RESEARCH PROJECT IN PORTRAIT AND REPRESENTATION
UNIVERSITY OF MINHO | CENTRE FOR HUMANISTIC STUDIES
Contact: retratoerepresentacao@gmail.com
SENIOR RESEARCHERS
EUNICE RIBEIRO | PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures (Portuguese and French Studies) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto and PhD at the University of Minho in Literature Sciences, with a specialization in Portuguese Literature (1998). She is currently a Full Professor at this University and ,from 2013 to 2016, was the President of the Institute of Arts and Humanities. At this institution she was also director of the Department of Portuguese and Lusophone Studies, coordinator of the thematic line in Literature Sciences of the Centre for Humanistic Studies and responsible for postgraduate courses in Literary Theory and Lusophone Literatures as well as the scientific editor of Diacrítica / Literature Sciences series. She now integrates the executive committee of the Doctoral Program in Comparative Modernities: Literature, Arts & Culture and has guided several master and PhD theses. She collaborates in several national and international literary journals, and is an invited member of the direction of Regianos Studies Center (Vila do Conde) and effective partner of the Association of Journalists and Literati of Porto. She has published several books and articles focusing its attention on modern and contemporary Portuguese Literature and Comparative Studies as well as Interarts and studies on portrait, especially studies on the portrait. Among her publications are the following books: Ver. Escrever – José Régio, o texto iluminado (CEHUM, 2000), Arte Régia. Leituras regianas (Pena Perfeita, 2007), Antologia da Poesia Experimental Portuguesa – Anos 60/Anos 80, co-org. (Angelus Novus, 2004) Escritas metamórficas – sobre a ficção de Frederico Lourenço (Cotovia, 2008), Envolvimento e Clímax. Do entre das Artes, ed. (http://hdl.handle.net/1822/13521, 2011), Modernidades Comparadas: Estudos Literários/Estudos Culturais revisitados, ed. (Húmus/CEHUM, 2012).
MARIA CRISTINA ÁLVARES
Holder of a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (Portuguese and French) from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) in 1984 and of a PhD in Literary Studies – French Literature from the Universidade do Minho in 1994. She is Associate Professor in this University since 2001. She was appointed Vice-Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities (2000-2004, 2015-2016). She was Head of the Department of French Studies (1998-2000, 2007-2009) and of the Department of Romance Studies (2013-2015). She is a researcher at the Centro de Estudos Humanísticos of the same university and she was visiting associate professor at Louisiana State University, in Bâton Rouge (2004-2005). She has been publishing in different national and international journals, she is Psyches’ editor for Mondes Francophones and a member of the Portuguese Association for French Studies. Her research fields are medieval French literature and contemporary French literature. She has authored O amor da letra. O heterogéneo, o artificial e o feminine no ‘Roman de la Rose’ de Jean Renart, Braga, CEHUM, 1999; La Peau de la pierre. Étude sur ‘La Vie de Sainte Énimie’ de Bertrand de Marseille, Braga, CEHUM, 2006; and a number of papers on the courtly novel of the 12th and 13th centuries; on ‘medieval modernity’ (the re-appropriation of the medieval imaginary by the contemporary fiction); on Pascal Quignard, Amélie Nothomb, and Chahdortt Djavann. With Ana Lúcia Curado, Isabel Cristina Mateus and Sérgio Sousa, she organizes a book series on intermedial studies (literature, film, and comics). Four books have been published so far: Figuras do herói (2012), O imaginário das viagens (2013), Figuras do idiota (2015), O imaginário esotérico (2016).
MARIA DO ROSÁRIO RIBEIRO DOS SANTOS
PhD in the University of Minho with the thesis À sombra de Baudelaire. Estudo da recepção de Baudelaire na Literatura Portuguesa. Do romantismo ao modernismo. She is currently researcher in the CEHUM and Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Studies of the Institute of Arts and Humanities of the same University. She held several management positions, having been Course and Department Director and President of the primary Council of Arts and Humanities Courses; she oriented Master's and PhD theses and published articles, in national and international magazines, in the fields of Comparative Literature, French Literature, English Literature and Myth Criticism. She published the following works: Os Fantasmas de Tróia: La bella Elena (in 2007), Monsieur Proust: O homem das leituras solitárias (in 2009) and the 3rd Chapter – “La citation et l’air du temps...” – de Citations II. Citer pour quoi faire? Pragmatique de la citation (Academia L’Harmattan, 2011). She co-organized the book Música Discurso Poder (2012), the Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Azorean Authors (2011) and the Antologia de Autores Açorianos Contemporâneos, financed by Azores’ Presidency of the Government (Regional Reading Plan, 2012). In 2014, she published the Antologia 9 Ilhas 9 Escritoras, in partnership with Helena Chrystello, and the book O voo do garajau: dos Açores a Macau in partnership with José Manuel Silva. She is now writing an essay entitled "O retrato do Artista na ficção".
