Research Group: The Modern Difference (RG6)
Professional Title: Secondary School Teacher with Permanent Post (retired)
Institutional Address: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa - Portugal
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Research Projects:

• RG6 Projects – The Modern Difference.
• Research for Doctoral Thesis on the essayist Mona Caird.

Academic Degrees:

• First Degree in English and German Studies (1976), Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
• Master’s Degree in English Culture (1998), Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.

Publications:

• “Why was Mona Caird’s attitude towards silence half golden?” in Anglo-Saxónica, Lisbon, Colibri, 2007, pp. 71-82.
• “Did all Late Victorian Cinderellas go to the Ball?” in Novos Caminhos da História e da Cultura, Lisbon, Minerva, 2007, pp. 639-646.
• “Why does not Mona Caird let the sleeping dogs lie?” in Landscapes of Memory, Lisbon, Catholic University, 2004, pp. 371- 376.
• “The Stones of Sacrifice – Who is afraid of them?” in Anglo-Saxónica, Lisbon, Colibri, 2004, pp. 97-107. 
• “Mona Caird’s bridge over troubled water” in Anglo-Saxónica, Lisboa, Colibri, 2003, pp. 125-135.
• “Irony and Loneliness: two unsilenced voices in Anita Brookner´s three novels” in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual APEAA Conference, Porto, Portugese Association of Anglo-American Studies, 2000, pp. 183-189.

 Forthcoming:

• “Alice Mona Caird’s reputation: the paradigm of duality”.
• “Mona Caird’s gendered work: a go-between negotiating Past and Future”.

Internationalisation:

• “What have Late Victorian Cinderellas done to their Chains of Freedom?”. Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Fourth International Conference. University of Tampere, Finland (29 June – 2 July, 2002). 
• “You may lead a horse and a mare to the water but you cannot make them drink”. English in the World: New Directions. University of Évora (28-30 October, 1999).

Other curricular elements:

• Participation, as one of the members of the Línguas XXI group, in the organisation of the symposium “As Línguas Estrangeiras em Portugal. Que desafios?”. Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon (3 November, 2008).

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