Research Group: American Studies (RG 3)
Professional Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degree: PhD in North American Literature.
Institutional Address: UTAD - Dept de Letras, Artes e Comunicação. Apt 1013. 5001-801
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Research Projects:

• (2013-...). Atlas das Paisagens Literárias de Portugal Continental. (Scient. Coord: Ana Isabel Queiroz, FCSH/UNL). Researcher.
• (2008-...). Estudos americanos: Interface de culturas e identidades. (Scient. Coord: TAlves, CEAUL/ULICES). Researcher.
• (2006-...). Tendências da Literatura. Paisagem: Representação e Sentido(s). (Scient. Coord: Carlos Assunção, UTAD/CEL). Researcher.

Main Achievements:

• (2000). “Fragmentos de Memória e Arte: Os Jardins na Ficção de Willa Cather,” U Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Ph.D. in North American Literature). Jul.

Research Outputs

Publications in peer reviewed journals and/or other publications:

• (2011) “Landscapes of Survival: Transplant and Sustenance in Willa Cather’s Canadian Writing and Experience”. Anglo Saxónica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa. Série III, nº2, 19-36.
• (2011). Review of Ana Isabel Queiroz and Inês de Ornellas e Castro (Eds.) “Falas da Terra: What do we see green.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment. Nr. 2. Vol. 2: 281-283.
• (2010). Review of Maureen Devine and Christa Grewe-Volpp (Eds.) “Words on Water: Literary and Cultural Representations.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment. Nr. 2. Vol 1: 138-139.
• (2010). “A escrita sobre a natureza: pequenos milagres ou os novos mundos do Novo Mundo: The sense of wonder de Rachel Carson e Small Wonder de Barbara Kingsolver.” Anglo Saxonica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa. Series III. Nr. 1: 207-223.
• (2010). “Clouds, streams and paths: from seeing nature as kin to seeing nature as self – an American Journey.” Revista de Letras, UTAD/CEL, 161-171.
• (2009). “[W]here do the swallows go in winter?: The cosmic Framework of Cather’s record of returning seasons.” Op. Cit: Uma Revista de Estudos Anglo-americanos /A Journal of Anglo-American Studies. Nr. 11: 11-20.
• (2009). “(Des)encontros na paisagem: Walden de Henry David Thoreau.” Revista de Letras, UTAD/CEL. Nr. 8: 111-122.

Further supervision:

• (2007). Supervision of Cristina Costa Proença, “‘Voices out of the land’: Lugar, Identidade e Memória em American Indian Stories de Zitkala-Sa,” U Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (M.A. in English Culture and Literature). Final Mark: Very Good. 27 Jul.

Conference proceedings:

• (2012). “Reading nature attentively: Barbara Kingsolver and Alice Walker’s search for small wonders.” Reading Nature: Cultural Perspectives on Environmental Imagery. Alcalá de Henares: Friends of Thoreau / Franklin Institute, 113-120.
• (2009). “’A door and four windows’: an introduction to Mary Oliver’s successful home in nature.” In Barker, A. David Callahan and Maria Aline Ferreira (Eds.) Success and Failure: Essays from the 29^th APEAA Conference. U Aveiro, 125-133.
• (2009) “Em diálogo com o mundo: a paixão vegetal em The Country of the Pointed Firs e a Morgadinha dos Canaviais.” 6.º Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada / 10.º Colóquio de Outono Comemorativo das Vanguardas, U Minho.
• (2009). “Deliberate landscapes: Stone walls or the design of memory in nature.” Proceedings of the 3^rd EASLCE Conference. Universidad de Alcalá. ISBN 978-84-8138-841-1: 173-181.

Books, including single-authored works (including scholarly editions of oral or written texts and translations with introductions and commentary):

• (2010). Ed. Lugar: representação e sentidos: estudos sobre a literatura norte-americana. U Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro: Vila Real, Centro de Estudos em Letras.

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

• (2013). “Palavras migrantes: entre Willa Cather e Miguel Torga.” In TCid et al. (Eds.) Portugal pelo mundo disperso. Lisboa: Tinta da China, 259-270.
• (2013). "Jamaica Kincaid's Garden of Words." In Diana Almeida (Ed.) Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity. Bern: Peter Lang, 195-209.
• (2011). “Perturbar a estabilidade do conhecimento do mundo: uma aproximação ao programa da disciplina de Literatura Norte-Americana.” In Metamorfoses: 25 anos do Departamento de Letras, Artes e Comunicação. UTAD/CEL, 57-74.
• (2010).”Um clima favorável à alma: A escrita sobre a natureza na tradição literária norte-americana.” In Isabel Fernandes Alves (Ed.) Lugar: Representação e sentidos. Estudos sobre a literatura norte-americana. Vila Real: Centro de Estudos em Letras, 87-103.

