Curriculum Vitae
Catarina Moura Reis Almeida
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Catarina Moura Reis Almeida
Citation names
- Moura, Catarina
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- A31A-2FCB-6BE5
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7388-1035
Email addresses
- catarina.mra@gmail.com (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 | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
| French | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2024/09/15 - 2028/09/15
Ongoing
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Literaturas e Culturas Modernas (Doutoramento)
Major in Literatura Norte-Americana
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
" Who belongs here? A transnational contemporary feminist analysis of the U.S.-Mexico border and borderlands" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2020 - 2023/05/09
Concluded
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Literaturas e Culturas Modernas (Mestrado)
Major in Área de especialização: Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Who Gets to Go on the American Road? New Perspectives on the American Road: Jessica Bruder’s and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and
Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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19/20 |
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2018/09/15 - 2020/11/20
Concluded
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Economia Internacional e Estudos Europeus (Mestrado)
ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Portugal
"A GUERRA COMERCIAL SINO-AMERICANA E A PERFORMANCE EXPORTADORA DO MERCOSUL E DA ASEAN" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16/20 |
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2019 - 2020
Concluded
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Pre-Master in Art, Literature and Society (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Netherlands
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8.11/10 |
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2012/09/15 - 2015/09/15
Concluded
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Gestão (Licenciatura)
ISCTE Business School, Portugal
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14/20 |
Affiliation
Other Careers
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 - Current | Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) | Drivewiz Consultoria, Portugal |
| 2022 - 2023 | Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) | Startup Portugal, Portugal |
| 2021 - 2022 | Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) | Aproximar, Cooperativa de Solidariedade Social, Portugal |
| 2016 - 2020 | Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) | Marsh and McLennan Companies Inc, United States |
| 2016 - 2016 | Assistente Operacional (Assistente Operacional) | Sport Lisboa e Benfica Futebol SAD, Portugal |
Outputs
Publications
| Journal article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/04/28 | Gendered Marginalization and Historical Erasure in Alma García’s All That Rises | 45th CONFERENCE OF THE PORTUGUESE ASSOCIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES: “Speaking Out: Identity, Resistance and Silencing”,
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2024/11/26 | Family, Memory and Border Politics in Alma García’s All the Rises (2023) | Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity - International Conference
PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies (Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
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| 2024/10/23 | Identity reconfiguration in Francisco Cantú’s The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border (2018) | American Studies Association of Turkey’s 42nd International American Studies Conference: Re* IMAGININGS and VISIONS of AMERICA
Yasar University ( Izmir, Turkey)
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| 2024/10/03 | Re(immigration) in Julia Alvarez's The Cemetery of Untold Stories (2024) | 2024 American Studies Association of Norway Conference: Migration, Connections, and the Creation of Transcultural Spheres
Norwegian Emigrant Museum and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (Hamar , Norway)
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| 2024/06 | Transnational feminism at the U.S.-Mexico border in Carmen Boullosa’s Texas, the Great Theft (2013/2014) | 44th Conference APEAA 2024
University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Faculdade de Letras Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/04 | My heart is half there: a transnational perspective of the border and mobility in Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) | 56th Annual Comparative Literature Symposium
Texas Tech University (Lubbock, United States)
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| 2024/02/29 | The U.S.-Mexico border in contemporary literature: Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) | American Borders and (Im)mobilities
CETAPS - Nova FCSH (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/12/12 | The U.S.-Mexico border in Francisco Cantú's The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Mexican Border (2018) | Winter Doctoral Symposium
CETAPS - Nova FSCH (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/10/20 | Blurred Lines: the border and migrant children in Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) | International Symposium: American Dream, American Crisis
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2022/09/08 | Nomadland: Taking the American road in the 21st century | International Conference Touring Travel Writing II: Between Fact and Fiction
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025/05/12 - 2025/05/12 | Organização do clube de leitura LIBERA(Mente) na NOVA FCSH, elaborado no âmbito da Rede de Clubes de Leitura (DGES | PNL |
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior) pelos alunos de mestrado e doutoramento em Literaturas e Culturas Modernas,
que pertencem à unidade de investigação CETAPS. Procura incentivar a leitura de obras que representem as diversas vozes e
estilos na literatura mundial contemporânea e enfatizar as vertentes multiculturais e as vozes de autores e autoras que exploram
o conceito de liberdade em sociedades pós-coloniais. (2024/10/15 - 2025/06/02)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2024/11/18 - 2024/11/19 | Membro do Comité de Organização e do Comité Científico do Winter Doctoral Symposium: Literatures and Cultures in English de
2024. Foi a segunda edição deste evento, no qual alunos de doutoramento podem apresentar os seus projetos e obter feedback,
tanto dos seus pares, como dos Keynote Speakers. (2024/11/18 - 2024/11/19)
Symposium (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2023 - Current | JRAAS - Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies | Junior Researcher |
| 2023 - Current | APEEA - Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos | Membro |
| 2023 - Current | Association for Borderlands Studies | Membro |
| 2023 - Current | PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies | Member |
| 2022 - Current | CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies American Intersections Strand | Colaborador |