Curriculum Vitae
Manuella Bezerra de Melo Martins
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Manuella Bezerra de Melo Martins
Citation names
- BMM, Manuella.
- Bezerra de Melo, M.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 4015-BEC7-CF6D
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1197-3716
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=m2ALTB4AAAAJ
- LattesiD
- https://lattes.cnpq.br/0344639619515363
- Researcher Id
- rid88219
Email addresses
- manuellabmm@gmail.com (Professional)
Addresses
- Rua da Universidade, 4710-057, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Media and Communications - Journalism and Social Media
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures
- Social Sciences - Media and Communications - Media and Socio-cultural Communication
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Literary Theory
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| Spanish; Castilian | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
| English | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
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2020/09/01 - 2025/10/20
Concluded
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Comparative Modernities; literatures, arts, and cultures. (Doctorate)
Major in Literatura Comparada
Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Portugal
"The New Brazilian Literature: A Fracture in the Hegemonic Literary System" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
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2017/09/10 - 2020/02/06
Concluded
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Literary Theory and Lusophone Literatures (Master's Degree)
Major in Literary Studies
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"The Responses of Brazilian Poetry to the Hegemonic Blockade in the Cycle of the 2016
Coup" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2014/02/01 - 2015/03/30
Concluded
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Brazilian Literature and Interculturality (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Postgraduate Lato Sensu
Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Brazil
"An Invitation to Think: The Man Who Hated Mondays as a Portrait of Existentialist
Philosophy in Contemporary Society by Ignacio de Loyola Brandão" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
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2000/02/01 - 2007/11/30
Concluded
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Social Communication with a Specialization in Journalism (Licence)
Major in Journalism
Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Brazil
"Shark Exclusion Network: Ecosystem Transformations in Pernambuco and Consequences
for Daily Life in the Recife Metropolitan Region" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
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Employer | |
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| 2023/09/12 - 2024/01/29 | Trainee Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2020/09/01 - 2025/10/20 | Doctoral Scholarship | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| Universidade do Minho, Portugal | ||
| 2019/10 - 2020/07 | Primary School Teacher of Performing Arts | Câmara Municipal de Guimarães, Portugal |
| Programa Mais Três, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
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| 2020/09/01 - 2024/08/31 | The New Brazilian Literature and the Fracture in the Hegemonic Literary System
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
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| 2017 - Current | Research Group on Portuguese-Language Poetics
Other
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
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Artistic / Performance
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/09/05 | Territory, Immigration, and Literature: Foreign Women Are Shaping the New Portuguese Literature | Conferência Internacional Literatura de Mulheres: Memórias, Periferias e Resistências
no Atlântico Afro-Luso-Brasileiro
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/04/19 | What Is Literature For, and Whom Does It Serve? Literature as an Inalienable Human Right | Jornada Internacional Literatura e artes: passado e futuro
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2023/07/23 | New Brazilian Poetry: Territory, Struggle, and Resistance | IX Simpósio Internacional sobre Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea: pensar e fazer
a crítica
Universidade de Brasília (Brasília, Brazil)
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| 2023/05/26 | From Object to Subject: New Brazilian Literature and the Right to Literature in Practice | Jornadas do Programa Doutoral em Modernidades Comparadas; Literaturas artes e culturas
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2022/11/18 | Animals, Women, and Literature: A Feminist Perspective on the Zoopoetics of Michelliny Verunschk in O Movimento dos Pássaros. | International Conference PostHum3n - Entaglements & Intersections in a posthuman world
Universidade do Porto (Porto , Portugal)
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| 2021/11/19 | Cais do Sodré to Salamansa: A Look at the Colonial Consequences in Three Stories by Orlanda Amarilis | International Conference WomanArt
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2021/10/11 | The New Brazilian Poetry and the Gap in the Blockade of the Hegemonic Literary System: Introductory Notes | 1st Colloquium on Research Paths in Portuguese-Language Literatures
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2021/04/28 | The New Brazilian Poetry and the Crack in the Blockade of the Hegemonic Literary System | II Congreso Internacional de Literatura Brasileña
Centro de Estudios Brasileños: Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain)
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| 2020/09/23 | The responses of the new Brazilian poetry in the 2016 coup cycle | III Colóquio Luciola Nogueira: A poesia da Paraíba e de Pernambuco
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil)
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| 2018/11/12 | The Invisibility of Women in Brazilian Literature as a Project to Legitimize the Male-Centered Hegemonic Narrative | XX Colóquio de Outono Uminho 2018
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2018 | Bezerra de Melo, M. (2018). Breviary of Brazil, by Agustina Bessa-Luís: A contribution to the maintenance of the colonizing and Eurocentric perspective in the Lusophone space [Conference presentation]. | Pelos Mares da Língua Portuguesa
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023 - 2033 | Traspadini, R. (2023). Extractivism and dependency: Colonial developments in contemporary
Brazil [Lecture presented at the seminar series "Colonial Critiques from a Brazilian
Perspective"]. GEB, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. (2023 - 2023)
Seminar
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Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Portugal |
| 2023/10/28 - 2023/10/28 | 2nd Edition of Minha Poetry Slam – Minho Spoken Word Poetry Championship [Coordination
and Artistic Direction].
