkiewicz 

Teacher, researcher and translator

E-mail: tswiatkiewicz@gmail.com

Biographical note

Teresa Fernandes Swiatkiewicz is a teacher of English language at a public school, and a free-lance translator of Polish literature into Portuguese (Szymborska, Tokarczuk, Gombrowicz, Herbert, Lem, etc.). She is also a member of the research group Ibero-Slavic Interculturalism (Clepul). She graduated in English and German Studies (University of Lisbon) and holds a master’s degree in Literature Theory (University of Lisbon) and Polish Philology (University of Warsaw). She is a PhD in Translation Studies (University of Lisbon) and her areas of research are norms and strategies of translation, literary criticism and the reception of Polish literature in Portugal. She was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit by the Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski, for the services rendered in the promotion of Polish culture, in 2012.

Selected publications: 

2021.“A guerra em discurso indireto na poesia de Wisława Szymborska” In Arte, Memória e Guerra nos Contextos Ibéricos e Eslavos, org.: Aldinina Medeiros et al., Clepul, Universidade de Lisboa.

2021 – “A tradução de literatura homoerótica nos anos 90 em Portugal” In Era uma vez a tradução, org. Maria Lin Moniz et al., Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa. 

2019 – “É rejeitando que escolho” In O nada virado do avesso – em torno de Wislawa Szymborska, org. Ricardo Gil Soeiro e Teresa Fernandes Swiatkiewicz. Poética Edições, Braga.

2019 – “Como se escreve Olga em Português” In: A Revista do Expresso, Edição 2452 de 26 de outubro.

2018 – “Normy wstępne w bezpośrednim przekładzie literatury polskiej na europejski portugalski w latach 1985–2010” In Postscriptum polonistyczne, 2018 - 1 (21).

Marinela Freitas

Assistant Professor

mcfreitas@letras.up.pt

Marinela Freitas is Assistant Professor of the Department of Anglo-American Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature (ILCML), where she coordinates the research group Intersexualities. She holds a Ph.D. in Anglo-American Studies from the University of Porto, on the poetry and poetics of Emily Dickinson and Luiza Neto Jorge. She is the author of Emily Dickinson e Luiza Neto Jorge: Quantas Faces? (Afrontamento, 2014), for which she received the PEN Club Award - Essay 2015. She has co-edited 7 books and 6 journals in the fields of Comparative Literature, Feminist Studies and Utopian Studies, among which are Legados e Heranças: Políticas (Inter)sexuais Hoje (with Ana Luísa Amaral, Maria de Lurdes Sampaio & Alexandra Moreira da Silva; Afrontamento, 2019); New Portuguese Letters to the World: International Reception (with Ana Luísa Amaral and Ana Paula Ferreira, Peter Lang, 2015), Novas Cartas Portuguesas Entre Portugal e o Mundo (with Ana Luísa Amaral, Dom Quixote, 2014) and Utopia Matters (with Fátima Vieira, UPorto, 2005). She has also co-edited (with Ana Luísa Amaral) an anthology of poetry addressing gender and sexualities: Do Corpo: Outras Habitações. Identidades e Desejos Outros em Alguma Poesia Portuguesa (Assírio & Alvim, 2018; 343 pp.). As a researcher, she has participated in 8 national and international research projects in the area of Comparative Literature, Feminist Studies and Utopian Studies. Since 2015, she is a member of the Coordinating Team of She Thought It: Crossing Bodies in Sciences and Arts, a database with entries on women whose steps have significantly marked history in fields such as sciences, arts, music and literature (https://shethoughtit.ilcml.com/), hosted at the ILCML. From 2015 to 2019, she developed a Post-doc project on Posthuman Studies, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Research Areas (keywords): Comparative Poetics, North-American Poetry, Twentieth-century Portuguese Poetry, Feminist and Queer Studies, Utopia and Gender, Posthuman Studies, Literature and Science.

