Cátia Sever – Comparatistas – english version

Cátia Sever

Non PhD Researchers

E-mail: catiasever@gmail.com

Biographical note

Cátia Sever graduated in Portuguese Studies (2004, Modern Language and Literature) from the University of Lisbon and holds a master’s degree in Romanic Studies (Paris IV – Sorbonne) about the Rodrigues Miguéis novel O milagre segundo Salomé. She worked in France (Paris X-Nanterre and Paris IV-Sorbonne) as a Portuguese lecturer, teaching language and literature. Currently she is developing a PhD thesis (University of Lisbon), proposing an updated reading of Rodrigues Miguéis texts, through the study of several autobiographical elements. Her research interests focus on the self-representative dimension of contemporary artistic production, in the Portuguese literature of the twentieth century and on the intersections between autobiography, autofiction and fictionality.

Main areas of research

  • Portuguese literature of the twentieth century;
  • Autobiographical literature and its sub-genres;
  • Identity and otherness;
  • Studies on José Rodrigues Miguéis;
  • Interart relations.

CEC Project

Textualities / MORPHE

This work is financed by national funds through the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., within the scope of the project UIDB/00509/2020 and UIDP/00509/2020.
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