Research Group: The Modern Difference (RG6)
Professional Title: Adjunct Professor
Institutional Address: Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, Av. Condes de Barcelona, 2769-510 Estoril
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Research Projects:

• RG6 projects.
• Interested in literary, cultural and social studies.

Academic Degrees:

• Master’s Degree (Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon).
• Presently studying for Doctorate on the work of Angela Carter (Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon).

Publications:

• “An Involuntary Apprenticeship in the Interpretation of Japan”. From Brazil to Macao: Travel Writing and Diasporic Spaces. Lisbon: ULICES, 2009 (forthcoming).
• “Angela Carter’s uncontaminated renegotiation and redefinition of values”. Studies in Identity. Edited by Luísa Maria Flora. Lisbon: ULICES/Edições Colibri, 2009, 135-150.
• “Facing Difference: Angela Carter's Petrified Harvest”. Angela Carter and Her Work: The Fifteenth British Novelists Conference Proceedings. Durrin Alpakin Martinez-Caro (ed.). Ankara: Department of Foreign Language Education, Faculty of Education, Middle East Technical University, 2008, 89-95.
• “Qual o interesse em contar histórias que nem sequer são verdadeiras?”. Perspectivas Interdisciplinares da Comunicação, Caleidoscópio, Revista de Comunicação e Cultura, 1st semester 2008 No. 8, Lisbon: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2008, 131-136.
• “Frida Kahlo, the wounded flesh made sign”. A Palavra e a Imagem. Lisbon: ULICES, 2007, 67-81.
• A Palavra e a Imagem. Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa, Alda Correia and Teresa de Ataíde Malafaia (eds.) and Ana Daniela Coelho, Joana Vidigal and Maria José Pires (co-eds.). Lisbon: ULICES, 2007.
•  “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help Falstaff!”. Novos Caminhos da História e da Cultura. Proceedings of the 27th Annual APEAA Conference. Centre for Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Lisbon New University. Lisbon: Editorial Minerva (also in CD-ROM), 2007, 537-544.
• “Marcas da tradição clássica em The Battle of the Books”. Anais – Série Línguas e Literaturas, volume III. Lisbon: Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, 2004, 163-178.
• “‘A Queen over her Passion’: Uma Visão Shakespeariana de Cleopatra”. Anais – Série Línguas e Literaturas, volume II. Lisbon: Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, 2001, 155-175.
• “Eva e Avé em Visions of the Daughters of Albion”. Anais – Série Línguas e Literaturas, volume I. Lisbon: Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, 2000, 157-169.

Internationalisation:

• “The moral right of food. Accept no substitutes”, paper presented on 5-6 June 2009, at the Conference on Angela Carter: A Critical Exploration, at the University of Northampton and UKNMFS, England.
• “The kind of meals of which dreams are made”, paper presented on 21 February 2009, at the 30th Annual APEAA Conference, Self, Memory, and Expression, at the University of Porto, Portugal.
• “An Involuntary Apprenticeship in the Interpretation of Japan”, paper presented on 13 September 2008, at the International Conference From Brazil to Macao: Travel Writing and Diasporic Spaces, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
• “Facing Difference: Angela Carter's Petrified Harvest”, paper presented at the Conference on Angela Carter and Her Work: The 15th METU British Novelists Conference, 13-14 December 2007, at the Faculty of Education, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
• “What is the use of stories that aren’t even true?”, paper presented at the 4th International Conference Language, Communication, Culture, 28-30 November 2006, at Universidade Lusófona, Portugal.
• “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help Falstaff!”, paper presented on 27 April 2006, at the 27th Annual APEAA Conference, Crossroads of History and Culture, organised by Lisbon New University, Portugal.
• “The Passion of New Eve: (de)construction of American communal myths”, paper presented on 21 April 2005, at the 26th Annual APEAA Conference, Intertextual Dialogues, Travels & Route, University of Minho, Portugal.
• “From a privileged revelation of reality: Salman Rushdie’s magical realism”, paper presented on 23 April 2004, at the 25th Annual APEAA Conference, Forms of representation/Ways of reading, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal.
• “Angela Carter’s Feminism: a clever confidence trick?”, paper presented on 11 April 2003, at the 24th Annual APEAA Conference, Landscapes of Memory: Envisaging the Past/ Remembering the Future, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal.

Other curricular elements:

• Assistant Lecturer at the Autonomous University of Lisbon - Luís de Camões (1994-2004).

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