Lígia Bernardino

Researcher and Teacher

ligia.bernardino@gmail.com

Biographical note:

Lígia Bernardino is a teacher and researcher in the field of comparative literature. She completed her PhD in 2014 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto with the thesis Limiares do Humano. Estudo sobre Jorge de Sena, Maria Gabriela Llansol e Gonçalo M. Tavares (Liminalities of the Human. A study on Jorge de Sena, Maria Gabriela Llansol and Gonçalo M. Tavares), and has since been a full member of the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature (ILCML). Her main interests have been focused on the literary representation of the human interwoven with nature and machine or technique. She has published some articles on the subject in national and international journals. Within ILCML, she also participates in the publishing and writing of entries for the digital platform Europe facing Europe. As member of the Posthuman: posthumanist literary imagination team, of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon Morphe Group, she co-edited the anthology of theoretical texts Pós-Humano. Que Futuro? (The Post-Human. What future?), in 2020.

Main areas of research:

• Post-human/Post-humanism;
• Ecocriticism;
• Ethics and philosophy,
• Portuguese contemporary literature.

Selected publications:

·        “Laços poéticos de natureza e cultura em Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão”, Texto Poético, 17(33), pp. 7-31 (2021).

·        “Circuitos de sombras na Europa de Gonçalo M. Tavares”, Synergies Portugal n° 9, pp. 99-116 (2021).

·        “Metamorfoses do medo”, Um Senhor Tavares. Ensaios e erros. Coimbra: Coimbra University Press, pp. 85-106 (2020).

·        “Corpos do medo em «Refluxo» de José Saramago”, REVISTA 2i, Vol. 2, N.º 2, pp. 83-95 (2020).

·        "Arritmias da cidade em aceleração", Poéticas do Devir: Interstícios pós-humanistas, V. N. de Famalicão: Húmus, pp. 45-63 (2020).

·        "Correlações pós-humanistas na era do Antropoceno", Dedalus - Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, 22-23: 357-413 (2019).

·        “A mecânica das fendas em O Reino”, Gonçalo M. Tavares - Ensaios, aproximações, entrevista, Rio de Janeiro: Oficina Raquel, pp. 42-60 (2018).

·        "The threshold of democracy in Saramago's Seeing", Gragoatá , v. 23 n. 45, “Literatura e Democracia”, pp. 317-333 (2018).

·        “Pluralidades de um Oikos pós-humanista”, Cadernos de Literatura Comparada, (37), 131–146 “Interdisciplinaridades” (2017).

·        "Arte e rememoração em Jorge de Sena". Forma de Vida, 10 (acedível em http://www.lerjorgedesena.letras.ufrj.br/ressonancias/96-arte-e-rememoracao-em-jorge-de-sena/) (2017).

·        “Natureza e textualidade em Maria Gabriela Llansol”, Convergência Lusíada, 26(34) “Literatura e Interdisciplinaridade”, pp. 101-117 (2015).

Raluca Balan

Junior Researcher

ralucabalan@campus.ul.pt

Raluca Balan holds a BA degree in Romanian and English Languages and Literatures from the School of Arts and Humanities, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași (Romania), and an MA degree in History of Images – History of Ideas (Comparative Literature) from the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj (Romania). She entered the PhD-COMP Programme in 2018/2019 (CEComp), and became a scholarship holder in 2019/2020. Her research focuses on the aesthetics and politics of self-exile in Portuguese and Romanian discourses of the 20th century, under the supervision of Professors Ricardo Gil Soeiro (University of Lisbon) and Mara Magda Maftei (University of Bucarest). She is a member in training from the Centre of Comparative Studies, where she is part of the POSTHUMAN: POSTHUMANIST LITERARY IMAGINATION research project in the MORPHE group.

 Main publication:

“The 21st Century Scholars. Medicine and Society”. In : La Trahison des images, la déficience des langues. Cahiers Echinox Journal 31: 2006: 332-33.

