Amândio Reis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities, and editor-in-chief of Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies. He completed his PhD in 2020 at the U. Lisbon (PhDCOMP) with a dissertation on the short fiction of Machado de Assis, Henry James, and Guy de Maupassant. He currently coordinates the research group THELEME–Interarts & Intermedia Studies, at the Centre for Comparative Studies, also collaborating in the scientific and editorial project C&WL – Comparative and World Literature. He was a visiting research assistant at Universidade de São Paulo (2025) and Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 (2018). His research is situated at the intersection of narrative studies and comparative literature, focusing mostly on the short story and other genres of short form literature, from the Fin de Siècle to the modernist period.
Areas of research
Comparative Literature
Portuguêse Studies
Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Short Fiction
Interarts Studies
Selected publications
2026, ed. with Delia Ungureanu. Short Story as World Literature: The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure Genre. Londres: Bloomsbury.
2025, org. Contos Completos de Machado de Assis, vols. 1-2. Lisboa: E-Primatur.
2022. “Pessoa and Personification: The Early Stories in English”. Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies N.º 22 (Brown University).
2022. Short Stories, Knowledge and the Supernatural: Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant. London: Palgrave.
2021. “A fada dos olhos grandes: Proporção Inversa nos ‘Fragmentos’ de Almada Negreiros”. Microtextualidades — Revista internacional de microrrelato y minificción, vol. 1, n.º 9 (U. San Pablo CEU).
