Biography

Degree in Romance Philology (1981); MA in African Literatures of Portuguese and Brazilian Expression (1988); PhD in Portuguese Literature (1997); aggregation in Portuguese Culture (2006).

Vast bibliography published since the 1980s.

Professor at the University of Évora.

Research fields

• Portuguese culture and literature
• French culture and literature
• Surrealism studies

Selected publications

• Franco, António Cândido. O Estranhíssimo Colosso – Biografia Agostinho da Silva. Lisbon: Quetzal, 2015. [link]
• Franco, António Cândido. Trinta Anos Dispersos sobre Teixeira de Pascoaes. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 2014. [link]
• Franco, António Cândido. Notas para a Compreensão do Surrealismo em Portugal. Évora: Licorne, 2013.
• Franco, António Cândido. O Essencial sobre Bernardim Ribeiro. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 2007. [link]🔓

Main projects

• Researcher in the project “MOSCA – Movimento social crítico e alternativo: memória e referências” [Critical and alternative social movement: memory and references] — Coordinated by João Freire (ISCTE-IUL) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/CPJ-CPO/098500/2008). [link]