Research Group: English Studies: Culture (RG 2)
Professional Title: Associate Professor
Academic Degrees: (1989) Doctorate in English Culture at the University of Lisbon; (1985) Master’s Degree in Anglo-American Studies; (1974) First Degree in Germanic Philology at the University of Lisbon.
Institutional Address: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa
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Research Projects:

• The British Empire: Ideologies, Perspectives, Perceptions. (Scient. Coord. LLFaria, CEAUL/ULICES). Participation in the programme devoted to the study of India. Researcher.
• The Modern Difference.
• Libraries and Canon-Formation.

Research Outputs

Completed PhD theses:

• (2011). Supervision of Cristina Frois de Figueiredo Baptista Cavaco, “Great Victorian women behind great Victorian men. Mulheres na sombra,” U Lisboa, (PhD in Literature and Culture. English Studies). Final Mark: Distinction. Apr.
• (2011). Supervision of Ana Cristina Mendes, “A ‘Magpie Tendency’. Salman Rushdie and Cultural Brokerism,” (Supervisor: MFaria, U Lisboa), U Lisboa, (PhD in Literature and Culture. English Studies). Summa cum Laude. July.

Further supervisions:

• (2013). Co-supervision of ACoelho, “Pride and Prejudice em Duas Adaptações Para Cinema e Televisão,” (Supervisor: APinheiroS, U Lisboa), U Lisboa, (MA). Final Mark and date?
• (2013). Supervision of Maria João Sabbo, “Serviços de Animação e Pedagogia em Portugal: O Museu da Cidade de Lisboa,” U Lisboa, (MA). Final Mark and date?
• (2012). Supervision of Ana Rita Duarte Graça, “Os Novos Agentes Criativos: As Bibliotecas Universitárias,” U Lisboa (MA report internship Culture and Comunication). Final Mark and date?
• (2012). Supervision of Hugo Eiji Nakagawa, “Culturas surdas: o que se vê, o que se ouve,” U Lisboa, (MA in Culture and Comunication). Final Mark and date?
• (2011). Supervision of Cátia Guedes Marques, “Reflexos de Sangue. Dracula como Espelho da Era Vitoriana Tardia,” U Lisboa, (MA Culture Sciences). Final Mark and date?
• (2011). Supervison of Alexandra Sofia de Senna Fernandes Hagedorn Rangel “Filhos da Terra: A Comunidade Macaense, Ontem e Hoje,” U Lisboa, (MA in Culture Sciences. Comuniation and Culture). Final Mark and date?
• (2009). Supervision of Ainour Fathi Ahmad Mdegish, “Josephine Butler. Between Religion and the Military,” U Lisboa, (MA in English Studies). Final Mark and date?

Chapters in books, including contributions to conference proceedings, essays in collections:

• (2013). “Relembrando conversas, relembrando uma exposição. Algumas notas sobre femmes fatales.” In CVFerreira et al (Eds.) A Scholar for all Seasons. Homenagem a João de Almeida Flor. Lisbon: CEAUL / ULICES, 897-904.
• (2013). Ed. (with CVFerreira et al) A Scholar for all Seasons. Homenagem a João de Almeida Flor. Lisbon: CEAUL / ULICES.
• (2011). “Ways of Reading Victoria’s Empire.” In ASerras (Ed.) Empire Building and Modernity. Lisboa: ULICES, 57-68.
• (2010). “Re-Imagining ‘Authentic India’.” In CVFerreira et al (Co-eds.) The British Empire. Ideology, Perspectives, Perceptions. Lisboa: ULICES, 161-173.
• (2009). “Ways of Displaying. Women, Photograhy and Empowerment”. ‘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 da Universidade de Lisboa. 775-785.
• (2009). Ed. (with CVFerreira et al) ‘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 da Universidade de Lisboa.

Other research outputs:

• (2010). Discussant of “A Fábrica do Futuro” from César Piva in the III Workshop of Management of Cultural Organisations / Próximo Futuro Programme. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 21-22 Apr.
• Peer reviewer of the article: “Communicating Competently” for Connexions. International professional communication journal(www.connexionsjournal.org).

