Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Maria Biscaia
Citation names
- Pimentel Biscaia, Maria Sofia
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8619-4A72-73E1
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5455-9983
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2000 - 2005
Concluded
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Literature (Doutoramento)
Major in Postcolonial and Gender Studies in Literature in English
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Leituras Dialógicas do Grotesco: Textos Contemporâneos do Excesso" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1996 - 1999/06/17
Concluded
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Master's in English Studies (Mestrado)
Major in Literature
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Tales of the Grotesque and the Carnivalesque: The Fiction of Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1991/09 - 1996/07/01
Concluded
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Education Bachelor's in Portuguese and English (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/09/15 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2021/09/01 - 2024/09/14 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Línguas e Culturas, Portugal | ||
| 2019/10/01 - 2021/07/31 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2018/09/01 - 2021/07/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 2019/07/01 - 2019/09/10 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Universidade de Nottingham, United Kingdom |
| 2016/09/01 - 2017/07/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Vigo, Spain |
| 2015/10/01 - 2016/07/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2014/02/01 - 2014/07/31 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2012/09/01 - 2013/07/31 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2011/09/01 - 2012/07 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2000/01/01 - 2028/12/31 | Centre for Languages, Literatures and Cultures
UID/04188/2025
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Línguas Literaturas e Culturas, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2014 - 2017 | Cuerpos en Tránsito: Diferencia en las Culturas Globalizadas / Bodies in Transit: Difference in Globalised Cultures
FFI2013-47789-C2-2-P. IP
Researcher
Universidade de Vigo, Spain
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Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain
Concluded
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| 2011 - 2013 | Los mercados culturales en la globalización: la producción, circulación y recepción de la diferencia/ The Production, Circulation
and Reception of the Markers of ‘difference’ in Global(ized) Cultural Markets
FFI2010-17282
Researcher
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Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 - 2021 | Cuerpos en Tránsito 2 / Bodies in Transit 2
Ref. FFI2017-84555-C2-2-P MINECO-FEDER
Researcher
Universidade de Vigo, Spain
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Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Edited book |
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| Journal article |
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| Journal issue |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/11/30 | The Imperatives of Intercultural Competence | Knowledge Factory
Coimbra Education School (Coimbra, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/01 - 2024/12 | Estágio Curricular da Gres Panaria Portugal
Supervisor
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Master's in Languages and Business Relations (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2024/01 - 2024/12 | O Papel das Línguas no Recrutamento de Pessoas
Supervisor
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Master's in Languages and Business Relations (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/11/20 - Current | Film Club (2024/11/20)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2024/05/21 - Current | Animal Studies Day (2024/05/21 - 2024/05/21)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/11/19 - 2024/11/19 | Seminar Nisto Junt@s: Emaranhamentos Humano-Animais nas Culturas e Literaturas Anglófonas
Seminar
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Post-graduate Course on Animals and Society
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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| 2024/07/03 - 2024/07/05 | Epidermal Thinking, Disability, and Cruel Optimism in Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Conference
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Perpetuum Mobile: Trânsitos Literários, Culturais e Linguísticos
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2024/06/27 - 2024/06/29 | “At Home All Was Blood and Feathers”: Affective Horror in ‘The Fall River Axe Murders’
Conference
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International Conference Desire, Imagination & Dream. Angela Carter in Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2024/06/26 - 2024/06/26 | Contemporary Interdisciplinary Activisms in the Language Classroom – The Disability in Film Day and The Animal Studies Day
Meeting
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Teaching and Learning Forum
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2024/06/10 - 2024/06/11 | Keeping her Head Above Water: Liquid Precarities in Leila.
Conference
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Representation of Diversity in Mediated Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/01/09 | Lounging with Pets: Inclusão dos Animais nos Arquétipos da Casa
(Thesis) Main arguer
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João Pedro Colaço Botelho Rodrigues (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/02/01 - Current | Journal of Posthumanism | Transnational Press London |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/03 - Current | Gender Studies Network | Representative in Portugal |
| 2020 - Current | Posthuman Animal | Member |
| 2020 - Current | Animal Wonder Reading Group | Member |
| 2015 - Current | European Society for the Study of English | Member |
| 2005 - Current | European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies | Member |
| 2005 - Current | Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos | Member |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/09/15 - Current | Publishing Studies Degree Committee
President / Vice-president
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 - 2013 | Salman Rushdie in the 21st Century: Swallowing a World | University of Lisbon |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/09/16 - 2025/02/04 | Literature in English I | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2024/09/16 - 2025/02/04 | Language and Culture in English | Master's in education (Mestrado) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2024/02 - 2024/07 | English IV | Languages and Business Relations (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2024/02 - 2024/07 | English VI | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2023/09 - 2024/01 | English I | Languages, Literatures and Cultures degree (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2023/09 - 2024/01 | English III | Languages and Business Relations (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2023/09 - 2024/01 | English V | Translation (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2023/09 - 2024/01 | English VI | Translation (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2023/02 - 2023/07 | English IV | Languages and Business Relations (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2023/02 - 2023/07 | Languages in Business Relations: Case Studies | Master's in Business Relations (Mestrado) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2023/02 - 2023/07 | English for Specific Purposes - Tourism | Applied Management to Tourism Product Development (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional) | Universidade de Aveiro Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração, Portugal |
