Fernando Cristóvão

Retired Full Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, he was an assistant to Vitorino Nemésio at the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon, succeeding him in the Chair of Brazilian Literature.
President of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (1982-84), where he held various positions (Director, 1977-78, President of the "Support Center" of the Faculty of Letters in Funchal, 1984, Director of the Library, 1993-96, Director of the Executive Committee of the Department of Romance Languages, 1995-96), of the Institute of Portuguese Culture and Language – ICALP (1984-89), now the Camões Institute, of the Association of Lusophone Culture - ACLUS, which he founded, Vice-President of the Board of Directors of CLEPUL (today, Center for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures). An honorary member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, he belonged to several national and international scientific institutions, integrating and/or presiding over various important commissions (Study Commission for the creation of a university in Madeira, 1983-84; National Commission for the Commemoration of Camões Day and the Portuguese Communities, 1986; 1990 – 1992 – Lisbon, Scientific Council of the Expolíngua of Portugal, 1990 onwards; Installation Commission of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University and was founder of the Departments of Communication Sciences and Applied Foreign Languages, 1991-93; External Evaluation Commission of Portuguese Universities, 1997). He was a visiting professor and lecturer at several foreign universities – Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia, Brasília, Rennes, Utrecht, Cologne, Beijing and Seoul. He directed the research group "Literature and Culture" of CLEPUL, focusing on Brazilian themes and travel literature.
Among his distinctions, the following stand out: in 1987, an Honorary Doctorate from the University of East Asia, Macau, and, in 2007, the Order of Grand Officer of Public Instruction, granted by the President of the Republic, Jorge Sampaio.
AUTHOR'S PUBLICATIONS: The Sermons of the Theologian Diogo de Paiva de Andrade (1966); "Marília de Dirceu" by Tomás António Gonzaga, or Poetry as Imitation and Painting (1981); Southern Cross, to the North (1983); News and Problems of the Homeland of the Language (1985); Dialogues of the House and the Manor House (1994); Graciliano Ramos: Structure and Values ​​of a Way of Narrating (1975); Nationalism and Regionalism in Lusophone Literatures (coord., 1997); Cultural Conditioning of Travel Literature (coord., 1999); Method – Suggestions for Writing an Essay or Thesis (2001); The Traveler's Gaze - from Navigators to Explorers (coord., 2003); Nemésio, Nemésios (coord., 2003); Thematic Dictionary of Lusophony, (dir. and coord., 2005); From Lusitanian Identity to Lusophony (2008); Notebooks of Travel Literature (Bibliographic Collection of Travel Literature of the Library of the National Palace of Mafra) (2009); Travel Literature: From Traditional to New and to the Newest (2010); Life and Heroic Deeds of the Great Constable and his Descendants (ed. and est., 2010); Notebooks of Travel Literature (Contributions to the Study of the Indians of the Americas) (2010); Collection of Notebooks for Studies: From the Brazilian Northeastern Novel of the 30s to Portuguese Neorealism (2013); Travels in the Interior of Brazil (2014); New Pilgrimage Through Diverse Latitudes of the Portuguese Language, Volume I: 1968-1989 (2017).