Research Group: English Studies: Literature (RG 1) Profissional Title: Full Professor Institutional Address: FLUL, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa Email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Research Projects:

• Scientific Coord. of RG 1 – English Studies – Literature, with the Project “At the Crossroads / Cruzamentos” (Jun. 2012 - May 2014).
• Scientific Coord. of the interdisciplinary and international project “Narrative & Medicine”, based at CEAUL / ULICES, in collab. with CFUL – Centre of Philosophy of the Univ. of Lisbon (Manuel Silvério Marques) and with CHC – UNL – Centre for the History of Culture of the New Univ. of Lisbon (Adelino Cardoso). The Scientific Committee includes also: Rita Charon (Narrative Medicine Program – Columbia University – USA) and Brian Hurwitz (Centre for the Humanities and Health – King’s College, London – UK).

Academic Degrees:

• PhD (1988) and “Habilitation” (2007).

Publications (recent):

1. Books:

• (2011). Literatura: a (in)disciplina na intersecção dos saberes e das artes. Cadernos de Anglística 16. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos / Edições Colibri.
• (2011). Critical Dialogues: Slow Readings of English Literary Texts. Lisboa: Author Edition.

2.Articles / chapters in books:

1. (2013). “Courting Death in Hélia Correia’s Adoecer”. Portuguese Studies. Vol.29, nº 1: 94-105.
2. (2013). “Os Estudos Literários no séc. XXI: o passado próximo, a crise e o próximo futuro”. A Scholar for All Seasons: Volume de Homenagem a João de Almeida Flor. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa / Departamento de Estudos Anglísticos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 349-366. 
3. (2012). Selec., Introd. and keywords to Aldous Huxley, Brave New World”. Susana Araújo, Ana Raquel Fernandes e Sandra Bettencourt (orgs.). (In)seguranças no Espaço Urbano. Perspetivas Culturais. V.N. Famalicão: Edições Húmus, 163-64.
4. (2010). “Creatively Responding to the Other: D. H. Lawrence’s Mornings in Mexico and Ethical Criticism”. Folia Linguistica et Litteraria 1 (Dec.) (Institute for Language and Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, Univ. of Montenegro): 35-42.
5. (2010).“Adoecer de Hélia Correia ou um ‘conhecimento por dentro’”. Colóquio / Letras: Revista Quadrimensal 175 (Set. / Dez.) (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa): 145-155.
6. (2009). “Of Painters, Models and their Downfall: The Case of John Singer Sargent’s Madame X”. “So long lives this and this gives life to thee”. Homenagem a Maria Helena de Paiva Correia. Lisboa: Departamento de Estudos Anglísticos – FLUL. 313-323.
7. (2008). “Words as Game: The Writing and Reading of Poetry”, Anglo-Saxónica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, série II – n.º 26: 137-152.
8. (2007). “The Taming of Lady Chatterley’s Creator: D. H. Lawrence in Portugal after 70 Years”. D. H. Lawrence. Org. Dieter Mehl and Christa Jansohn. The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe. London: Compendium Books.
9. (2006). “Matisse and Women: Portraits by A. S. Byatt”, Writing and Seeing: Essays on Word and Image, org. Rui Carvalho Homem e Maria de Fátima Lambert, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi. 201-10.

3. Prefaces:

4. Reviews:

5.Interviews:

• (2006). With translator Aníbal Fernandes, Anglo-Saxónica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, série II – n.º 24: 249-56.

Internationalisation:

1. Papers delivered at academic conferences abroad (recent):

• (2011). “The Art of Dying in Hélia Correia’s Adoecer”, at The Art of Medicine in Iberian and Latin American Literature and Film, Univ. of Kent, 9 - 10 Sept.
• (2011). (with Marijke Boucherie) Presentation of the Project “Narrative & Medicine” and of the Glossary for the volume (being prepared): Fundamental Questions on Suffering and Pain, at the Second Workshop on Suffering and Pain, at Univ. of Luxembourg, 2 - 5 Jul.
• (2010). By invitation of the organizer, Simonetta de Filippis, took part in round-table: "D. H. Lawrence; a traveller through cultures", at the 10th International Conference of ESSE - European Society for the Study of English, Turin, 24-28 Aug., with paper: "Creatively Responding to the Other: D. H. Lawrence’s Mornings in Mexico and Ethical Criticism".
• (2008). “Girl with a Pearl Earring: Narrating across Media”, at the Narrative Matters Conference, Univ. of Toronto, 7 - 10 May.

