Research Group: American Studies – Interfacing Cultures and Identities (RG 3)
Professional Title: Associate Professor (with “aggregation”)
Institutional Address: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa
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Research Projects:

• Principal Investigator of Research Group 3 – American Studies – Interfacing Cultures and Identities.

Academic Degrees:

• “Aggregation” in American Studies, University of Lisbon, 2004.
• Doctorate in American Literature, University of Lisbon, 1988.

Publications:

Books

• Cânone e Diversidade: um ensaio sobre a literatura e a cultura dos Estados Unidos.Cadernos de Anglística 9. Lisbon: ULICES/Edições Colibri, 2003. ISBN 972-772-428-0
• Co-auth. Feminine Identities. Cadernos de Anglística 5, Luísa Flora, Teresa Cid, Teresa F. A. Alves (eds.). Lisbon: ULICES/Edições Colibri, 2002. ISBN 972-772-370-5.
• Co-auth. Literatura Norte-Americana. Lisbon: Universidade Aberta, 1999. ISBN 972-674-246-3.
• Co-ed. Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora. Piecing Things Together. New York: Peter Lang, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4331-1430-4.
• Co-ed. And gladly wolde [s]he lerne and gladly teche: Homenagem a Júlia Dias Ferreira. Lisbon: DEA-FLUL/Edições Colibri, 2007. ISBN 978-972-772-702-5.
• Co-ed. From the Edge/Onde a Terra Acaba. Lisbon: 101 Noites/ULICES, 2006.
• Co-ed. Ceremonies and Spectacles: Performing American Culture. Amsterdam: VU Univ. Press, 2001. ISBN90-5383—693-4.
• Co-ed. Walt Whitman: “Not Only Summer but all Seasons”. Lisbon: Colibri, 1999. ISBN 972-772-061-7.
• Co-ed. Melville. Lisbon: Colibri, 1994. ISBN 972-8047-56-8.

Articles / Chapters in Books

• "Disquietude or the Leap into the Sea". A Scholar for All Seasons: Volume de Homenagem a João de Almeida Flor (Lisboa: CEAUL/DEA, 2013: 929-945). ISBN 978-972-8886-21-9.
• “A Poetics of Disquietude for Gaspar’s Tales of the Soul”. Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora. Piecing Things Together (New York: Peter Lang, 2011: 83-98). ISBN 978-1-4331-1430-4.
• “Between Worlds: A Convergence of Kindred Lives”. ‘So long lives this, and this gives life to thee’: Homenagem a Maria Helena de Paiva Correia. Alcinda Sousa et al (eds.). Lisbon: DEA-FLUL/Edições Colibri, 2009: 755-764. ISBN 978-972-8886-10-3.
• “Arte Norte-Americana na FLUL: Em Torno de Joseph Cornell”. “Introduction” to the Catalogue for the  Exhibition at the Library of  FLUL (Lisbon, Dec. 18, 2008 – January 7, 2009).
• “Accordes Medievais e Renascentistas em Frank X. Gaspar”. ‘And gladly wolde [s]he lerne and gladly teche’: Homenagem a Júlia Dias Ferreira. Teresa F. A. Alves et al (eds.). Lisbon: DEA-FLUL/Edições Colibri, 2007: 735-752. ISBN 978-972-772-702-5.
• “Women’s Autobiographies: Twentieth-Century American Inscriptions”, America in the Course of Human Events: Presentations and Interpretations. Josef Jarab, et al (eds.). Amsterdam: VU UP, 2006: 187-199. ISBN 90-5383-992-5.
• “George Monteiro Through José Rodrigues Miguéis’ Looking Glass”. The Discreet Charm of a Portuguese American Scholar/ Gávea-Brown A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies. Providence, RI: Gávea-Brown, XXIV-XXV (2003-2004), 98-108.
• “Autobiographies of Women in the Promised Land”. Feminine Identities. Cadernos de Anglística 5, Luísa Flora, Teresa Cid, Teresa F. A. Alves (eds.). Lisbon: ULICES/Edições Colibri, 2002: 133-160.
• “Some Enchanted Evening: Tuning In the Amazing Fifties, Switching Off the Elusive Decade”, American Studies International, XXXIX/3 (2001), 25-40.
• “Gazing at the River, Throwing the Line, Daring the Waters”, Rivers and the American Experience. Jerzy Durczak (ed.). Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, 2000: 13-33.

