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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Francesca Clare Rayner

Citation names

  • Rayner, Francesca
  • Rayner, Francesca Clare
  • Fran Rayner

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
EB14-0F4F-5EB2
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3601-815X

Email addresses

  • frayner@elach.uminho.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2005
Concluded
 Literary Sciences - English Literature (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal
"Caught in the Act: The Representation of Sexual Transgression in Three Portuguese Performances of Shakespeare" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 approved unanimously
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution		 Employer
2022/01/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2013 - 2019 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution		 Employer
2018 - 2019 Coordenação ou direção de centro de investigação, departamento ou equivalente Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016 - 2019 Conselho científico/técnico-científico ou orgão correspondente Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016 - 2018 Conselho científico/técnico-científico ou orgão correspondente Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Conselho pedagógico Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Conselho pedagógico Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014 - 2016 Coordenação ou direção de centro de investigação, departamento ou equivalente Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014 - 2016 Coordenação ou direção de centro de investigação, departamento ou equivalente Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2003/04/01 - 2003/06/30 REPRESENTAÇÃO DA TRANSGRESSÃO SEXUAL EM TRÊS PRODUÇÕES PORTUGUESAS DE SHAKESPEARE
SFRH/BD/8189/2002
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/04/01 - 2022/04/01 The reception of Shakespeare’s works in Spanish and European Culture II (SHAKCULT2)
a recepción de las obras de Shakespeare en la cultura española y europea (SHAKCULT2)
Invited Scientist Fellow
Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Ongoing
2018/09/01 - 2021/09/01 Women, Arts and Dictatorship – the Cases of Portugal, Brazil and Portuguese-Speaking African Countries
PTDC/ART-OUT/28051/2017
Invited Scientist Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Strategic Project - UI 305 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/ELT/UI0305/2011
PEst-OE/LIN/UI0022/2011
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Rayner, Francesca. Engaging with Troy: Early Modern and Contemporary Scenes. Oxford, United Kingdom: Legenda. 2026.
    Published • Editor
  2. Rayner, Francesca. Shakespeare and the Challenge of the Contemporary: Performance, Politics and Aesthetics. London, United Kingdom: Arden Bloomsbury. 2021.
    Published
  3. Rayner, Francesca. Othello in European Culture. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2021.
    Published • 10.1075/sec.3 • Editor
  4. Rechena, Aida; Teixeira, Ana Lúcia; Furtado, Teresa Veiga; Lisboa, Manuel; Rodrigues, Paulo Simões; Jesus, Isabel Henriques de; Hollanda, Heloisa Buarque de; et al. Género na Arte: Corpo, sexualidade, identidade, resistência. N.º Extra – 2019 FACES DE EVA. Revista de Estudos sobre a Mulher.. 2019.
  5. Rayner, Francesca. Teatro português Contemporâneo - crítica e performance (2010-2016). Portugal: Edições Colibri. 2017.
  6. Brilhante, Maria João; Rayner, Francesca; Almeida, Mónica. Teatro e Economia. Desafios em Tempo de crise (Theatre and Economy. Challenges in a time of crisis). Lisboa, Portugal: Bicho do Mato / Teatro Nacional D. MA. 2012.
    Published
  7. Rayner, Francesca. Género, Cultural Visual e Performance [Gender, Visual Culture and Performance. Famalicão, Portugal: Húmus. 2011.
    Published • Editor
Book chapter
  1. Rayner, Francesca. "Rayner, Francesca. 2022. Entry on Shakespeare in Portugal.". United States: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.
    Published
  2. Rayner, Francesca. Corresponding author: Rayner, Francesca. "Rayner, Francesca. 20022. section on Theatre in Portugal since 1999 for Routledge Companion to". In The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance, 203-208. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2023.
