ACT23
RETHINKING THE HUMANITIES:: PATHS & CHALLENGES
REPENSAR AS HUMANIDADES: RUMOS E DESAFIOS
NOTAS BIOGRÁFICAS DOS ORADORES
DAVID DAMROSCH is professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. He has written widely on world
literature from antiquity to the present. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in
the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), What Is World Literature? (2003), and How to Read World Literature
(2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume
six
Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and
the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009) and co-editor of The Text and the World: A Comparative
Literature Sourcebook (2009).
PETER LEVINE is Director of CIRCLE, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Education,
which he helped launch in 2001. He has been awarded the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize (1989), the Andrew White
Prize in European History (1987), and the E. Francis Riggs Prize (1986). His most recent publications include
Reforming the Humanities: Literature and Ethics from Dante through Modern Times (2009), The Future of
Democracy (2007), The New Progressive Era: Toward a Fair and Deliberate Democracy (2000).
DAVID G. SANTOS is a philosophy professor at the University of Beira Interior, where he currently teaches ethics
and political philosophy . He is a Research Scholar of the Philosophy Center of the University
University of Lisbon, in ethics
and metaphysics. He is also an associate researcher of the Practical Institute of Philosophy, at the University of
Beira Interior.
ANTÓNIO SOUSA RIBEIRO is Professor of German Studies at the Faculty of Letters and Senior Research Fellow at
the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. He publishes widely on German and comparative literature,
cultural studies, and translation studies. Co-editor
Co
of a collection of original essays on identity studies (Entre
Ser e Estar: Raízes, Percursos e Discursos da Identidade He is the editor of the Center for Social Studies’
journal, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais and he also been active as a literary translator.
JOSÉ PEDRO SERRA is Professor of Classical Studies at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon (FLUL). He is
member of the Centre for Classical Studies, FLUL, and he is also colaborator of the Centre for Comparative
Studies (CEC). He has taught Greek Literature, Classical Culture, Ancient Theatre, and courses in the field of
Comparative Literature, having published widely on these research areas. His book Pensar o Trágico (Lisbon:
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2006) was awarded the Prize PEN and the Prize Jacinto do Prado Coelho.
JOSÉ CÂNDIDO MARTINS é Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Filosofia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
(Braga). É Doutorado em Teoria da Literatura, mas o seu interesse recai também sobre Literatura Portuguesa
Moderna,, Paródia e Literatura e Comunicação e Argumentação. Editou autores clássicos como Camilo Castelo
Branco, António Feijó, Teófilo Carneiro e Diogo Bernardes.
RICHARD WOLIN is a highly regarded authority in the field of modern European intellectual history. He is the
author of several books on subjects such as Martin Heidegger, Heidegger's influential Jewish students (Hannah
Arendt, Karl Loewith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse),
Marcuse), Walter Benjamin, the history of twentieth-century
twentieth
ideas, and modern cultural criticism. His most recent books include: Heidegger's Children: Philosophy, AntiAnti
Semitism, and German-Jewish
Jewish Identity (2001), The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance
Roma with
Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism (2004), Herbert Marcuse, Heideggerian Marxism Co-Editor (2005),
and The Frankfurt School Revisited (2006).