ISABEL RIO NOVO
Email: inovo@ismai.pt
Brief CV: Isabel Rio Novo has a degree in Modern Languages and Literature – Portuguese and French Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (1993), a Master’s Degree in The History of Portuguese Culture – Modern Period (1996) and a PhD in Comparative Literature (2004) from the same faculty. She has been teaching at the University Institute of Maia (ISMAI) since 1995.
Research Interests: She has dedicated her scientific research – published in Portugal and abroad – to literary theory, comparative literature, particularly to the interconnectivity between literature and cinema, and to literary communication in the 21st century. She is currently a member of CIAC – Centre for Research in Arts and Communication (University of Algarve).
Latest Publications:
Rio Novo, Isabel e Vieira, Célia (2016). «Do Romantismo ao Romantismo: a evolução do pensamento literário do portuense Alexandre da Conceição». In II Congresso «O Porto Romântico». Actas . Porto: CITAR/ Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa. pp. 109-120. Disponível em http://citar.artes.porto.ucp.pt/sites/default/files/files/artes/CITAR/Edicoes/Atas_II_Congresso_O_Porto_Romantico.pdf
Rio Novo, Isabel e Vieira, Célia (2016). «As teorias literárias de Guilherme Braga (1845-1872) e a poesia panfletária no Porto». In II Congresso «O Porto Romântico». Actas . Porto: CITAR/ Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa. pp. 289-300. Disponível em http://citar.artes.porto.ucp.pt/sites/default/files/files/artes/CITAR/Edicoes/Atas_II_Congresso_O_Porto_Romantico.pdf
Vieira, Célia Sousa e Rio Novo, Isabel (2015). “L’intermédialité au Portugal: bilan des rencontres scientifiques à l’ISMAI” in Fisher, Caroline (éd.), Intermédialités, Paris, Édition de la Société Française de Littérature Générale et Comparée, pp. 179-195
Additional Information: As a fictionist, her short stories have been published in several anthologies, with emphasis being placed on the first collection of Centro Mário Cláudio (O País Escondido [The Hidden Country], 2016) and on the collection Inéditos [Unpublished] by Expresso (2018). She is the author of O Diabo Tranquilo [The Quiet Devil], written from poems by Daniel Maia-Pinto Rodrigues; the novella A Caridade [The Charity] (2005, Literary Award Manuel Teixeira Gomes); the book of short stories Histórias com Santos [Stories with Saints] (2014); and the novels Rio do Esquecimento [The River of Oblivion] (2016, finalist for the LeYa Award and semifinalist for the Oceanos Award), Madalena (unpublished, João Gaspar Simões Literary Award) and A Febre das Almas Sensíveis [The Fever of Sensitive Souls] (2018, finalist for the 2017 Leya Award).