Research Group: Translation and Reception Studies (RG 6); RG 5: Linguistics: Language, Culture and Society (part-time researcher)
Professional Title: Lecturer
Institutional Address: CEAUL - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade,1600-214 Lisboa
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ULICES Research Projects:

• RG 6: “Intercultural Literature in Portugal, 1930-2000: A Critical Bibliography".

Academic Degrees:

• 11990: Master’s degree in Anglo-American Studies, English Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
• 1980: Four-year degree (Licenciatura) in Germanic Philology, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.

Publications:

Books:

• 2009. Linguagem, Cultura e Sociedade: Abordagens Linguísticas. Ed. Emília Ribeiro Pedro, Isabel Ferro Mealha and Maria Cecília Lopes da Costa. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa e Edições Colibri.
• 2007."And gladly wolde [s]he lerne and gladly teche". Homenagem a Júlia Dias Ferreira. Ed. Teresa F.A. Alves, Maria Isabel Barbudo, J. Carlos Viana Ferreira, Alexandra Assis Rosa, Rita Queiroz de Barros and Isabel Ferro Mealha. Lisboa: Edições Colibri.

Articles / chapters in books:

• Mealha, Isabel Ferro. 2012. “English as the language of science and academic discourse in (non-)translated medical Portuguese: The initial stages of a research project”. in: Translation and the reconfiguration of power relations. Revisiting role and context of translation and interpreting. Ed. Michaela Wolf (in press).
  
• Cabrita, Eduarda Melo e Isabel Ferro Mealha. 2012. “EIL in Legal and Medical Portuguese: Contracts and Medical Research Articles”. in: Revista Anglo-Saxónica. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa (in press).
• Mealha, Isabel Ferro. 2010. “’As I found the Portuguese, so I have characterised them’: O Contributo da Adjectivação na Construção do Real”. in: Relatos de Viagens. Representações e Codificações Linguísticas de Portugal no Século XIX. Volume 2. Ed. Luísa Azuaga. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa. 77-110.
• Cabrita, Eduarda Melo and Isabel Ferro Mealha. 2009. “Told in Letters: An Approach to Letter Writing through Vermeer’s Paintings”. in: ‘So Long Lives This, and This Gives Life to Thee’. Homenagem a Maria Helena de Paiva Correia. Lisboa: Departamento de Estudos Anglísticos da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa. 211-225.
• Cabrita, Eduarda Melo and Isabel Ferrio Mealha. 2007. “Francisco Goya and Seamus Heaney: Conflict(s) in Painting and Poetry”. in: And gladly wolde [s]he lerne and gladly teche. Homenagem a Júlia Dias Ferreira. Lisboa: Edições Colibri/Departamento de Estudos Anglísticos. 199-208.
• Mealha, Isabel Ferro. 2007. “Auxiliares da Voz Passiva em Português e Inglês: Uma Análise Contrastiva”. In: Polifonia - Revista do Grupo Universitário de Investigação em Línguas Vivas 10: 97-117.

Internationalisation:

Papers delivered at academic conferences:

• “The Impact of ELF on European Portuguese: English as the Lingua Franca of Law and Medicine”. Paper co-authored by Eduarda Melo Cabrita, The Fourth International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF4), Research Centre into Language Education and Acquisition in Multilingual Societies do Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, May 26-28, 2011.
• “A Multiple-Intelligences Approach to a Short Story”. Paper co-authored by Eduarda Melo Cabrita and Maria Luísa Falcão, 24^th APPI Conference, Guimarães, April 30- May 2, 2010.

Organisation of academic meetings and conferences (recent):

• Member of the Organising Committee of the events organised by ULICES Research Group 6 to mark the bicentennial of Charles Dickens’s birth, February 2012 (“Charles Dickens in Portugal").

Other curricular elements:

• PhD student under the supervision of Professor Alexandra Assis Rosa. PhD dissertation: Do Discurso Médico em Inglês e Português: Relações Interculturais num Mundo de Hegemonia Anglófona (On Medical Discourse in English and Portuguese: Intercultural Relations in a World of English Hegemony). Area: Intercultural and Translation Studies. Registered March 15, 2010. To be submitted by March 15, 2015.
• Taught the intensive course ESCAPE 10 – English for Medicine, July 15, 2011, ULICES.
• Attended the Twenty-Second CETRA International Doctoral Summer School in Translation Studies, Catholic University of Leuven, August 16-27, 2010.
• Attended the VII Escuela Internacional de Verano de Terminologia no IULATERM, Institut Universitari de Linguistica Aplicada da Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Espanha, July 6-10, 2009.
• Teacher Trainer no. CCPFC/RFO-17508/04, certified by Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua in the area and domain A41 English.

Other publications:

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