Research Group: English Studies: Culture (RG 2)
Professional Title: Researcher
Institutional Address: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa
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Research Projects:

• The British Empire: Ideologies, Perspectives, Perceptions. Research Group 2

Academic Degrees:

• Master’s Degree in Cultural Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, 2008.
• First Degree in English Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Porto, 1980.
• Bachelor of Arts (Majors: English and French), University of Natal (Durban), Republic of South Africa, 1970.

Publications:

• “The Tree of Life: an Exhibition at the British Museum”, paper presented at the 1st Conference on Conflict, Memory, Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe, held at the Portuguese Catholic University (Lisbon) in December 2008, to be published by Cambridge Scholar, Cambridge University Press.
• “Touching Art: the Poetics and the Politics of Exhibiting the ‘Tree of Life’”, MA Dissertation submitted in September 2007.
• “Touching Art: the tree of Life”, http://www.shout.gr, SHOUT!, e-journal, July  2007,  inaugural issue edited and with an introduction by Professor Christiana Lambrinidis, Greece.
• “Variations on a Theme”, Polifonia, Revista do Grupo UNIL, No. 3, Edições Colibri, 2000, pp. 85-91.
• “Sounds of Youth”,  Polifonia, Revista do Grupo UNIL, No. 2, Edições Colibri, 1999, pp. 75-82.
• “Cross-Cultural References in Short Stories”, Anglo-Saxónica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, Série II, Nos. 4 and 5, Edições Colibri, 1997, pp. 229-236.

Internationalisation:

• Participated in the 1st Conference on Conflict, Memory, Transfers and the Reshaping of  Europe, held at the Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon) in December 2008 with a paper entitled “The Tree of Life: an Exhibition at the British Museum”.
• “Touching Art: the Tree of Life”, http://www.shout.gr, SHOUT!, e-journal, July 2007,  inaugural issue edited and with an introduction by Professor Christiana Lambrinidis, Greece.
• Participated in the 4th International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture, held at Lusófona University, Lisbon, November 2006, with a paper entitled “Touching Art: the Tree of Life”.
• Participated in the 3rd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture, held at Évora University in November 2005, with a paper entitled “Blind Gaze – (mis)understanding ‘the Other’”.
• Participated in the 2nd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture, held at Beja University in November  2004, with a paper entitled “Using Photography in the FL Classroom”, in collaboration with Paula Horta.

Other curricular elements:

• Collaboration with several institutions of higher education.  Among others, special reference is made to the Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, as an English Lecturer, between 1993 and 2005.
• Member of various bodies of the Department of English Studies of the Faculty of Letters, including several Pedagogical Committees, the Executive Committee and the Faculty Senate as a representative of the same Department.
• Member of the UNIL Group (a research group composed of the Faculty’s Foreign Language Teachers).
• Publication of Course Books for the various subjects taught at undergraduate level, especially in the field of English teaching.

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