Grupo de Investigação: Estudos Americanos (GI 3)
Categoria profissional: Assistant Professor with tenure
Graus académicos: (1994) Ph. D. in Linguistics (Cognitive Semantics), Cambridge U; (1989) MA in Linguistics (Psycholinguistics), Cambridge U.
Morada institucional: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. De Berna 26C 1069-061 Lisboa
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Projectos de Investigação:

• (Ongoing). American Studies: Interfacing Cultures and Identities. Collab.

Principais Resultados Científicos:

• (1994). Ph.D. in Linguistics Theoretical Linguistics, U Cambridge.
• (1989). M.A. in Psycholinguistics, U Cambridge.

Actividade Científica

Publicações em revistas com arbitragem científica e/ou outras publicações:

• (2013). “Becoming Tony Alfama: The American Education of a Portuguese Kid in Charles Reis Felix’ Tony: A New England Boyhood” Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Studies Vol. XXXIV-XXXV: 131-146.
• (2013). “Encruzilhadas Americanas: Politica Externa em Tempo de Fadiga Intervencionista” Relações Internacionais 39: 91-100.
• (2012). “Os limites do multilateralismo da Administração Obama: a reforma do Conselho de Segurança.” Relações Internacionais 34: 5-19.
• (2011). “Performing Selves in `´Post-Soul` Literature: Danzy Senna’s Caucasia” Op-Cit. 12: 83-95.
• (2011). “Os Estados Unidos e a Primavera Àrabe.” Relações Internacionais 30: 117-127.
• (2010). “O Novo Populismo Conservador do Movimento Tea Party e as Intercalares Americanas.” Relações Internacionais 27: 105-114.
• (2009). “Quem são os Americanos? O Impulso Neo-Nativista de Samuel Huntington.” Relações Internacionais 24: 23-26.
• (2009). “The Dramatization of Cross-Identity Voicing and the Poetics of Ambiguity.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. Vol. 15.1: 83-101.
• (2008). “Os Estados Unidos no fim da presidência Bush: Ainda a Nação Indispensável?” Relações Internacionais 19: 21-31.

Outras orientações

Teses de mestrado:

• (2013). Supervision of Anabela Faria Nogueira da Cruz “Interesses Energéticos e Implicações Políticas: República Popular da China e os Estados Unidos da América em Angola, Sudão e Nigéria” , U Nova de Lisboa (M.A. in Political Science and International Relations). Final Mark: 18/20
• (2012). Supervision of Dorothy Alves, “Skew(er)ing Identities: The Assertion of Self in Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land and Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor,” U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Languages, Literatures and Cultures). Final Mark: 18/20.
• (2012). Supervision of Ana Filipa Lopes da Silva Oliveira, “Decisão Política e os Media: a Presença Norte-americana no Afeganistão,” U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Political Science and International Relations). Final Mark: 18/20.
• (2010). Supervision of Adérito Vicente, “O debate Estratégico Nuclear actual nos Estados Unidos,” U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Political Science and International Relations).
  Final Mark: 17/20.
• (2010). Co-supervision of Joana Rocha de Bastos Rodrigues, “O Cinema Nativo Americano Contemporâneo: Expressão da Identidade Postindian” (Supervisor: José Manuel Costa), U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Comunication Sciences - Comunication and Arts). Final Mark: 18/20.
• (2010). Supervision of Ana Maria da Luz Figueira, “Juventude, Cosmopolitismo e Pacifismo: o Olhar de Randolph Bourne,” U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Languages, Literature and Culture).
  Final Mark: 19/20.
• (2010). Supervision of Maria Isabel Marques do Monte Porta-Nova Cristóvão, “Reencontro com o Passado: Memória e Subjectividade - Perspectivas Interculturais nas Autobiografias de Mary Antin e Shirley Geok-lin Lim,” U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Languages, Literature and Culture). Final Mark: 16/20.
• (2009). Supervision of Lauren Elizabeth Denny, “Os efeitos do papel regional do Brasil nas Relações Bilaterais entre os Estados  Unidos e o Brazil,” U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Political Science and International Relations). Final Mark: 17/20.
• (2009). Supervision of Patrícia Isabel Galvão da Mata, “A Ciência nos Pulp Magazines de Ficção Científica de 1923 a 1953,” U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Languages, Literature and Culture).
  Final Mark: 15/20.
• (2008). Supervision of Ruben Correia, “A emergência de uma literatura policial nativa-americana: Tony Hillerman, Carol Lafavour e Louis Owens,” U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Languages, Literatures and Cultures). Final Mark: 16/20.
• (2008). Supervision of Ruxandra Streajana “The Development of African American Children’s Literature in the Harlem Renaissance,” U Nova de Lisboa (M.A. in Languages, Literatures and Cultures). Final Mark: 15/20.
• (2008). Supervision of Susana Margarida Marques Fernandes da Costa, “Do Cartoon ao Comic Strip: Visibilidade Social e Estereotipia Ètnica na Impresa de Massas dos Estados Unidos (1861-1914),” U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in North-American Culture). Final Mark: Very Good.
• (2007). Supervision of Sara Filipa Nobre Amado, “Abraham Cahan: Um Tradutor Cultural no Lower East Side Nova Iorquino,” U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Languages, Literatures and Cultures). Final Mark: Very Good.
• (2007). Supervision of Jorge Maurício Alves, “Charlotte Perkins Gilman- Uma Utopia WASP,” U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Languages, Literatures and Cultures). Final Mark: Very Good.