PhD. Dissertation

• Saul Bellow: Leitor de Ficção – Autor de Ficção. Unpubl., University of Lisbon, 1987

Fiction

• “Penedos sobre a Ribeira”. Um Rio de Contos. Antologia Luso-Brasileira (Lisboa: Tágide, 2009).

Translation

• Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust (Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 1985); co-transl of “Brahma”, a poem by R. W. Emerson. Estudos Anglo-Portugueses – Livro de Homenagem a Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa (Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2003, pp.535-536). Transl. excerpts from Charles Reis Felix’s Through a Portagee Gate for dramatized reading at the National Theatre D. Maria II (Lisboa, 2009); short story authored by José Rodrigues Miguéis “The Bend of the Wind” (in progress); a poem by Frank X Gaspar, “A Witness Gives His Version”, Colóquio de Letras (awaiting publication)

Internationalization:

Organisation of Conferences and Meetings (selection):

• Co-Director of Changing Times: Performances and Identities on Screen (Lisbon, 7-9 Nov 2012); co-director of Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity in the U. S. and Beyond (Lisbon, 15-17 June, 2011); co-organizer of Mark Twain – 1910-2010. [An International Colloquium on the occasion of Mark Twain’s Death Centennial] (Lisbon, Oct. 8, 2010); co-director of Do you Bowles? [A conference on the Life and Work of Paul Bowles] (Lisbon 21-23 October, 2010); co-director of Post-Racial America – Has the USA Moved Beyond the Race Issue? International Symposium (Univ. Lisbon, 6-12 November, 2009); co-director of Poe and Gothic Creativity: International Symposium (Univ. Lisbon, 18-20 March, 2009); co-organizer of Narrating The Portuguese Diaspora /1928-2008: International Conference on Storytelling (Univ. Lisbon, 23-25 October 2008); co-organizer of Views from the Edge: The Short Story Revisited/ 9^th International Conference on  the Short Story in English (Univ. Lisbon, 21-25 June  2006); co-organizer of Ceremonies and Spectacles: America and the Staging of Collective  Identities —  EAAS Biennial Conference (Univ. Lisbon, 3-6 April 1998).

 Selected Papers Read at International Conferences

• “Xavier Beauvois and Terrence Malick: Two Cinematographic Attempts at Revelation”. Changing Times: Performances and Identities on Screen (Lisbon 7-9 Nov 2012).
• “From Geography Into Metaphor: Onésimo Almeida’s Tales from the Tenth Island.” 12th International Conference on the Short Story in English (Society for the Study of the Short Story)  June 27- 30, North Little Rock, USA.
• “What We Talk About When We Talk About America”, American Studies International Colloquium (University of Coimbra, 12-13 June 2009).
• “Bridging Cultures: Translation as Trope and Portuguese American Ethnicity”. EAAS Biennial Conference “E pluribus unum” or “E pluribus plura”?. Oslo, Norway (May 9-12, 2008).
• “Towards the Paradoxes of Americanization. Views from Inside and Out.” ASA Annual Meeting/The United States from Inside and Out: Transnational American Studies. (Oakland, CA, 12-15 October 2006).
• "The Commercial Fifties.” Roundtable on “Teaching the Fifties”. Cord.Richard Ellis e Gesa Mackenthun. ASA Annual Meeting/Groundwork: Space and Place in American Cultures (Washington DC: 3-6 Novembro, 2005).
• “Cultural Crossroading: From the Azorean Pico into the American Shores”, The not so invisible minority - Portuguese Americans and the American Scene (Atlanta: ASA Annual Meeting: 11-14 Novembro, 2004).
• “The Self and the Other in Miguéis’s Poetics of the Short Story,” Globalization and the Short Story: 7th International Conference on the Short Story in English (New Orleans, 12-15 July, 2002).
• “Modernist Narrative Poetics in José Rodrigues Miguéis,”Other Triangular Routes: Voices from the Ragged Edges/ The Modernist Association Fourth Annual Conference (Madison, Wisconsin, 31-2 November, 2002).