Other activities:

• (2013). Examiner of Maria Isabel de Sousa, “Environmental Concerns in Melville’s Moby Dick and Thoreau’s Walden,” U Porto (M.A. in Languages, Literatures and Cultures - English Studies). 16 Jul.
• (2012). Examiner of Olga Marisa Santos Cardoso, “Abordagem Ecopoética da Obra de Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen,” U Aveiro (M.A. in Languages, Literatures and Cultures). 21 Dec.
• (2010). Examiner of Sérgio Pinto, “O Edifício Cultural Norte-Americano: entre a ‘Utopia Dominante’ e a ‘Utopia Marginal,’” U Porto (M.A. in American Studies). 10 Dec.
• (2010). Examiner of Maria Emília da Silva Quintela Ribeiro, “Mito, Magia e Ritual em Song of Solomon de Toni Morrison,” U Porto (M.A. in American Studies). 22 Nov.
• (2009). Examiner of Joana Raquel Antunes dos Santos, "A Luta pela Emergência de uma Identidade Afro-americana na Terra Prometida Norte-Americana," U Porto (M.A. in American Studies). 11 May.
• (2009). Head of the examination jury in MA of Diana Luísa Fernandes Gonçalves, “Ellen Olenska, de Edith Wharton a  Martin Scorsese - um estudo da representação feminina literária e fílmica,”U Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. 6 Feb.
• (2009). Examiner of Célia Susana de Sousa Castro Driver, “’A Demanda da Mãe’ em As I Lay Dying de William Faulkner e The Optimist’s Daughter de Eudora Welty,” U Porto (M.A. in American Studies). 2 Mar.
• (2008). Examiner of Paula Cristina Ruivo de Almeida Tavares, “Os EUA após a Segunda Guerra Mundial: A Banda desenhada como imagem da controvérsia,” U Aberta (M.A. in American Studies). 11 Dec.
• (2008). Examiner of Maria Isabel Monteverde, “As Dimensões do Tempo em Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison e a geometria da Invisibilidade,” U Porto, (M.A. in American Studies). 17 Jul.

Presentations in international conferences:

By submission:

• (2013). “Walking in the landscape: Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Encounters with the sense of wonder.” Int. Conf. Ecological encounters: Agency, Identity, Interactions, ASLE-UKI, U Surrey, 29-31 Aug.
• (2012). “Seeds and words: earthy eruptions, exuberant discourses in Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes.” Natura Loquens: Eruptive Dialogues, Disruptive Discourses, 5^th European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE) Conference, U La Laguna, Tenerife, 27-30 Jun.
• (2011). “Reading nature attentively: Barbara Kingsolver and Alice Walker’s search for small wonders.” Reading Nature: Cultural Perspectives on Environmental Imagery, U Complutense de Madrid, 14-16 Dec.
• (2008). “Deliberate landscapes: stone walls or the design of memory in nature.” 3^rd European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE) Conference. U Alcalá de Henares, 16-19 Oct. 

Presentations in national conferences:

By submission:

• (2013). “America like a cloud: Lewis’s search for home.” Neither Here Nor There, Yet Both: Int. Conf. on the Luso-American Experience. U Nova Lisboa, 11-13 Jul.
• (2013). “Ecocrítica: uma outra narrativa, uma outra leitura das relações entre a literatura e o mundo natural.” 34^th Annual APEAA Conference, U Lisboa, 9-10 May.
• (2012). “’The wild breath of the forest, fragrant with bark and berry’: signs of nature’s history in Susan Fennimore Cooper’s Rural Hours.” Int. Conf. Ex certa scientia: Literature, Science and the Arts, U Porto, 13-15 Dec.
• (2012). “Sob a influência da natureza: do Transcendentalismo à imaginação ambiental. Exemplos de uma viagem americana.” Int. Conf. Reflections on Comparatism: paths, impasses, perspectives, 25^th Anniversary of the Portuguese Association for Comparative Literature (APLC), U Aveiro, 5-7 Dec.
• (2012). “Gardens: fostering a sense of connectedness with the diverse.” Authority vs. Alterity: The Return of Hegemony? 33^rd Annual APEAA Conference, U Católica, 20-21 Sep.
• (2012). “Leslie Marmon Silko e a perspectiva de uma nova visão sobre a natureza americana.” EIRIS, UTAD, 7-8 May.
• (2011). “Willa Cather’s Lucy Gayheart: a winter’s tale.” Int. Conf. Dashed all to pieces: Tempests and other Natural Disasters in the Literary Imagination, U Porto, 1-3 Dec.
• (2011). “’Bound up in words: gardens, design and memory in Jamaica Kincaid’s My Garden (Book).” Int. Conf. Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity in the U.S. and Beyond, U Lisboa, 15-17 Jun.
• (2010). “’So glorious a landscape’: John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra and the reshaping of the Self.” Landscapes of the Self, 1^st Int. Conf. U Évora, 24-26 Nov.
• (2010). “’From seeing nature as keen to seeing nature as self’: an American Journey.” Geographies of the Self, 31^st Annual APEAA Conference, Sociedade Geográfica de Lisboa, 15-17 Apr.
• (2009). “‘The Waiting Arms of Missouri’: Human Connections and Sheltered Lives in Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter.” Int. Conf. Post-racial America: Has the USA moved Beyond the Race Issue?, U Lisboa, 6-12 Nov.
• (2009). “A escrita sobre a natureza: pequenos milagres ou os novos mundo do Novo Mundo.” 30^th Annual APEAA Conference, U Porto, 19-21 Feb.
• (2008). “Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives?’: a tentação do outro. Um exercício de aproximação à Ecocrítica.” Jornada de Reflexão Ecocrítica. U Porto, 25 Nov.
• (2008). “Em diálogo com o mundo: a paixão vegetal em The Country of the Pointed Firs e a Morgadinha dos Canaviais.” 6.º Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, U Minho, 6-8 Nov.
• (2008). “‘A door and four windows’: an introduction to Mary Oliver’s successful home in nature.” 29^th Annual APEAA Conference, U Aveiro, 17-19 Apr.
• (2008). “Palavras migrantes: entre Miguel Torga e Willa Cather.” Int. Conf. Narrativa e Diáspora Portuguesa (1928-2008), U Lisboa, 22-25 Oct.

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