Research Group: American Studies (RG 3) Profissional Title: Associate Professor with Tenure Institutional Address: CEAUL - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa, Portugal Email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Research Projects:

• Protestant Portuguese Communities in Springfield and Jacksonville, Illinois, US —  Settlement, Developments, Diaspora (mid-19^th-century to the present day).

Academic Degrees:

• Ph.D. English Cultural Studies, University of Madeira, Portugal (2000). Doctoral dissertation: The Reformation of the Church of England: Protestantism and Political and Social Democratization. Director: Professor João Soares Carvalho, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
• M. Lit. Diploma: Masters Taught Course in  Anglo-American Studies: Culture & Literature - University of Lisbon, Portugal (1993).
• M. A. Modern Languages & Literatures: English-Portuguese. University of Santa Úrsula, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1989); Degree endorsed by the University of Coimbra, Portugal (1990).

Publications:

Books:

• O Sagrado Feminino: da Pré-história à Idade Média (Lisbon: Ed. Colibri, 2006), 228pp.
• A Reforma da Igreja em Inglaterra: Acção Feminina, Protestantismo e Democratização Política e dos Sexos (Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2003), 847pp.

Volumes of Conference Proceedings (Co-edition and Introduction):

• Women Past & Present: Biographic and Multidisciplinary Studies (forthcoming).
• John Dos Passos: Biography and Critical Essays (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010), pp. 231.
• O Riso na Cultura Medieval (Lisbon: Open University, 2004) – CD-Rom.
• Estudos de Tradução: Actas de Congresso Internacional (Lisbon: Principia, 2003), 511pp.

Articles / Papers:

• “O Sagrado Feminino: A Mulher na Génese da Igreja Cristã” (conference proceedings volume) (forthcoming).
• “Calvino e Knox: Convergências e Divergências” (Islenha Review) (forthcoming).
• “Perseguição Religiosa, Emigração e Diáspora no livro Madeirenses Errantes, de Ferreira Fernandes (2004)” (Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies)
• “A Profecia e o Visionarismo Femininos na Inglaterra Seiscentista”, in Traduzibilidades: A Tradução em Perspectiva, org. por Carlinda Fragale Pate Nuñez e Maria Conceição Monteiro (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Caetés, 2009).
• “Female Characters in John Dos Passos’s Streets of Night,” in John Dos Passos: Biography and Critical Essays, ed. by Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu e Bernardo Guido de Vasconcelos (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), pp. 208-215.
• “Robert Filmer: Who or What a Witch is”, in Novos Caminhos da História e da Cultura: Actas  do XXVII Encontro da APEAA - Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos”, Org. de Carlos Ceia e Isabel Lousada (Lisbon: Editorial Minerva, 2007), pp. 601-13.
• “Queen Elizabeth I’s Religious Convictions”, in Gloriana’s Rule: Literature, Religion and Power in the Age of Elizabeth, ed. Rui Carvalho Homem e Fátima Vieira (Porto: Editora da Universidade do Porto «Perspective Séries», 2006).
• “O Pensamento Político de Mary Wollstonecraft”, in Entre o Estético e o Político: a Mulher nas Literaturas de Línguas Estrangeiras, org. de Maria Conceição Monteiro e Tereza Marques de Oliveira Lima (Santa Catarina, Brazil: Editora Mulheres, 2006), pp. 269-279.
• “Alves, Hélio Osvaldo, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft, from the Rights of Man to the Rights of Woman: an inevitable intervention (1790-1792)’,” posthumously edited and with introduction by Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu, in Hélio Osvaldo Alves: O Guardador de Rios, org. de Joanne Paisana (Braga: Universidade do Minho, Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, 2005), pp. 15-26.
• “John Knox: Gynaecocracy ‘the Monstrous Empire of Women’”, in Reformation and Renaissance Review 5.2 (London: Equinox Pub. 2003), pp. 166-187.
• “English Female Humanist Scholars: their Role in the Reformation of the Church of England”, in Revista Anglo-Saxónica 20 «Série II» (Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 2003), pp. 11-37.
• “Tradução Livre da Obra A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) de Mary Wolstonecraft”, in Estudos de Tradução: Actas de Congresso Internacional, Org. e Int. de Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu e Marcelino de Castro (São João do Estoril: Principia: Publicações Universitárias e Científicas, 2003), pp. 337-50.
• 2002 - “Luta das Mulheres pelo Direito de Voto: Movimentos Sufragistas na Grã-Bretanha e nos Estados Unidos”, in Revista Arquipélago: História «2ª Série», vol. VI (Ponta Delgada: Universidade dos Açores), pp. 443-469.

Internationalisation:

•  Research trip to Illinois, EUA, from October to December 2008.
• Participation in national and international academic events (UK, USA, Brazil). 

Organisation of national/international conferences, seminars, workshops:

• 2011 -– Forthcoming “International Colloquium Debating Women: Past and Present,” organised in partnership with the following institutions: UERJ - Rio de Janeiro State University, RJ, Brasil; CECUL - Classical Studies Research Center, University of Lisbon ; CECC - Culture and Communication Studies Research Center, Catholic University, Portugal; CIJF - Jewish and Feminine Studies Research Center, Santiago of Compostela University, Spain (Venue/date: University of Madeira, June 1-4). 
• 2009 -– Conference tittled “Comemoração dos 500 Anos do Nascimento de João Calvino (1509-2009): Projecção da sua Doutrina na Madeira,” sponsored by the Presbyterian Church of Madeira ((Venue/date: Church, October 30). 
• 2009 -– Conference titled “The American Federal System,” offered Prof. David Langum from Stamford University, Birmingham, Alabama, USA (Venue/date: University of Madeira, November 2). 
• 2006 -– “First International Conference on John Dos Passos,” organized in partnership with the John Dos Passos Cultural Center (Venue/date: JDPassos Cultural Center, Madeira, October 12-14.

PhD / MA theses/dissertations supervision:

• PhD Thesis: “The Woman-as-Witch in 19^th-Century American Women’s Historical Fiction”. Candidate: Inês Tadeu Gonçalves, University of Madeira. Co-supervision with Doctor Jaime José Becerra Costa, University of Minho.

Other curricular elements:

1. Head of the English Department, University of Madeira: 2000 to 2004; 2006 to 2008.
2. Post-graduation program coordinator (Anglo-American Studies) - 2001 to 2006.
3. Member of several university boards and senate.

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