    Published
  3. Rayner, Francesca. "Cesário Quê?: Insinuações lésbicas na peça encenada pelo Teatro Estúdio de Lisboa”[Cesário Who?: Intimations of lesbianism in the staging of the play by Teatro Estúdio de Lisboa]". In Mulheres, Artes e Ditadura: Diálogos Interartísticos e Narrativas da Memória [Women, Arts amd Dictatorships: Interartistic Dialogues and Narratives of Memory]., 75-80. Ribeirão, Portugal: Húmus, 2022.
    Published
  4. Rayner, Francesca Clare. "“Staying with the Trouble”". In Visita aos Clássicos [Visiting the Classics],, 247-255. Ribeirão, Portugal: Húmus, 2022.
    Published
  5. Francesca Rayner; Elena Bandín; Laura Campillo. "“I would my [European] pilgrimage dilate”". In Othello in European culture. 2022.
    Published • 10.1075/sec.3.int
  6. Rayner, Francesca. "Rayner, Francesca. 2021. ‘Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago’: Radical empathy in two Portuguese performances of Othello”". London, United Kingdom: Arden Bloomsbury, 2021.
    Published
  7. Rayner, Francesca. "As Artes Performativas e os Desafios do Futuro (The Performing Arts and the Challenges of the Future)". In A Universidade do Minho e a Pandemia (The Universidade do Minho and the Pandemic), 190-204. Braga, Portugal: UMinho Editora, 2020.
    Published
  8. Rayner, Francesca. "Chapter 2 The Performance History". edited by Efterpi Mitsi, 53-86. London and New York, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Arden, 2019.
    Published
  9. Rayner, Francesca. "Resistance as a Mode of Being Gender and Performance in Contemporary Portuguese Theatre". 239-246. Lisbon, Portugal: Centro de Estudos do Teatro, 2018.
    Published
  10. Rayner, Francesca. "O corpo presente: Feminismo e Performance de Shakespeare em Portugal [The Present Body: Feminism and Shakespearean Performance in Portugal]". In Discursos do Corpo na Arte II. Portugal: Editora UFSM, 2017.
    Published
  11. Rayner, Francesca. "Rayner, Francesca “Whose Performance is it Anyway?: Co-Creation by Performers and Audiences in Contemporary Performance” Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2017.". 47-58. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2017.
    Published
  12. Rayner, Francesca. "From the Snares of Watchful Tyranny to Post-Human Dictators: Macbeth under the Portuguese Dictatorship and in Democracy". In Shakespeare and Tyranny: Regimes of Reading in Europe and Beyond, edited by Keith Gregor, 127-144. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
    Published
  13. Rayner, Francesca. "From Individual Conflict to Interlocking Conflicts: The Merchant of Venice for New European Audiences". In Shakespeare and Conflict: a European Perspective, edited by Sara Soncini; Carla Dente, 157-169. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave McMillan, 2013.
    Published
Book review
  1. Rayner, Francesca. "O que é este experimental?” Recensão crítica de Ana Bigotte Vieira (org.) A Caixa Preta e outros Mal-Entendidos: Histórias do Experimental. Lisboa: Sistema Solar (“What experimental is this?: Review of Ana Bigotte Vieira (ed.) The Black Box and Other Misunderstandings: Histories of the Experimental)". Review of Ana Bigotte Vieira (ed.) The Black Box and Other Misunderstandings: Histories of the Experimental) (2026):
    In press
  2. Rayner, Francesca. "Elegy for the end of the world: Uma peça para quem vive em tempo de extinção (Performance Review]". 3, 4 (2025): 485-489. https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2025.3.4.17.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2025.3.4.17
  3. Rayner, Francesca. "Review of Hamlet after Deconstruction by Aneta Mancewicz (2022)". Review of Hamlet after Deconstruction, Aneta Mancewicz (2022) 35, (2025): 113-115.
    Published
  4. Rayner, Francesca; Christine Carson; Ema Vyroubalova; Petru Golban. "“King Lear: who is it that can tell me who I am?” (Performance review)". 118, 1 (2025): 154-158.
