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João Albuquerque holds a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures (UCLA) and is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição (IELT), NOVA-UNL. He is part of both the LITESCAPE.PT – Atlas das Paisagens Literárias de Portugal Continental’s research group and the Almada Negreiros – Sarah Affonso Archive’s research group (CEDANSA / NOVA-UNL). His research interests are Lusophone and Hispanic Literatures, Art History, Aesthetics, and Contemporary Philosophy. He published several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in these fields in Brazil, Portugal, United Kingdom, and United States of America. Albuquerque is the author of the book O Estéril Amor Fecundo de Fernando Pessoa (Editora Labirinto, 2022). In 2020, he selected and translated the Rubén Darío’s anthology of poetry and prose, O Sátiro Surdo (Editora Labirinto). Albuquerque is currently preparing a book on Mário de Andrade’s decolonial thought and Aesthetics.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Paulo Temporão Albuquerque

Citation names

  • Albuquerque, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2315-6E0A-F326
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7717-3087

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/01/06 - 2022/03/18
Concluded
 Hispanic Languages and Literatures (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Lusophone and Hispanic Literatures; LAtin-American Literatures; Theory of Literature
University of California Los Angeles, United States
"Postcolonial (Mock-)Epic Narratives; Reading Mário de Andrade with Jorge Luis Borges" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/09 - 2019/12
Attended
 Hispanic Literatures (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Hispanic Literatures
University of California Santa Barbara, United States
2009/10 - 2012/03
Concluded
 Estudos Portugueses (Mestrado)
Major in Literary Criticism
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
"O estéril amor fecundo de Bernardo Soares" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2005/10 - 2006/07
Concluded
 Gestão com especialização em Finanças (Pós-Graduação)
Major in Management; Finance
INDEG-IUL, Portugal
 16
2002/10 - 2005/07
Concluded
 Manutenção Industrial (Mestrado)
Major in Mechanical Engineering
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Análise de equipamentos ferroviários, tendo em vista a sua manutenção e aumento da fiabilidade" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Bom c/ distinção
1995/10 - 2002/01
Concluded
 Engenharia Mecânica (Licenciatura)
Major in Engenharia Mecânica
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal
 12
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/10/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
2022/06/15 - 2023/06/14 Postdoc (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
2017/09 - 2017/12 Visiting Researcher (Research) University of California Santa Barbara, United States
Brown University, United States