Fellowships and Awards

• FLAD scholarships - Georgetown University 2007, 2002/03 and 1998/99; Fulbright Scholarship – Georgetown University, 1994/95; Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship April 1995; Freie Universität Berlin scholarship, 1990; Research scholarship from INIC, 1983; British Council – Cambridge Seminar scholarship, 1981; Secretaria do Estado da Cultura scholarship for research in the Library of Congress, 1978;  Salzburg Seminar and Flubright/Hays scholarship – 1977; USIA – travel and research, 1976.

Member of the Following Associations

• APEAA (Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-americanos), APLC (Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada), EAAS (European Association for American Studies), ASA (American Studies Association), SSSS (Society for the Study of the Short Story).

Supervision of Doctoral Theses and MA Dissertations:

Completed Doctoral Theses:

• Orquídea Maria Moreira Ribeiro, “‘Lyin’ her Way through Fiction’. Fiction and Folklore in the Work of Zora Neal Hurston” (July 2006).
• Diana Vieira de Campos Almeida, "Os contornos da palavra e da luz: ´storytelling´ e fotografia nos contos de Eudora Welty" (March 2007).
• Margarida Isabel de Oliveira Vale de Gato, "Edgar Allan Poe em translação: entre textos e sistemas, visando as Rescritas na Lírica Moderna em Portugal"(July 2008; co-supervision with Professor João Ernesto de Almeida Flor).
• Carlos Manuel Cravo Ventura, “Um problema de habitação? Vladimir Nabokov e o percurso para o romance americano” (October 2009; co-supervision with Professor Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa).

Doctoral Theses currently in progress:

• Rute Júlia de Oliveira Beirante, “Diálogos atlânticos no conto melvilliano” (co-supervision with Professor George Monteiro, Brown University, at writing stage).
• Cristina A. Franco, on the fiction, translation and illustrations by José Rodrigues Miguéis (co-supervision with Professor Onésimo Almeida, Brown University).
• Anabela F. Duarte on the fiction and lyrics of Paul Bowles (co-supervision with Mário Vieira de Carvalho, Lisbon New University).
• Rui V. Azevedo in the early stages of a project on the Portuguese American autobiography.
• Ana Maria Teixeira Leonardo Leite, an analysis of feminine American identity as fashioned in Asian Women writers (co-supervision with Professor Teresa Cid).

Completed MA Dissertations:

• Elsa de Jesus Ventura Rosado, "Zora Neale Hurston: uma voz universal” (March 2006).
• Carlos Manuel Romão da Silva, "A natureza, os mitos e a busca da identidade em ´The Way to Rainy Mountain´ e ´The Names´ de N. Scott Momaday" (March 2007).
• Anabela Fernandes Duarte "Identidade e conspiração em ´The New York Trilogy de Paul Auster" (March 2007; co-supervision with Helena Carvalhão Buescu).
• Diana Anselmo Sequeira, "Impossible Intimacy. Discovering the Cultural Interplay between New and Old Worlds in Vladimir Nabokov´s ´Lolita´" (March 2008).
• Jorge Eduardo Radburn Nunes, "A reabilitação da imagem dos ìndios no cinema americano: desde 1970 até hoje" (July 2008).
• Patrícia Alves de Carvalho Lobo, "Sandra Cisneros: a ficção no cruzamento de fronteiras" (September 2007).
• Suzana Ramos, “Da beleza transgressora: perseguições da identidade em Lolita e Morte em Veneza”, 2010.
• Ana Filipa Cerqueira, a comparative textual analysis of an excerpt from Barack Obama’s “Dreams from my Father” and its Portuguese translation, “A minha herança” (co-supervision with Alexandra Assis Rosa), 2012.

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