Research Group: The Modern Difference (RG6)
Professional Title: Studying for Doctorate at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon with a thesis on Elizabeth Bowen’s longer fiction, entitled “Elizabeth Bowen and the Counter Discourses of Femininity” (Awaiting conclusion and viva voce); Research scholarship from FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia); Researcher at ULICES.
Institutional Address: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade – Faculdade de Letras, 1600-214, Lisboa, Portugal
E-mail:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Research Projects:

• Member of The Modern Difference Research Group with a special focus on Contemporary British and Irish fiction, Theory of Literature, Gender and Identity Studies, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Modernisms and Postmodernism

Academic Degrees:

• First Degree in English and American Studies at Lisbon New University, Portugal, and Institute of English Studies, Faculty of Philology, University of Warsaw, Poland.
• Postgraduate diploma in English and American Studies at the Department of English Studies, as well as in the Programme in Literary Theory and Applied Linguistics at the University of Lisbon.

Publications:

• “The Impossibility of Living. A Revolt. Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Story ‘The Happy Autumn Fields.” 27th Annual APEAA Conference, “Crossroads of History and Culture”, Carcavelos, 27-29 April, 2006.
• “Mark Johnson and the Body Metaphor.” (Ex)Changing Voices, Expanding Boundaries. University of Évora, Évora, 2006.
• “Elizabeth Bowen’s Literary Carnival. The Body and Metamorphosis.” Congres los Textos del Cuerpo, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2007.
• “Crossing the Borderline of Fiction – Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day (1949) and the Territories of War.” (abstract) II CECC Conference on Culture and Conflict. Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, 2009.

Forthcoming:

• “Identity is a Slippery Fish: The Discovery of Identity in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Story ‘The Demon Lover” in JSSE (The Journal of the Short Story in English –Spring 2009).
• “Identity and Elizabeth Bowen”, in Restless Travellers: Quests for Identity across European and American Time and Space. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, London, 2010.
• “Contemporary Women's Writing - the Irish Side”. 1st ULICES Postgraduate Researchers’ Day. University of Lisbon. 23 November, 2009.

Internationalisation:

• “Gender Troubling - the Narrative of Selfhood in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Story ‘The Apple Tree (1931).” 30th Annual APEAA Conference “Self, Memory, and Expression”, Porto 19-21 February, 2009.
• “Narrating Identity: the Case of Elizabeth Bowen.”
  The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. “Home and Elsewhere: the Spaces of Irish Writing” Porto, 28 July – 1 August 2008, Portugal.
• “Identity is a Slippery Fish: The Discovery of Identity in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Story ‘The Demon Lover.” 10th International Conference on the Short Story In English
  “The Lonely Voice”, University College Cork, June 19-21, 2008 Cork, Ireland.
• “Identity is a Slippery Fish – the Discovery of Identity in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Story The Demon Lover.”
  “April Conference Eleven, The Eleventh International Conference on English and American Studies”, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 23-25 April 2008.
• “The Revelation of Identity Mediated by the Other”, 29th Annual APEAA Conference, University of Aveiro Department of Languages and Cultures, Portugal, “Success and Failure”, 17-19 April 2008.
• “Identity is a slippery fish – the discovery of identity in the writing of Elizabeth Bowen.” 2nd International Conference on Nation and Identity in 19th and 20th-Century Literature in English
  San Antonio Catholic University, Murcia, 20-21 September, 2007, Spain.
• “Mark Johnson and the Body Metaphor”, 28th APEAA Annual Conference, (Ex)changing Voices, Expanding Boundaries”
  19-20th April 2007, University of Évora, Portugal.
• ““Elizabeth Bowen's Literary Carnival. The Body and Metamorphosis.” Congres los Textos del Cuerpo, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, 26-30 March, 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
• “Beyond the Abject. Elizabeth Bowen's The Apple Tree”
  9th International Conference on the Short Story in English: Views from the Edge - The Short Story Revisited, Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, 21-25 June, 2006.
• “The Impossibility of Living. A Revolt. Elizabeth Bowen's Short Story 'The Happy Autumn Fields”. 27th Annual APEAA Conference, Crossroads of History and Culture, 27-28 April, 2006. Hotel Riviera, Carcavelos, Lisbon, Portugal.
• “Simply Feminine – A Story of Some Women in Strange Times”.
  3rd International Conference Language - Communication - Culture, November, 2005, Évora, Portugal.
• Gender Troubling – the Narrative of Selfhood in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Story “The Apple Tree” (1931). 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference “Experiencing Gender”, University of Huelva, 6-7 May, 2009, Spain.
• “Crossing the Borderline of Fiction - Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day (1949) and the Territories of War”. 2nd CECC Conference on Culture and Conflict. “The (in)visibility of War in Literature and the Media”, Portuguese Catholic University, 7-9 May 2009, Portugal.
• “The Foreigner within Oneself – Border Crossing in Elizabeth Bowen’s Longer Fiction”, (IASIL) “Irish Literatures – World Perspectives”, 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, University of Glasgow, 27-31 July, 2009, Scotland, UK
• “Elizabeth Bowen and her Anglo-Irish Heritage”. Irish Literary Festival Fundamental Sounds: Voices from Ireland Symposium, Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, 9 October 2009
• “Long-distance Landing: Emma Donoghue and her Experience of Otherness in Canada”. "From Sea to Sea" – Canadian Literature and Culture in Lisbon. 18-20 November, 2009.

Other curricular elements:

• Member of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures) and EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies).
• Research fellowship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for participating in international scientific meetings with a paper entitled “Identity is a Slippery Fish – the Discovery of Identity in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Story The Demon Lover”, presented during “April Conference Eleven, The Eleventh International Conference on English and American Studies” Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 23-25 April 2008.

Back