Ana Nascimento Piedade is an Associate Professor with Aggregation at Universidade Aberta. She joined the Scientific and Executive Committee of the “International Meeting: Eduardo Lourenço, 85 years”, that was organized by the Cultural National Centre and by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2008); she has also integrated the Scientific Committee of the International Portuguese-Brazilian Meeting “100 Orpheu” (2015). She has collaborated both in Dicionário de Eça de Queiroz and in Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo Português. She has published the following books: A Questão Estética em Mário-de Sá-Carneiro (1994), Ironia e Socratismo em A Cidade e as Serras (“Essay Award Ernesto Guerra da Cal”, 2002), Fradiquismo e Modernidade no último Eça - 1888-1900 (2003), Diálogos com Eça no Novo Milénio (Introduction and organization; 2004), Outra Margem - Estudos de Literatura e Cultura Portuguesas (2008), Em Diálogo com Eduardo Lourenço (2015).