Dr. Pedro Monteiro
Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen
Raum: IG 5.252
monteirosantos[at]em.uni-frankfurt.de
I am the Assistant of Prof. Dr. Romana Radlwimmer. I am the Assistant to Prof. Dr. Romana Radlwimmer. I earned my PhD in Literary, Cultural, and Inter-artistic Studies in 2022, and I hold a Master's degree in Medieval Studies from the University of Porto (2017). During my doctoral research, I focused on Iberian literature, particularly romances of chivalry, narratology, and memory studies, as well as the history of culture, including Iberian printing and old book history from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. My first book, Ficção e Memória na Literatura Cavaleiresca Ibérica: O Memorial das Proezas da Segunda Távola Redonda (1567), was published by De Gruyter in 2025. Within my second book project (Habilitation), I work on queer Latin American literature, with a particular emphasis on the contemporary gay novel.
2023- : Assistant Researcher at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
2017-2022: PhD in Literary, Cultural and Inter-Artistic studies. University of Porto.
2015-2017: MA in Medieval Studies. University of Porto.
Books
Articles
Book Chapters
Organized or Edited Publications:
Reviews
2023-
2021
Selected Presentations at Conferences, Seminars, and Congresses
2025
- "Carta não lida, fotografias nunca vistas (ou de como se criam arquivos através da ficção)", at the Sektion II-2 of the 16. Lusitanistentag. LMU, Germany.
- "El ensayo como TransLiteratura: los ejemplos de Claudia Rodríguez y Jota Mombaça", at the Sektion 5 of the 39. Romanistiktag. University of Konstanz, Germany.
2024
"«Sofrimentos, para eles, são lendas»: apontamentos sobre a poética de Carolina Maria de Jesus", at the event Vozes do Brasil / Stimmen aus Brasilien. Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
2023
"Quatro séculos de crítica às Ribeiras do Mondego", at the seminar Fazer Falar os Textos. Nos 400 anos das Ribeyras do Mondego de Elói de Sá Sotomaior. Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, Portugal.
"Los sermones a los eremitas atribuídos a San Agustín en la imprenta hasta 1520: trayectos y transformaciones", at the XIX Congresso da Associação Hispânica de Literatura Medieval. Alcobaça Monastery, Portugal.
"What remains after Avalon? Arthurian Interfigurality in 16th-Century Portuguese Prose Fiction", at the International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
2022
"Entre o Amor e a Espada: representações masculinas na ficção cavaleiresca quinhentista", at the Oficinas de Investigação CITCEM 2022/23: «Cavaleiros», «Eruditos», «Pastores», «Casados» e «Santos»: representações da masculinidade nos séculos XVI-XVII. Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, Portugal.
"«Uma dona, mulher moça e de bom parecer»: casadas, mães e viúvas na Crónica do Imperador Clarimundo", at the Coloquio V Centenario de la publicación de la Crónica do Emperador Clarimundo de João de Barros 1522-2022. Faculty of Philology of the Complutense University. Madrid, Spain.
2021
"Los prólogos de los textos caballerescos dedicados a Juan III de Portugal", at the Coloquio Internacional de la AHLM Pervivencia y Literatura: documentos periféricos al texto literario. Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the University of Córdoba, Spain.
"La historia de Florisbel y Belfloris en el Memorial das Proezas da Segunda Távola Redonda y el Filocolo de Boccaccio", at the II Jornadas de Literatura Caballeresca: Estructura, poética y género de los ciclos caballerescos. Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the National Autonomous University of México, México.
2020
"Pasado, presente y futuro: profecía e historia en los primeros libros de caballerías portugueses", at the Seminario de Estudios Sobre Narrativa Caballeresca. Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the National Autonomous University of México, México.
2019
"Messianismo, predestinação e profecia nos livros de cavalarias portugueses do século XVI", seminar at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
"Memoria, Linaje e imitación en los libros de caballerías portugueses del siglo XVI", at the XVIII Congrés Internacional de l'Associació Hispànica de Literatura Medieval. University of Barcelona, Spain.
