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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Liliana Raquel Miranda Costa Gomes dos Santos

Citation names

  • Santos, Liliana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E213-3D2B-FA07
ORCID iD
0009-0007-9168-4186

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 918282422 (Personal)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/08/22 - 2024/10
Ongoing
 PhD in Modern Languages: Cultures, Literatures, and Translation (American Studies) (Doutoramento)
Major in Cultures and Literatures
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal
"Informed children, empowered citizens: Silence, voice, gender and racial representations in Effie Lee Newsome, Virginia Hamilton and Jacqueline Woodson" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/09 - 2017/05/31
Concluded
 BA in Modern Languages - English, German (Licenciatura)
Major in English and German
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal
 18,2
2005/09 - 2011/07/29
Concluded
 MA in Dentistry (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"Avaliação da concentração sérica da Creatina-Quinase num modelo experimental de Movimentos Mastigatórios Não-Funcionais" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/11 - Current English and German Tutor Study Academy - Centro de Explicações, Portugal
2017/07 - 2019/07 English and German Tutor Study Academy - Centro de Explicações, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Santos, Liliana. ""Chu-kaa": Basketball, gender identity, and racial politics in U.S. children's and young adult literature". In Investigating the Hardwood, edited by Neuhaus, Till. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
    In press
  2. Santos, Liliana. "The role of protest music in the Civil Rights and the Black Lives Matter Movements". In Everything is a story: Creative interactions in Anglo-American studies, edited by Lima, Maria Antónia, 184-194. Vila Nova Famalicão, Portugal: Edições Húmus, 2019.
    Published
Book review
  1. Santos, Liliana. "Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction". Review of Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction (2024):
    In press
  2. Santos, Liliana. "Dust off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children’s Literature at the Newbery Centennial. Eds. Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl.". Review of Dust off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children’s Literature at the Newbery Centennial. (2022): http://www.irscl.com/new_reviews.html.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Santos, Liliana. "“Storytelling Wings”: The (Im)possible Intertwinement of African American Slavery and the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Picturebooks of Virginia Hamilton and Jacqueline Woodson". Paper presented in 3rd International Symposium of Young Researchers in Children's Literature, University of Aveiro, 2024.
  2. Santos, Liliana. "Children of the Sun, the Stars and the Moon: Silence, Voice and Racial Representation in Effie Lee Newsome and Jacqueline Woodson". Paper presented in 2nd International Symposium of Young Researchers in Children's Literature, University of Aveiro, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Santos, Liliana. "DREAMers vs. Reality: Latinx (Im)migration in books for children and young adults". JAMIT! 6 (2022): 41-58.
    Open access • Published
  2. Santos, Liliana. "Between the awkwardness of remembering and the embarrassment of forgetting: the recent case of the removal of symbology allusive to the Confederation in the United States of America". Op. Cit 7 Nov 2018 (2019):
    Open access • Published

