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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI)Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares
Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares was born in Lubango, Huíla (Angola). She obtained her BA in History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Luanda in 1973. She graduated in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon in 1982, and obtained her Masters degree in African Literature from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon in 1996. PhD in Anthropology (Ethnography) from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with a thesis entitled History, Memory and Identity: Study on the societies and Lunda and Cokwe of Angola. She coordinates the Research Group 2 of the Center for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Portuguese-speaking African Cultures and Literatures and Cultures). In recent years, she has carried out several professional activities: she has been a History teacher in Angola since 1973; delegate of the Ministry of Culture in Kwanza-Sul, Angola, from 1978 to 1980; Superior Technician of the National Museum of Archeology, in Benguela, Angola, from 1980 to 1983; National Director of Cultural Heritage in Luanda, from 1985 to 1987; Director of the Technical Office of the Secretary of State for Culture, in Luanda, from 1987 to 1991; Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal, in Lisbon, from 1994 to 2000, among other positions. She participated in numerous national and international scientific meetings (conferences, seminars and workshops) and was a member of commissions, namely the Restructuring Commission of Universidade Agostinho Neto, the Commission for the restructuring of the Ministry of Culture and for the preparation of a proposal for the creation of the Ministry of Culture of Angola and the Commission for the preparation of the project for the foundation of a Faculty of Social Sciences in Angola. She is the author of several scientific publications and literary works, namely poetry, chronicles and novels. She was distinguished with the Mário António Literary Prize, from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2004), with the National Prize for Culture and Art, in Literature (Luanda, 2007) and with the Premio Internazionalle Ceppo/Pistoia, Florence (2013). It is noteworthy her participation in the film Cartas para Angola (2011), directed by Coraci Ruiz and Júlio Matos. It is a documentary built between the two sides of the Atlantic, focusing on Brazil, Angola and Portugal.
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CO-INVESTIGATORMarco Bucaioni
Marco Bucaioni is a PhD researcher at CLEPUL, where he previously developed a post-doctoral research (2017-2020). PhD in Comparative Literature (2013) and graduate in Foreign Languages and Literature (2006) from the University of Perugia, Italy. He is also a translator and literature editor, with special attention to literary production in Portuguese. He is working on issues of circulation and reception of Portuguese-language African literature in translation. Research interests: World-Literature; Translation Study; Modernity and Modernism; Postcolonial Studies and Decolonial Discourse.
RESEARCHERSRosa Maria Fina
Rosa Maria Fina is graduated in Portuguese Literature (2003), Master in Cultural Sciences (2011) and PhD in Contemporary History (2016). She was a research fellow at On Violence project. Representations of violence in Portuguese-speaking African literature, coordinated by Ana Paula Tavares (CLEPUL/2017-2020). She collaborates with the Institute of Contemporary History of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IHC). Currently, she teaches History of Culture and Arts in Secondary Education. She has published articles and monographs in Literature, History and Cultural Studies.
RESEARCHERSMarta Banasiak
Marta Banasiak has a degree in Czech Philology (2009) and a master's degree in Portuguese philology (2013) with a thesis on contemporary Mozambican prose from Carolina University in Prague. She holds a PhD in Romanesque Studies with a specialty in African Studies (2019) from University of Lisbon. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) with a FAPESP scholarship. She was a doctoral fellow at the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia – FCT. She publishes and researches in the areas of Portuguese-speaking African literature, particularly Mozambican, Portuguese-speaking countries cinema and comparative literature. In addition to the aforementioned areas, her current research interests also focus on theories of(-)world literature, (semi-)peripheral literatures and Indian Ocean Studies.
RESEARCHERSFrancesco Genovesi
Francesco Genovesi holds a PhD in Romance Philology from Sapienza University of Rome (2009) on the Portuguese first arrival and colonization of the Cape Verde islands. During his postdoctoral fellowships at Sapienza University of Rome (2010-2012) and RomaTre University (2016-2017), he examined the first Portuguese narratives from the coast of Africa and conducted field research in northern Mozambique about the historical evolution of the Portuguese language. He has taught courses on Portuguese language, culture and literature in several Italian Universities and at Dar es Salaam University, Tanzania. He published his Ph.D. thesis Le isole del Capo Verde. Storia e documentazione della scoperta (2011) as a monograph, and has published a dozen of articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has presented his papers at numerous international conferences in Europe, the USA, and Africa. His main field of research and publications is the connection that links the Portuguese explorations in the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries (1415-1526) to the Lusophone African literatures, languages, and cultures.
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SCHOLARSHIPSDênis Silva
Dênis Augusto Silva holds a Master degree in Literary Studies (2021), specialized in Portuguese Literature, from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and a degree in Arts and Humanities (2015) from the same institution. He is a PhD student in Portuguese and Romanics Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University of Lisbon. In his master's degree, he investigated the critical reception of Fernando Pessoa's Sensationism, with a scholarship from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). He worked as a book editor for several Brazilian publishing houses.
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SCHOLARSHIPSNoemi Alfieri
Noemi Alfieri holds a BA degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish and Portuguese, 2013) from the Università degli Studi of Turin, Italy. She holds a MA degree in Modern Languages and Literatures from the same university, with a dissertation on Angolan literature (2015). She gained her PhD in Portuguese Studies (History of the Book and Textual Criticism) from NOVA-FCSH with the dissertation:“" (Re)building Identity through Conflict: An Approach to African Literatures written in Portuguese (1961-74)". This dissertation was founded by FCT-IP and received an Honorable Mention for the Mário Soares Prize-EDP Foundation (2021). She is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at CLEPUL (University of Lisbon), being also an Associate Member of CREPAL (Sorbonne Nouvelle Université) and researcher of CHAM (FCSH-NOVA) and team member of the project WOMENLIT - Women’'s Literature: Memories, Peripheries and Resistance in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic (NOVA-FCSH).
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