Research Group: The Modern Difference (RG6)
Professional Title: Associate Professor (January 1999).

Research Projects:

• The Modern Difference (Principal investigator, in close cooperation with Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa and Teresa de Ataíde Malafaia.) 

Academic Degrees:

• First Degree in German Philology (1974) – University of Lisbon.
• Doctorate in English Literature (1988) – University of Lisbon.

Publications:

• ‘Virginia Woolf e a Leitura: ‘Reading for the love of reading’ in So long lives this, and this gives life to thee, Homenagem a Maria Helena de Paiva Correia, Lisbon: Departamento de Estudos Anglísticos, FLUL, 2009, 441-461.
• “‘So proud of our dead soldiers’: Of ghosts and men in Jacob’s Room (1922) and Atonement (2001)”, Études Britanniques Contemporaines, Revue de la Société d'Études Anglaises Contemporaines, No. 34, 2008, 185-197.
• “‘The desolate ruins of my old squares´- Woolf out of Bloomsbury and into the future” in Luísa Flora and Maria Cândida Zamith, (eds.), Virginia Woolf: Three Centenary Celebrations, Porto: Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2007, 167-176.
• “The Journal of Mr Stevens, Butler. Apologia for a life unlived”. Text of paper presented at the 3rd seminar organised by the programme ‘The Modern Difference’, March 2006. Anglo-Saxónica, No. 25, Series II, 2007, 51-70.
• “A delicada resistência de uma porcelana ou Desta matéria são feitos os romances. Atonement de Ian McEwan” A Palavra e a Imagem, Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa, Alda Correia, Teresa de Ataíde Malafaia (eds.), Ana Daniela Coelho, Joana Vidigal and Maria José Pires (co-eds.). Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos/Edições Colibri and ULICES, 2007, 177-191.
• “‘Out of all proportion’ – The Heat of the Day e a deriva identitária em tempo de guerra”, And gladly wolde (s)he lerne and gladly teche. Homenagem a Júlia Dias Ferreira. Executive Committee of the English Studies Department of the University of Lisbon. Lisbon: Colibri and Department of English Studies of the University of Lisbon, 2007, 379-396.
• Short Story: Um Género Literário em Ensaio Académico, Lisbon: ULICES/Edições Colibri, (Cadernos de Anglística, 8), 2003.
• Richard Todd and Luísa Flora, (eds.). Theme Parks, Rainforests and Sprouting Wastelands: European essays on theory and performance in contemporary British fiction, Rodopi: Amsterdam & Atlanta, 2001.
• “George Eliot: Middlemarch”, in Gualter Cunha, (ed.), Literatura Inglesa III, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon: 2001, pp. 217-264.
• The Crossroads of Gender and Century Endings, Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa, Luísa Maria Flora and Teresa Ataíde Malafaia (eds.), Lisbon: ULICES/Edições Colibri (Cadernos de Anglística, 2), 2000.

Internationalisation:

• Co-director of the International Conference From Brazil to Macao: Travel Writing and Diasporic Spaces. Organised by ‘The Modern Difference’ Research Programme (ULICES), with the participation of several other University of Lisbon Research Centres and colleagues from various Departments of Lisbon University and Nottingham Trent University’s Centre for Travel Writing Studies. (Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, 10-14 September 2008).
• Member of the 'Comité Consultatif' d’Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, Revue de la Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines.
• “Virginia Woolf – Reading for the love of reading”. Paper presented at the invitation of Catherine Bernard to the Conference of the Société d’Etudes Woolfiennes, ‘Woolf as Reader/Woolf as critic’ (27-28 June 2008, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7). The text of this paper has since been accepted for publication by Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée of the University of Montpellier III (forthcoming).

Supervision of Doctoral Theses and MA Dissertations:

All of the 19 MA Dissertations supervised so far have been approved. Only the three most recent ones are mentioned here:

• Cristina Novais Collier, “The impact of war neurosis on hegemonic masculinity in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier”. (November, 2008)
• Paula Alexandra Couto, “‘We’re Not Jews’ e ‘My Son the Fanatic’ de Hanif Kureishi. O Texto Literário no Processo de Ensino – Aprendizagem da Língua Inglesa como Língua Estrangeira”. (December, 2008)
• Elena Malinosvkaya, “‘These Little Stories About Nothing At All’: A ficção breve de Virginia Woolf em diálogo com Sketches from a Hunter's Album de Ivan Turgenev”. (December, 2008).

Doctoral Theses:

• Co-supervisor with Ivette Centeno of Alda Maria Jesus Correia, “‘A Quarta Dimensão do Instante’: Estudo Comparativo da Epifania nos Contos de Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield e Clarice Lispector” (January 1999).
• Co-supervisor with Alda Maria Jesus Correia of Doctorate student Zuzanna Iwona Zarebska Sanches on Elizabeth Bowen and the Counter-Discourses of Femininity (next May 2010).

Other curricular activities:

• Co-editor (with Maria Helena Paiva Correia, Maria Salomé Machado, Júlio Carlos Viana Ferreira and Luísa Azuaga) of the collection Cadernos de Anglística (ULICES).
• Appointed coordinator of Postgraduate Studies of the English Department (March 2008).
• Preferential research and teaching areas: English Literature (mainly long and short fiction, especially contemporary fiction, and the novel and short story traditions); Identity Studies, particularly Gender Studies; modern and contemporary English Culture; Comparative Literature. Throughout a career that started in 1972, has most often taught English Literature and Culture (19th, 20th and 21st centuries), at both undergraduate and postgraduate (Master’s Degrees in English Studies; Postgraduate Course in Translation Studies).