    Published
  5. Rayner, Francesca. "“Conjuring Something Out of Nothing: O Elefante no Meio da Sala [The Elephant in the Room] by Vânia Doutel Vaz” (Performance Review)". II Série, 2 (2023): 462-469.
    Published
  6. Rayner, Francesca. "Review of Uma Curadoria da Falta: O Serviço ACARTE da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian 1984-1989 [Curating Lack: The ACARTE Service of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 1984-1989],". (2022): 682-684.
    Published
  7. Rayner, Francesca. "Review of Ritmos Afectivos nas Artes Performativas” [Affective Rhythms in the Performing Arts] by Ana Pais". Review of Ritmos Afectivos nas Artes Performativas” [Affective Rhythms in the Performing Arts], Ana Pais, Lisboa: Colibri 3, (2021): 696-701.
    Published
  8. Rayner, Francesca. "Review of Jennifer Drouin, ed. 2020. Shakespeare/Sex: Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality". Review of Jennifer Drouin, ed. 2020. Shakespeare/Sex: Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality 31, (2020): 171-173.
    Published
  9. Rayner, Francesca. "Timon of Athens by Teatro Praga at the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, 2019 (Performance Review]". (2019): http://bloggingshakespeare.com/reviewing-shakespeare/timon-athens-teatro-praga-centro-cultural-de-belem-lisbon-portugal-2019/.
    Published
  10. Rayner, Francesca. "Sónia Baptista: I Call Her Will (performance review)". (2019):
    Published
  11. Rayner, Francesca. "A Floresta que Anda. [The Moving Forest]. Dir. Christiane Jatahy. Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Lisbon, Portugal (performance review)". 18, 33 (2018): 179-182. https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/mstap/18/1/article-p179.xml.
    Published
  12. Rayner, Francesca. "Marianne Novy. 2017. Shakespeare and feminist theory. Bloomsbury: London". (2018): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/58351.
  13. Rayner, Francesca. "Challenging the inevitable: Anatomy of a Suicide at the Royal Court Theatre London". II, 3 (2018): 337-340. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/63235.
    Published
  14. Rayner, Francesca. "Lear, Primeiros Sintomas dir. Bruno Bravo @ Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Lisbon, 2017 (Performance review)". (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/1822/55168.
    Published
  15. Rayner, Francesca. "Phantasms of Africa: Teatro Praga’s Zululuzuand mala voadora’s Moçambique (Performance review)". II, 2 (2017): 281-288. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/55220.
    Published
  16. Rayner, Francesca. "Shakespeare in Spain: An Annotated Bilingual Bibliography". (2016): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/59978.
    10.1177/0184767815627766a
  17. Rayner, Francesca. "[Recensão a] Gomes, Miguel Ramalhete (2014) Texts Waiting for History: William Shakespeare re-imagined by Heiner Müller. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi". (2015): 207-211. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/55229.
  18. Rayner, Francesca. "Antony and Cleopatra @ Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal, 2015 (Performance review)". (2015): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/53609.
    Published
  19. Rayner, Francesca. "Richard III @ Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Lisbon, Portugal (Performance Review)". (2015): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/53256.
    Published
  20. Rayner, Francesca. "As orações de Mansata e a farsa do poder [The Prayers of Mansata and the farce of power] (Performance review)". (2014): https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2014.0052.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2014.0052
  21. Rayner, Francesca. "O que nos reserva o futuro? Os negócios do senhor Júlio César pelo TEP [What does the future hold? Julius Caesar by TEP]". (2013): https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2013.0047.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2013.0047
  22. Rayner, Francesca. "Caos e comunidade: Sonho de uma noite de Verão pelo Teatro Praga e Músicos do Tejo [Chaos and Community: Teatro Praga and Músicos do Tejo Midsummer Night's Dream] performance review]". 18, (2012): https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2012.0047.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2012.0047
  23. Rayner, Francesca. "Que novas há do mundo lá fora? [What News In the World?] (performance review)". 17, (2012): 110-112. Performance review https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2012.0024.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2012.0024
  24. Rayner, Francesca. "Cartografias políticas: Atlas de Ana Borralho e João Galante [Political Cartographies: Atlas by Ana Borralho and João Galante] (Performance review)". 16, (2011): 110-112. https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2011.0047.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2011.0047
  25. Rayner, Francesca. "Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre: 1772 to the Present". (2011): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/59984.
