Full Professor of Classical Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra.
She obtained the title of Aggregate in Ancient World in 2013, having obtained her doctorate in Greek Literature in 2001, her master's degree in Classical Studies in 1996, and her bachelor in Classical and Portuguese Languages and Literatures in 1993, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra.
Director of the PhD in Food Heritage: Cultures and Identities.
Vice-Director of the PhD in Classical Studies.
Chair of the Research Committee of the European Institute for the History and Cultures of Food (Tours, France).
Principal Investigator of the European project CONVIVIUM: New European Bauhaus Solutions in Food, Living Heritage, and Conviviality (2024-2027).
Editor in Chief of the journal DIAITA: Food & Heritage.
Editor of the series on Food Studies of the University of Coimbra Press DIAITA: Scripta & Realia.
Integrated Researcher and Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra.
Her research, teaching, and publishing activities are developed in the areas of Classical Cultures, Literatures and Languages, History of Ancient Greece, and Food Heritage, History, and Cultures.
Co-coordinator of the Portuguese-Brazilian transnational Network DIAITA: Food Heritage of Lusophony.
Member of the General Counsil of the University of Coimbra (2024-2028).
Selected publications
Soares, C. (2021), "Comfort food in Homer", in Lazzari, T., Pucci Donati, F., A banchetto con gli amici. Roma.
Figueira, T., Soares, C. (eds.) (2020), Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus. London.
Soares, C., Brandão, J. L., Carvalho, P. C. (coords.) (2018), História Antiga: Relações Interdisciplinares. Fontes, Artes, Filosofia, Política Religião e Receção. Coimbra.
Soares, C., Brandão, J. L., Carvalho, P. C. (coords.) (2018), História Antiga: Relações Interdisciplinares. Paisagens Urbanas, Rurais & Sociais. Coimbra.
Soares, C. (2018), "Monarcas persas nas Histórias de Heródoto: lei e liberdade, fundamentos da ideologia monárquica", in Arqueologias de Império, 221-235. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2018
Soares, C. (2018), "Democracia: as controvérsias de uma “maravilha” da historiografia herodotiana", in Sebastiani, B. et alii, A poiesis da democracia, Coimbra, 23-45.
Soares, C. (2018), “I messaggeri di Euripide, come narratori di orrori”, in Leranò, G., Taravacci, P., Il racconto a teatro. Dal dramma antico al Siglo de Oro alla scena contemporanea, Trento, 77-88.
Soares, C., Casadesús Bordoy, F., Fialho, M. C. (coords.) (2016),Redes Culturais nos Primórdios da Europa - 2400 Anos da Fundação da Academia de Platão. Coimbra.
Soares, C., Fialho, M. C., Figueira, T. (coords.) (2016), Pólis/Cosmópolis: identidades globais & locais. Coimbra.
Soares, C. (2014), "Dress and Undress in Herodotus’ Histories". Phoenix 68 3-4: 222-234.
Soares, C. (2014), ""Theoria" e "praxis" política em Heródoto", Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos 24: 57-79.
Soares, C. (2013), "Childhood and Youth", in Beck, M., A Companion to Plutarch, Oxford, 373-390