Other

Other output
  1. O som da minha língua. Poem, in Vive as Letras!, magazine of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra. 2017. Santos, Liliana.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/06/24 Informed Children, Empowered Citizens: Silence, Voice, Gender and Racial Representations in Effie Lee Newsome, Virginia Hamilton and Jacqueline Woodson 1st APEAA Doctoral Symposium
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/08 Sshh! I am protesting! - Silence as an empowered form of childrens agency in the fight against climate change in Portuguese picturebooks 2023 IRSCL Congress on Ecologies of Childhood
University of California (Santa Barbara, United States)
2023/06 Searching for the "I" in Jacqueline: Woodson's aesthetic and identity struggles in the verse memoir for children brown girl dreaming 43rd Meeting of the APEAA: Culture(s) of the Self
Catholic University (Lisbon)
2022/05 We Are Still Here: Native American Childhood and Activism in Children's Literature The Child and The Book Conference
Valleta Campus, University of Malta (Malta)
2022/04/01 Nature's color is not green, it is White: how environmentalism is racialized in the United States and its reflection on children's books 42nd Meeting of the APEAA: Environments: Ecologies and (In)Hospitalities
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/10 Gender portrayals in picturebook images 25th Biennial Congress of the IRSCL: Aesthetic and Pedagogic Entanglements - Graduate Workshop Seminar
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile)
2021/05/21 Effie Lee Newsome: Crossover literature in the Harlem Renaissance 41st APEAA Meeting
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2019/10/25 Fighting silence with difference: the case of Jacqueline Woodson's children's picture books XXXI Annual Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies - The Sound of Silence in American Literature, Culture and Politics
University of Opole (Opole, Poland)
2019/08/18 Silence, Voice and Racial Representation in Effie Lee Newsome and Jacqueline Woodson Silence and Silencing in Children's Literature - International Research Society for Children's Literature Congress
The Swedish Institute for Children's Books (Stockholm, Sweden)
2018/11/23 History, Myth, Fantasy and Representation in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad International Conference of the American Intersections Strand of the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies – Dikes of Courage: Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Movement and the Aesthetics of Protest
CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/05/27 The Role of Protest Music in the Civil Rights and the Black Lives Matter Movements 39th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies-APEAA – Everything is a Story
APEAA - Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (Évora, Portugal)
2018/03/23 From the plantations to the streets: the rhetoric of freedom in Negro Spirituals and Protest Songs during the Civil Rights movement 5th Congress of the Inter-American Studies-IAS – Reinventing the Social: Movements and Narratives of Resistance, Dissension, and Reconciliation in the Americas
IAS - International Association of Inter-American Studies (Coimbra, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/03 - 2022/04 Volunteer of the Organizing Committee of the 42nd Anual Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) (2022/03/31 - 2022/04/02)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2018/03/01 - 2018/03/24 Volunteer of the Organizing Committee of the 5th Congress of the Inter-American Studies-IAS: Reinventing the Social: Movements and Narratives of Resistance, Dissension, and Reconciliation in the Americas (2018/03/22 - 2018/03/24)
Congress (Other)
 Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2015/06/11 - 2015/06/20 Volunteer of the Organizing Committee of the II International Symposium EDiSO - Speeches and Moving Societies (2015/06/18 - 2015/06/20)
Symposium (Other)
 Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/11/02 - 2021/11/02 Speaker at the colloquium African languages and literatures Research, Universität Bayreuth African languages and literatures Research Colloquium
Universität Bayreuth, Germany
2019/11/20 - 2019/11/22 Speaker at the Research Seminar in American History and American Studies, Roosevelt Institute
Seminar
 Research Seminar in American History and American Studies
Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Netherlands
2017/06/20 - 2017/06/20 Poetry reading at the book launch The Edge of One of Many Circles: Tribute to Maria Irene Ramalho
Other
 Book release: The Edge of One of Many Circles: Tribute to Maria Irene Ramalho
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - Current Children's Literature Association Associate Member
2019 - Current International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) Associate Member
2018 - Current Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) Associate Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/11/18 - 2022/11/18 Mirrors and reflections of U.S. culture in children's books: The (not so) "small" field of children's and young adult literature (Mestrado) Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2016/09 - 2017/06 Modern Language Students' Representative at the Comission for New Dynamic Pedagogies
Member
 Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023 - 2024 IRSCL Mentee - Children's and Young Adult Literature Young Scholarship Santos, Liliana
2020 - 2022 IRSCL Mentee - African American Children's and Young Literature Santos, Liliana
Distinctions

Award

2018 Merit Scholarship - PhD 1st year of seminars
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2017 Curricular Award Feijó 2016
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2017 3% Best Modern Language Students Award - University of Coimbra
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2017 Writing Contest Goethe Institut Portugal 2017 - Níveis B1-B2
Goethe Institut Portugal, Portugal
2016 3% Best Modern Languages Student Award - University of Coimbra
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Other distinction

2023 Scholarship Papers@USA - FLAD
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2021 Scholarship, International Youth Library - Munich
Internationale Jugendbibliothek, Germany
2019 PhD Scholarship FCT (2019-2023)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 Scholarship Internationalen Sommerakademie der Universität Potsdam - DAAD
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Germany