Idalete Dias is Assistant Professor of the Institute of Arts and Humanities of the University of Minho. She holds a teaching degree in English and German from the University of Minho. She was a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) grant holder at the University of Würzburg (Germany), where she completed a postgraduate course in Computational Linguistics, followed by an M.A. Degree in German Language and Literature (2003). She holds a PhD degree in Applied Linguistics.
Over the last few years she has primarily lectured humanities computing courses and has (co-)supervised digital humanities projects, namely:
(i) The Digital Archive of the Letters written to Camilo Castelo Branco, in collaboration with the Camilo Castelo Branco Research Centre (ongoing project);
(ii) the parallel corpus project PER-FIDE − a multilingual parallel corpus that encompasses six languages with Portuguese as the pivot language (2010-2013);
(iii) The Language of Cyberbullying: Forms and Mechanisms of Online Prejudice and Discrimination in Annotated Comparable Corpora of Portuguese and English (2018-).
Her main research interests include lexicography, phraseology, terminology, corpus linguistics, and electronic textual editing applied to the Humanities.
She is currently the Coordinator of the European Master in Lexicography – an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Programme and the Director of the Master’s Degree Programme in Digital Humanities of the University of Minho.