Research Group: English-Speaking Literatures and Cultures: Inter-art and Intercultural Dialogues (RG4)
Professional Title: Associate Professor (with “Aggregation”)

Research Projects:

• Principal Investigator
• Coordination of research projects in the areas of Canadian Literature and Culture, Irish Literature and Culture, and Australian Literature and Culture.
• Research in the area of Inter-art Studies.
• Project and graduate programme “Storytelling in Medicine”

Academic Degrees:

• “Aggregation” - Literary Studies – University of Lisbon (2007).

Publications:

1. Books:

• Olhar a Escrita: Para uma Introdução ao Estudo da Literatura na Universidade, Cadernos de Anglística 10, Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos and Edições Colibri, 2004.

2.Articles / chapters in books:

• “D. H. Lawrence on Sex and Gender: Liberating or Inhibiting Feminine Sexuality?”, Estudos Anglo-Portugueses: Livro de Homenagem a Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa. Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Centro de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses: Edições Colibri, 2003, 405-08.
• “‘To be, or not to be, is still the question’: Identity and Otherness in D. H. Lawrence’s Work”, Estudos em Homenagem a Margarida Losa, ed. Ana Luísa Amaral and Gualter Cunha, Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2006, 155-168.
• “Heroísmo, amor e morte no Império colonial inglês”, Politecnia: Revista do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Ano VI, No. 13 (October, 2006): 60-63.
• “From Anxiety to Self-reflexivity: The Role of Literature in the University”, Anglo-Saxónica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, série II – No. 24 (2006): 143-51.
• “Matisse and Women: Portraits by A. S. Byatt”, Writing and Seeing: Essays on Word and Image, ed. Rui Carvalho Homem and Maria de Fátima Lambert, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2006, 201-10.
• “Sophia M. B. Andresen Re-presents Byron”, «And Gladly wolde (s)he lerne and gladly teche». Homenagem a Júlia Dias Ferreira, Lisboa: Departamento de Estudos Anglísticos - FLUL; Edições Colibri, 2006, 247-258.
•  “The Taming of Lady Chatterley’s Creator: D. H. Lawrence in Portugal After 70 Years”. D. H. Lawrence, ed. Dieter Mehl and Christa Jansohn, The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, London: Compendium Books, 2007.
• “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, 2009, 313-323.

3. Prefaces:

• Ana Raquel Lourenço Fernandes, O Pícaro e o ‘Rogue’: Sobrevivência e Metamorfose de Daniel Defoe a Julian Barnes, Lisbon: Edições Colibri, 2006, 13-15.
• “Prefácio” to Coração das trevas (Heart of Darkness) by Joseph Conrad. Trans. Bernardo de Brito e Cunha. Lisbon: Nova Vega, 2008, 7-24.

4. Reviews:

• Derek Attridge, The Singularity of Literature (Routledge, 2004), Anglo-Saxónica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, série II – No. 24 (2006): 259-61.

5.Interviews:

• Interview with Aníbal Fernandes, translator.
• Entrevista ao tradutor Aníbal Fernandes, Anglo-Saxónica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, série II – No. 24 (2006): 249-56.

Internationalisation:

1. Papers delivered at academic conferences:

• 29th Meeting of APEAA, University of Aveiro (April, 2008). Title of paper: “Of Painters, Models and Their Downfall: The Case of John Singer Sargent’s Madame X”.
  “Narrative Matters Conference: Storying our World” (Toronto – Canada) (6-8 de May 2008). Title of paper: “Girl with a Pearl Earring: Narrative across Media”
  

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

• Organisation, in collaboration with the British Council, of a “workshop” by Emma Dawson (Nottingham University) under the title: World Englishes Literature & a Pedagogy for its Teaching, which took place at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, on 5 December, 2006.
• Member of the Organising Committee of the Conference “Rising to Meet You” – Irish Literature Festival, which took place on 14-16 November, 2007, promoted by RG 4 of ULICES – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, CET – Centre for Theatre Studies, Department of English Studies of the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters Library, Casa Fernando Pessoa, Museu Nacional do Teatro, Sociedade Guilherme Cossul, sponsored by Culture Ireland, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, the Ambassador of Ireland in Lisbon, Artistas Unidos and Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
• Member of the Organising Committee of a One-day Conference promoted by RG 4 of ULICES – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, entitled Interart and Intercultural Dialogues, which took place on 15 March, 2007.
• Moderator and chair of: "Dialogues Across Borders: Discovering the Other, Rethinking Space" at the International Travel Writing Conference – From Brazil to Macao – Travel Writing and Diasporic Spaces. (10-14 Sept. 2008)
• Member of the Organising Committee of the Conference “From Sea to Sea”: Canadian Literature and Culture in Lisbon, which took place on 18-20 November 2009, at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
• Organisation of the International Symposium "Stories of Illness and Healing: Literature, Ethics and Healthcare", due to take place on 13-14 September, 2010, at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.

Supervision of Doctoral Theses and MA Dissertations:

• Member of jury and co-supervisor (with Catriona Clutterbuck of University College, Dublin) of a doctoral thesis in English Literature by Maria Teresa Correia Casal, presented to the University of Lisbon, on 28 June 2007, entitled “Creativity as Response-ability in Jennifer Johnston’s Novels” – summa cum laude.
• Member of jury and supervisor of a doctoral thesis in Comparative Literature by Ana Raquel Lourenço Fernandes, presented to the University of Lisbon, on 5 December 2008, entitled “What About the Rogue? Survival and Metamorphosis in Contemporary British Literature” – summa cum laude
• Supervisor of a doctoral thesis by Mário Jorge Segurado Mendes, provisionally entitled: “A Arte como Brinquedo – Experimentalismo e Intermedialidade na Obra Ficcional de Gabriel Josipovici” (registered in September, 2009)
• Member of jury and supervisor of an MA dissertation in English Literature by Mário Segurado Mendes Laranjeira Semião, entitled: “Going round in large, slow circles:” Postmodernism and Ethics in Julian Barnes' A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, presented to the University of Lisbon, on 10 January 2008 - unanimously classified as “Very Good”
• Supervisor of an MA disssertation by Duarte Patarra, in Interart Studies, entitled: Back to Wonderland (registered in December 2008).
• Supervisor of an MA disssertation by Rita Nabais, in Interart Studies, entitled Edward Scissorhands, a gothic fairytale? (registered in March 2009).
• Co-supervisor (with Maria Teresa Ferreira de Almeida Alves) of an MA disssertation by Denise Alves, in Interart Studies, entitled “Unfinished Conversation of Rothko and Hellman with their own work” (registered in December 2008).