Pedro Emanuel
Rosa Grincho Serra

Pedro Serra (Portugal, 1969) holds an M.A. in Portuguese and English Studies from the New University of Lisbon (1994) and a PhD. in Philology from the University of Salamanca (1997). Since the year 2018 he is Full Professor at the University of Salamanca, Department of Modern Philology, where he teaches primarily Portuguese and Brazilian literature. In addition, his teaching fields include baroque Portuguese literature and contemporary Portuguese poetry. He is the translator into Portuguese of the seminal work, Orientalism, by Edward Saïd. His books include Políticas del nombre en la épica burlesca. Serie Brasil (2019) Estampas del império. Del barroco a la modernidade tardía en Portugal (2012), Devastación de sílabas (2013) and Imagens Achadas. Documentário, Política e Processos Sociais em Portugal (2014). Co-author of Século de Ouro. Antologia Crítica da Poesia Portuguesa do Século XX (2002), and co-author of the critical edition of O Hissope. Poema Herói-Cómico by António Dinis da Cruz e Silva (2006), his articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Colóquio/Letras, Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, Românica, Relâmpago, Inimigo Rumor, Remate de Males, REC. Revista de erudición crítica, Tropelías, Espaço/Espacio Escrito, Revista da Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, eHumanista, CLCWeb, MATLIT, among others. Visiting Professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara during the fall term of 2001, winter and spring terms of 2016, and at the University of Campinas (Unicamp, SP, Brasil) during the second semester of 2006 and the first semester of 2013. He is a researcher, among others, of the Seminario Discurso Legitimación Memoria (University of Salamanca), and of the Centro de Literatura Portuguesa (University of Coimbra). He served as director and vice-director of the Department of Modern Philology, where he also coordinated the Modern Philology PhD Program. Currently he coordinates the Grado en Estudios Portugueses y Brasileños (BA degree, University of Salamanca) and serves as head of the «Área de Filología Gallega y Portuguesa».