Speakers

Carlos Reis is a full professor at Universidade de Coimbra. Since 2012, he has served as coordinator of the Centro de Literatura Portuguesa/FCT.

As a visiting professor, he has taught at several international universities, including Universidad de Salamanca, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

He is the general editor of História Crítica da Literatura Portuguesa (eight volumes published), director of the journal Queirosiana (Fundação Eça de Queiroz), and co-director of the Revista de Estudos Literários (Centro de Literatura Portuguesa). He has published more than twenty books in Portugal, Spain, Germany, France, and Brazil. Notable works include Fundamentos y técnicas del análisis literario (Madrid: Gredos, 1990), Dicionário de Narratologia (with Ana Cristina M. Lopes; Coimbra: Almedina, 1987; Salamanca: Almar, 2002; São Paulo: Ática, 1988), Towards a Semiotics of Ideology (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993), O Conhecimento da Literatura (Coimbra: Almedina, 1995; Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, 2003), and Diálogos com José Saramago (2nd ed., Porto: Porto Editora, 2014).

He has served as Director of the Biblioteca Nacional, President of the Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas, Rector of the Universidade Aberta (2006–2011), and President of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (2009–2011). He holds an honorary doctorate from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and is a member of the Real Academia Española, the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, and the Academia Europaea. At the Centro de Literatura Portuguesa, he coordinates the projects Edição Crítica das Obras de Eça de Queirós (15 volumes published by Imprensa Nacional–Casa da Moeda) and Figuras da Ficção. He is also the author of the blogs Queirosiana and Figuras da Ficção.

Fernanda Barini Camargo is a Lecturer in Lusophone Studies at University College Cork, within the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. She earned her PhD (2022) in Literary Studies from São Paulo State University (UNESP). Fernanda is also a member of the Grupo de Pesquisas em Dramaturgia, Cinema, Literatura e outras Artes (GPDC-LoA | UNESP), the executive committee of ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists), and the ARTFICTIONS project (Irish Research Council).
As a member of the editorial board, Fernanda contributed to the editing of Mulheres nos cinemas e audiovisuais: paralelos Brasil-Portugal (Renata Soares Junqueira and Paulo Cunha, Todas as Musas, 2024) and Mulheres em Cena: ensaios sobre literatura, cinema e teatro (Renata Soares Junqueira, 2023).
She has recently published "Jovens instruídas buscam corresponder-se: traces of Agustina Bessa-Luís in Joana Bértholo’s writing", in Writing as Cultural Resistance, Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic, 2026; "A literatura sob as lentes da câmera: uma leitura do filme Singularidades de uma rapariga loura, de Manoel de Oliveira", in Ramificações de Frondosa Árvore: Ensaios Interartísticos para a Professora Renata Soares Junqueira, 2025; and "Itinerários de Ema: a representação do espaço narrativo duriense em Vale Abraão, romance e filme", in Faces de Eva: estudos sobre a mulher, 2024.