  26. Rayner, Francesca. "Um exercício em tensão criativa: A gaivota de Tchekov [An Exercise in Creative Tension: Checkhov's The Seagull] (Performance REview)". 14, (2010): 102-104. https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2010.0049.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2010.0049
  27. Rayner, Francesca. "O pensamento em acção Hannah e Martin no Teatro Aberto [Thought in Action: Hannah and Martin at the Teatro Aberto] (Performance review)". 13, (2010): 84-86. https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2010.0019.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2010.0019
  28. Rayner, Francesca. "Amor em estado puro [Love in a Pure State] (Performance Review)". 11, (2009): 91-92. https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2009.0020.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2009.0020
  29. Rayner, Francesca. "Review of Ricardo II (directed by Nuno Cardoso) at the Teatro Carlos Alberto, Porto, Portugal, October–November 2007 (Performance review)". (2008): Performance review https://hdl.handle.net/1822/61318.
    Published • 10.1080/17450910802083559
  30. Rayner, Francesca. "Performance e direitos de autor(a) (Performance Review)". 9, (2008): 85-86. Performance review https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2008.0018.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2008.0018
  31. Rayner, Francesca. "O teatro experiencial de Mark Ravenhill [The Experiential Theatre of Mark Ravenhill] (Performance review)". (2006): Performance review https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2006.0024.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2006.0024
  32. Rayner, Francesca. "A festa das palavras: uma celebração de dez anos do Sindicato de Poesia [The Feast of Words: A Celebration of Ten Years of the Sindicato de Poesia] (Performance Review)". 4, (2005): 102-104. https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2005.0050.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.51427/cet.sdc.2005.0050
Conference paper
  1. Rayner, Francesca. "In a Differerent Time and Place: Ophelia’s Temporalities in Contemporary Portuguese Performance”, paper presented in the panel ‘Appearances and disappearances, or What Ophelia’s Temporalities Do in Contemporary Dance and Theatrical Performance’, Universidade do Porto.". Porto, 2025.
  2. Rayner, Francesca. "Dissenting on Deformity: Performances of Richard III by Terra Amarela and Shakespeare’s Globe”, paper presented in the seminar ‘European Performance and Adaptations of Richard III". Porto, 2025.
  3. Rayner, Francesca. "Terra Amarela’s Richard III and Performance Criticism” paper presented in the panel ‘New Challenges for Performance Criticism". York, 2025.
  4. Rayner, Francesca. "Politics and Performance in Richard III”,". 2024.
  5. Rayner, Francesca. "Theatre Memorabilia and imagining a Performance Archive for Ophelia in Portugal’, paper presented in the panel ‘Performance Archives as Cabinets of Curiosities". Salamanca, 2024.
  6. Rayner, Francesca. "Rayner, Francesca and Cátia Faísco. 2024. ‘Feminist and Postdramatic Practices of Resistance: Creative Processes in Sexual Theater’". 2024.
  7. Rayner, Francesca. "Detaching Deformity: Tónan Quito´s eco-critical Richard III, paper presented in the seminar ‘Shakespeare the (Un)Natural Shaper: Addressing, Transgressing and Redressing the Natural Cultural Balance". 2021.
Journal article
  1. Rayner, Francesca. "Beyond the Binary: Mapping Gender in Contemporary Performances of Shakespeare". Lingue e Linguaggi (2026):
    In press
  2. Rayner, Francesca; Franesca Rayner. "Rayner, Francesca. 2023. “100 Anos de Teatro em Portugal” [100 Years of Theatre in Portugal” in Cenários Passados [Scenes from the Past], programme for the Odisseia Nacional [National Odyssey], Teatro Nacional D. Maria II". (2023): 18-20.