Livros e capítulos de livros com circulação internacional:

• (2013). Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging. Ed. Teresa Botelho and Iolanda Ramos Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• (2013). “Dystopias of Belonging: Defamiliarizing Sameness in Danzy Senna’s Symptomatic.” In Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging. Teresa Botelho/ Iolanda Ramos (Eds). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 52-68
• (2013). “Finding an Aesthetic of her Own: Partnering Identities in the Work of Faith Ringgold” In Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity. Diana V. Almeida (Ed). Bern: Peter Lang, 109-124
• (2012). “Staging Darwin: Evolution and the Dramatic Language of Science Plays.” In (Dis)Entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on the Man and his Legacy. Sara Silva, Fátima Vieira, Jorge Bastos da Silva (Eds) Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 209-224.
• (2012). “Leaving one’s safe houses of identity: reimagining belonging in utopian performatives.” In Arthur Blaim and Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim (Eds.) Spectres of Utopia: Theory, Practice, Conventions. Franfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 159-166.
• (2012). “I don’t understand you people: Staging Intercultural Conversations in the Drama of Philip Kan Gotanda.” In Orla McGarry and Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska (Eds.) Landscapes of (Un)Belonging: Reflections of Strangeness and Self. Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press, 43-52 (E-book).
• (2010). “Redefining the Dramatic Canon: Staging Identity Instability in the Work of David Henry Hwang and Chay Yew.” In Tanfer Emin Tunc and Elisabetta Marino (Eds.) Positioning the New: Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 128-142.

Capítulos de livros, incluindo as contribuições para artigos em conferências, contribuições para festschriften, ensaios em coleções:

• (2009). “Tony Kushner and ‘the Missing Dimension in American Theatre.” In Letras & Ciências: As Duas Culturas de Filipe Furtado: Livro de Homenagem. Vale de Cambra: Caleidoscópio, 61-75.
• (2007). “Staging the Binary: Philip Kan Gotanda and the Status of American Ethnic Theatre” In   “And Gladly Wolde (s)he Lerne and Gladly Teach”: Homenagem a Júlia Dias Ferreira. Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 701-717
• (2007). “Spacial and Racial Navigations of an African-American Gumshoe: Easy Rawlin’s Lonely Search for an American Home” Intertextual Dialogues: Travels and Routes .Braga: Universidade do Minho pp: 149-164

Organização de atividades de disseminação científica:

• (2010). Org. Int. Symposium Performing Identity and Utopias of Belonging, U Nova Lisboa, 3-4 Dec.
• (2007). Org. Int. Conf.  Novas Leituras de Tennessee Williams, U Nova Lisboa, 25-26 May.

Outras actividades

Entrevistas (rádio e televisão):

• (2013). Jornal da Noite Sic Notícias (comentário sobre a tomada de posse presidente Obama) 21 Jan)
• (2012). Noite Eleitoral Americana. Antena 1, 6-7 Nov.
• (2012). Diário das Eleições Americanas, SIC Notícias, 31 Oct.
• (2010). Round table on USA elections, 5 Nov.
• (2010). Olhar o Mundo (USA elections), RTP2, 8 Nov.
• (2010). Câmara Clara (A América e a sua Literatura), RTP 2, 14 Nov.
• (2010). Opinião Pública (A Cimeira da Nato), SIC Notícias, 14 Nov.

