Research Group: American Studies (RG 3)
Profissional Title: Assistant Professor at Universidade Aberta
Institutional Address: Universidade Aberta, Palácio Ceia – Rua da Escola Politécnica, 147, 1269-001 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
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Research Projects:

• Mapping American Studies in Portugal
• In Defense of the Humanities.  Why Literature Today? (A transdisciplinary, transcultural project, involving the study of Portuguese-American literary texts and the comparison of literary aims and methodologies with the aims and methodologies adopted by the (so-called) exact sciences and technologies)

Academic Degrees:

• Doctorate: 1999 - Universidade Aberta (Lisbon, Portugal) – English and American StudiesMestrado em Estudos Americanos, pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1995).
• Master’s Degree: 1995 – Lisbon New University (Portugal) – American Studies.
• First Degree: 1976 – Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) – English and German Studies.

Publications:

• A Universidade nos Finais do Século XX:  Autovisões e Alterovisões da Universidade – O Romance Académico como Documento Cultural, Lisboa, Universitária Editora, 2001, pp 395.
• “Alfred Lewis:  A Escrita e o Tempo”, in Atlântida:  Revista de Cultura, Vol. XLIX, Angra do Heroísmo, Instituto Açoriano de Cultura, 2004, pp 203-210.
• “A Procura de Sentido:  Sistemas de Decisão na Literatura e na Informática de Gestão” (co autoria com António Palma dos Reis, Professor Associado – ISEG), in Discursos Diálogos da Literatura com as Ciências e as Artes, Série VII - Estudos Anglo-Americanos I, Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, Dezembro de 2005, pp 99-122.

Most recent publications:

• “‘A Spell against Ruin’, ou A Field Guide to the Heavens: A Leitura como Procura de Sentido, na Literatura e na Medicina”, Proceedings from the 25th Annual APEAA Conference (CD Rom), Vila Real, UTAD, 2007.
• “‘A Matemática Dobrando-se ante os Anjos’: Lugar e Papel da Literatura na Fase Transcultural”, Carlos Ceia et al. (eds.), Novos Caminhos da História e da Cultura: Proceedings of the 27th Annual APEAA Conference, APEAA and Centre of Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lisbon New University, 2007.
• Entrada “Romance Académico” in Carlos Ceia (org.), e.dicionário dos Termos Literários (http://www2.fcsh.unl.pt/edtl/verbetes/R/romance_academico.htm
• “A Educação e o Ensino, Hoje: Retórica, Realidade e Cultura”, in J.M. de Barros Dias and Luís Sebastião (eds.), Da Filosofia, da Pedagogia, da Escola: Liber Amicorum Manuel Ferreira Patrício, Évora, University of Évora, July 2008.
• “Fielding & Fielding, ou a Recuperação Possível, na actualidade, do Potencial da Escrita como ‘Cottage Industry’”, in Carla Ferreira de Castro and Luís Guerra (eds.), Exchanging Voices, Expanding Boundaries, Évora, University of Évora, Jan. 2009.•
•  “A Tell-Tale Sign of Success and Failure of the University: The Changing Figure of the Scholar in David Lodge’s Fiction (1965-1995)”, in Anthony Barker, David Callahan and Maria Aline Ferreira (eds.), Success and Failure: Proceedings of the 29th Annual APEAA Conference at the University of Aveiro, 17-19 April 2008, Aveiro, University of Aveiro, 2009.
•  “Para a Revalidação das Humanidades, pelo Restabelecimento do Elo Perdido entre os Saberes: Uma Reflexão”, Carlos Ceia, Miguel Alarcão, Iolanda Ramos (eds.), Letras & Ciências: As Duas Culturas de Filipe Furtado, Lisbon, Caleidoscópio, 2009.

Internationalisation:

• Throughout the 1980s, Reader at the University of Hull, U.K., and Visiting Professor at Brown University, U.S.A. (see “other curricular elements”.
• Participation in projects related with the Portuguese Community in the USA – e.g. celebrations of the centenary of the Portuguese- American writer Alfred Lewis at Tulare, California, U.S.A.
• Over the years, participation, with presentation of papers, at international conferences organised by ULICES, by the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA), by the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), by the International Association of Lusitanists (A.I.L.), by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.
• “‘How to Write a Blackwood Article’: an Exercise in Irony, Authorial Self-Consciousness and Tuition for Creative Writers”, paper presented at the symposium on "Poe and Gothic Creativity", Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, 18-20 March 2009, and involvement in its executive committee.

Supervision of Doctoral Theses and MA Dissertations:

Note: All the listed supervisions were carried out at Universidade Aberta, Portugal

Supervision of PhD Theses in American Studies and in English Studies:

• Maria Clara Magalhães Marta “The world is in my head. My body is in the world.”: A Condição paratópica em Paul Auster: incidências e projecções do espaço na produção literária em prosa. American Studies. (Concluded, Magna Cum Laude).
• Zaida Pinto Ferreira (provisional title – in progress). American Studies.
• Ana Paula Correia (provisional title – in progress). English Studies.
• Ana Elisa Ribeiro da Cunha (provisional title – in progress). American Studies.

