Alexandre Manuel Pinto

Teacher Secondary school Poeta Joaquim Serra Education

My name is Alexandre Manuel Gomes da Conceição Dias Pinto (Alexandre Dias Pinto), I am Portuguese and live near Lisbon.

I hold a B.A. in Portuguese and English and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Lisbon, where I am currently working on a Ph.D. project in Textual Criticism: the edition and study of the manuscript of Robert Southey’s History of Portugal.
I teach Portuguese at the Secondary School Poeta Joaquim Serra (Montijo), but I taught English before at the University of the Algarve and have been working as a teacher trainer. I coordinated school projects such as "+ Human Rights", "Sciences and Society" and "Languages, Art, Citizenship" (which was awarded the European Label for Language Teaching). I have also participated in the Comenius and the Erasmus programmes.

I am a member of Centre for Linguistics of the University of Lisbon (CLUL) and have presented papers and published essays on Portuguese, English and Comparative Literature and on Textual Criticism. Finally, I am the co-author of eight books on Portuguese and Literature for secondary school students (six of them are textbooks).