Comunicações apresentadas em conferências internacionais

Em painel:

• (2013). “Stumbling on Joy, Yielding to Fear: The Garden as a Utopian Possibility and a Dystopian Nightmare in Amy Waldman’s The Submission.” Topographies of Harmony: Utopian Studies Society 14^th International Conference. New Larnak, Scotland 1-4 July
• (2011). “’I don’t understand you people’: Staging intercultural conversations in the drama of Philip Kan Gotanda.” 3^rd Conf. Interdisciplinary Network Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners, Oxford, 27-29 Sep.
• (2011). “Human crisis and the identity-based utopian hypothesis in the post- human novels of Octavia Butler.”  12^th Int. Conf. of the Utopian Studies Society (Europe), Nicosia, Cyprus, 8-10 Jul.
• (2010). “Leaving One’s Safe Houses of Identity: Reimagining Belonging in Utopian Performatives in the United States.” 11^th Int. Conf. of the Utopian Studies Society (Europe), U Marie Curie Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland, 7-10 Jul.
• (2010). “Staging mythologies of belonging in David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face and Nilo Cruz’s Anna In the Tropics.”  55^th Annual Conf. British Assotiation for American Studies, U East Anglia UK-, 8-11 Apr.
• (2010). “Leaving One’s Safe Houses of Identity: Reimagining Belonging in Utopian Performatives in the United States”, XI Congress of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe, University Marie.Curie Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland. 7-10 July
• (2010) “Staging mythologies of belonging in David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face and Nilo Cruz’s Anna In the Tropics. 55^th Annual Conference of the British Association for American Studies. The University of East Anglia. Norwich. 8-11 Abril
• (2010). “Redefining the Dramatic Canon: Staging Identity Instability in the work of David Henry Hwang and Chay Yew.” European Association for American Studies Biennial Conf. Forever Young?: The Changing Images of America, Dublin, 26-29 Mar.
• (2009). “Pity and Martyrdom: Revisiting Violence in Tennessee Williams.” 3^rd Int. Conf. American Drama and Theatre - Violence on Stage, U Cádiz, 27-29 May.
• (2008). “Perspectives on Stasis and Change in the Dramatic Work of Tony Kushner.” 53^th Annual Conf. British Association of American Studies, U Edinburgh, 27-30 Apr.

Comunicações apresentadas em conferências nacionais:

Em painel:

• (2013) “Science History on Stage: Scrutinizing the Production of Knowledge in Peter Parnell’s Trumpery and Carl Djerassi’s Oxygen” Colóquio Ficcionalizações da Ciência na Grã-Bretanha III (séculos XIX e XX) Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas UNL, 5 de Dezembro
• (2013). “Fear Interrupted: Loving the Alien in Battlestar Galatica” Dark Futures in Projection: On the 60^th Anniversary of the Publication of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. CETAPS. Porto 14-15 Nov.
• (2013). “Teasing Ethnicity: The Ironic Gaze in Julian Silva’s Move Over Scopes ” Neither Here Nor There, Yet Both: International Conference on the Luso-American Experience/Faculty of Letters/Faculty of Social and Human Sciences- Nova University of Lisbon 11-13 July
• 2012). “Os Partidos Políticos Americanos: Encruzilhadas Pós-Eleitorais”, Conferência As Eleições Americanas e a Política Internacional dos Estados Unidos. Instituto de Defesa Nacional, Lisboa, 13 Dec
• (2012). “The Idea is the Thing: Science Plays after Copenhagen” Relattional Forms II International Conference Ex certa scientia: Literature, Science and the Art Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. 13-15 Dec.
• (2012). “Locating a Post-Black Aesthetics in the Cinema of Spike Lee” Changing Times: Performances and Identities on Screen. Faculdade de Letras. Lisboa 7-9 Nov.
• (2011). Hope amongst the ruins: critical dystopian visions in the post apocalyptic novels The Children of Men and The Parable of the Sower “ Dashed all to pieces’: Tempests and other Disasters in the Literary Imagination- Faculdade de Letras. Porto 1-3 Dec.
• (2011). “Finding an Aesthetic of her Own: Partnering Identities in the Work of Faith Ringgold.” Int. Conf. Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity in the U.S. and Beyond, U Lisboa, 15-17 Jun.
• (2011). “The American Education of a Portuguese Boy: Reading Urban Landscapes in Charles Reis Felix’ Tony: A New England Boyhood.” 2.º Congresso Internacional de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, Fundacão Calouste Gulbenkian, 18-20 Apr.
• (2010).“Dystopias of Belonging: Defamiliarizing Sameness in Danzy Senna’s Symptomatic.” International Symposium: Performing Identity and Utopias of Belonging. Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas. Lisbon. 3-4 Dec.
• (2010).“American Dystopias and Universal Utopias? Imagining Futures in the Fiction of Octavia Butler” Colóquio Mensageiros das Estrelas: Ficção Científica e Fantasia.. Faculdade de Letras.isboa, 2-5 Nov.
• (2009). “Staging Sexual Otherness on the American Stage: From Evasion to Center Stage.” Silent Voices, Forbidden Lives: Censorship and Performance. 18^th Conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research, Lisboa, 14-17 Jul.
• (2007) “What is left unspoken: emotional heroism, sexual identity and obliqness in Tennessee Williams’ drama “ Conferência Novas Leituras de Tennessee Williams. Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas,UNL. Lisboa 25-26 May.

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