Portuguese Team

School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) / University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (CEAUL/ULICES)

Zsófia Gombár, Lead researcher

Zsófia Gombár is currently the head of the Research Group on Reception and Translation Studies at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (CEAUL/ULICES), where she coordinates the FCT-funded project “Remembering the Past, Learning for the Future: Research-Based Digital Learning from Testimonies of Survivors and Rescuers of the Holocaust (ID 740639658).” She is also affiliated researcher of the USC Shoah Foundation. Besides, she is the scientific coordinator of the project “Intercultural Literature in Portugal (1930-2000): A Critical Bibliography (CECC/ULICES)” with Teresa Seruya and Maria Lin Moniz, and was the initiator and Principal Investigator of the Hungarian research project “The Reception of English-Language Literature in Hungary, 1945-1989″, housed at Savaria University Centre of Eötvös Loránd University. Her main areas of research are censorship studies, translation history, history of sexual minorities, and holocaust education.

Ana Raquel Fernandes, Researcher

Ana Raquel Fernandes is full researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (CEAUL/ULICES) and the PI of the RG4 Other Literatures and Cultures in English. She is Assistant Professor at Universidade Europeia, Lisbon. Her main research interests broach contemporary British and Portuguese literature and culture, and women’s writing. Her latest edited volume is Beyond Binaries: Sex, Sexualities and Gender in the Lusophone World (Peter Lang, 2019). She was the guest editor of a special issue for the American, British and Canadian Studies devoted to writers of the millennium (2020). She is a team member of two FCT-funded projects: Remembering the Past, Learning for the Future: Research-Based Digital Learning from Testimonies of Survivors and Rescuers of the Holocaust (ID 740639658) and Women’s Literature: Memories, Peripheries, and Resistance in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic (PTDC/LLT-LES/0858/2021).

Catarina Xavier, Researcher

Catarina Xavier is Junior Researcher at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (CEAUL/ULICES). She is also a Researcher with the Research Group on Reception and Translation Studies at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (since 2007). She holds a PhD in Audiovisual Translation (2019), a corpus and questionnaire-based study focused ontaboo in subtitling. Her research has looked into Audiovisual Translation, Translation Studies, Translation of Taboo, Subtitling, and Translation Norms. Recently, she has directed her research interests towards taboo within accessibility (SDH and AD), with the project: How Accessible is Taboo? A multi-method comparative study of taboo accessibility in audio description and subtitling for the Deaf and hard of hearing (2022-). Alongside publishing in journals of top-quartile publishers (e.g. Target, Perspectives, Babel), she has also been called to review articles regarding the intersection of taboo and translation or literature. She is a member of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST),AIETI – Asociación Ibérica de Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación, and has also been invited to join the Merit Committee of the Portuguese Association of Audiovisual Translators (ATAV).

Cláudia Martins, Researcher

Cláudia Martins is a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança since 2001, where she has been teaching English as a foreign language, English Linguistics, Terminology and Audiovisual Translation, among other courses. Presently, she is the director of the master in Translation. She holds a PhD in Translation by the University of Aveiro, with a thesis on museum accessibility for people with visually impairment, focusing on audiodescription and the role of audioguides (2015). Her previous training includes a diploma of advanced studies in Translation and Intercultural Studies (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2008), a master’s degree in Terminology and Translation and a bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, branch of English and Portuguese (both at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, 2004 and 2000, respectively). Her academic interests encompass Linguistics, Terminology, Translation Studies, and Phraseology and Paremiology, although her main emphasis is on museum accessibility.

Maria João Ferro, Researcher

Maria João Ferro is a Coordinating Professor at the Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Accounting and Administration) and the coordinator of the English section at the Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Education), both of which are part of the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute. She is an integrated researcher in the Research Group on Reception and Translation Studies at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (CEAUL/ULICES) and a collaborator with the Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology Group at the NOVA University of Lisbon’s Centre for Linguistics (CLUNL). Her research interests include translation, terminology, languages for specific purposes, intercultural communication, and the economics of language.

Laura Miñano, Researcher

Laura Miñano Mañero holds both a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in English Studies and in Translation and Interlinguistic Mediation, from the University of Valencia, Spain, as well as a PhD in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and their Applications from the same institution. She works as assistant professor in the Department of English and German Philology, at the University of Valencia.  Her research focuses on language contact, translation and interpretation in extreme contexts, postmemory and intergenerational transmission of trauma, and Holocaust and gender literary studies. She has published the book Contacto de lenguas en espacios extremos: el universo concentracionario (2023, PUV). She has been a fellow in two postdoctoral research programs: the first at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, as part of its Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program; and the second at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, under the Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme, funded by the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure of the European Union.

Susana S. Martins, Researcher

Susana S. Martins is an Assistant Professor in Contemporary Art and Museology at the Art History Department and a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Art History (IHA), FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she coordinates the research group MuSt-Museum Studies. Trained as an art historian, she completed her doctorate in photography and cultural studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, under the supervision of Prof. Jan Baetens, and as a researcher of the Lieven Gevaert Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture. Martins has been working on cultural studies, namely on the intersection of photography with literary, printed, and exhibition cultures. Presently, she co-coordinates the Master Programme in Art History and Museology at FCSH/NOVA. She also co-heads with Victor Flores CURIOSITAS, a project funded by FCT-Portugal to study Iberian cosmoramas, and was a team member of the research project Printed Photography: Image and Propaganda in Portugal, also funded by FCT.

Tatiana Ribeiro, Researcher

Tatiana Dinis Ribeiro is an arts and cultural management professional with a strong academic background and hands-on experience in research and administration. She holds a Master’s degree in Art Management from ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (2015), where she examined the Rock in Rio business model in her dissertation. She also earned a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Humanities, specialising in Communication and Culture, from the University of Lisbon. In 2017, she was awarded a Science and Technology Management grant at the Centre for Theatre Studies, University of Lisbon, where she contributed until 2024. She now oversees administrative operations at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (CEAUL/ULICES). She has published articles in academic journals on topics including business models, the Canvas business model, creating shared value, sustainability, art management, heritage, and cultural management.