Igor Furão 

Researcher

igorfurao@hotmail.com

Igor Furão is a researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon. He holds a Master Degree in Comparative Studies from the University of Lisbon (thesis: Entre “Bios” e “Política”: a tetralogia “O Reino”, de Gonçalo M. Tavares) and a PhD also in Comparative Studies obtained with his thesis  Representing Life, Resisting Power: A comparative approach to contemporary biopolitics through the lense of Gonçalo M. Tavares, Francesco Verso, Ken MacLeod and Suzannne Collins. He has participated and organized several conferences, including the international conference Endangered bodies: Representing and Policing the Body in Western Popular Culture (which took place on October 8–9, 2018, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal), has published several articles and has edited a number of volumes, such as Estética das Emoções (Húmus, 2011),  Insecurity and Global Terror (Special Number of the online magazine Estrema, 2014), or Poéticas do Devir: Interstícios Pós-humanistas (Húmus, 2021). His main areas of interest are Trauma/Memory Studies, Critical Theory and Biopolitics.

João Oliveira Duarte obtained a degree in philosophy from the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, and a master’s degree in aesthetics from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where he is currently pursuing a PhD in art history. An FCT scholarship recipient and member of IHA and CLEPUL, he has published several essays in specialized magazines, both national and international. He has also contributed as a literary critic to several publications, including Electra, Colóquio-Letras and Jornal i.

Catarina Apolinário de Almeida BA in History (2003, FLUL) and MA in History – Egyptology (2008, FCSH-UNL), Received a PhD in Ancient History (2017, FLUL/FCT scholarship) and was a visiting fellow at the School of Archeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool. Contributed to the TECOP Project. Texts and Contexts of Portuguese Orientalism (CEComparatistas) and is currently a member of RIIPOA - Red Iberoamericana de Investigación sobre el Próximo Oriente Antiguo and associate researcher/contributor in the project MORTEXVAR -The Earlier Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Texts Variability (Univ. Alcalá de Henares). Concurrently, worked as science and project manager at the Planning Unit – Research Support Office at FLUL (2017-2020). Presently holding an international relations and policy analyst position in digital transformation and governance at AMA-Administrative Modernization Agency.

Maria João Cantinho

Researcher - CFUL

E-mail: mjcantinho@gmail.com

Biographical note

Maria João Cantinho is a [High School] secondary school teacher and integrated researcher at the Philosophy Centre of the University of Lisbon (CFUL). She completed her PhD in Philosophy at the NOVA [School] University of Lisbon in 2011. Her interests include twentieth-century philosophy, namely culture, photography, and literature. She has published articles and has presented papers at national and international conferences regarding those areas. She has co-organized “Reflexões Em torno de Maria Zambrano, Lisbon, Câmara de Lisboa”, (2007), “Reconhecimento e Hospitalidade”, Lisbon, Edições 70, (2011), “Paul Celan: Da Ética do Silêncio à Poética do Encontro”, Lisbon, Edições Centro de Filosofia, (2015).

Main areas of research

• Political Philosophy;
• Visual Culture Studies;
• Philosophy of History.

Selected publications

• 2002. O Anjo Melancólico: Conceito de Alegoria na Obra de Walter Benjamin, Lisboa, Angelus Novus.
• 2016. Sousa Dias, Pré-Apocalypse Now: Diálogo com Maria João Cantinho sobre Política, Estética e Filosofia, Editora Documenta, Lisbon. 
• 2019. Walter Benjamin: Melancolia e Revolução, Editora Exclamação, Porto. (winner of the PEN award for best essay 2020). 
• 2021. A Dança da Metamorfose, Editora Húmus, Porto.

Guilherme Berjano Valente is currently a Master's student at the Program in Literary Theory in Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. He has majored in Comparative Arts and Cultures, with a focus on Literature and Visual Arts. His research interests are Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, Literary Theory, Posthumanism, Metafiction, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, and Philosophy in pop-culture.

Junior Researcher (FLUL)

E-mail: anadavies@edu.ulisboa.pt

Biographical note

Ana Davies is a Comparative Studies undergraduate at the University of Lisbon. Contemporary critical theory, performance studies, posthumanism and queer theory are among her main interests. Her final course essay explored surveillance, parody and the body in the works of Howard Barker, Mona Hatoum and Michael Haneke.

Main areas of research

• Contemporary Critical Theory
• Performance Studies 
• Posthumanism