XAQUÍN NÚÑEZ SABARÍS
PhD in Hispanic Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Associate Professor of the Department of Romance Studies of the Institute of Arts and Humanities of the University of Minho (Portugal). He was Vice-President of the Institute of Arts and Human Sciences and, previously, professor of Spanish at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), the National School of Public Administration (Poland) and the Cervantes Institute of Warsaw. He was also the coordinator of the branch in Ibero-American Literatures of the Master in Literary Theory of the University of Minho and the director of the Master in Spanish Second Language and Foreign Language, the first of its kind in e-learning modality in Portugal. The scope of his research focuses on literary studies, particularly on contemporary Spanish narrative. He has published several books and articles in scientific reference journals on Modernism and on the work of many contemporary Spanish writers, fundamentally, Ramón del Valle-Inclán. With a study of his work (Valle-Inclán en el Fin de Siglo. Femeninas) he got the Essay I Prize Valle-Inclán of the Deputación of Pontevedra. Recently he coordinated the book Diálogos ibéricos sobre a modernidade. In the field of comparative studies, he published the critical articles “Valle-Inclán en la escena portuguesa”, “Caminos inciertos, caminhos cruzados. La novela urbana en Camilo José Cela y Erico Veríssimo” and “La recepción de Eça de Queiros en Valle-Inclán: las traducciones”.
JUNIOR RESEARCHERS
DANIEL TAVARES
He graduated in 2008 at the University of Minho (Portugal) in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies, and also held a post graduate degree in Literary Theory - Specialization in Interart Poetics and has currently a PhD in Comparative Modernities: Literature, Arts & Culture at that same university with the thesis, financed by FCT, Do retrato poético: leituras interartísticas na poesia portuguesa contemporânea. He is reader at the Institute of Arts and Humanities at the University of Minho, collaborating in Portuguese foreign language courses and in preparation and evaluation courses for the admission in Higher Education of candidates over 23 years of age. Between 2010 and 2012, he was visiting assistant teacher at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo.
JOANA PALHA
She holds a degree in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies in 2014 at the University of Minho and currently attends a Masters degree in Theory of Literature and Lusophone Literatures. She has written some not-yet-published articles on portraiture and representation, particularly on the subject of teratology in literature. Since 2012 she is a member of the BragaCult project, where she participates in several workshops of staged readings, of the Company of Theater of Braga.
PEDRO MENESES
He graduated in Portuguese Studies at the University of Minho (Portugal) and concluded the Master in Cultural and Literary Mediation- Specialization in Cinema and Literature with the dissertation A natureza não reza. Sobre a tetralogia O Reino de Gonçalo M. Tavares. He is now preparing a doctoral thesis, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), on the work Uma viagem à Índia by Gonçalo M. Tavares. He has taught Portuguese at the University of Minho and Portuguese Literature and Literary Theory in Education at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo. In 2011,he published two articles: "Breve cartografia do imaginário contemporâneo. NYC, femmes fatales, amazonas" in Diacrítica, No. 24/3 (2010), Center for Humanistic of the University of Minho, in conjunction with other authors; "Recuperação do Romantismo como material em Nuno Júdice e Rui Chafes", in Envolvimento e Clímax. Do entre das Artes, Eunice Ribeiro (ed.), 2011 (http://hdl.handle.net/1822/13521). He keeps the blog Crueza Bruta.
SANDRA CUNHA
She graduated in 2008 in Portuguese Teaching at the University of Minho (Portugal) and, in 2012, completed the Master in Literary Theory - Specialization in Interart Poetics at the same university with a dissertation entitled Do Corpo e do Mal n’O Reino de Gonçalo M. Tavares. She is currently a doctoral student of the Doctoral Program in Comparative Modernities: Literature, Arts and Cultures at the University of Minho.
VANDA FIGUEIREDO
She graduated in 2008 in Portuguese Teaching and, in 2009, obtained a postgraduation in Literary Theory - Specialization in Lusophone Literatures from the University of Minho (Portugal), where she also has taught in Portuguese Foreign Language Courses. Currently, she attends the Doctoral Program in Comparative Modernities: Literature, Arts and Cultures at the same university, with a scholarship of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), developing a PhD project entitled O corpo moderno: representações na literatura portuguesa e outras artes.