    Open access • Published
  3. Rayner, Francesca. "The story of what might have been: Interrogating Romeo and Juliet under the Portuguese dictatorship". Sederi 31 (2021): 73-92. https://doi.org/10.34136/sederi.2021.4.
    Published • 10.34136/sederi.2021.4
  4. Silva, José Eduardo; Rayner, Francesca. "Performing the paradox: collaboration as intervention in Eis o Homem". Studies in Theatre and Performance (2020): 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2020.1780813.
    10.1080/14682761.2020.1780813
  5. Rayner, Francesca. "Performing Memory: Amores Pós-Coloniais [Post-Colonial Loves] by Hotel Europa". Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens 50 (2019): 184-187.
    Published
  6. Rayner, Francesca. "Arte e resistência: Género e performance contemporânea em Portugal [Art and Reistance: Gender and Contemporary Performance in Portugal]". (2019): http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0874-68852019000200011.
    Published
  7. Rayner, Francesca. "The footballer, the trickster and the dictator: disidentified national subjects and failed europeans in Nuno Cardoso's portuguese Shakespeares". In the context of a proposed multi-speed neo-Europe where the wealthier nations are allowed to accumulate more wealth and the less wealthy nations such as Portugal are left to fend for themselves, this article looks at the staging of national stereotypes in Portuguese director Nuno Cardoso's Shakespeare trilogy (Richard II in 2007, Measure for Measure in 2012 and Coriolanus in 2014). Each of these (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/1822/58230.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1177/0184767818761142
  8. Mora, Teresa; Rayner, Francesca; Azevedo, Natália. "Introdução: Arte política e social: discursos e práticas". (2018): https://hdl.handle.net/10216/118182.
  9. Rayner, Francesca. "Dehierarchizing Space: Performer-Audience Collaborations in Two Portuguese Performances of Shakespeare". Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance 15 30 (2017): 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1515/mstap-2017-0003.
    Published • 10.1515/mstap-2017-0003
  10. Rayner, Francesca. "Collaborating across borders: Theatre for Integration Project in Portugal". (2017): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/53251.
  11. Rayner, Francesca; Porteiro, Tiago Manuel Monteiro Mora. "Investigação Artística em contexto universitário em Portugal". (2016): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/53253.
    10.9771/r.v0i0.20617
  12. Rayner, Francesca. "Adapting Macbeth in a Lusophone context: The challenges of intercultural performance". (2015): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/52958.
  13. Rayner, F.C.. "History recycled: Contemporary performances of Shakespeare's Richard II at Portuguese national theatres". Portuguese Studies 26 2 (2010): 134-148. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77957311668&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  14. Rayner,Francesca. "Written on the body: gender, violence and queer desire in Sarah Kane's Cleansed". (2009): http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0874-55602009000200006.
Journal issue
  1. Rayner, Francesca. "Corpos em Confinamento (Bodies in Confinement)". Performatus 21 (2020): http://performatus.com.br/edicoes/21/?fbclid=IwAR2qKOAzZVSq6BcGacRaHiEIpxQ3uX58MG1Oacwfzgxzv25Bz0EOf-kRP7Q.
    Published
  2. Porteiro, Tiago; Rayner, Francesca; Silva, José Eduardo. "O que é a investigação artística?: Pressupostos, Práticas e Problematizações [What is Artistic Research: Presuppositions, Practices and Problems]". Diacrítica 33 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/2319-0485/praticasemcontabilidadeegestao.
    10.5935/2319-0485/praticasemcontabilidadeegestao
  3. Mora, Teresa; Rayner, Francesca; Azevedo, Natália; Rayner, Francesca. "Configurações [N.º 22 (dez. 2018)]: Arte política e social: discursos e práticas [Political and Social Art: Discourses and Practices]". Tem sido prática da revista Configurações entrecruzar contributos provenientes das várias ciências sociais. O número 22 traz aos leitores um conjunto de artigos que resultam, também, e sobretudo, da opção de abrir o tema da arte política e social aos estudos artísticos. Desde o final dos anos 1990, no contexto mundial, e em particular na Europa, a arte política tem vindo a reavivar-se enquanto dis (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/1822/58526.
