Of the Brilliance of the Word: Studies for Ana Luísa Vilela

Matteo Pupillo holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Évora and is a collaborating member of the Centre for Literary Studies, based at the same university, as well as of CLEPUL (University of Lisbon). Between 2023 and 2026, he taught at the Sorbonne Université, and has also taught in Italy and Portugal. Since 2025, he has been qualified to hold the position of maître de conférences (Section 14, Romance Studies). He regularly participates in international conferences and is the author of book chapters, dictionary entries, and articles published in scholarly journals. His research focuses primarily on classical and contemporary Portuguese literature, with particular attention to representations of the body and female authorship in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Among other activities, he is involved in research projects, editorial boards, and various scholarly associations. In the editorial field, he works as a translator from French and Italian into Portuguese.

Fabio Mario da Silva is a Professor of Literature at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE) – Serra Talhada Academic Unit, and a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Language Studies (PROGEL) at the same institution. He completed postdoctoral research in Portuguese Literature at the University of São Paulo (2013–2016), supported by a FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) fellowship; in Portuguese Studies at the University of Lisbon (2019–2020); and in Literary Studies at UNESP – Araraquara campus (2024–2025). He holds a PhD in Literature (funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology – FCT) and a Master’s degree in Lusophone Studies (supported by a fellowship from the Portuguese Community of Pernambuco), both from the University of Évora (Portugal).  He serves as a collaborating researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies (CEC) at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Centre for Global Studies at the *Universidade Aberta* (CEG-UAb), and the Margarida Losa Institute of Comparative Literature (ILCML) at the University of Porto’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Additionally, he is a member of the International and Multidisciplinary Center for Epic Studies (CIMEEP) at the Federal University of Sergipe. He prepared an edition of the epic trilogy by Soror Maria de Mesquita Pimentel—the first epic poem written by a woman in the Portuguese language—and is currently preparing an edition of the complete works of the writer Ana Plácido, Judith Teixeira and Florbela Espanca. He is a  member of ABRAPLIP (Brazilian Association of Professors of Portuguese Literature).

Adriana Mello Guimarães holds a degree in Social Communication from NOVA University Lisbon and a PhD in Literature from the University of Évora, and completed postdoctoral research at the Federal University of Southern and Southeastern Pará. She also holds the title of Specialist in Information and Communication. She is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Education and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic University of Portalegre, where she coordinates the undergraduate degree programme in Journalism and Communication. She is an integrated researcher at CARE, a collaborating researcher at CLEPUL, and a member of SOPCOM — the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences. Her research focuses on the history of the press, the relationships between journalism and literature, and women’s writing. Her publications include the book Guia Lexical Português-Chinês para o Jornalismo, published in Macau by the Instituto Português do Oriente (2019), “Alice Moderno e a cultura francesa” (2023), “Apontamentos sobre Ana Plácido: intelectual, inspiradora e marginalizada” (2024), and “Os portugueses em No tempo do rei, de Moreira Azevedo” (2024). She also contributed the entry “Imprensa portuguesa” to the Dicionário de Florbela Espanca.

Elisa Rosa Pisco Nunes Esteves holds a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon and a PhD in Literature from the University of Évora. She is a faculty member at the University of Évora, where she serves as an Associate Professor with *Agregação* (a post-doctoral academic qualification), specializing in Portuguese and Spanish Literature (Medieval and Classical periods). She is a permanent member of the Centre for Literary Studies (CEL-UÉ) and conducts research on Portuguese literature from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Her recent publications focus primarily on the theater of Gil Vicente, the poetry of the *Cancioneiro Geral*, and the plays of Luís de Camões (specifically *Comédia Filodemo*). She has also recently published work on the 19th-century author Maria Rita Chiappe Cadet.