DISTU Department

Cristina Muru is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy. Her main interests include language description and documentation, language contact, typology, historical (socio)linguistics and missionary linguistics. Her work focuses on language and cultural contacts in India as well as in the Mediterranean area between the 16th and 17th centuries, for which she has conducted extensive research in several archives both in India and in Europe. During her PhD studies she focused on the contact between Portuguese and Indians with particular focus on the descriptions of the Tamil language produced by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries between the 16th and 17th centuries. Recently, she has been working on the contact in the Mediterranean area in the Modern period looking into the varieties of Italian language used among merchants and diplomats of the Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire. Currently, she is carrying out a project for the documentation and description of the Paniya language spoken in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu. She is the author of a comparative study of different Portuguese missionary grammars (2010) and co-editor of a volume devoted to the contact in the Mediterranean area (2015).

DISTU - Via San Carlo, 32 - 01100 Viterbo (IT)

e-mail: cristina.muru@unitus.it 

DISTU Department

Cristina Rosa is a professor at Dipartimento di Studi Linguistico-Letterari, Storico-Filosofici e Giuridici (DISTU) of the University of Tuscia, Viterbo. Her research is focused on Portuguese, Brazilian and Italian culture and literature.

Cristina has translated Vasco da Gama's journey diary, directly from the manuscript and also edited Guido Gualtieri's account of the Portuguese Embassy of Rome in 1582; she studied Frei João de Sousa's work, Narração da arribada das Princezas africanas, originally published in 1793 and has also edited an account of the Papal [corriere] Giuseppe Miselli on 17th Century Portugal. She also studied a manuscript, from the National Portuguese Library, relating D. António de Noronha's journey from Lisbon to Goa.

She is a member of the IADE commission for magistral degrees in Lisbon. She is the director and coorinator of Cátedra Pedro Hispano [research centre], opened by the Instituto Camões in the University of Tuscia in order to develop research mainly on discoveries and navigations over the centuries.

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DISTU - Via San Carlo, 32 - 01100 Viterbo (IT)

e-mail: rosacristina@unitus.it

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DISTU Department

Marco Bucaioni graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures in 2006 at the University of Perugia where he also obtained his PhD in Comparative Literature in 2013 with a thesis on the Literature of Portuguese Africa. Since 2014 he has been the Aggregate Professor at the University of Tuscia where he teaches the Portuguese language. Particularly active in the field of translation, he worked at the translation of contemporaneous Portuguese authors like the Africans José Eduardo Agualusa and João Melo, the Timorese Luís Cardoso and the Brazilian Rubem Fonseca, Ferreira Gullar and André Sant’Anna.

DISTU - Via San Carlo, 32 - 01100 Viterbo (IT)

e-mail: bucaioni@unitus.it

CHAM

Angelo Cattaneo holds a Ph.D. in History from the European University Institute in Florence. Currently he is a Research Fellow FCT (Investigador FCT- The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) based at CHAM-The Portuguese Centre for Global History in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon (CHAM-FCSH-UNL). His research revolves around the cultural construction of space from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century by studying cosmography, cartography, travel literature, and the spatiality of languages and religions. Since June 2015 he has been the Principal Investigator of the FCSH exploratory collective research project The Space of Languages. The Portuguese Language in the Early Modern World (15th-17th centuries). He is the author of several publications including Fra Mauro’s Mappa mundi and Fifteenth-Century Venice (Brepols, 2011). His research has been supported by numerous awards, such as the FCT, the C.N.R.S. Postdoctoral of the John Carter Brown Library, the Japan Foundation and the Tatti-Harvard University Fellowships.

e-mail: ang.cattaneo@gmail.com
Personal webpage and complete cv: 

http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/invdet.aspx?inv=AC_0027

 

CLUL

Hugo C. Cardoso works in fields related to language contact, namely those in which Portuguese is involved, and the formation of Portuguese-based Creole languages in India (Diu, Cananor and Cochim) and Sri Lanka (Batticaloa and Trincomalee), having also conducted research on Suriname's Saramaccan and the Portuguese of East-Timor. He has been an Auxiliary Researcher at Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa since 2013, having previously worked with the Universities of Coimbra, Macau, and Hong-Kong.

Address: Linguistic Centre of the University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisbon

e-mail: hcardoso@clul.ul.pt

FCSH/CHAM

João Luís Lisboa investigates the area of cultural history and history of ideas. He is a Professor at the FCSH, UNL, in the Department of Philosophy where he teaches  Philosophy of History and Culture in Portugal. He is the Vice Principal of the Centro de História d'Aquém e d'Além Mar (CHAM UNL UAç).

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Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas/Universidade Nova de Lisboa
email: jill@fcsh.unl.pt

DISTU Department

Giuseppe Marcocci (1979) holds a PhD in History (2008) from the Scuola Normale Superiore. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Tuscia and Adjunct Professor of World History at the University of Florence.

He was a visiting professor at the University of Lisbon (2009) and at the EHESS of Paris (2013), and a holder of a Social Sciences European Exchange fellowship at the Institute of the Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (2011), and of a short-term fellowship at The John Carter Brown Library, Providence (2015), and held a Fernand Braudel senior fellowship at the European University Institute (2016). He is co-editor of the electronic academic journal Cromohs and a member of the editorial boards of Società e Storia and Storica. He is also the foreign correspondent of the Revue de l'histoire des religions.

His main field of research is the early modern Iberian world, with special regard to empires, missions and cross-cultural exchanges in a global perspective. He was the Principal Investigator of the Italian Ministry FIRB project "Beyond the Holy War" (2010-14), based at the Scuola Normale Superiore and devoted to the study of Christian-Islamic interactions in the early modern world, and is now the Principal Investigator of the Italian Ministry PRIN project "Translating World" (2016-19), based at the University of Tuscia and dedicated to the exploration of Italian culture in a global perspective from 1450 to 1914.

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e-mail: g.marcocci@unitus.it