Everton V. Machado received a PhD degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Paris-Sorbonne / Paris IV in 2008, under the supervision of Pierre Brunel. He is Principal Researcher (equivalent to Associate Professor) of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and lecturer in the area of Literatures, Arts and Cultures at the same institution. From 2013 until 2018, he developed the exploratory research project “The Portuguese Representations of India: Power and Knowledge in a Peripheral Orientalism (19th and 20th centuries)”, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal. At the moment, he is working on the representations of Islam in Portuguese culture and science. He co-directed the CEComp (2016-2019) and coordinated the research team “Orion – Portuguese Orientalism” (2014-2019); he is currently responsible for the CEComp Periodicals and for the CEComp Community in the University of Lisbon repository. His book O Orientalismo Português e as Jornadas de Tomás Ribeiro: caracterização de um problema (BNP, 2018) was finalist of the Portuguese PEN Club Prize in 2019 in the category Essay.
Areas of research
Comparative Literature
Orientalism
Lusophone studies
Selected publications
2023. “Portugal against the Moors in the 21st century: invisible diasporas and the "mediatic romanticism" of a contemporary opera”. In Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, edited by Cristián H. Ricci, 163-178. New York: Routledge.
2021. “Is it not so easy to go from West to East? A political view of Cecília Meireles in India”. In Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America, edited by Axel Gasquet and Gorica Majstorovic, 225-243. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2020. “"Orientalism from within" in Goa: Local Textual Production in Light of the Legal and Administrative Framework of the Overseas Populations”. In Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations: Texts and Histories, edited by Katrine K. Wong, 97-122. Leiden: Brill.
2018. O Orientalismo Português e as Jornadas de Tomás Ribeiro: Caracterização de um problema. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
2014. Co-editor. ACT 27 – Goa portuguesa e pós-colonial: literatura, cultura e sociedade. V. N. Famalicão: Húmus.
2012. Editor. Les Brahmanes (a novel by Francisco Luís Gomes). Paris: Classiques Garnier.
2011. “The Rebellion in a 19th century Indo-Portuguese novel”. In Insurgent Sepoys: Europe Views the Revolt of 1857, edited by Shaswati Mazumdar, 251-266. London, New York, New Delhi: Routledge.
