Ferreira de Brito

Essayist and poet. He graduated in Romance Philology from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto in 1975, and obtained his doctorate in French Literature from the University of Porto in 1981, with the dissertation «O Real e o Irreal na Dramaturgia de Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett e Jean Tardieu». He is a full professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, where he teaches Contemporary French Literature and heads the Department of French Language and Literatures. He belongs to the Center for Literary and Semiotic Studies at the University of Porto. He also holds a specialization in the field of the «theater of the unusual», acquired at the University of Strasbourg. Author of two books of poetry, his work has primarily gained recognition in the field of literary essay and the history of contemporary ideas, with his main research areas being contemporary French literature and the reception of French literature and culture in Portugal.