The Power of the Image in the Work of Lídia Jorge

Nazaré Torrão is a lecturer at the University of Geneva. She holds a PhD in comparative literature (literary space and national identity) and is a researcher in contemporary literature from Portugal, Mozambique and Angola. She is Director of the Lídia Jorge Chair, Camões Institute and University of Geneva, and editor of the electronic journal Língua-lugar: Literatura, História, Estudos Culturais.
José Cândido de Oliveira Martins is Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal. He holds a PhD in Humanities (theory of literature) and is a researcher in Literature and Culture Studies at the Research Center for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies. He is the editor of several books on themes of Portuguese and comparative literature. In recent years he has served as the editor of Plataforma 9 and a member of the board of the AIL (International Lusitanists Association).