International PhD students

Éderson de Oliveira Cabral is a PhD student in Cultural Processes and Manifestations at the FEEVALE University (Brazil). He has agreed to participate in an exchange with the University of Bologna (UNIBO) lasting six months. He has obtained a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, he has worked as an expert in Spanish language at the Catholic Pontifical University of Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS, he has obtained a Bachelor's degree in Spanish and Portuguese Literature at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS. He has carried out part of his research in Italy, focusing on the various relationships between literature and work, with the supervision of Professor Roberto Vecchi.

Inês Robalo holds a BA degree in Arts and Humanities and an MA degree in Comparative Studies from the University of Lisbon with a thesis on the German writer W.G. Sebald. 
Currently she is a doctoral candidate and scholarship holder in the scope of the International PhD Programme in Comparative Studies (U. Lisbon, KU Leuven and U. Bologna),  her research focuses on nineteenth century literature, and she is developing a project entitled Reading Objects in Late Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture, under the supervision of Professors Ângela Fernandes (U. Lisbon) and Donata Meneghelli (U.Bologna). She is a member in training of the Centre for Comparative Studies (U.Lisbon), where she is part of the research projects RIAL- Reality and Imagination in Art and Literature and Aesthetics of Memory and Emotions.