Areas of interest: Portuguese Studies – Gender Studies.
Maria Graciete Besse, currently retired, is the former Director of Portuguese Studies and Assistant Director of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, France. Professor Graciete Besse also worked at the Institut Hispanique in Paris and frequently holded visiting lectures at many different universities throughout France and Portugal. In 2004 Maria Graciete Besse founded the Institute for Lusophone Studies at the CRIMIC (Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les mondes ibériques contemporains) of the Sorbonne, which she directed until 2016.
Her research areas encompass language, literature, and civilization of lusophone countries. Some of her most influential publications in the field of Iberian Studies include Femme et écriture dans la Péninsule ibérique (co-edited with Nadia Mekouar-Hertzberg, 2004), Les Grands récits: Miroirs brisés? Les grands récits à l’épreuve des mondes ibériques et ibéro-américains (co-edited with Michel Ralle, 2010), Cultures lusophones et hispanophones: penser la relation (2010) and “Stratégies d’ouverture et pratiques génériques dans les récits de voyage espagnols et portugais au XXe siècle: quelques exemples” (2005).
More information: institutional website
Maria Graciete Besse’s publications in the IStReS database: