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Rui Mateus is an Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH, where he teaches North American Studies, and he is an integrated researcher at the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS). Rui Mateus obtained a PhD in Modern Literatures and Cultures (English and North-American Studies) at Nova University Lisbon in 2025. He concluded a Master's degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (English and North-American Studies) in 2018 at Nova University Lisbon and holds a Bachelor's degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (English and Portuguese Studies) from Nova University of Lisbon, concluded in 2015/06/15. His research area is in speculative fiction, having published various articles and delivered several conference papers on fantasy and science fiction.
Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Rui Miguel Martins Mateus

Nomes de citação

  • Mateus, Rui
  • Mateus, Rui Miguel

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
F51D-8026-7DCE
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2048-0561
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=XydR9zEAAAAJ

Domínios de atuação

  • Humanidades - Línguas e Literaturas - Teoria Literária

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Inglês Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Formação
Grau Classificação
2025/10/03
Concluído
Modern Literatures and Cultures (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Imaginary Geographies: the Symbiosis of Space and Identity in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2015/09 - 2018/01/09
Concluído
Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Mestrado)
Especialização em English and North-America Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Through the Portal and into the Quest: Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time and China Miéville's Un Lun Dun" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
17
2012/09 - 2015/06/15
Concluído
Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura)
Especialização em English and Portuguese Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
16
Percurso profissional

Ciência

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento
Empregador
2018 - Atual Investigador (Investigação) Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2020/11/01 - 2024/10/31 Imaginary Geographies: the Symbiosis of Space and Identity in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction
2020.05334.BD
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Projeto