2. Organisation of academic meetings and conferences (recent):

• (2012). Scientific and Org. Committee of “Cycle of Lectures and Educational Programme in Narrative and Medicine 2012”, in collab. with CFUL – Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, CHC – UNL – Centre for the History of Culture of the New Univ. of Lisbon, and ESEL – Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa. Programme available at http://narrativeandmedicine.blogspot.com
• (2011). Scientific and Org. Committee of “Cycle of Lectures and Educational Programme in Narrative and Medicine 2011”, in collab. with CFUL – Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, CHC – UNL – Centre for the History of Culture of the New Univ. of Lisbon, ICBAS – Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Oporto, and Área de Saúde de Lisboa Norte – Centro de Saúde de Sete Rios. Programme available at http://narrativeandmedicine.blogspot.com
• (2010). Scientific and Org. Committee of Narrative and Medicine: Illness and Dialogue, Faculty of Letters of the Univ. of Lisbon, 13 - 14 Sept. Promoted by CEAUL / ULICES, in collab. with CFUL – Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, CHC – UNL – Centre for the History of Culture of the New University of Lisbon, and Library of the Faculty of Letters of the Univ. of Lisbon, and sponsored by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, FLAD – Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Novartis Oncology, Film Museum and the Faculty of Letters of the Univ. of Lisbon.
• (2009). Org. Committee of “From Sea to Sea”: Canadian Literature and Culture in Lisbon, Faculty of Letters of the Univ. of Lisbon, 18 - 20 Nov. Promoted by RG 4 – Research Group 4 of CEAUL / ULICES, and sponsored by: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Canadian Embassy in Portugal and Faculty of Letters of the Univ. of Lisbon.
• (2008). Org. of panel and chair of session: “Dialogues across Borders: discovering the other, rethinking space”, at the international conference promoted by RG 6 – Research Group 6 of CEAUL / ULICES, From Brasil to Macau: Travel Narratives and Diaspora Spaces, Faculty of Letters of the Univ. of Lisbon, 10 - 14 de September.
• (2007). Org. Committee of “Rising to Meet You” – Irish Literature Festival, Faculty of Letters of the Univ. of Lisbon, 14 - 16 Nov. Promoted by RG 4 – Research Group 4 of CEAUL / ULICES, CET – Centre for Theatre Studies of the Univ. of Lisbon, DES – Department of English Studies of the Faculty of Letters of the Univ. of Lisbon, the Library of the Faculty of Letters of the Univ. of Lisbon, Casa Fernando Pessoa, Museu Nacional do Teatro, Sociedade Guilherme Cossul, and sponsored by Culture Ireland, FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Ambassador of Ireland in Portugal, Artistas Unidos and Faculty of Letters of the Univ. of Lisbon.
• (2007). Org. Committee of the one-day conference promoted by RG 4 – Research Group 4 of CEAUL / ULICES, Interart and Intercultural Dialogues, Faculty of Letters of the Univ. of Lisbon, 15 March.

Supervision of Doctoral Theses and MA Dissertations (recent):

PhD

• Co-supervision (with Teresa Alves) of Denise Santos Alves, "There's more power in telling little than in telling all" - conversa inacabada de Mark Rothko e Lillian Hellman com a sua obra. MA Dissert. in English and American Studies – Inter-art Studies, presented to the Univ. of Lisbon, Apr. 2011. Final Mark: 18/20.
• Co-supervision (with Teresa Alves) of Rita Barroso Nabais, Edward Scissorhands: conto de fadas gótico? MA Dissert. in English and American Studies – Inter-art Studies, presented to the Univ. of Lisbon, Apr. 2011. Final Mark: 18/20.
• Mário Jorge Segurado Mendes Laranjeira Semião, “Going Round in Large, Slow Circles”: Postmodernism and Ethics in Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters – MA Dissert. in English Literature, presented to the Univ. of Lisbon, Jan. 2008. Final Mark: Very Good.
• Andreia Sofia Maratá Lopes, “That Fear of the Incomprehensible”: Identidade e Alteridade na Ficção Curta de Joseph Conrad – – MA Dissert. in English Literature, presented to the Univ. of Lisbon, Dec. 2007. Final Mark: Very Good.

Other curricular elements:

• (2012). By invitation of CEC- Centre for Comparative Studies, took part in: As nossas ficções: leituras transversais, with paper: “The Elephant Man (1980) by David Lynch: from ‘freak’ and clinical case to allegory”, 22 May.
• (2011). “Contar a Doença, Falar do Sofrimento: alguns exemplos literários” (trans. in English as: “Confronting the Other: the interpersonal challenge in Literature and Medicine”), as part of “Cycle of Lectures and Educational Programme in Narrative and Medicine 2011”, Centro de Saúde de Sete Rios, Lisbon, 20 Oct.
• (2010). “Loss, Suffering, and Trauma in Sue Hubbard’s Rothko’s Red”, in Relational Forms I: an International Conference on Literature and the Arts, Univ. of Oporto, 25 - 27 Nov.
• (2010). By invitation of Centro Nacional de Cultura, took part in: “Cinco Livros / Cinco Autores - Five Books / Five Authors”, discussing Hélia Correia’s latest novel, Adoecer (2010), at Grémio Literário, 11 Oct.
• (2010). By invitation of the National Library of Portugal, took part in: “Encontro com…”, presenting Hélia Correia’s latest novel, Adoecer (2010), at the  National Library of Portugal, 13 Apr.
• (2009). By invitation of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, took part in: Research Workshop "Próximo Futuro / Next Future”, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 12-13 Nov. Title of paper: "Os Estudos Literários no Século XXI: O Passado Próximo, A Crise e o Próximo Futuro / Literary Studies in the 21st century: the Recent Past, the Crisis and the Next Future".
• (2007-2011) Director of the periodical Op.Cit.: Uma Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos / Op.Cit.: A Journal of Anglo-american Studies, of APEAA -Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos / Portuguese Association for Anglo-american Studies, from Sept. 2007 to Sept. 2011.

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