Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Joao Paulo Coutinho Guimaraes
Citation names
- Guimarães, João Paulo
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 5D1E-E448-6D29
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7368-2522
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures - General Literature Studies
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2017/02/01
Concluded
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English Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)
University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, United States
"Life Lines: Post-Sixties American Poetry and the Concept of Living Form" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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n/a |
2012/01/01
Concluded
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Estudos Americanos (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Captain Beefheart e o Subconsciente Ambiental: uma Viagem pela Loucura da Linguagem " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 valores (Excelente) |
2008/06/01
Concluded
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Línguas Modernas (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 valores (Muito Bom) |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/07/01 - 2025/06/30 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, Portugal |
2018/10/01 - 2020/09/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Irish Research Council, Ireland |
University College Dublin, Ireland |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2015/01/01 - 2016/01/01 | Assistant (University Teacher) | University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, United States |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2018/02/01 - 2018/09/30 | Research Assistant | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, Portugal |
2010/01/01 - 2010/05/01 | Erasmus Student (cadeiras "Modern American Poetry and Poetics" e "American Literature between the Wars", ambas com a classificação "A") | University College Dublin, Ireland |
Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Journal article |
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Magazine article |
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Manual |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2019/11 | Old Freak Child: Lyn Hejinian’s The Unfollowing, Aging and the Epigenetic Development of Giftedness. | Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference 2019
University of California, Irvine (Irvine , United States)
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2019/05 | Charles Bernstein’s Grumpy Vanguardism: Old Age, Negativity and the Past to Come. | Trent Aging 2019
Trent University (Peterborough , Canada)
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2019/05 | Old Age Oddities: Late Bloomers and Polymaths | Bealtaine Festival: Age and Opportunity
Ballymun Library (Dublin , Ireland)
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2018/09 | ’Paint the Desert Pink: Islam, Homosexuality and Kazim Ali’s Living Scripture. | II Encontro de Jovens Investigadores em Literatura Comparada
Universidade do Porto (Porto , Portugal)
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2018/05 | Sleeping Together: Antiquarianism, Natural History and Kate Colby’s Narco-Poetics | Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies Annual Conference
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
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2016/04 | The Life of the Void: Life and the Negation of Sense in Chris Vitiello’s Nouns Swarm a Verb. | Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years Conference.
University at Buffalo (Buffalo, United States)
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2015/11 | Genetic Garbage: Disposable Bodies and Wondrous Beings in P. Inman’s Platin. | Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference. Rice University 2015
Rice University (Houston , United States)
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2014/03 | Heartless Darkness: the Erasure of Life and the Disappearance of Nature in Yedda Morrison’s Re-Reading of Conrad’s Classic. | Louisville Conference 2014
University of Louisville (Louisville , United States)
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2013/10 | Apocalyptic Laughter: Jokes of Nature and Jokes of Language in Ed Dorn’s Gunslinger. | Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference.
University of Notre Dame (South Bend , United States)
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2013/03 | Leslie Scalapino’s Poetics of Unnaming. | Leslie Scalapino Symposium
University at Buffalo (Buffalo, United States)
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2013/03 | Malleable Bodies and Unreadable Beings: Eduardo Kac and Leslie Scalapino’s Poetics of Unnaming. | Subject to Change: Nature, Text and the Limits of the Human.
University of Virginia (Charlottesville , United States)
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2011 | Rock my Decals Off, Baby: Captain Beefheart, Blues-Rock and the Monstrosity of Otherness. | Música, Discurso e Poder
Universidade do Minho (Braga , Portugal)
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2010 | Captain Beefheart and the Monstrous Rhythms of the Modern Musical Self | Beyond the Centers: Musical Avant-Gardes since 1950
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2020/01/01 - Current | Enacting Queer Subjectivity: The use of the personal pronoun and form to create and
explore the queer self in the work of Frank O’Hara and Sylvia Plath.
Co-supervisor
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English, Drama and Film (Master)
University College Dublin, Ireland
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2019/09/01 - Current | A Beat Revival: Re-Evaluating the Beat Generation in the 21st Century
Co-supervisor
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BA Honors Thesis in English (Degree)
University College Dublin, Ireland
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019/12 - 2019/12 | WARNING: Difficult! Poetry? Readings by Charles Bernstein, Catherine Walsh and Christodoulos Makris. (2019/12 - 2019/12)
Other
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University College Dublin, Ireland |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2019/03/01 - Current | European Network of Ageing Studies | |
2019/03/01 - Current | North American Network of Aging Studies | |
2012 - Current | Society for Literature, Science and the Arts |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2019/09/01 - 2019/12/01 | American Poetry and the Book of Nature | (Licenciatura) | University College Dublin, Ireland |
2015/09 - 2015/12 | English 201: Composition (Thinking with Videogames) | English (Licenciatura) | University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, United States |
2015/01 - 2015/05 | English 101: Composition | English (Licenciatura) | University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, United States |
Distinctions
Award
2008 | Bolsa de Mérito - 3rd Best Student of the School of Humanities of the U of Coimbra |
2007 | Prémio de Excelência Feijó
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Línguas Literaturas e Culturas, Portugal
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2006 | Bolsa de Mérito - Best student of the School of Humanities of the U of Coimbra |
Other distinction
2018 | Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship
Irish Research Council, Ireland
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2018 | CEEC Individual 2017 Junior Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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2010 | Fulbright PhD Scholarship
Fulbright Portugal, Portugal
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