COLLABORATORS
AMPARO DE JUAN BOLUFER
PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She was an Associate Professor at the University of Vigo, in the area of Literature Theory and is currently Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela / Lugo Campus. Her research career has focused mainly on Spanish Literature of the early twentieth century, particularly in the relations between the press and literature in the Edad de Plata. Member of the research group Valle-Inclán 1991-2014, she worked on different areas within the scope of this project: the study of the writer's narrative, the reception of his work, biographical and bibliographical aspects, author's texts rescued from the periodical press and analysis of the manuscripts of El Ruedo Ibérico maintained by the writer's family, subjects on which she published numerous articles in specialized publications. She is the author of the monographs: La técnica narrativa en Valle-Inclán, The public voice of Valle-Inclán: documents (Interviews and open letters of joint signature); with Professor Serrano Alonso, Bibliografía General de Ramón del Valle-Inclán e Valle-Inclán, candidato republicano. The bibliographical work has continued in the updates that both present in the magazine Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea desde el año 2001. She edited the proceedings of Valle-Inclán y el Fin de Siglo, Valle-Inclán (1898-1998): Escenarios, Literatura Modernista y Tiempo del 98, Literatura hispánica y prensa periódica (1875-1931), Valle-Inclán y las Artes, as well as the monograph “Ramón del Valle-Inclán” of the magazine Moenia y Ayaliana. Ensayos sobre la vida y la obra de Ramón Pérez de Ayala en el cincuentenario de su muerte. She currently works in the field of the literary portrait. In this field, it should be mentioned her work as curator, with Javier Serrano, of the exhibition Valle-Inclán dibujado. Caricaturas y retratos del escritor (1888-1936), whose catalog was published in 2008. In 2016 she published the extended revised version Valle-Inclán Genio y figura (1866-1936).
DANIEL RODRIGUES
daniel.rodrigues@univ-bpclermont.fr
He is an Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) at the University of Clermont Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand / France) and a member of the CELIS Laboratory (Center de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique). He is the author of a thesis on the poetic work of Herbert Helder at the Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Les Démonstrations du corps, L'oeuvre poétique de Herbert Helder) and responsible for the curricular units of Portuguese Literature (19th, 20th and 21st Centuries) and Traduction (Thème). He currently directs the Department of Lusophone Studies at UCA and is the scientific co-responsible for the project Genres littéraires et gender. His present research focuses on the equivalences / divergences between notions of images (representations of the self, literary portraits and also visual poetry) and textual voices in contemporary Portuguese poetry, and, in particular, in poetry written by women.
DIOGO MARTINS
He completed a degree in Portuguese Studies - Education Branch, in 2009, at the University of Minho. He worked in MLDC - Microsoft Language Department Center in Oeiras, between May and September 2008, in the area of speech synthesis. He was teacher of Portuguese Language in the Cooperative School Didáxis of S.Cosme (Famalicão/Portugal), in the 2009-2010 school year. In 2015, he completed a doctoral project in literary theory, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), in the University of Minho (portugal), with a thesis dedicated to self-representation (autobiography, self-portrait, diary writing) in Alanis Morissette’s lyrics, seeking to hybridize literary studies, cultural studies, the art of musical performance and some topics from the scope of neurobiology. He has participated in several seminars where he presented papers under his doctoral project, such as: Música Discurso Poder, University of Minho, March 2011 (he was part of the seminar’s organizing committee); Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity in the U.S. and Beyond, University of Lisbon, June 2011; Words and Music, University of Maribor (Slovenia), December 2011; XIV Colóquio de Outono – Humanidades: Novos Paradigmas do Conhecimento e da Investigação, University of Minho, November 2012.
