Marianna Leite

Mariana Leite obtained her PhD in Literature from the University of Porto in 2013, with a thesis on the Portuguese reception of the General Estoria of Alfonso X of Castile. She is concluding a postdoctoral research project at Instituto de Filosofia (U. Porto), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), on the presence of Pedro Comestor’s Historia Scholastica in Portugal, including a digital edition of the medieval Portuguese translations of the Latin work. She was a Portuguese language and literature teacher at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2014-2016) and at the Universität Zürich (2020-2021); she also taught Medieval Spanish Literature at the University of Porto with Professor José Carlos Miranda (2017-2019). 
Her research focuses on studying and transcribing medieval texts, with a particular interest in universal historiography. In recent years, she has dedicated her investigation to the presence of sources for universal chronicles (especially Biblical and Classical) in medieval Portuguese culture.