Research Group: American Studies (RG 3)
Professional Title: Post-doctoral grantee (FCT) / Invited Auxiliary Professor (Department of Anglistic Studies, FLUL)
Institutional Address: CEAUL - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa, Portugal
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Academic Degrees:
- 2007: PhD in American Literature and Culture, Storytellingand Photography in Eudora Welty’s Short Stories,FLUL
- 2000: Master’s Degree in American Literature and Culture, Raymond Carver: American Polaroids, FLUL
- 1995: Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages and Literature (English and Portuguese), FLUL
Publications:
Articles / chapters in books:
- “Corpo convulso: erotismo e subversão em Luiza Neto Jorge e Cindy Sherman”, Arte e Género: Mulheres e Criação Artística (FBAUL, 2012,forthcoming).
- “Helena Almeida emdiálogocomLuizaNeto Jorge, para se escrever”, A Jangada de Ulisses: Volume dos JovensInvestigadores, ed. Ana Daniela Coelho and José Duarte. Lisboa: ULICES/CEAUL, 2011, 87-97.
- “Reified Bodies and Misplaced Identities in Elizabeth Bishop’s Narratives of Childhood Memories”, Anglo Saxonica. Ser. III, N.1, 2010, ULICES/CEAUL, 193-206.
- “’Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden’: (Story) Telling the Southern Ideology”. Eudora Welty Review. Volume 2: Spring 2010, 35-52.
- ”The Dismembered Body: Poe's 'The Man That Was Used Up' and Cindy Sherman's Prosthetic Compositions”. The Edgar Allan Poe Review.Spring 2010. Volume XI, Number 1, 163-173.
- “Desafios de Escrita: NasFronteiras do Corpo. A propósito de Cindy Sherman emdiálogocomLuizaNeto Jorge/Writing Challenges: At the Frontiers of the Body. Apropos of Cindy Sherman in dialogue with LuizaNeto Jorge”. Cine Qua Non. Bilingual Arts Magazine, Winter 10, 98-117.
- “FotografarnaEscrita o Enigma do Real/Photographing in Writing the Enigma of Reality”,Cine Qua Non. Bilingual Arts Magazine, Summer/Fall’09, 30-44.
- “’Everybody to their Own Visioning’: Storytelling e Políticas de Identidadeem ‘Shower of Gold’ de Eudora Welty, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. Homenagem a Maria Helena PaivaCorreia.Departamento de EstudosAnglísticos, FLUL, 2009.
- "Entre Textos: JuliãoSarmentocontempla a Raymond Carver," Literal JuliãoSarmento, Exhibition Catalogue, Centro José Guerrero. Granada, 2008.
- “Are You Ready for the Journey? Images of Female Identity in Eudora Welty’s ‘Kin’”.Olhares e Escritas: EnsaiossobrePalavra e Imagem, ed. RuiCarvalhoHomem and Maria de Fátima Lambert. Porto: flup e-dita, 2006.
- “VislumbresFotográficosem ‘Viewfinder’ de Raymond Carver”, EstudosemHomenagem a Margarida Losa, ed. Ana LuísaAmaral e Gualter Cunha, Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2006 and e-magazineIncomunidade. http://incomunidade.home.sapo.pt/Ensaio/Diana%20Almeida%20%20Vislumbres.htm
- “Intertextuality and Female Identity in Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples”, The Short Story in English: Crossing Boundaries, GemaSoledada Castillo Garcíaetalii (org.), Alcalá, Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de Alcalá, 2006.
- “In Between Texts: JuliãoSarmento Addresses Raymond Carver”,Actas do I CongressoInternacional de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses(Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2003).
- “American Beauty: Video-America”, co-authorship with Margarida Vale de Gato, Actas do XXI Encontro da APEAA (Viseu).
Prefaces:
- Eudora Welty, As Maçãs Douradas (translationandpreface). Lisbon: Antígona, forthcoming.
- Eudora Welty, Os Ventos e Outros Contos (translationandpreface). Lisbon: Antígona, 2008.
- Dylan Thomas, Uma Visão do Mar e Outras Histórias (translationandpreface). Lisbon: Relógio de Água, 2003.
Internationalisation:
- Grant to attend the seminar “Reconfigurations of American Studies”, The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College (18-24 Jun. 2007).
Papers delivered at academic conferences:
- “’Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth?’:Mallick’sEcosophy in The Tree of Life”, Ecologies of the Visual: The Third Visual Culture in Europe Meeting, Trondheim/Norwegian University of Science and Technology (6-7 Setembro 2012).
- "'The shadows are really the body': Elizabeth Bishop's Covert Body of Discontentment", Workshop "From the Body Politic to the Body Poetic," coordinated by ÉricAthenot and Valerio Massimo de Angelis, EAAS Biennial Conference, "The Health of the Nation", Ege University, Turkey (30 Mar.- 2 Abr. 2012).
- “’Writing Challenges: At the Frontiers of the Body’, Celebrating Every Voice”, Re-VisitingTheContactZoneMuseums, Theory, Practice, LinköpingVäst, Suécia (17-21 Jul., 2011).
- “Going Around in a Circle: The Performing Body in Helena Almeida”, Research Seminar Series of the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, King’s College London (24 Nov. 2010).
- “Helena Almeida and LuizaNeto Jorge: Meeting Hands”, Workshop “Women Artists in Dialogue:Literature, Painting and Photography”, King’s College London (24 Nov. 2010).
- “’We need to write with love’: Welty’s Political View during the Civil Rights Years” Eudora Welty: a Centenary. International Conference, University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari, Veneza (17-19 Nov. 2009).
- “Reified Bodies and Misplaced Identities in Elizabeth Bishop’s Narratives of Childhood Memories” Decoding American Culture in the Global Context, 4th World Congress IASA, Beijing Foreign Studies University (18-20 Set. 2009).
- “’An arrow question in the heart’: pattern and ‘feeling’ in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Bride of the Innisfallen’”, 10th International Conference on the Short Story in English, Cork (19-21 Jun. 2008).
Organisation of academic meetings and conferences (recent):
Supervision of Doctoral Theses and MA Dissertations:
- MA dissertationof Carina Sousa, “GenderandRaceinMary EdmoniaLewis’ssculptures”
Other curricular elements:
- Co-organizei, com Paula Elyseu Mesquita, Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity. Peter Lang, forthcoming.
- Coordinates thematic section of the magazine Anglo Saxonica, on Eudora Welty ( 2013).
- Co-organizes, with Sandra M. Gilbert, thematic issue of the jounal Anglo Saxonica, "Feminisms Today and Tomorrow" (2013).
- 2009/... “Writing Challenges: At the Frontiers of the Body”. Creative writing project that relates excerpts of poems byLuizaNeto Jorge and Elizabeth Bishop with works of contemporary visual artists, Museum Colection Berardo.
- With Ana Raquel Fernandes andZuzanna Sanches, Workshop IdentitySubversioninContemporaryWomenArtists (CEAUL) http://identitysubversion.blogspot.pt/
- Collaboratorof the research project CILM / City and Insecurity in Literature and Media (CEC) http://www.cilm.comparatistas.edu.pt/index.php/cilm-project.html
Teaching (FLUL):
Photography:
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