Research Group: English Studies: Literature (RG 1) Professional Title: Assistant Professor (with tenure) Institutional Address: CEAUL – Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa Email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  / Personal webpage: http://www.univ-ab.pt/departamentos/DH/detaildocente.php?doc=50

Research Projects:

• Writing of the critical notes to the translation from English into Portuguese (by Maria Eduarda Carvalho Barbosa Ferraz de Abreu | GI 1) of Sir Philip Sidney’s An Apology for Poetry; revision of the translation and revision of the text (in collaboration with Maria Helena Ribeiro de Paiva Correia | GI 4).
• Scientific Committee: publication of works delivered at the International Conference ‘Revisitar o Mito / Recycling Myths' (FLUL, May 2012).

Academic Degrees:

• PhD in Letters / English Literature, FLUL, 2002
• MA in Anglo-American Studies / English Literature, FLUL, 1989
• BA in Modern Languages and Literatures /English and German Studies, FLUL, 1982

Publications:

Articles / chapters in books:

• “ ‘Fair eyes, sweet lips, dear heart’. A Dama Idealizada e a Idealização da Dama no Tempo de Isabel Tudor.” Renascimentos na Europa do Século XVI. Formas, Ritmos e Convergências. Ed. Mafalda Ferin Cunha, Maria de Jesus C. Relvas e Pedro Flor. Lisboa: U Aberta, 2011. 
• “ ‘The pains which I uncessantly sustain’: Expressions of Suffering in Elizabethan Lyric Poetry.” Making Sense of Suffering: Theory, Practice, Representation. Ed. Bev Hogue and Hanna Sugiyama. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/making-sense-of-suffering/, 2011 (e-Book / ISBN: 978-1-84888-060-3). 
• “The Renaissance Portraits of Two Kings and One Cardinal.” Op. Cit. 12 (2010): 267-276. 
• “Evaluating Continuous Assessment Quality in Competence-Based Education Online: The case of the e-Folio.” (co-author) http://www.eurodl.org/?article=373, 2010.
•  “Metaphors of Opulence and Power in the Life of Thomas Wolsey, the King’s Cardinal”. “So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”. Homenagem a Maria Helena de Paiva Correia. Lisboa: Departamento de Estudos Anglísticos, FLUL, 2009. 
• “A Sociedade de Corte Isabelina – Um Microcosmo de Cultura e Cerimonial no Espaço Europeu de Quinhentos”. Formas e Espaços de Sociabilidade: Contributos para uma História da Cultura em Portugal. Lisboa: U Aberta, 2008 (CD-Rom/ISBN: 978-972-674-531-0).
• “The Road to Rulership – Henry Tudor, King of England”. “And gladly wolde (s)he lerne and gladly teche”: Homenagem a Júlia Dias Ferreira. Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2007. 453-458.

Internationalisation:

Papers delivered at academic conferences:

2012:

• “A Villain and a Monster – The Literary Portrait of Richard III by Thomas More and William Shakespeare.” (International Conference ‘Heroic Bodies, Bodies of Flesh: Representing the Body in Early Modern Life’, U Reims Champagne-Ardenne). 
• “Myths (re)told in the Iconography of Elizabeth I.” (International Conference ‘Revisitar o Mito/Recycling Myths’, FLUL). 
• “Beyond time and oblivion: Sir Robert Sidney’s autograph manuscript.” (‘Formatting Early Modern Culture: Manuscript, Print, Film, Hypertext’, XXIII SEDERI Conference, U Sevilha)

2011:

• “Icons of Supremacy and the Birth of an Empire: Two Portraits of Elizabeth I.” (International Conference ‘Reviewing Imperial Conflicts’, FLUL).
• “Reading between the jewels - Power, Majesty and Sovereignty in the Portraits of Elizabeth I.” (‘Faces, Façades and Frontispieces: Public and Private Selves in Early Modern Culture’, 22nd SEDERI Conference, Madrid).