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01 - 2021/07 Assistant (University Teacher) University of California Los Angeles, United States
2014/09 - 2019/12 Assistant (University Teacher) University of California Santa Barbara, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2008/05 - 2009/04 Mecânica ortodôntica para o controlo de força e movimento dentário – Projecto de um novo dispositivo ortodôntico
PTDC/EME-PME/65749/2006
Research Fellow
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Albuquerque, João. Jorge Luis Borges e a estética neobarroca. Costa da Caparica, Portugal: Poets and Dragons Society. 2025.
    Accepted
  2. Albuquerque, João. Mário de Andrade: primitivismo e descolonização.. Porto, Portugal: Edições Esgotadas. 2024.
    Accepted
  3. Albuquerque, João. O estéril amor fecundo de Fernando Pessoa: poesia & amor no Livro do Desassossego. Fafe, Portugal: Labirinto. 2022.
    Published
  4. Rubén Darío. O Sátiro Surdo: Antologia de Poesia e Prosa de Rubén Darío. Fafe, Portugal: Labirinto. 2020.
    Published • Translator
Book chapter
  1. Albuquerque, João. "MÁRIO DE ANDRADE’S PRIMITIVISM: LANGUAGE, RACE AND TRANSCULTURALISM". In The trouble with primitivism. Uses of the past in iberian and transatlantic modernisms., edited by Leal, Joana Cunha; Petra Sarin; Mariana Pinto dos Santos; Noemi de Haro. Lisboa, Portugal: Instituto de História da Arte, 2024.
    In press
  2. Albuquerque, João. "Tribologia da literatura: Silvina Rodrigues Lopes e o conceito de atrito". In Silvina Rodrigues Lopes: pensar sem fim., 21-31. Lisboa, Portugal: Homem do Saco / Chão da feira, 2021.
    Published
  3. "Roleta russa: o desejo e o jogo – leituras de Dostoievsky". In O Jogo do Mundo, 117-130. Lisboa, Portugal: IELT / NOVA FCSH, 2017.
    Published
  4. "O descentramento da prosa do Livro do Desassossego". In Central de Poesia II – Livro do Desassossego: perspectivas., 107-120. Lisboa, Portugal: Esfera do Caos / CLEPUL, 2014.
    Published
Book review
  1. "Verdade e enigma: ensaio sobre o pensamento estético de Adorno (vendaval, 2013) de João Pedro Cachopo". Review of Verdade e enigma: ensaio sobre o pensamento estético de Adorno (2015): 219-223.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. "Próteses Gleno-Umerais: Estado da Arte". Paper presented in 3º Congresso Nacional de Biomecânica, Bragança, 2009.
    Published
  2. "Validação Numérico-Experimental de um Macro-Modelo Dentário de Estudo". Paper presented in 3º Congresso Nacional de Biomecânica, Bragança, 2009.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Albuquerque, João. "Jorge Luis Borges’ Poetics of Narrative Fiction: Magic Causality and Defective Memory". Latin American Literary Review 50 100 (2023): 29-36. https://lalr.website/volume-50-number-100-2023/.
    Open access • Published
  2. Albuquerque, João. "Narrative Devices: Jorge Luis Borges and the Art of Writing Interactive Literature". Variaciones Borges 54 (2022): 199-214. https://pre.borges.pitt.edu/journal/variaciones-borges-54.
    Published
  3. Albuquerque, João. "Decolonizing Brazil: Minor Heroism in Mário de Andrade’s Macunaíma". Brasil / Brazil 35 68 (2022): 83-103. https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/brasilbrazil/article/view/126239/85710.
    Open access • Published
  4. Albuquerque, João. "Métodos críticos: da hermenêutica à paródia – Os Lusíadas lido por Jorge de Sena, Eduardo Lourenço e Gonçalo M. Tavares". Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies 9 (2019): 25-39. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/ijpds/article/view/3366/2619.
    Open access • Published
  5. Albuquerque, João. "O Conceito de País em Uma Viagem à Índia". Cadernos de Literatura Comparada nº38 (2018):
    https://doi.org/10.21747/21832242/litcomp38v8
  6. Albuquerque, João. "Disorder and Love in La Invención de Morel". Hispanófila nº182 (2018):
    doi:10.1353/hsf.2018.0005
  7. "Deconstructing Capitalism through Perversion: Readings of The Invention of Morel". International Journal of Žižek Studies 12 4 (2018): 36-54. http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/1090/1116.
    Open access • Published
  8. Albuquerque, João. "À escuta de João Cabral de Melo Neto". Revista Dobra 2 (2018): 1-18. https://revistadobra.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/1/8/111802469/pcrit_joao_albuquerque.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  9. Albuquerque, João. "O nacional cosmopolitismo de Machado de Assis". Machado de Assis em linha vol.10 nº21. (2017):
    https://doi.org/10.1590/1983-6821201710216
  10. Albuquerque, João. "O distante amor ao próximo de Bernardo Soares". Pessoa Plural (2016): https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/pessoaplural/Issue9/PDF/I9A15.pdf.
    https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0X63K5X
  11. "A emancipação crística do homem segundo Almada Negreiros – estudo inter-artes do desenho Semana Sancta". Revista de História da Arte – série W 2 (2014): 218-231. http://revistaharte.fcsh.unl.pt/rhaw2/RHAw2.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  12. Albuquerque, João. "O estéril amor fecundo de Bernardo Soares". Pessoa Plural 4 (2013): 47-74. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/pessoaplural/Issue4/FullIssue4.pdf.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.7301/Z06T0K41
  13. "Abordagem de Manutenção e Fiabilidade de Equipamentos de Tracção Ferroviária". Revista Manutenção 85 (2005): 6-14.
    Open access • Published
Journal issue
  1. "Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, Vol.XII – One Hundred Years After.". Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies 12 (2017): https://sbps.spanport.ucsb.edu/volume/1.
    Published • Coeditor
Magazine article
  1. Albuquerque, João. "Notas sobre a exposição Baixo Eléctrico [João Jacinto]", Revista Caliban, 2023, https://revistacaliban.net/notas-sobre-a-exposi%C3%A7%C3%A3o-baixo-el%C3%A9ctrico-944a3f6c441f.
Preface / Postscript
  1. Emílio-Nelson, José. "[Sem título]". Postscript to Então Assim Falo. Porto, Portugal: Edições Esgotadas. 2023.
    Published • Assistant staff
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Postcolonial (Mock-)Epic Narratives: Reading Mário de Andrade with Jorge Luis Borges". PhD, University of California Los Angeles, 2022. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5603f52m#main.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. O Eczema de Pitágoras. 2023.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/10/01 Técnica, amor e arte em A invenção de Morel
Almada Public Library José Saramago (Almada, Portugal)
2022/05 Mário de Andrade’s Aesthetics: Primitivism and Transculturalism The trouble with “primitivism”. Uses of the past in iberian and transatlantic modernisms.
Instituto de História da Arte / FCSH NOVA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/09/18 Macunaíma: um herói de um povo (brasileiro) por vir. IX Association of British and Irish Lusitanists.
Newcastle University (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
2021/05/07 Poesia & amor no Livro do Desassossego. Guest Lecture
University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, United States)
2020/11/12 A reconfiguração do código épico de Os Lusíadas em Uma Viagem à Índia Segundo Colóquio do Consórcio Californiano de Pesquisa em Culturas e Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa.
University of California Berkeley (Berkeley, United States)
2018/05/19 Deconstructing Capitalism through Perversion: Readings of The Invention of Morel XVIII Lusophone and Hispanic Graduate Student Conference Displacements
University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, United States)
2017/07/12 O nacional cosmopolitismo de Machado de Assis International Conference - Moving Texts: mediations and transculturations
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2017/07/01 O conceito de país em Uma Viagem à Índia International Conference Geopoetics 2017 - Literary Spaces and Critical Territories
Faculdade de Letras Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2016/10/14 Visões machadianas de um mundo literário X International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association ‘Uncommon Communities’.
Stanford University (Stanford)
2016/03/17 À escuta de João Cabral de Melo Neto Guest Lecture
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2016/02/18 Como construir um Corpo-sem-órgãos em literatura: o caso de estudo de Fernando Pessoa no Livro do Desassossego XVI Lusophone and Hispanic Graduate Student Conference - Unveiling the Body
University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, United States)
2013/11/14 A emancipação crística do homem segundo Almada Negreiros – estudo inter-artes do desenho Semana Sancta Colóquio Internacional Almada Negreiros
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013/10/25 Roleta russa: o desejo e o jogo, leituras de Dostoievski Colóquio Multidisciplinar: O Jogo
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas / Universidade Nova de Lisboa. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/12/07 Descentramento da prosa do Livro do Desassossego Colóquio Internacional Central de Poesia II – Livro do Desassossego: perspectivas - International Colloquium
Faculdade de Letras Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2017/12/14 - 2018/05/19 XVIII Lusophone and Hispanic Graduate Student Conference - Displacements (2018/05/18 - 2018/05/19)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 University of California Santa Barbara, United States
2018/01/06 - 2018/04/30 Editing Pessoa's Fausto (Guest Lecturer: Carlos Pittella) (2018/04/30)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 University of California Santa Barbara, United States
2017/02/03 - 2017/05/11 Cinema Unbound, Opera Cannibalized: Some Thoughts on Os Canibais (Guest Lecturer: João Pedro Cachopo.) (2017/05/11)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 University of California Santa Barbara, United States

