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Full Professor at the Universidade Aberta (Portugal) [UAb]. Director of the Humanities Department of the same University. Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston (Boston, USA). Visiting-Professor at the Univ. degli Studi di Padova and at the Univ. Marie Curie. Visiting Professor and Lecturer at more than 20 European and American Universities. Coordinator of several research. Director of several literary collections. He has been part of Organising and/or Scientific Committees of more than a hundred scientific events. Effective Member General Council (UAb). Member of the UAb Faculty Performance Action Council. Member of the Scientific Council of CIDH – Cátedra FCT Infante Dom Henrique para os Estudos Insulares e a Globalização (UAb). Member of the Scientific Council, Assembly and Senate of the UAb (1998-2002; 2002-2006). Coordinator of the 3rd Cycle in Portuguese Studies (UAb) (2014/2016). Jury member of the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores. Attività di Internazionalizzazione della Didattica Award (Univ. degli Studi di Padova). Anim’Arte Award for Scientific Research (2008) and Artistic Production (2007). Great Cultural Merit Recognition (2014). “Joaquim Pessoa Poetry” Prize 2020 (Orpheu Sem Mim). Author of hundreds ofproductions and publications (scientific, pedagogical, interartistic, cultural and audiovisual). Conductor Emeritus of the Mozart Choir. ID Ciência Vitae: <https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/7A1D-3726-CD73>

Ana Novo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities since 2013, teaching Information Science. As an information professional, she has worked in various types of libraries and information services and has been specializing in Information Science. In 1988 she completed a degree in History at the Faculty of Arts in Lisbon. She holds a Post-Graduate Diploma (1991) and a Master’s Degree (1996) in Library and Information Studies from Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. In 2011, she obtained a PhD in Information and Library Sciences, from the University of Évora, with the thesis entitled “School Library with or without a librarian? – Impact study on school success in Integrated Basic Schools”. As a researcher, she has been focusing her work, presenting, and publishing nationally and internationally, in school librarianship and in training and teaching in Information Science in Portugal. She is a member of BAD, the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists, Information and Documentation Professionals and an integrated doctoral member of CIDEHUS – Interdisciplinary Center for History, Cultures and Societies of the University of Évora since 2007, integrating the Research Group 2 “Heritage, literacies and cultural diversity”.

Antonio Chenoll is a Phd in Didactic of Languages by the University of Porto (FLUP), Master in Methodology and Didactic of Spanish as a Foreign Language in the University of Antonio de Nebrija (Madrid) and graduated in Hispanic Philology by the University of Valencia.

He has participated in several international events as a guest Keynote speaker, communicator and trainer of teachers of learning foreign culture language in a face-to-face and online situation.

His current lines of research and publications are related to the teaching of the Spanish language and culture both from a perspective of the related language and culture, and from the application of didactics to digital versions. Collaborates with research groups related to Gamification, languages and the application of H5P in online or face-to-face classes.

He has exercised teaching labour in several Spanish and Portuguese University institutions (undegraduated, Master and Phd) in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Currently collaborates with the Universidade Aberta and the Universidade Católica Portuguesa where he is an Assistant Professor.

Isabel Roboredo Seara is assistant professor at the Department of Humanities, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal.
She is the coordinator of the MA in Portuguese Language Studies at Universidade Aberta, and the co-coordinator of the PhD in Language Didactics – Multilingualism and Education for Global Citizenship, Universidade Aberta and NOVA University of Lisbon.   
She is a researcher in the Grammar & Text group at the Centre of Linguistics of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and in the Research Group Pragmatics, Discourse, Cognition (PraDiC) at the Centre for Humanistic Studies at the Universidade do Minho.   
She is a collaborating researcher at the Laboratory of Distance Education and E-Learning (LE@D), where she coordinates the DIGITHUM – Digital Humanities project.   
She is a member of the Accessibility Group at Universidade Aberta, developing research work and working with students at the university to promote inclusive and accessible education for all.  
She has a MA in Applied Linguistics and Language Didactics from NOVA University of Lisbon and a PhD in Portuguese Linguistics from Universidade Aberta.  She develops research work in the fields of Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric and Portuguese Didactics, also focusing on digital communication studies, namely questions of politeness and verbal violence.

Jeffrey Childs is Associate Professor of the Humanities at Universidade Aberta and co-coordinator of the research group “Literature, Arts and Transcultures” at the Global Studies Center, UAb. He is also a researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon, where he is a member of the Theleme research group, through his participation in the subgroup RIAL – Reality and Imagination in Art and Literature. During 2016-2017 he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University. Among his publications are a translation of the complete works of the Portuguese symbolist poet Camilo Pessanha (Clepsydra – the Poetry of Camilo Pessanha [Lisbon Poets, 2018]) and a book on film noir (Espelhos do Film Noir [Documenta, 2019].

Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello is Assistant Professor at Universidade Aberta (UAb), in Lisbon, where she was awarded her PhD in Theory of Literature (on the narrative relationship between Literature and Film) and teaches Film Studies, Theory of Literature, Comparative Literature and Interart Studies. As Guest Professor she taught Portuguese Literature at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) and Film Narratology at Universidade de Coimbra, and she has coordinated and taught several MA courses in São Paulo – Brasil (at USP, UNESP and PUC-SP). She coordinates the BA in Humanities and is the vice-Coordinator of the MA in Comparative Literature at UAb. She is a senior member of CECC (Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura) at UCP, where she coordinates the Research Group in Literature, Cinema and Religion, and a collaborator of CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies).  She publishes mainly in the areas of Narrative Theory and Film Studies, especially on filmmakers such as Manoel de Oliveira, Andrei Tarkovsky, Carl Dreyer and Robert Bresson. Among her main publications are Narrativa Literária e Narrativa Fílmica. O caso de «Amor de Perdição» (Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1ª ed. 2005 – 2ª ed. 2008) and Tempo e Narrativa no Cinema de Manoel de Oliveira (Lisboa, Tinta da China, 2022).

Steffen Dix attended the University of Tübingen, the Portuguese Catholic University and Freie Universität Berlin. In 2003, he earned a PhD degree at the Faculty of Cultural Studies of the University of Tübingen. From 2005 until 2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences in Lisbon. Since 2013, he has been a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture of the Portuguese Catholic University. From 2015 until 2019, he was invited assistant professor at the Faculty for Theology at the Catholic University in Lisbon. Since 2019, he has been the coordinator for the Research Group “Religion, Globalization and Local Dynamics” at the Research Centre for Global Studies at the Universidade Aberta (UAb) in Lisbon. Currently, he is assistant professor and course coordinator for European Studies at the UAb.