ENRIQUE SERRANO ASENJO
He is a Full Professor at the University of Zaragoza in the area of Spanish Literature. He usually works in the Spanish Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Among his publications are the monographs: Estrategias vanguardistas (Para un estudio de la literatura nueva en Aragón. 1925-1945) (1990); Ramón y el arte de matar (El crimen en las novelas de Gómez de la Serna) (1992), and Vidas oblicuas: Aspectos teóricos de la «nueva biografía» en España (1928-1936) (2002); as well as the edition of «Prisma» y otros asedios a la vanguardia (1990) by Eugenio Frutos, in collaboration with A. Montaner Frutos; of Torbellino de aspas (1991) by Eugenio Frutos, in collaboration with A. Montaner Frutos; and of the Correspondencia by Juan Valera (8 vols., 2002-09), in collaboration with L. Romero Tobar (dir.) and Á. Ezama Gil. Some os his last articles were published in journals as Bulletin Hispanique, Romance Notes, Romance Quarterly, Revista Chilena de Literatura, Crítica Hispánica, Signa. Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica, La Perinola. Revista Anual de Investigación Quevediana, Hispanic Review and Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
MÓNICA ORTUZAR
PhD in Bellas Artes since 1993 and professor in the Department of Sculpture at the University of Vigo where she is currently also a full professor. In 1995, she became director of the research group "Resistencia" with subsidized projects by the Xunta de Galicia, such as “La posibilidad de resistencia del objeto en el arte contemporáneo”, “La percepción como experiencia de la resistencia”, “Visualizar la resistencia” e “Resistencia y materialización”. Under this latest Project, she participates in the collective publication Resistir la materia/Resistance, matter and artwork (ES1, 2012). In 2000, she published, with Ignacio Barcia and J. Rosendo Cid Minor, Resistencia De Los Objetos Continuacion (Pontevedra). Exhibitions and awards:
1988- “Gure Artea”, 2º Premio de Escultura, exposición itinerante
1998- “Vitoria Arte Gasteiz (Plástica Contemporánea)”, Centro de Cultura Montehermoso, Vitoria
2000- Individual “Archivo”, Torre de Ariz, Basauri, Vizcaya
2005- Individual “Winterreise”, Galeria Lumbreras, Bilbao
- “MAF Räderscheidt-Mónica Ortuzar”, Galerie Dagmar Peveling, Colonia
2007- “Skulptur. Malerei- Sabine Tress. Mónica Ortuzar”, BBK, Colonia
2010- Individual “Autorretratos”, Diputación de Orense
- Exposición “Resistencia y Materialización I”, UPV/EHU, Bilbao
2011- Exposición “Resistencia y Materialización II”, Fundación Laxeiro, Vigo
2013- Individual “Rostros a Rastros”, Bilbaoarte, Bilbao
PAULA MORÃO
Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. Between April 2007 and November 2009 she was General-Director of the Book and Libraries (Ministry of Culture) and, since December 2016, Director of the ICLP (Institute of Culture and Portuguese Language, FLUL). She is a member of the Center for Comparative Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, directing the Project Textualities (Morphe Group). She is a collaborator of the Center for Classical Studies (University of Lisbon), the Center for Portuguese Studies (University of Coimbra) and the Center for Humanistic Studies (University of Minho).
Main publications in volume:
Fernanda Botelho. Esta noite sonhei com Brueghel, preface, 2017; Paula Morão (ed.). Luísa Dacosta – Espelhos de palavra – In memoriam, 2017; M.Cristina Pimentel and P.Morão (eds.). A literatura clássica ou os clássicos na literatura – Presenças clássicas nas Literaturas de língua portuguesa, 2017; Paula Morão and Cristina Almeida Ribeiro (eds.). Maria Judite de Carvalho – Palavras, tempo, paisagem, 2015; M.Cristina Pimentel and P.Morão (eds.). Matrizes clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa – Uma (re)visão da literatura portuguesa das origens à contemporaneidade, 2014; Relâmpago – Revista de poesia nº 31-32 – Irene Lisboa (consultora e autora da Biobibliografia), 2013; M.Cristina Pimentel and P.Morão (eds.). A Literatura e os Clássicos – Os clássicos e a literatura – Uma (re)visão da literatura portuguesa das origens à contemporaneidade, 2012; O secreto e o real – Ensaios sobre Literatura Portuguesa, 2011; Paula Morão and Teresa Amado (eds.), Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen – Uma vida de poeta, 2010; P.Morão and Carina Infante do Carmo (eds.). Escrever a Vida – Verdade e Ficção, 2008; Kelly Basílio, Mário Jorge Torres Silva, P.Morão and Teresa Amado (eds.). Concerto das Artes, 2007; Helena Carvalhão Buescu and P.Morão (eds.). Cesário Verde – Visões de artista, 2007; Retratos com sombra – António Nobre e os seus contemporâneos, 2004; P.Morão (ed.), Autobiografia. Auto-representação, 2003; Salomé e outros mitos – O feminino perverso na Literatura Portuguesa entre o Fim-de-Século e ‘Orpheu’, 2001; Obras de Irene Lisboa, dez volumes, 1991–1999; Viagens na terra das palavras, 1993; António Nobre – Uma leitura do nome, 1991; Irene Lisboa – Vida e escrita, 1989.