CIAJG, School of Architecture, Arts and Design, University of Minho (Ramada). (2023/10/28 - 2023/10/28)
Festival (President of the Organising Committee)
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Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal |
| 2023/09/26 - 2023/09/26 | Presentation of the book Neoliberalism as Management of Psychic Suffering (Urutau,
2023) [organization and interview]. Guests: Vladimir Safatle, Cristian Dunker, Nelson
da Silva Jr.
Aljube Museum of Resistance and Freedom, Lisbon.
See: https://www.museudoaljube.pt/evento/apresentacao-do-livro-neoliberalismo-como-gestao-do-sofrimento-psiquico/ (2023/09/26 - 2023/09/26)
Round table (Co-organiser)
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Museu do Aljube - Resistência e Liberdade (AGEAC), Portugal |
| 2023/04/21 - 2023/04/21 | “Territory, Immigration, and Literature: A Gathering – Occupation” [Curation and Programming].
Artistic program: by invitation of the José de Guimarães International Arts Centre
(CIAJG). (2023/04/21 - 2023/04/21)
Festival (Co-organiser)
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CIAJG, Portugal |
| 2021/04/30 - 2022/12/06 | Miglievich, A. (2021). Modernity for Latin American postcolonial studies [Lecture
presented at the seminar series "Colonial Critiques from a Brazilian Perspective"].
GEB, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. (2021/04/30 - 2022/12/06)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2022/10/15 - 2022/10/15 | Presentation of the Project Volta para Tua Terra (2022; V2) [production and interview]. Aljube Museum, Lisbon. See: https://www.museudoaljube.pt/evento/volta (2022/10/15 - 2022/10/15) | Museu do Aljube - Resistência e Liberdade (AGEAC), Portugal |
| 2022/08/27 - 2022/08/28 | 1st Edition of Minha Poetry Slam – Minho Spoken Word Poetry Championship [Coordination
and Artistic Direction]. CIAJG, Guimarães. (2022/08/27 - 2022/08/28)
Festival (President of the Organising Committee)
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CIAJG, Portugal |
| 2022/07/02 - 2022/07/02 | Poetic Laboratory for Women [Workshop]. (2022). Modules: 1) Reading and Interpretation
2) Interarts and Production 3) Expression and Body Poetry. Organized by: Centre for
Art and Architecture (CAAA), Guimarães. (2021/06/06 - 2021/06/06)
Workshop (Co-organiser)
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Centro para os Assuntos de Arte e Arquitectura (CAAA), Portugal |
| 2022/06/05 - 2022/06/05 | Medeiros, M. (2022). From the myth of racial democracy to Luso-Tropicalism [Lecture
presented at the seminar series "Colonial Critiques from a Brazilian Perspective"].
GEB, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. (2022 - 2022)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Portugal |
| 2022 - 2022 | Moira, A. (2022). Gender and sexuality perspectives in a decolonial Brazilian context
[Lecture presented at the seminar series "Colonial Critiques from a Brazilian Perspective"].
GEB, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. (2022 - 2022)
Seminar
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Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Portugal |
| 2021/06/05 - 2021/06/05 | Small Poetic Laboratory [Workshop]. (2021). Modules: 1) Reading and Interpretation
2) Interarts and Production 3) Expression and Body Poetry. Organized by: Lúcio Craveiro
da Silva Library, Braga. (2021/06/05 - 2021/06/05)
Workshop (Co-organiser)
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Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2022/11/07 - Current | Panel: “I Am the Last Kimbundu Poet” at NKODYA DYA MPANGU: Arts of Thought Meeting
– III Meeting of Language, Art, and Thought
Seminar
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NKODYA DYA MPANGU: Arts of Thought Meeting – III Meeting of Language, Art, and Thought |
| 2024/10/18 - 2024/10/18 | Presentation [Invited Lecture]: “Foreigners in the Labyrinth – Go Back to Your Country:
There Is No April Without Immigrants.”
