João David Pinto Correia

Essayist, poet, and university professor. He graduated in Romance Philology from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, with the dissertation «Para uma Leitura de Luz e Calor do Padre Manuel Bernardes», and earned his doctorate there in 1988, defending a thesis on Os Romances Carolíngeos da Tradição Oral Portuguesa. Before that, he was a fellow in France (Tours and Paris) and Spain (Santander) and completed the Diplôme d'Études Approfondies in Semiotics and Communication Sciences at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), under the supervision of A. J. Greimas. He was a secondary school teacher and taught at ISLA (Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração), and since 1974, he has been a lecturer at the University of Lisbon. Currently, as an associate professor in the Department of Romance Literatures at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, he has taught courses on Portuguese Literature (mainly medieval and classical periods), Marginal Literatures and Mass Media, and Oral and Traditional Literature. He led courses and seminars at the Universities of Azores and Macau, in Denmark, Germany, Spain, France – where he was, notably, director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris – in Italy, Brazil, India, and Malaysia. He also taught at the Universities of Algarve and Madeira, at the Catholic University, and at Universidade Aberta. Between 1993 and 1996, he was president of the Establishing Committee of the University of Madeira, with rector's duties. He was a researcher at the Center for Literatures of Portuguese Expression at the University of Lisbon and for Action Line No. 4 – Collection and Study of Popular Literature – of the Center for Geographical Studies, National Institute of Scientific Research. Currently, he is a researcher at the Center for Portuguese Popular Traditions «Manuel Viegas Guerreiro» at the University of Lisbon and directs the Revista Lusitana - Nova Série, published by the same Center. Since 1998, he has been a member of the Portuguese Scientific Committee of UNESCO for the research project «A Rota do Escravo». A member and collaborator of Estudos Gerais Livres, he is the president of its Fiscal Council. He is also a member of other scientific and cultural associations, such as the International Association of Literary Critics, the Pen Club, the Hispanic Association of Medieval Literature, the Portuguese Writers' Association, the Lisbon Geographical Society, the Portuguese Linguistics Association, the Portuguese Museology Association, and the Portuguese Comparative Literature Association. He has participated in congresses, colloquia, and roundtables, both in Portugal and abroad. He has published poetry in literary newspapers and magazines and has contributed essays, notably to Colóquio-Letras, Boletim de Filologia, Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias, Letras & Letras, Arquivos do Centro Cultural Português, Paris, Revista Lusitana, Revista Lusitana - Nova Série, Diário de Notícias, Público, Jornal da Madeira, Finisterra, and O Escritor. He is represented in A Idade Média, by Aida Fernandes Dias; História Crítica da Literatura Portuguesa (dir. by Carlos Reis); História e Antologia da Literatura Portuguesa - Século XV (scientific coord. by Isabel Allegro de Magalhães). He collaborated in: Giulia Lanciani and Giuseppe Tavani, Dicionário de Literatura Medieval Galega e Portugesa; in Helena Buescu, Dicionário do Romantismo Literário Português; in Maria de Lourdes Paixão, Literatura Portuguesa; and in Roberto Carneiro, Activa Multimédia - Enciclopédia de Consulta. Súbita Memória (poetry) is forthcoming.