| 2022/09 - 2023/01 | English III | Languages and Business Relations (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2022/09 - 2023/01 | English V | Translation (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2022/09 - 2023/01 | Literature in English and Themes in Contemporary Culture in English | Master's in Education (Mestrado) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2021/02 - 2021/07 | English for Specific Purposes: Advanced English for Economics and English for Psychology | Economics and Psychology | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 2021/02 - 2021/07 | English as a Foreign Language - C 1.2. | Languages and Business Relations (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2021/02 - 2021/07 | English as a Foreign Language - B 2.2 | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2021/02 - 2021/07 | Postcolonial Anglophone Cultures | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2021/01 - 2021/07 | Literature and Image | Master's in Lusophone Studies (Mestrado) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 2020/09 - 2021/01 | English for Specific Purposes - Applied English for Economics | Economics (Licenciatura) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 2020/09 - 2021/01 | Inter-Arts | Master's in Cultural Studies | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 2020/09 - 2021/01 | English as a Foreign Language B 2.1 | Languages and Business Relations (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2020/09 - 2021/01 | English as a Foreign Language - B 1.1 | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2020/09 - 2021/01 | English as a Foreign Language B 2.1 | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2020/09 - 2021/01 | Anglo-American Cultures | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2020/02 - 2020/07 | English as a Foreign Language C 1.1. | Languages and Business Relations (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2020/02 - 2020/07 | English as a Foreign Language B 2.2. | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2020/02 - 2020/07 | Postcolonial Anglophone Cultures | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2020/01 - 2020/07 | English for Specific Purposes: Advanced English for Economics | Economia (Licenciatura) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 2019/02 - 2020/07 | English as a Foreign Language - C.1.2 | Languages and Business Relations | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2019/09 - 2020/01 | English for Specific Purposes - English for Marketing | Marketing (Licenciatura) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 2019/09 - 2020/01 | English for Specific Purposes - English for Economics | Economia (Licenciatura) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 2019/09 - 2020/01 | English as a Foreign Language B 2.1 | Languages and Business Relations (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2019/09 - 2020/01 | English as a Foreign Language C 1.1. | Languages and Business Relations | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2019/09 - 2020/01 | English as a Foreign Language B 1.1 | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2019/09 - 2020/01 | English as a Foreign Language B 2.1 | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2019/06 - 2019/09 | Pre-Sessional English for Academic Purposes | University of Nottingham - Jubilee Campus, United Kingdom | |
| 2019/02 - 2019/07 | English for Specific Purposes – Advanced English for Economics | Economia (Licenciatura) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 2018/09 - 2019/01 | English for Specific Purposes – English for Marketing | Marketing (Licenciatura) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 2017/02 - 2017/09 | Modern Idiom: Idiom 2, II: English | Translation (Licence) | Universidade de Vigo, Spain |
| 2017/02 - 2017/07 | First Foreign Idiom II - English | Foreign Languages (Licence) | Universidade de Vigo, Spain |
| 2017/02 - 2017/07 | Modern Idiom: Idiom 1, II: English | Translation (Licence) | Universidade de Vigo, Spain |
| 2017/02 - 2017/07 | English for Specific Purposes - Tourism | Tourism (Licence) | Universidade de Vigo, Spain |
| 2017/02 - 2017/07 | Variety and Linguistic Change | Foreign Languages (Licence) | Universidade de Vigo, Spain |
| 2016/09 - 2017/01 | First Foreign Idiom V - English | Foreign Languages (Licence) | Universidade de Vigo, Spain |
| 2016/09 - 2017/01 | Modern Idiom: Idiom 2, I: English | Translation | Universidade de Vigo, Spain |
| 2016/09 - 2017/01 | English for International Communication | Commerce (Bachelor) | Universidade de Vigo, Spain |
| 2016/02 - 2016/07 | English II | Languages and Business Relations (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2016/02 - 2016/07 | English as a Foreign Language B 2.2. | Languages and Business Relations (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2016/01 - 2016/07 | English II | Communication Sciences (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2015/09 - 2016/01 | English as a Foreign Language A.2 | Social Service (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
| 2015/09 - 2016/01 | English as a Foreign Language A.2 | Theatre and Performing Arts (Licenciatura) | |
| 2014/02 - 2014/07 | Active English | Common year (Licence) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2014/02 - 2014/07 | Writing II - Academic Writing | Foreign Languages - English Major (Licence) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2014/02 - 2014/07 | General Linguistics | Foreign Languages - English Major (Licence) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2014/02 - 2014/07 | Survey of Australia | Foreign Languages | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2014/02 - 2014/07 | Contemporary Literatures in English | Elective (Licence) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2013/02 - 2013/07 | Active English | Common year (Licence) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2013/02 - 2013/07 | Writing II - Academic Writing | Foreign Languages - English Major (Licence) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2012/09 - 2013/01 | College English | Common year (Licence) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2012/09 - 2013/01 | General Linguistics | Foreign Languages - English Major (Licence) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2012/09 - 2013/01 | Writing I - Advanced Writing | Foreign Languages - English Major (Licence) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2012/09 - 2013/01 | Reading English | Common year (Licence) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2012/09 - 2013/01 | Semantics | Master's in Education (Master) | Beijing Normal University - Zhuhai Campus, China |
| 2012/02 - 2012/07 | Technical and Scientific Translation | Translation (Mestrado) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2011/09 - 2012/01 | Technical and Scientific Translation | Translation (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/12/05 - 2025/01/30 | COST Action External Expert Proposal OC-2024-1-27841 Literature in Motion: Migratory Influences on, within and from Europe
Evaluator
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European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/11/19 - Current | Knowing Animals podcasts | Posthuman Animals in Patricia Piccinini's work |
| 2012/05/02 - Current | UabTV, programme 41 | Women's rights |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/02 - 2024/06 | Translation Seminar | João Pedro Oliveira Figueiredo |
Distinctions
Other distinction
| 2021 | Research Highlights in Research@UA
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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