Isabelle de Oliveira is HDR Professor of Language Sciences at the Université des Cultures – Sorbonne Nouvelle, where she has held important positions since 2010.

She is a renowned researcher in Communication Sciences and Portuguese language culture, and the founder and president of the Institut du Monde Lusophone (IMlus), being recognized as one of the main promoters of Lusophony. A work developed with enormous passion and competence, as has been underlined several times by the famous French philosopher Edgar Morin.

She was Director of the largest Department of Applied Foreign Languages at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (2011 to 2019), which reached more than 2500 students. Before that, she defended her first university thesis, in Language Sciences (2005), at the Université Lumière Lyon II, whose specialization made her a reference in the field in France and internationally. In 2014, she defended a second thesis, also in the field of Language and Cognition Sciences, this time at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne.

Since then, she holds the highest teaching and research degree in the French university system (“Habilitation à diriger des recherches”), and is currently Director of Research (Language Sciences) at the Université de Paris Sorbonne (Paris III), at École Doctorale 268.

At the same time, she has created international networks of academic and scientific cooperation in Europe, Africa, Asia and America, while assuming various scientific and editorial responsibilities in France, Portugal, Brazil, Spain and Italy. Author of several books – among which “La métaphore en science”; “Pour une esquisse des figures de styles en Droit”; “Terminologie, Traduction et Rédaction technique”; “Lusofonia et Francophonie: l’Alliance de la Latinoesfera”; and “O Devir da Lusofonia” -, she has published more than 50 articles on various domains in France, Portugal, Canada, Brazil, Angola, Romania, Italy, Egypt, Lebanon, Denmark, and Spain, among others.

And she is already finishing her next book “SOS Portugais”, in which she will continue her research and activities to promote the Portuguese language and Lusophone cultures in the world, mainly based on four axes: the Lusophone world in all its cultural and linguistic diversity; its democratization; the analysis carried out in geolinguistic areas, as objects of international relations theory; and, finally, university education and cooperation in the Lusophone world.

She is also the organizer of numerous seminars, colloquia and congresses, among which we highlight the Congress of the Portuguese Language (2011, 2013, 2017 and 2019), integrates several associations and cultural networks, national and international, and has held several positions in the public, cooperative and social sectors, with emphasis on the presidency of the IMlus, based in Paris, and inaugurated, in 2017, with the support of Sorbonne, UNESCO and the Senate, under the High Patronage of the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron.