Margarida Miranda is an Associate Professor of Classical Studies at FLUC.
Her research and teaching activities have primarily focused on Latin, classical culture, and neo-Latin studies. More specifically, her focus has been on Renaissance Humanism and the 16th century, Jesuit humanism, and its neo-Latin written sources.
Margarida Miranda is a member of several scientific associations, participating regularly in international scientific meetings and dozens of talks (including in Portugal, Brazil, Italy, Germany, England, USA, and Japan). She is also Coordinator of the inter-university project to edit and translate the "Cursus Aristotelicus Conimbricensis," or the Coimbra Aristotelian Jesuit Course.
In this domain, her main research areas are: Neo-Latin sources of Renaissance Humanism; Jesuit humanism and its cultural, literary, artistic-dramatic, and philosophical production; and the history of education in Jesuit Colleges as well as its written sources. This research resulted in the publication of dozens of publications in scientific journals, books, and book chapters. Among these, the first ever translation in Portugal of the “Ratio Studiorum” of the Society of Jesus (3rd edition) stands out.
Selected publications
António Rebelo e Margarida Miranda (Coord.), O Mundo Clássico e a Universalidade do seus Valores. IUC, 2020; Volume I | Volume II
Carlota Simões, Margarida Miranda e Pedro Casaleiro (Coords.) Visto de Coimbra. O Colégio de Jesus entre Portugal e o Mundo. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 2020.
“O teatro de Anchieta e a reinvenção do Auto ibérico” in CASIMIRO, A.P.B.S; SILVEIRA, C.N.D; ALMEIDA, M.C.O; MEDEIROS, R.H.A. Educação e Religião: história e memória da pedagogia cristã no Brasil. Coleção: Educação, Memória e Religião. Volume 1. Curitiba-PR: CRV, 2020.
Miguel Venegas and the Earliest Jesuit Theatre: Choruses for Tragedies in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2019).
Ratio Studiorum da Companhia de Jesus (1599): Regime Escolar e Plano de Estudos. Edição bilingue e versão portuguesa de Margarida Miranda. Braga, Axioma, 2018.
“Teatro”, in Francisco Contente Domingues (Dir.), Dicionário da Expansão Portuguesa. 1415-1600. Volume II: de I a Z. Círculo de Leitores. (Lisboa 2016) pp.973-980.
Latineuropa. Latim e cultura neolatina no processo de construção da identidade europeia. (Coord. Nair Castro Soares, Margarida Miranda e Carlota M. Urbano), Coimbra, 2008, 380 pp.
Teatro nos Colégios dos Jesuítas. A Tragédia de Acab de Miguel Venegas S. I. e o início de um género dramático (séc. XVI). (Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2006) 573 pp.