Research Group: American Studies (RG 3)
Profissional Title: Auxiliary Professor
Institutional Address: CEAUL - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa
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Academic Degrees:

• PhD: American Literature, 2007; Thesis title: Reinventing the epic paradigm in Dos Passos’s early fiction: a reading of One Man’s Initiation, Three Soldiers e Manhattan Transfer);Open University, Lisbon; Supervisor: Professor Mário Avelar.
• Master’s degree: American Studies/American Literature, 2000; Thesis title: Mimesis: representing the real in Science Fiction: a reading of Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man; Open University, Lisbon; Supervisor: Professor Mário Avelar.
•  Degree: Modern Languages and Literatures (English and German Studies) 1986; Faculty of Letters, Lisbon University.

Publications:

Articles / chapters in books:

• «Promethean Rebellion in Ray Bradburys’ Fahrenheit 451: the Protagonist’s Quest». Amaltea Journal of Myth Criticism. Issue 4 – Prometheus the Rebel, October 2012.
• «The Illustrated Man, de Ray Bradbury: Linguagem e Género Literário». Literatura e Arte (Coord. Mário Avelar), Ed. Cosmos. (in the press). 
• «A ficção utópica como representação-negação da realidade histórica: Fahrenheit 451, de Ray Bradbury», Actas de Colóquio: Literatura e História – para uma prática interdisciplinar – Universidade Aberta: Lisbon, 2002; D. L. 204235/03; ISBN – 972-674-414-8–CD-Rom edition.

Internationalisation:

Papers delivered at academic conferences:

• «Tourism experience in narrative fiction: E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View». Routes and Roots: Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism. Aveiro University, Department of Languages and Cultures, 28-29 June 2012.
• «Biblical Myths of the City in Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer». International Conference Recycling Myths, Faculty of Letters, Lisbon University, 2-5 May 2012.
• «Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer: a modernist reading of History». 1912-2012: A Time to Reason and to compare. An International Conference on Modernism. Faculty of Letters, Oporto University, 1-3 March 2012. 
• «Expatriate heroes: loss and quest in Hemingway and Dos Passos» 32th APEAA Annual Conference, Faculty of Letters, Coimbra,  12-14 May 2011. 
• «Visions in the American Mosaic: immigration and multiculturalism in Manhattan Transfer»: IV Symposium John Dos Passos, Facts and Fiction, John Dos Passos Cultural Center, Funchal, Ponta do Sol, 14 January 2011. (invited) 
• «Ray Bradbury’s short stories: fantasy as criticism». Seminar: Star Messengers: Science Fiction and Fantasy, Lisbon, Faculty of Letters, 5 November 2010. 
• «The Illustrated Man, de Ray Bradbury: Linguagem e Género Literário»: APEAA 31^st Annual Conference, Geographies of the Self, Lisbon, Sociedade de Geografia, 16 April 2010.

Other curricular elements:

• Member of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA).
• Auxiliary Professor (English) at Isla Campus Lisboa-Laureate International Universities.
• Secondary Teacher: permanent teacher at Poeta Al Berto Secondary School, Sines.

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