    Published • 10.4000/configuracoes.6253
Preface / Postscript
  1. Rayner, Francesca. "What’s your place of refuge?". Preface to Refúgio [Refuge], Renata Flaiban Zanete,. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Urutau. 2025.
    Published
  2. Rayner, Francesca. "Preface". Preface to Pequenos Delitos do Coração [Minor Offences of the Heart]. Helena Mendes Pereira. Guimarães, Portugal: Astronauta. 2019.
    Published
  3. Rayner, Francesca. "Preface". Preface to Duas Peças com História(s), [Two Plays with Histories]. Armando Nascimento Rosa. Aldónio Gomes 2012 Literary Prize, 11-15. Aveiro, Portugal: Universidade de Aveiro. 2012.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Rayner, Francesca Clare. "The representation of sexual transgression in three portuguese productions of Shakespeare". PhD, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/3342.
Translation
  1. Rayner, Francesca. From the Tempestuous Precipice of Richard III. Translation into English of Do Precipício Tempestuoso de Ricardo III by Luís Mestre. Portugal. 2014.
    Published
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role		 Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022 - 2025 O AVESSO, DO AVESSO, DO AVESSO, DO AVESSO: Um Teatro Brasileiro - década de 70 – e as Relações de Gênero’[The Underside of the Underside of the Underside: Gender and Brazilian Theatre in the 1970’s]
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022 - 2025 The Curtain Falls but the performance continues: Gender and Theatre during the Portuguese New State
Co-supervisor
 Doctorate in Cultural Studies (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017 - 2020 The Delicacy of the Void in the Visual and the Performing Arts: Body, Space and Time
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2015 - 2019 The Representation of Violence Against Women Onstage
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015 - 2019 Teatro Lusófono: realidades e utopias de um projeto em construção, [Lusophone Theatre: realities and utopias of a project under construction]
Supervisor
 Doctorate in Cultural Sciences (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014 - 2017 The Blueness of Oranges: A Portrait of Mental Health in Drama
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014 - 2017 Putting It Together: Postmodernism and the musicals of Stephen Sondheim
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2011 - 2014 Laid Bare on Stage: The Performance of Sarah Kane and Mark Ravenhill in Portugal
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)		 Institution / Organization
2024/01/29 - 2024/02/23 Coordinator, cycle of online Masterclasses in Theatre Criticism for theatre practitioners, journalists and Shakespeare scholars, organized through Ukranian Shakespeare Centre. (2024)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 University of Worcester, United Kingdom
2024 - 2024 Organizer of conference for the 40th anniversary of the Portuguese Association of Theatre Critics (APCT), Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon (2024 - 2024)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
2023 - 2023 Coordination of international project Science, Dance and Global Engagement”with teachers and students of Buffalo State University, USA, Universidade do Minho (2023)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Coordination of international project “The United Nations Sustainable Goals and Global Engagement” with teachers and students from Buffalo State University, USA, Universidade do Minho (2022)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Coordinator, School for Critics, International Dramaturgy Centre, Guarda, Portugal, organized by Marcos Barbosa, Escola do Largo (2021)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
2021 - 2021 Coordinator, Research/Creation projects for TN21 Orlando Theatre Project. In partnership with the Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães (2021)
Other (Co-organisor)
2019 - 2019 Co-convenor with Kirilka Stavreva (Cornell College, EUA) of the seminar ‘Performing Gender(s) Elsewhere: Shakespeare in Contemporary Alternative Spaces and Institutions’ at the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) Conference “Shakespeare and European Geographies: Centralities and Elsewheres” (2019 - 2019)
Conference (Co-organisor)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event		 Event name
Institution / Organization
2024 - 2024 Co-organizer with Jennifer Low (Florida Atlantic University) of online masterclass ‘How’ as part of cycle in Theatre Criticism, Ukraine Shakespeare Centre.
