Grupo de Investigação: Cultura Inglesa (GI2)
Categoria profissional: Professora do Quadro de Agrupamento

Projectos do CEAUL em que se encontra envolvida:

• O Império Britânico. Ideologias, Perspectivas, Percepções

Graus académicos:

• Licenciatura em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas (Universidade de Coimbra, 1999)
• Mestrado em Estudos Anglísticos (Universidade de Lisboa, 2005)
• Doutoramento em Estudos de Cultura (Universidade de Lisboa, 2011)

Publicações:

         Livros: 

• O Passado em Exibição: Leituras Pós-modernistas da Época Vitoriana. Chamusca: Cosmos, 2011.
• (Org.) Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture: Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders. London and New York: Routledge 2011. 
• (Co-org. com Lisa Lau) Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within. London and New York: Routledge, 2011.
• Salman Rushdie and Cultural Brokerism in the Twenty-First Century. London: Ashgate (no prelo)..

             Artigos/Capítulos de Livros:

• “Heritage revisited: the cultural politics of heritage in Goodness Gracious Me,” in Cláudia Álvares (org.), Representing Culture: Essays on Identity, Visuality and Technology. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp. 119-129.
•  “Prizing Sameness? Kiran Desai and the Booker Prize,” in Sunita Sinha e Brian Reynolds (orgs.), Critical Responses to Kiran Desai. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2009, pp. 21-31.
• “‘Artworks, unlike terrorists, change nothing’: Salman Rushdie and September 11,” in Cara Cilano (org.), From Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the US. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009, pp. 93-114.
• "Exciting Tales of Exotic Dark India: Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger", The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 45, n.º 2, Junho de 2010, pp. 275-293.
• "Showcasing India Unshining: film tourism in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire", Third Text, n.º 105, Julho de 2010, pp. 471-479.
• “Salman Rushdie Superstar: the making of postcolonial literary stardom” in Rainer Emig e Oliver Linder (orgs.), Commodifying (Post-) Colonialism. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2010, pp. 219-238. 
•  “Cultural Warfare Redux: Salman Rushdie’s Knighthood,” in Adriana Martins et al. (orgs.), Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp.218-230.
• "'Beware Behalfies!' Contradictory Affiliations in Salman Rushdie's Step Across This Line," in Manuela Sanches et al (orgs.), Europe in Black and White: Immigration, Race, and Identity in the "Old Continent." Bristol: Intellect, 2011, 67-76.
• (com Lisa Lau) "Re-Orientalism: A New Manifestation Of Orientalism," in Lisa Lau e Ana Mendes (orgs.), Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within. London and New York: Routledge, 2011, pp. 3-16.
•  "Re-Orientalism is on TV: From Salman Rushdie's The Aliens Show to the Kumars at No. 42," in Lisa Lau e Ana Mendes (orgs.), Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within. London and New York: Routledge, 2011, pp. 91-104.
• "Salman Rushdie's 'Epico-Mythico-Tragico-Comico-Super-Sexy-High-Masala-Art,' or Considerations on Undiscipling Boundaries," in Ana Mendes (org.), Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture: Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders. New York and London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 1-11.
• "Bombay/'Wombay': Refracting the Postcolonial Cityscape in The Ground Beneath Her Feer," in Ana Mendes (org.), Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture: Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders. New York and London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 158-181.

Internacionalização:

• “(Read)dressing the Victorian past in the filmic adaptation of A.S. Byatt’s Possession,” conferência “Survivals: The Past in the Present,” Universidade de Cardiff, 10 e 11 de Setembro de 2005.
• “Mira Nair at the bazaar: Kama Sutra and Indo-chic,” conferência “Postcolonial Divergences and Convergences,” Universidade de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 16 a 18 de Março de 2006.
• “Global visions or the business of culture: the internet industry in Salman Rushdie’s Fury”, conferência “Global States”, Universidade da Califórnia, Irvine, 5 e 6 de Maio de 2006.
• “’A techno state of mind’: Salman Rushdie and technophilia,” conferência “Peripheral Cultures: a Philological Perspective,” Universidade da Corunha, 15 a 17 de Novembro de 2006.
• “Liminal positionings: from The Aliens Show to The Kumars at No. 42,” conferência “Transnational Perspectives: Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion,” Universidade de Bogaziçi, Istambul, 15 a 17 de Novembro de 2006.
• “Orpheus and Eurydice as Indian rock-and-roll superstars: Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet,” conferência “India in the World,” Universidade de Cordoba, 7 a 9 de Março de 2007.
• “The brown culture industry: Theodor Adorno meets Talvin Singh,” conferência “Cultural Studies Now,” Universidade de East London, 19 a 22 de Julho de 2007.
• “‘Truly a velluminous history!’: the Bard in postcolonial space,” conferência “Colonial and Postcolonial Spaces,” Universidade de Kingston, Londres, 6 e 7 de Setembro de 2007.
• “Salman Rushdie Superstar: the making of postcolonial literary stardom,” conferência “Commodifying (Post-)Colonialism,” Universidade de Regensburg, Alemanha, 22 a 25 de Maio de 2008.
• “Bombay/Wombay through Benjaminian lenses,” conferência “Through the Eyes of the Other,” Universidade de Madras, Índia, 18 a 20 de Dezembro de 2008.
• “White Tigers and Slumdogs: Dark India as Spectacle,” conferência “The New Exotic? Postcolonialism and Globalization,” Universidade de Otago, Nova Zelândia, 24 a 26 de Junho de 2009.
• "'India belongs only to me': reworking Mother India," conferência "2010 Crossroads for Cultural Studies," Association for Cultural Studies, Universidade de Lingnan, Hong Kong, 17 a 21 de Junho de 2010.
• "Empire revised and revisited: the crossover Bollywood heritage film," "Postcolonialism, Economies, Crises: Interdisciplinary Perspectives," 2nd Biennal Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association. Universidade de Birmingham, 7 a 8 de Julho de 2011.

Outros Elementos Curriculares:

• Prémio de Ensaio Literário Fernando de Mello Moser Edições Cosmos/ APEAA (2008).
• Formadora na área de Didácticas Específicas (Inglês) - CCPFC/RFO-12687/01.