Curriculum Vitae
Marisa Alexandra da Silva Martins
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Marisa Alexandra da Silva Martins
Citation names
- Martins, Marisa da Silva
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2819-B2B5-15F0
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7642-3857
- Google Scholar ID
- y6hvyD8AAAAJ&hl=en
Email addresses
- marisasilvamartins@ua.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://pt.linkedin.com/in/marisa-da-silva-martins-aa499a150 (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2024/09 - 2028
Ongoing
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Estudos Literários (Doutoramento)
Major in Literaturas para a Infância e Juventude
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2025/09 - 2025/12
Ongoing
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Direito e Política do Mar (Outros)
Major in Ciências do Mar
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2025/09 - 2025/12
Ongoing
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Ecologia das Alterações Globais (Outros)
Major in Ciências do Mar
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2025/10/22
Concluded
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Como a escrita científica te pode ajudar? (Outros)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2020
Concluded
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Ciclo Africano do Império: Colonialismo, Guerra e Descolonização no Portugal Contemporâneo (Outros)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2019
Concluded
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Estudos Literários (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Muito Bom |
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2017
Concluded
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Literaturas e Culturas Modernas (Mestrado)
Major in Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"O Império Secreto no Jardim de Frances Hodgson Burnett: o Mapa da Cura" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Muito Bom por unanimidade |
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2015
Concluded
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Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas (Licenciatura)
Major in Estudos Portugueses e Ingleses
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Bom |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/07 - Current | Research Trainee (Research) | Centro de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas (CLLC), Portugal |
| Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Other Careers
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/01 - Current | Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) | NOTAMAIS Explicações, Portugal |
| 2021/09 - Current | Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) | Explicamédia - Centro de Explicações, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 - 2024 | Investigadora | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal |
| Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal | ||
| 2021 - 2022 | Professora de Ensino Secundário (Português, Inglês e História A) | Explicolândia Póvoa de Santa Iria - Centro de Estudos e Explicações, Portugal |
| 2021 - 2022 | Professora de Ensino Secundário (Português, Inglês e História A) | Explicolândia OnLine - Centro de Estudos, Portugal |
| 2017 - 2019 | Professora de Português, Inglês e História A do 2º ciclo, 3º ciclo e Ensino Secundário | CEPÓVOA, Centro de Explicações Póvoa Unipessoal Lda, Portugal |
| 2011 - 2012 | Professora de Inglês | Academia dos Saberes, Pólo de Sacavém - Município de Loures, Portugal |
| Academia dos Saberes, Pólo de Sacavém - Município de Loures, Portugal |
Outputs
Publications
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025 | Towards Greener Cityscapes: Reconnecting Urban Communities to Nature in Contemporary Picturebooks | Child and Book Conference 2025: Children Shaping The(ir) World, Between the Exceptional and the Everyday
Tilburg University (Tilburg, Netherlands)
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| 2025 | Pages of Salt and Tide: The Sea in Contemporary Portuguese Children's Literature | Research Summit 2025
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2023 | Echoing Across the Sea: Whale Songs and Ecomusicology in Children’s Novels and Picture Books | The Child and Book Conference 2023: The Magic of Sound: Children¿s Literature and Music
University of Montenegro (Podgorica, Montenegro)
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| 2022 | Diving into Literary Oceans: Cetaceans in Twenty-First Century Picture Books and Middle Grade Novels | 42nd APEAA Meeting
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2022 | Children Living Inside a Whale: Ocean Awareness and Exploitation in Orphans of the Tide | The Child and Book Conference 2022: The Role of the Child as Citizen: Constructing Childhood through Agency and Activism
University of Malta (Valleta, Malta)
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| 2021 | Games & Resistance: A Postcolonial Reading of Neil Gaiman's Coraline | 41st APEAA Meeting
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2019 | Mary Owns the Empire´s Map: A Postcolonial Reading of The Secret Garden | The Child and Book Conference 2019: Beyond the Canon of Children's Literature
Croatian Association of Researchers in Children’s Literature (Zadar, Croatia)
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| 2019 | A Etiqueta das Maravilhas: Comida e Império em Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 40th APEAA Meeting
Faculdade de Letras do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2018 | A Cura dentro das Montanhas e dos Jardins: Natureza em Heidi e The Secret Garden | 39th APEAA Meeting
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
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| 2016 | Portais de Magia e Cura: The Secret Garden e The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 37th APEAA Meeting
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2016 | Espadas, Cavaleiros e Batalhas - Medievalismo em Prince Caspian de C. S. Lewis | Messengers from the Stars
Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025/09/17 - 2025/09/19 | Voluntariado exercido na 10th European Network of Picturebook Research Conference (Understanding the world: Multiculturality,
interculturality and global citizenship in picturebooks) (2025/09/17 - 2025/09/19)
Congress (Other)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal Centre of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University of Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2016/07/05 - 2016/07/07 | Voluntariado exercido na 17th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society: 500 Years of Utopia - Commemorating
the 500th Anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (2016/07/05 - 2016/07/07)
Congress (Other)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2016/03/21 - 2016/03/23 | Voluntariado exercido na 37th Meeting of APEAA (2016/03/21 - 2016/03/23)
Conference (Other)
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APEAA (Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos), Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2025/06 - 2025/06 | Numa brisa ligeira que se levantou
Meeting
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7º Encontro de Literatura, Ilustração e Edição para a Infância do Município de Aveiro
ATLAS Aveiro - Edifício Fernando Távora Biblioteca Municipal de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2025/05/20 - 2025/05/20 | ‘No One Wants to Read about a Barnacle’: Reframing ‘Uncharismatic’ Marine Life in Children’s Literature
Seminar
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International Voices in Children’s Literature Studies: Online talk with Prof. Elly McCausland
The Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Poland
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| 2024/12 - 2024/12 | Eco-Passions: Climate Anxiety and Climate Trauma in YA Literature
Seminar
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International Voices in Children’s Literature Studies
Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Poland
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| 2024/04/11 - 2024/04/12 | 3.º Simpósio Internacional de Jovens Investigadores em Literatura para a Infância e Juventude
Symposium
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2023/12/13 - 2023/12/13 | Studio Ghibli and British Children's Literature in Japan
Seminar
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Studio Ghibli and British Children's Literature in Japan
University of Reading, United Kingdom
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| 2022/04/08 - 2022/04/08 | Towards More-than-human Participatory Research in Children's Literature and Culture Studies
Seminar
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International Voices in Children’s Literature Studies
Centre for Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature, Poland
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| 2022/02/23 - 2022/02/23 | Creative Universal Climate Literacy with Children's Literature and Media
Seminar
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International Voices in Children’s Literature Studies
Centre for Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature, Poland
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| 2022/02/07 - 2022/02/07 | Why We need the Digital Humanities?
Seminar
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Why We need the Digital Humanities
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2022/01 - 2022/02 | Classic Children's Literature - Online Course
Seminar
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Hillsdale College, United States
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| 2021/11/23 - 2021/11/23 | Using Children's Literature as Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors in English Language Education
Seminar
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Using Children's Literature as Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors in English Language Education
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
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| 2021/06/24 - 2021/06/26 | Picturebooks and Graphic Narratives in Education and Translation: Mediation and Multimodality Virtual 2021
Conference
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Picturebooks and Graphic Narratives in Education and Translation: Mediation and Multimodality Virtual 2021
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2025 - Current | Haunted Shores Research Network | Member |
| 2025 - Current | Intergenres: Literature and Hybridity (CLLC) | Research Intern |
| 2016 - Current | The Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) | Member |