Meeting
 Online seminars in Theatre Criticism for Ukraine
2024 - 2024 Embodying Change: Gender non-conformity in Contemporary Shakespearean Performance ’. Keynote speaker, international conference “Developing Emotional Intelligence and Empathy through Shakespeare’s Theatre, Roma Tre University
Conference
2023 - 2023 Keynote speaker ‘What’s Alive in the Live? Post-pandemic Shakespearean performance in Portugal’. ESRA international conference“Then fate o’erruled”: Change in Shakespeare”,
Conference
2023 - 2023 .Presentation of Complete Dramatic Works of Natália Correia edited be Armando Nascimento Rosa,
Round table
 Presentation of book
Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda SA, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Moderator, Round Table “What lies at the heart of the artistic gesture?” with Tiago Cadete, Tiago Vieira and Manuela Ferreira
Round table
2023 - 2023 What’s Alive in the Live? Post-pandemic Shakespearean performance in Portugal’. Keynote speaker, ESRA international conference“Then fate o’erruled”: Change in Shakespeare”, Pa´zma´ny Pe´ter Catholic University, Budapest.
Conference
2022 - 2022 Invited Speaker, round table “The Verb Theatre”
Round table
 Seminar in Theatre Studies Osório Mateus
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role		 Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024 Title of Specialist
(Thesis) Arguer
 Claire Margaret Binyon (Other)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Portugal
2023 PER UN TEATRO ECO-LOGICO: spazio e specificità del luogo nel teatro britannico contemporâneo
(Thesis) Arguer
 Francesca Forlini, (PhD)
Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
2023 A Viragem Estética das Artes Performativas na Década de 1990 em Portugal: A Corporalidade enquanto Força Motriz de Afirmação Cultural [The Aesthetic Turn in the Performing Arts in the 1990’s in Portugal: Corporeality as a Means of Cultural Affirmation],
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Gustavo Alexandre da Silva Vidal Vicente (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 A Voz que Reescreve: Farsas, Comédias e Moralidades de Gil Vicente lidas com o ouvido em mediação videográfica [The Voice that Rewrites: Farces, Comedies and Moralities of Gil Vicente Read with the Ear and Mediated through Video]
(Thesis) Arguer
 Nuno Miguel Santos Meireles (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023 Rereading the Classics – LGBTQI+ characters in the Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and the Impact of Social Media on its Reception
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Rita Lopes Bettencourt Rocha (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022 De Ponta Cabeça: Percursos Feministas no Circo [Head First: Feminist Trajectories in the Circus]
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Cíntia Carla Cunha Santos (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 On Sap and Blood: Family Ties, Literary Legacies and Systems of Kinship in Contemporary Representations of Queer Families
Thesis Member
 Ana Bessa Carvalho (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022 To Be or Not to Be: Simulated Dramatic Performance and Medical Students’ Clinical Communication Training
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Vasco José Pinto de Almeida (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022 Anatomy of a Screenplay: Writing a Television Pilot
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Joana Cristina Faria Ferreira (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022 Play or Walk Away: O Desejo Sexual na Dramaturgia Britânica Contemporânea [Play or Walk Away: Sexual Desire in Contemporary British Drama]
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Cátia Ferreira dos Santos Faísco (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021 Representações do Género e da Sexualidade na Vida de Todos os Dias: Processos Artísticos Participativos na Desconstrução do Paradigma Binário [Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life: Participatory Artistic Processes and the Binary Paradigm]
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Vânia Filipa Barbosa dos Santos Alves (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 Imagem Queer Entre a Fotografia e o Teatro: Análise de Três Casos de Estudo do Brasil e Portugal [Queering the Image in Theatre and Photography: Three Case Studies from Portugal and Brazil]
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Meg Saiara Silva Ribeiro De Macedo (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021 Shakespeare’s Juliet and Her Representations in Spanish Theatrical Culture (1600s – 1890s)