Festival
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Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos
Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos, Portugal
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| 2022/07/01 - 2024/07/31 | Barcelos Book Fair [interviewer]. Editions: 2022, 2023, 2024. Panels with Ondjaki,
Fátima Lopes, Victor Vidal, Anabela Mota Ribeiro, Stenio Gardel, Gabão Felix.
Festival
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Feira do Livro de Barcelos
Biblioteca Municipal de Barcelos, Portugal
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| 2019/07/01 - 2023/07/31 | Braga Book Fair [interviewer]. Editions: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. Panels with:
Lira Neto, Matilde Campilho, Pedro Vieira, Paulo Moura Teixeira, Irene Pimentel, Gonçalo
Tavares, Isabel Lucas, Cátia Vieira, João Céu e Silva, Paulo Moura, José Gardeazabal.
Festival
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Feira do Livro de Braga
Câmara Municipal de Braga, Portugal
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| 2023/06/01 - 2023/06/01 | Invited lecture: Festival Utopia – Braga (2023). Topic: In Which Language Do I Write
Portuguese? Moderator: Nara Vidal.
Festival
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Festival Utopia
The Book Company, United States
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| 2023/05/11 - 2023/05/11 | Arts and Words Exhibition – MAP Oeiras (Lecture). Topic: Journey to the Country of
the Future and 20th-Century Brazilian Poetry. Co-lecturer: Isabel Lucas. Moderator:
Nuno Miguel Guedes.
Festival
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Mostra de Artes e Palavras – MAP Oeiras
Camara Municipal Oeiras, Portugal
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| 2019/04/01 - 2023/04/30 | Aveiro Book Fair [interviewer]. Editions: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. Panels with:
Mia Couto, Itamar Vieira Júnior, Ana Luísa Amaral, Filipa Leal, Daniel Jonas, Paulo
Moura Teixeira, Afonso Reis Cabral, António Tavares, Rosa Alice Branco.
Festival
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Feira do Livro de Aveiro
Câmara Municipal de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2023/03/06 - 2023/03/06 | Atlantic Women Festival: Our Literature [interviewer]. Edition: 2023. Panel with Joacine Katar Moreira, Atija Assane. | Festival Mulheres do Atlântico
CIAJG, Portugal
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| 2022/11/19 - 2022/11/19 | Vampires in Space: Portuguese Public Program of the Venice Biennale (2022)
Exhibition
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Third Session of the Public Program CREPÚSCULOS in the Azores | DGARTES: Crepúsculo
Opúsculo with Manuella Bezerra de Melo, Pedro Neves Marques, and Judite Canha Fernandes.
Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal
Centro de Artes Contemporânea São Miguel - Arquipélago (Açores), Portugal |
| 2022/04/02 - 2022/04/25 | Guest Participant in “April in Lisbon: 48 Women”
Exhibition
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democracia e de renovação dos valores de Abril. The project “48” painted the streets
of Lisbon with texts by 48 women writers; words honoring 48 years of democracy and
the renewal of the values of April.
Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural (EGEAC), Portugal
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| 2021/05/01 - 2021/05/31 | LEV – Literature on the Move [interviewer]. Edition: 2021. Panels with: Ana Luísa
Amaral, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Matilde Campilho, José Luís Peixoto.
Festival
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LEV – Literatura em Viagem
Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos, Portugal
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| 2021/02/06 - 2021/02/27 | Womanart Summer School: Memory, Dictatorship, and Art Discourses [Short course]. (2023).
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. 32 hours.
Other
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Womanart Summer School: Memory, Dictatorship, and Art Discourses
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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| 2018/09/05 - 2018/09/05 | Folio Óbidos (2018) [invited lecture]. Topic: Interculturality in Portuguese. São
Tiago Bookstore (Church of São Tiago).
Moderator: Júlio Silveiro.