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/01/27 - Current Book talk "OBUS", by Fátima Vale
Other
 Book lauch event
Tigre de Papel Bookstore, Portugal
2023/06/29 - Current Debate with Dunia Roquetti on "Não cairás no cubismo: Mário de Andrade e as artes visuais", by Tadeu Chiarelli
Round table
 CHA - Confrontos em História da Arte
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
2023/06/03 - Current Book talk "Então Assim falo", by José Emílio-Nelson
Other
 Book lauch event
Lisbon Book Fair, Portugal
2022/12/09 - Current Book talk "O Diabo Desceu em Chichester", by Victor Oliveira Mateus
Other
 Book lauch event

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2020/12 - 2023/10/30 Editorial Board - Revista Oresteia
Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/01 - 2021/07 Spanish 44 - Latin American Cultures (in English); Portuguese11B (twice); Spanish2 (two times); Spanish3; Spanish5. (Licence) University of California Los Angeles, United States
2014/09 - 2019/12 LAIS101 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to the History and Societies of Latin America and Iberia (in English); ENG102 - English and American Literature from 1650-1789; ENG65WW - World Wide West. Lower Division: Portuguese1; Portuguese16A; Portuguese16B (three times); Portuguese5; Spanish1; Spanish2 (three times); Spanish3 (three times); Spanish5 (two times). (Licence) University of California Santa Barbara, United States

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022/11/29 - Current Programa do Desassossego Conceito de amor na obra "Livro do Desassossego", de Fernando Pessoa
Distinctions

Award

2020 Summer Stipend $5,000
University of California Los Angeles, United States
2019 Summer Stipend $1,900
University of California Santa Barbara, United States
2017 ABD Travel Grant $7,000
University of California Santa Barbara, United States
2017 Doctoral Student Travel Grant $1,030
University of California Santa Barbara, United States
2016 Summer Stipend $2,500
University of California Santa Barbara, United States
2016 Regents Fellowship $8,000
University of California Santa Barbara, United States
2014 Stipend $1,000
University of California Santa Barbara, United States

Title

2016 Outstanding Graduate Student in Portuguese 2015/2016
University of California Santa Barbara, United States
2013 Best MA Student 2011/2012 in Portuguese Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Other distinction

2013 Honorable Mention at the competition Jovens Talentos