Thesis Member
 Jennifer Ruiz Morgan (PhD)
Universidad de Murcia Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Spain
2020 Gender Issues in the Novel Orlando and its Film Adaptation: Questions of Sexual and Gendered Identity/ies
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Noémie Alloza (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020 A Sua Voz Não Está Mais Escondida: Representações Artísticas e Políticas da Drag Queen Pablo Vittar na Mídia, [Her Voice is no Longer Hidden: Artistic and Political Representations of the Drag Queen Pablo Vittar in the Media]
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Danilo Pedrazza (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019 A Síndrome de Alípio: Estudo do Martírio Cristão como evento performático: do sofrimento e da morte como espectáculo a ver, [The Alípio Syndrome: A Study of Christian Martyrdom as Performance Event: Suffering and Death as Spectacle]
(Thesis) Arguer
 Soraia Statt Miller (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role		 Institution / Organization
2025 - Current Member of Editorial Board, SEDERI Yearbook (Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies)
Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024 - 2024 Scientific Committee XXVI Autumn Colloquium: Culture and Democracy in Iberia 50 years on Universidade do Minho
2023 - 2024 Member of Scientific CoPractices of Resistance: Dramaturgy and Creative Processes in Performance, Nucleus in Performance Studies (NIEP), Universidade do Minho. Universidade do Minho
2023 - 2023 SEDERI Universitat de Valencia
2019 - 2019/09/25 IIº EASTAP Conference (European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa and Teatro Nacional D. Maria II,Lisbon
2018/10/06 - 2019/09/22 MEXE 5th International Meeting of Arts and Communities Hugo Cruz
2018 - 2019/09/18 EIRPAC -International Meeting Reflecting on Community Art Practices Hugo Cruz
2017/09/06 - 2018/10/06 Performing Intimacy Research Group in Performance Studies, Universidade do Minho
2016/09/01 - 2017 Gender in Lusophone Art: Body, Sexuality, Identity and Resistance in the 21st Century Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020 - Current Scientific Commission CONDOMÍNIO - Um Léxico para as Artes Performativas em Portugal (1960-2020). (A Dictionary of the Performing Arts in Portugal (1960-2020) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2024 - 2025 Trainer in Feminist Theory and Reading for the international arts project Sexual Theatre with participants from Bosnia, Montenegro, France and Portugal. Co-funded by the European Union
2023 - 2023 Dramaturgical support for the Project The End was in Sight by Teresa Coutinho within the framework of the artistic residency project of A Oficina, Guimarães. A Oficina, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role		 Institution / Organization Funding entity
2020 - Current Member of Evaluation Commission IMPACTA – Artistic Creation and National and International Circulation, Culture Division, Department of Culture and Tourism, Guimarães City Council
Evaluator
2021 - 2022 Jury member, Amateur Theatre Showcase, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães
2021 - 2021 Member of Evaluation Commission for Artistic Projects in the Performing Arts Olhá’O Teatro, Divisão de Cultura, Braga City Council
Evaluator

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025/02/18 - 2025/02/18 Habilitation in Theatre Studies
2025 - 2025 Member of jury for Auxiliary Professor in Theatre Studies, specialization in Performance Studies/Theory and Aesthetics of Performance, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
2025 - 2025 Member of jury for Auxiliary Professor in Theatre Studies , specialization in the History of Theatre and Performance, University of Lisbon, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Member of jury of Auxiliary Professor in Artistic Studies, specialization in Performance Studies/Theory and Aesthetics of Performance, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
2024 - 2024 Member of jury for Auxiliary Professor in Literary and Artistic Studies, specialization in Theatre Studies, Universidade de Trás os Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Member of jury to hire Auxiliary Professor in Theatre and Performance Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Member of jury to hire three Coordinating Professors Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Member of National Evaluation Commission for Theatre courses A3ES
Distinctions

Title

2022 President, Association of Portuguese Theatre Critics