2018
"A Crónica do Imperador Maximiliano à luz da Crónica do Imperador Clarimundo: proximidades temático-descursivas", at the Coloquio Internacional «Libros, lecturas y reescrituras». University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Organizer of Conferences or Seminars:
2023: Organizer of the international seminar As letras e a voz: mulher, instrução e literatura (sécs. XII-XVII), with Maria do Rosário Ferreira. Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.
2019: Member of the Organizing Commitee of the international congress Modernizar a Idade Média, with Filipe Alves Moreira, Marta Costa and Paula Almeida Mendes. Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.
2017-2020: Member of the Organizing Commitee of the Medieval Studies Workshop (editions IX, X, XI and XII). Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.
2017: Member of the Organizaing Commitee of the COR: um colóquio sobre luz e pigmento nas ciências, nas letras e nas artes, with Paulo Brás, J. Carlos Teixeira and Daniel Floquet. Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.
Ongoing and Forthcoming Projects:
Research Projects I am Currently Part Of or Have Participated In:
2025: Trans.Arch: Proyecto Archivos en Transición: Memorias Colectivas y Usos Subalternos. PI: Roland Spiller (Goethe University Frankfurt)
2023- : ARANHIS: Archivum Annalisticum Hispanum. Uma base de dados para o estudo dos anais medievais. Funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portugal). PI: Covadonga Valdaliso-Casanova (University of Lisbon).
2020- : COMEDIC: Catálogo de obras medievales impresas en castellano (1475-1601). Funded by the Aragon Govern (Spain). PI: María Jesús Lacarra (University of Zaragoza) / José Aragüés (University of Zaragoza).
2018-2022: MELE: Da memória escrita à leitura do espaço: Pedro de Barcelos e a identidade cultural do Norte de Portugal. Funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. PI: Maria do Rosário Ferreira (University of Coimbra).
Research Abroad Periods:
2025, July-August: Research Period at the Javeriana University in Bogotá (Colombia), within the project Trans.Arch.
2023, January-April: Post-Doc Erasmus Fellowship at the University of Verona, Italy. Tutor: Anna Bognolo.
2022, September-December: Post-Doc Erasmus Fellowship at the Clarisel Group, University of Zaragoza, Spain. Tutor: Alberto del Río Nogueras.
2021, June: One-month fellowship for research at the Casa de Velázquez, in Madrid, Spain.
2019, January-June: Six months at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Memberships:
Associations:
AHLM - Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval (since 2018)
IAS - International Arthurian Society (since 2021)
Research Groups:
SMELPS/Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto (from 2017 to 2023 as Integrated Member, since 2023 as Collaborator)
Winter Semester 2025/2026:
- Einführung in die hispanistische Literaturwissenschaft
Summer Semester 2025:
- Literatura queer hispánica del siglo XXI
Winter Semester 2024/2025:
- Cultura Portuguesa (sécs. XIX-XX)
Summer Semester 2024:
- Literatura Española Medieval
Winter Semester 2023/2024:
- Narrativa breve na literatura portuguesa: tipologias, temas e análise
Teaching projects:
Seminar within the course "Literatura Española Medieval," featuring guests Prof. Dr. Filipe Alves Moreira and Dr. Mariana Leite, where we recorded a podcast episode with the students, discussing topics related to medieval literature. Watch the video here.
16.07.2024
Two Seminars within the course "Cultura Portuguesa (sécs. XIX-XX), On the 50th Anniversary of the Iberian Transitions do Democracy, with guest Prof. Dr. Maria Joana Gomes (U. Porto) and Prof. Dr. Nuria Aranda García (U. Zaragoza). 14th and 21st January, 2025.
Literary Workshop with the author Claudia Rodríguez (Chile), within the seminar "Literatura queer hispánica del siglo XXI". 8th of July 2025.