Alongside university teaching, Jacinto do Prado Coelho held significant positions in academia. Notably, after the establishment of democracy, he served as president of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where he played an active role in restructuring the Romance Philology courses. After the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974, which he celebrated as "a revolution-fest", he founded CLEPUL — the Centre for Lusophone Literatures of the University of Lisbon, with the aim of promoting research and fostering innovative knowledge about the literary and cultural expressions of Portuguese-speaking countries. Under his leadership, CLEPUL focused on Camillian studies, Brazilian literature, the diverse literatures of Portuguese-speaking African countries, and the sociology of literature.

His students at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities included David Mourão-Ferreira, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Maria Alzira Seixo and Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz. At a colloquium held in his honor in 1996, organised by Nova University of Lisbon, his only son, Eduardo Prado Coelho — himself a university professor and writer — described Jacinto do Prado Coelho as “a sceptic, a rationalist, a humanist, with great openness to difference and novelty." This is undoubtedly one of his greatest legacies to Portuguese culture.

Active bibliography : A Educação do Sentimento Poético, Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 1944; A Poesia de Teixeira de Pascoais e Outros Escritos Pascoaesianos – A Educação do Sentimento Poético, 2nd edition, Porto: Lello Editores, 1999. ; A Poesia de Teixeira de Pascoais - Ensaio e Antologia, Coimbra: Atlântida, 1945; A Poesia de Teixeira de Pascoais e Outros Escritos Pascooaesianos – A Educação do Sentimento Poético, 2nd edition, Porto: Lello Editores, 1999; Introdução ao Estudo da Novela Camiliana, Coimbra: Atlântida, 1946; 2nd revised and expanded edition, Lisbon : IN-CM, 1982 and 1983, 2 vols.; Diversidade e Unidade em Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon : Revista Ocidente, 1949 [publ. in 1951]; 7th revised and updated edition, Lisbon : Editorial Verbo, 1982; Dicionário das Literaturas Portuguesa, Galega e Brasileira ( dir. ), Porto: Livraria Figueirinhas 1960; Dicionário de Literatura – Literatura Portuguesa, Literatura Brasileira, Literatura Galega, Estilística Literária, 3rd edition, Porto: Figueirinhas, 1978; Jacinto do Prado Coelho ( dir. ). RODRIGUES, Ernesto e LARANJEIRA, Pires ( coord .), Dicionário de Literatura – Portuguesa, Brasileira, Galega, Africana, Estilística Literária – Actualização , Porto: Figueirinhas, 2002 and 2003, 3 vols.; Problemática da História Literária, Lisbon : Ática, 1961; 2nd revised and expanded edition, Lisbon : Ática, n.d. [1972]; A Letra e o Leitor, Lisbon : Portugália Editora, 1969; Ao Contrário de Penélope, Lisbon : Livraria Bertrand, 1976; A Originalidade da Literatura Portuguesa, Lisbon : Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa, 1977; 3rd edition, 1992; Camões e Pessoa, Poetas da Utopia, Lisbon : Publicações Europa-América, 1983.

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