Supervision of MA Dissertations in American Studies (concluded, almost all of them Magna Cum Laude):

• 2009:
  CANELAS,  Fernanda de Jesus Barreiros.
  Figuras do Anti-Herói nos Períodos de Pós-Guerra.
• 2008:
  PEREIRA, Elisabete Cristina Figueiras Ribeiro de Jesus.
  Felicidade e tecnologia em Fahrenheit 451.
• VARGUES, Raquel.
  A Reforma Protestante e o Pensamento Democrático Americano.
• 2007:
  PIRES, Maria Ondina Coelho.
  Percursos de transgressão juvenil no discurso fílmico de Scorpio Rising.
• 2006:
  CUNHA, Ana Elisa Baptista Pereira Morais Figo Ribeiro da.
  James Fenimore Cooper e Thomas Cole: The last of the mohicans : a relação dialéctica entre a natureza, a literatura e a pintura, no espaço formativo ecológico.
• 2005:
  CUNHA, Laurentino Armando Torres da.
  Defesa e subversão dos conceitos americanos de igualdade e democracia em Mary Anderson, Mary "Mother" Jones e John L. Lewis.
• HENRIQUES, Maria Amália.
  Conceitos e preconceitos sobre o tema da educação no Alabama, a partir de To Kill a Mockingbird : incompreensão étnica, de género e de classe social.
• SOUSA, Luísa Maria Vilhena Ribeiro de.
  Forma Sinistra de Americanismo: O Puritanismo na Ética e na Retórica do Ku Klux Klan
• VAZ, Maria Laurentina Fagulha.
  Ecos da cultura de raiz portuguesa em terras do Canadá em My darling dead ones de Erika de Vasconcelos e A casa das rugas de Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto.
• 2004:
  CORREIA, Rui Antunes. Diario de Noticias de New Bedford  O unico jornal diario portuguez nos Estados Unidos: leituras da luso-americanas do Estado Novo nos anos 30.
  MENDONÇA, Rui Miguel de Almeida Guerreiro.
  Blues : adulteração ou recriação? : contributo para um estudo cultural dos textos das canções de Blues interpretadas por artistas africano-americanos e artistas brancos americanos e britânicos.
• RAABE, Florbela Henriques.
  Historiografia do relacionamento entre Mórmons e índios, Utah 1847-1877.
  MARTA, Maria Clara Magalhães. Um Estudo sobre as Representações do Espaço em Smoke.

Earlier years:

• LEAL, Alexandra Maria de Magalhães Pinto de Paiva, The Last of The Mohicans:  A Realidade da ‘French and Indian War’ no Cinema dos Anos 90.
• TOMÉ, Helena Maria Fernandes Pereira Amador da Costa, ‘Fitness’ e Feminismo a propósito de Women Coming of Age.

Other curricular elements:

• 1982-1990: Lecturer in Portuguese Language, Literature and Culture at the University of Hull, UK (including Portuguese courses in Business Studies). Lecturer, ICALP (1982-1987), followed by renewal at the cost of the instititution until 1988. She collaborated with the teacher responsible for the subject in the design of an intensive course of Portuguese as a Foreign Language for University Students (sponsored by a grant from ICALP.
• Teaching in SLS _ Specialist Language Services (International) Ltd (Cromwell House, – 13 Ogleforth, York, YO1 2JG, England), namely in English-Portuguese Translation and Interpretation Training for the Angolan Government.
• Research activity in the areas of Portuguese, English and American contemporary literatures. 
• 1988-1989: Visiting Professor, Center for Portuguese and Brazilian Studies of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island _ (USA), collaborating with Gávea-Brown (academic publishing). While staying at this university, she taught Portuguese Language, Culture and Literature: courses in Theories and Practice of Written Discourse, and Portuguese Stylistics, to final-year undergraduates of the Center for Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.
• Book Review Editor of the Gávea-Brown journal. 
• Translation of the Proceedings of the Conference on Jorge de Sena, University of Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
• 1990-1994: Secondary School Teacher and Course Delegate, English, Escola Secundária Elias Garcia (Almada); researcher at the Institute of American Studies, Faculty of Humanites and Social Sciences, Lisbon New University.
• De 1994 a 1999:
  Lecturer, Universidade Aberta: Teacher Training in English Didactisc, English III, North American Society and Culture, English Literature III (19th and 20th centuries) – distance learning
• Researcher at the American Studies Centre of the Institute of Postgraduate Studies, Universidade Aberta.
• Collaborator in the International Project G7 – Tel “Língua.
• Trainer (of Secondary School Teachers) in Language, Literature and Society: Literary Texts in English Language Classrooms (sponsored by Foco Programme, and the Almada-Tejo and Gil Vicente Training Centres.
• From 1999 onwards: Assistant Professor in the Department of Human and Social Sciences (obtaining tenure in 2004). Responsible for the Teaching of English Courses (Financial Management) at ISEG (School of Economics and Management.
• Vice-coordinator of the Centre for English and American Studies, Universidade Aberta.
• Member of the Board of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA).
• Currently, Assistant Professor of the Humanities Department, Universidade Aberta. 

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