Festival
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Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos
Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos, Portugal
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Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2026/07/13 - 2026/07/18 | Parecerista de trabalhos científicos para o V CIMDAB | II EDUMIGRA - Mobilidades Lusófonas em Perspetiva: Redes, Fluxos e Dinâmicas Migratórias. | Universidade do Minho - Instituto de Ciências Sociais , Portugal |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/04/15 - 2024/04/15 | Open Lecture (Invited Talk). (2024). Topic: “Traces of Colonial History.” Postgraduate Program in Literature, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Online format. Duration: 2 hours. | Pós Graduação em Literatura (Postgraduate Certificate) | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil |
| 2024/03/28 - 2024/03/28 | Lecture (Invited Talk). Topic: “Decolonial Thought and Resistance.” In the long-term course Women’s Literature and Literary Resistances. Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon: Session 3, Module 5. Duration: 2 hours. | Long-Term Course: Women’s Literature and Literary Resistances (Others) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2023/09/12 - 2024/01/29 | Academic Writing and Research Methodologies. [Full course] taught in Portuguese Studies, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (2023–2024). | Escrita Académica e Metodologias de Investigação (Licenciate Degree) | Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal |
| 2023/03/27 - 2023/03/27 | Guest Lecture. “Introduction to the Reading of Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis.” Single lecture within the course Brazilian Literature and Culture 1, 2nd-year Portuguese Studies undergraduate program, University of Minho. Duration: 2 hours. | Estudos Portugueses (Licenciate Degree) | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2023/03/22 - 2023/03/22 | Lecture (Invited Talk). Topic: “The New Brazilian Literature.” Within the course “Brazilian Literature and Culture I,” 2nd year of the BA in Portuguese Studies. Duration: 2 hours. | Estudos Portugueses (Licenciate Degree) | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2022/01/06 - 2022/01/06 | Lecture (Invited Talk). Topic: “The Poetics of Caetano Veloso: Modernities, Tropicalismo, and Anthropophagy.” Standalone lecture within the course “Brazilian Literature and Culture I,” 2nd year of the BA in Portuguese Studies, University of Minho. Duration: 4 hours. | Estudos Portugueses (Licenciate Degree) | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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| 2026/06/01 - 2026/06/28 | Avaliadora científica do Anuário de Literatura, responsável pela revisão por pares
em regime de avaliação cega de artigos submetidos para o Volume 31 (2026) da Revista
Anuário de Literatura. ISSN: 2175-7917
Evaluator
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
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| 2022 - 2022 | Guest on the Program Bem-Vindos; RTP África. | Portuguese-Language Literature That Portugal Ignores |
| 2022 - 2022 | Guest on the Program Causa e Efeito; RTP África. | The Literary Anthology Series Volta para Tua Terra and the Writing of Foreign Residents in Portugal |
| 2020 - 2020 | Souza Câmaras, R., Bastos, P., Dias, R., & Perdigão, A. (2026). Conversations in Brine [Performance; guest interview: M. B. de Melo]. Production: Pedro Silva; Sound Design: Rolando Ferreira; Production Support: Bruno Artilheiro. Support: A Oficina Bando à Parte, Guimarães City Council, Casalinho Wines / Caves do Casalinho, Freebeats Produção Cultural, Quinta do Casalinho, Simbiose Cultural Management. Project funded by the IMPACTA program — Municipal Investment in Arts Projects. | Gastronomy, Literature, and Their Relationship with Territory for Immigrants |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2026/01/17 - 2026/05/31 | • Jurada: Concurso Literário Contarinhar. projeto cofinanciado por fundos europeus com Aviso nº Norte2030-2024-58 – Certificação e Valorização de Artesanato Local e Regional | com a designação da Cantarinha dos Namorados de Guimarães. (A decorrer). | A Oficina - Educação e Mediação Cultural, Portugal |
| 2024/09/15 - 2024/12/01 | Guest juror at the Aljube Museum Short Story Contest – Resistance and Freedom (2024 edition) | Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural (EGEAC), Portugal |
| 2022/04/24 - 2022/08/01 | Preliminary Jury for the Oceanos – Portuguese Language Literature Prize 2022. Category: Poetry | Associação Oceanos / Itaú CulturL, Brazil |
Scientific expedition
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/07/26 - 2023/08/14 | International Mobility: Academic stay at the Department of Letters and Arts of the State University of Paraíba (UEPB), participating in activities organized by the Research with works directly involved in his/her doctoral research through investigations carried out by this aforementioned university in the field of contemporary Portuguese-language literature. | Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Brazil |
| 2023/07/10 - 2023/07/25 | International Mobility: Academic stay at the University of Brasília, participating in activities organized by the Research Group on Contemporary Brazilian Literature, Institute of Letters, University of Brasília | Universidade de Brasília, Brazil |
| 2022/09/07 - 2022/09/18 | International Summer School: Extractivism and Its Discontents: Cultural and Artistic Counter-Movements. | Universität Kassel, Germany |