2010:

• “ ‘The pains which I uncessantly sustain’: Expressions of Suffering in Elizabethan Lyric Poetry.” (‘Making Sense of: Suffering’, Praga).
• “Beholding a ‘Brave New World’: Sir Walter Raleigh’s The Discovery of Guiana and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.” (International Conference ‘Cross Travelling – Mobility and Transferences’, U Madeira, Funchal).
• “Renaissance Voyages. Amazing Worlds, Strange Creatures, Unexpected Realities.” (‘Ports, and piers and roads’: Self and World in Early Modern Culture, 21st SEDERI Conference, Porto).

2009:

• “Evaluating Continuous Assessment Quality in Competence-Based Education Online: The case of the e-Folio.” (Annual Conference of EDEN – European Distance and E-Learning Network, Gdansk | with co-authors).
• ‘Open University/Universidade Aberta Change Management Consultancy Workshop’, Lisboa.

2008:

• “Sir Walter Raleigh and Guiana. A Mysterious Search, a Metaphorical Discovery” (International Conference ‘Do Brasil a Macau. Narrativas de Viagens e Espaços de Diáspora’, Lisboa, FLUL).
• “On Righteousness and Dignity. Two Challenging Issues since the Early Modern Times” (International Conference ‘7th ESSHC – European Social Science History Conference’, FLUL).

2007:

• “O Renascimento. Admiráveis Descobertas, Grandes Rupturas, Fortes Continuidades.” (International Conference ‘A Imagética do Medo e da Utopia’, FLUL).

Organisation of academic meetings and conferences (recent):

• International Conference ‘Revisitar o Mito/Recycling Myths’ (FLUL, 2012). 
• International Conference ‘Life Down Under – Australian Literature and Culture Today’ (FLUL and Instituto Camões, 2011). 
• ‘e-Learning UAb 2010. LEaD Workshop: Práticas de e-Learning’ (U Aberta, Lisboa, 2010).
•  Conference ‘Renascimentos na Europa do Século XVI. Formas Ritmos e Convergências’ (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 2008).

Supervision of Doctoral Theses and MA Dissertations:

• PhD Thesis (co-supervision with Adelaide Meira Serras | GI 2): Susana Paula de Magalhães Oliveira | GI 1 – “Contributos Femininos na Construção e Desconstrução do Mito Tudor: Anne Neville e Elizabeth of York até à Contemporaneidade” (FLUL; in progress)
•  MA Dissertation (co-supervision): Susana Fonseca – “Digital Storytelling: um Estudo sobre a Utilização da Narrativa Digital no Ensino Superior” (U Aberta; in progress)
•  Supervision of eight MA dissertations in English Studies (2003-2009)

Other curricular elements:

• Peer Reviewer: Philologia Hispalensis, U Sevilha (2012).
• ‘EDEN 2009 Best Research Paper Award’: “Evaluating Continuous Assessment Quality in Competence-Based Education Online: The Case of the e-Folio.”  (co-authorship).

Participation in Other Projects:

• Observatório da Qualidade no Ensino a Distância e e-Learning, 2012- (DR, Despacho nº 10823/2012, 9 de Agosto).
•  Escritas Digitais em e-Learning, Departamento de Humanidades/LEaD, U Aberta, 2012-
•  VI Convocatoria de Redes de Innovación Docente, UNED: “Proyecto de Investigación ‘Una nueva propuesta de enseñanza de la Historia y cultura estadounidense’ ”, 2011-2012.
• V Convocatoria de Redes de Innovación Docente, UNED: “Proyecto de Investigación ‘Realización de actividades prácticas con documentos históricos que se integran en la evaluación continua’ ”, 2010-2011.
•  @ssess – e-Learning e Avaliação no Ensino Superior, LEaD, U Aberta, 2010-
•  Projecto E&S (e-Learning e Sucesso), LEaD, U Aberta, 2008-2010.
•  Projecto e-CO – Desenvolvimento de Esquemas de Excelência na Coordenação de Cursos do 1º Ciclo, LEaD, U Aberta, 2008-2010.

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