Research Group: The Modern Difference (RG6)
Profissional Title: FCT Scholarship Holder, studying for Doctorate – (FCT Scholarships for University Lecturers), 2008; Lecturer at the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, 1994-2005.
Institutional Address: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Research Projects :

• ULICES Projects – Researcher of Research Group 6: The Modern Difference: Literature, Culture and Society (Principal Investigator: Professor Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora).
• Working in the Junior Research Project on Various Teaching/Learning Policies Today, as a researcher of “The Modern Difference”.

Academic Degrees:

• First Degree in Modern Languages and Literature, English and German Studies – Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, 1990.
• Master’s Degree in English Literature - Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, 1995.

Publications:

• "Figurações no Romance de Jean Rhys". Master’s Degree Dissertation in English and American Studies – English Literature. Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, 1994 (1995). (Supervisor: António M. Feijó).
• “Pictures of Passion: Imagem e Memória em Jean Rhys – ecos de Wordsworth e de Charlotte Brontë”. Samuel Walter Best, et Al (eds.). Actas do XVIII Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (Vol. I). Guarda: Casa Véritas Editora, Lda., 1998, pp. 275-86.
• “Figurações e Violência em Quartet de Jean Rhys”. Anglo-Saxónica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa (General Editor, Professor João Almeida Flor), ii (14/15) (2001), pp. 403-417.
• “O Renascimento em Portugal”, “A Época Barroca em Portugal” and “O século XVIII em Portugal”, Didacta: Enciclopédia Temática Ilustrada. Volume de Língua e Literatura. Lisboa: FGP. , 1997, pp. 133-45; 158-69; 185-93. In the second edition of this volume (Didacta: Enciclopédia Temática Ilustrada. Volume de Literatura Universal e da Língua Portuguesa [Cacém; São Paulo: FGP- editores, Lda., 1998/99]) the above-mentioned essays were reedited on pages 62-83, 96-113, 128-141 and contain additions by Inês Guerreiro and Joana Vidigal (the latter are located on pages 69-70, 108, 138-139, 140-141).
• Reformulation from the Spanish original, and authorship of a part of the work on “Literary Language”, in Sabatina, Guia de Formação Escolar: Linguagem e Expressão Literária. Setúbal: Marina Editores Lda., 1999, pp. 270-285; 287-343; 384-85 (answers 1-24); 386-407; 432 (answers 1-20); 433-438 (legends excluded); 438-442 (legends on pp. 441-42 excluded); 459 (answers 1-14).
• Translation and notes of essay 414 from “The Pleasures of the Imagination” by Joseph Addison: “Prazeres Primários: Comparação e Contraste entre os Efeitos da Natureza e da Arte”. Os Prazeres da Imaginação, Joseph Addison. Cadernos de Anglística 4. Maria Helena Paiva Correia (ed.). Introduction by Valdemar Azevedo Ferreira. Translation by Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa et al. Lisbon: ULICES/Edições Colibri, 2002, pp. 59-63.
• “Modernism, Violence, and Disfiguration in Jean Rhys’ Early Novels: Visible Identity in Quartet and After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie.” Feminine Identities. Cadernos de Anglística 5. Luísa Maria Flora, Teresa F. A. Alves and Teresa Cid (eds.). Lisbon: ULICES/Edições Colibri, 2002, pp. 103-31.
• “Percursos em Diálogo: O ensaio ficcional de Virginia Woolf”, Proceedings of the International Conference From Brazil to Macao, Lisbon: ULICES, 2008 (forthcoming).

Other curricular elements:

• In progress: Work on Dissertation in Literary Studies – English Literature (Doctorate). Supervisor: António M. Feijó.
• Introduction of the round table on "Agir Lendo: Que Lugar para a Literatura no Ensino?", on behalf of the Junior Research Project (round table with Helena Paula Raposo, Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa and Teresa de Ataíde Malafaia) “The Modern Difference” (ULICES)– Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, November 2007.
• Co-editor of A Palavra e a Imagem. Lisbon: ULICES/Colibri, 2007, with Ana Daniela Coelho and Maria José Pires. Editors: Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa, Alda Correia and Teresa de Ataíde Malafaia.
• Member of the organising committee of the International Conference From Brazil to Macao – Travel Writing and Diasporic Spaces (Hosted by CEAUL/ULICES, University of Lisbon, 10-14 September 2008). Chairmanship of a session of the Subsection “The British Isles – Travelling In, To and From. Images, Travel Discourses, Identities – From the 19th Century to the Present Day”, convened by Alda Correia and Luísa Flora (ULICES – “ The Modern Difference”).

Back