The Portuguese Literature Area offers Extension and Cultural Diffusion courses, to which are invited as teachers, professors of the area, professors from different areas of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences and professors from other universities, public and private. The courses are open to graduate and undergraduate students, professors of literature and interested public. 

Check out below some courses that have been taught over the years:

Courses offered in 2021:

11 a 18/08 | Introduction to the poetics of Gregório de Matos

13 a 27/08 | Classical Myths and the Education of Medieval Ladies

16 a 20/08 | Police Literature: a Brief Investigation

16 a 25/08 | Poetry and reality by the work of Herberto Helder

Courses offered in 2020:

Faces of the city in the work of Lima Barreto

Racializing Portuguese literature: (re)constructions of black and white identities

Courses offered in 2019:

Fernando Pessoa and Co. Non-Heretonima

Courses offered in2018:

Introduction to Contemporary Portuguese Literature

The teaching of Portuguese literature in Brazil: the work of Massaud Moisés

Literature of Macau I

Courses offered in 2017:

The realism in question: Literatures and Cultures of Portuguese Language

Fernando Pessoa and Co. Non-Heretonima

Courses offered in2014:


Themes and myths in Portuguese literature

Literary Saturdays: Women in Portuguese Literature

Timor-Leste: Literature, Politics and Society

Jesuitism in Asia

Courses offered in 2013:

16 Portuguese poets of the 20th century

Courses offered in 2012:

Themes, characters and remarkable works of Portuguese literature: a journey through time

Fernando Pessoa: a poetics of mi(s)tificação

Comparative Studies of Portuguese Language Literatures - Brazil, Portugal and Africa

Cursos de Extensão