Organisation of scientific dissemination activities:

• (2012). Org. Committee of Int. Seminar Victorians like us. Memories, dialogues and trends, U Lisboa, 21-23. Oct.
• (2011). Org. Committee of Conf. “Tesouros Revelados. Livros em Inglês nas Colecções da Biblioteca da FLUL,” U Lisboa, 15-16 Nov.
• (2010). Org. Committee of Conf. Empire Building and Modernity, U Lisboa, 6-7 Dec.
• (2009). Co-Org. (with APinheiroS) of Panel “Visual Culture as (Un)Discipline,” Reception of the Cultures in English in the Collections of the Library of the Library of the Faculty of Letters. Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (APEAA), Sociedade de Geografia, Lisboa, 15-17 Apr.
• (2009). Org. Committee of Conf. Questioning the Empire, U Lisboa, 21 Apr.
• (2009). Org. Committee of Conf. Visualising the Empire, U Lisboa, 26 May.
• (2008). Org. Committee of Int. Conf. From Brazil to Macao: Travel Writing and Diasporic Spaces. U Lisboa, 10-14 Sep.
• (2008). Org. Committee of Conf. Línguas XXI - Portugal e as Línguas Estrangeiras no Século XXI. Que Desafios?, U Lisboa, Nov.

Other activities

Presentations in international conferences

Poster:

• (2013). (Co-auth. APinheiroS, PEstácio, MJavanovic, CBaptista). “Between Library and Research Centre: Metadata, Text, and Criticim.” 90 minute colloquium. The Eleventh International Conference on Books and Publishing. U Regensburg/ Universitätsbibliothek, 26-27 Sept.

Presentations in national conferences

Poster:

• (2012). “Wounded Worlds within our World.” Messengers from the Stars. Episode II, U Lisboa, 28-30 Nov.
• (2012). “Neo-Victorianism and the Negotiation of Pre-Raphaelites.” Victorians like us. Memories, dialogues and trends, U Lisbon, 21-23 Oct.
• (2011). “Richard Garnett. An editor in Victorian Times.” Tesouros Revelados. Livros em Inglês nas Colecções da Biblioteca da FLUL, U Lisboa, 16 Nov.
• (2011). “Cultural Diversity and Conflicts. Mary Frances Billington’s Woman in India” Reviewing Imperial Conflict, U Lisboa, 26-28 Oct.
• (2010). “Ways of Reading Victoria’s Empire.” Empire Building and Modernity, U Lisboa, 6-7 Dec.
• (2010). “The Reception of Cultures in English in the Collections of Biblioteca da FLUL.” Reception of the Cultures in English in the Collections of the Library of the Library of the Faculty of Letters, U Coimbra, 12-14 May.
• (2010). “Characterizing The International Library of Famous Literature by Garnett, Vallée, Brandl and Mitchell (London, 1899). A Case Study.” Panel “Visual Culture as (Un)Discipline,” Reception of the Cultures in English in the Collections of the Library of the Faculty of Letters, Sociedade de Geografia, Lisboa, 15-17 Apr.
• (2009). “Re-Imagining ‘Authentic India’.” The British Empire. Ideology, Perspectives, Perceptions, U Lisboa, 26 May.

Future Research:

• (2013). (Co-ed.) From Brazil to Macao: Travel Writing and Diasporic Spaces. Book and CD. Lisbon: ULICES. (in print)
• (2013). “Cultural Diversity and Conflicts. Mary Frances Billington’s Woman in India”. Reviewing Imperial Conflict. Cambridge Scholars Press. (in print)
• (2013). “A sedução impressionista de Walter Pater.” Homenagem a Arnaldo Espírito Santo. Lisbon: Centre of Classical Studies. (in print).
• (2014). “Neo-Victorianism and the Negotiation of Pre-Raphaelites.” Int. Seminar Victorians like us. Memories, dialogues and trends. (in print).
• (2014-...). Org. Committee of Conf. Victorian Studies.
• Supervision of PhD thesis by Michaela Schwarz-Gonçalves Henriques, ‘Minding His-Story: Dora Russell's Voice on the Side of Life against the Backdrop of Her Peace Mission in the 1950s.”
• Supervision of PhD thesis by João José Craveirinha on Food Cultural Studies (Culture and Communication Studies).

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