Ana Paixão

Ana Paixão has a PhD in Comparative Literature with a thesis on “Rhetoric and techniques of literary and musical writing in Portugal between the 17th and 19th centuries”. She is a member of CESEM – UNL, a founding member of the Portuguese Rhetoric Society, a member of the Scientific Council of the Poetry and Transcendence Chair at the Catholic University of Porto, an invited member of the Management Council of the University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, the Improvement Council of the Department of Languages at the University of Paris Sorbonne and the Council of the Doctoral School of Languages, Literature and Performance at the University of Paris Nanterre. After becoming a Reader at the University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, she taught French applied to singing at the National Conservatory in Lisbon. She directed the Casa de Portugal – André de Gouveia at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris between 2010 and 2023. Since 2010, she has been working at the University of Paris 8 and coordinating Portuguese courses at the Portuguese Embassy. Since 2023, she has been responsible for the strategy and development of the campus of the International University City of Paris. She is a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit by the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic (2018), Chevalière des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Rectorate of the Universities of Paris (2019) and Chevalière des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture (2021).