Designação Financiadores
2025 - Atual Fiction Bridges Science in Anglo-Portuguese Contexts (21st century)
UIDB/04097/2025
Investigador
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Em curso
2025 - Atual Anglo-Portuguese Studies
UIDB/04097/2025
Investigador
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Em curso
2023 - Atual Anglophone Cultures and History
UIDB/04097/2025
Investigador
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Em curso
2019 - Atual American Intersections
UIDB/04097/2025
Investigador
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Em curso
2018/03/13 - Atual CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and AngloPortuguese Studies
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Investigador
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2024/01/01 - 2025/01/01 Bridges between Fictional Narratives and Science (21 st Century)
UIDB/04097/2020
Investigador
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2017 - 2025 Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies (JRAAS)
UIDB/04097/2020
Investigador
Em curso
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista
  1. Mateus, Jorge; Mateus, Rui. "Autonomy Under Control: Ethical Challenges of Brain-Machine Interfaces". Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy 8 2025 (2026): https://jsfphil.org/volume-8-2025/autonomy-under-control/.
    Acesso aberto • Publicado
  2. Mateus, Rui. "Breaking the Borders of Fantasy Travelling through the Stillness in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy". Via Panoramica: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos 10 2 (2021): 45-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/2182-9934/via10_2a3.
    10.21747/2182-9934/via10_2a3
  3. Mateus, Rui M.. "Resisting in New Crobuzon: Recolonizing Spaces in a Failing Empire". Op. Cit: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies 2nd series No. 9 (2020): 83-97.
    Acesso aberto • Publicado
  4. Mateus, Rui Miguel Martins. "Uma Controvérsia Luso-Britânica: o Caso do Cacau de São Tomé". Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses 27 (2018): 199-228.
    Publicado
  5. Mateus, Rui Miguel. "Bards and Gleeman: From the Middle Ages to Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time". Anglo Saxónica III 15 (2018): 117-135.
    Acesso aberto • Publicado
  6. Mateus, Rui. "O Nascimento de um Herói: análise da segunda cena do acto primeiro da ópera Ulisses em Lisboa de Francisco José Freire". Boletín Galego de Literatura 47 (2015): 135-143. http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/bgl.47.2716.
    Publicado • 10.15304/bgl.47.2716
Edição de número de revista
  1. Joana Caetano. "The Dispossessed: 50 Years Since 50 Years Hence A Journey Towards Utopian Science Fiction". Via Panoramica A Journey of Anglo-American Studies 13 1 (2024):
    Publicado • Editor convidado
Tese / Dissertação
  1. "Imaginary Geographies: the Symbiosis of Space and Identity in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction". Doutoramento, 2025. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/191332.
  2. Mateus, Rui Miguel Martins. "Through the portal and into the quest: Robert Jordan´s the wheel of time and China Miéville´s Un Lun Dun". Mestrado, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/31475.
Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2026/06/18 A Genre in Motion: Fantasy from Oral Tradition to Contemporary Literature 46 APEAA Conference 2026 - The times they are a-changing
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Portugal)
2025/11/14 Cycles of Conflict: Vietnam and the Military Imagination in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time Symposium War in American History and Culture: Representations, Legacies, Consequences, and Global Impacts
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Portugal)
2025/04/29 Pockets of Resistance: Fighting Systemic Oppression in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth 45th Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies
University of Minho (Portugal)
2025/04/09 Mapping Middle-earth: Cartographic Adaptation in The Lord of the Rings Online International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Portugal)
2024/11/26 Mapping the Borders of Imaginary Worlds with Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time Frontiers and Wastelands 2024: The Boundaries of US American Identity
Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) Madrid
2024/06/26 “The Wheel of Time turns and ages come and pass”: transitions through world-building in Robert Jordan’s fantasy novels 44th Conference APEAA Transitions: Freedom & Conflicts
University of Lisbon
2024/04/29 Ficção Científica: da Especulação à Aplicação Conversas Abertas JRAAS
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH
2024/03/18 Mapping Imaginary Borders in Contemporary Fantasy American Borders and (Im)mobilities: American Intersections Spring 2024
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH
2023/11/10 Navigating the Seas of Bas-Lag: Travelling through Dangerous Currents in China Miéville's The Scar International Conference 'Touring Travel Writing III: Between Fact and Fiction
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH
2023/10/20 Reimagining Twentieth Century America with Mary Robinette Kowal's Science Fiction Novel The Calculating Stars International Symposium American Dreams, American Crises
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH
2023/10/06 The Dynamics of Space and Identity in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of TIme RAAS - Fulbright Conference, Mapping Space and (the) US
Ovidius University, Constanta
2023/06/02 Fantastic Chosen Ones: One Hero or Many? 43rd APEAA Conference Cultures of the Self
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
2023/05/08 Edgar Rice Burroughs nas revistas pulp Jane e Tarzan 100
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
2022/10/08 Between Two Worlds: the Ambivalence of Colonization in C. L. Clarke’s The Unbroken The Global Fantastic
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2022/09/09 From Randland to New Crobuzon: travelling the maps of the fantasy genre International Conference 'Touring Travel Writing II: Between Fact and Fiction
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH
2022/08/31 Imaginary Geographies: The Symbiosis of Space and Identity in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction ESSE Doctoral Symposium
University of Mainz (Alemanha)
2022/04/08 Towards a Revitalization of the Wasteland in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy Wastelands: 34th European Association for American Studies Conference
European Association for American Studies (Madrid, Espanha)
2022/04/01 Ecological Catastrophe and Social Injustice in Mary Robinette Kowal’s A Lady Astronaut Series
Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/02/18 From Film to Videogame: A Journey through Middle-earth in The Third Age The Impact of Video Games on Culture and Education
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Portugal)
2021/11/26 Dark Lords and Nature: Destroying Landscapes in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time Series International Conference Messengers from the Stars: Episode VI - On Science Fiction and Fantasy
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/11/25 Differentiating between Fantasy and Science-Fiction through Representations of the Moon in Literature Over the Moon: Representations of the Moon in Literature, Science and the Arts
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/05/21 Resisting in New Crobuzon: Recolonizing Spaces in a Failing Empire 41st APEAA Meeting
2020/10/22 UN LUN DUN, China Miéville's War Cry for the Environment International Symposium (Re)Thinking Earth: From Representations of Nature to Climate Change Fiction
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Portugal)
2019/12/07 New Modes of Traveling: Disrupting the Map in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time Touring Travel Writing: Between Fact and Fiction
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/06/07 "Travelling Through Secondary Worlds: The Nature of Portals in Modern Fantasy" 40th APEAA Meeting
(Porto, Portugal)
2018/11/29 The Role of Technology in the World of The Wheel of Time and its Effects on Fantasy International Conference Messengers from the Stars: Episode V - On Science Fiction and Fantasy
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/11/24 "What Future for Orogenes: Building a Brighter World for African-Americans in N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy" International Conference Dikes of Courage: Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Movement and the Aesthetics of Protest
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/04/27 Defying Categorization in China Miéville's Un Lun Dun 39th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
(Évora, Portugal)
2017/04/27 Bards and Gleemen in Contemporary Fiction: From the Middle Ages to Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time¿ 38th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
(Braga, Portugal)
2016/11/18 Journeying with a Fantasy Hero Through the Westlands in Robert Jordan¿s The Eye of the World Science Fiction & Fantasy International Conference, Messengers From the Stars
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/03/21 "New Spring e Robinson Crusoe: relações ambivalentes" 37º Encontro da APEAA
(Lisboa, Portugal)

Organização de evento

Nome do evento
Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)
Instituição / Organização
2025/04/09 - Atual International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games (2024/04/09 - 2024/04/11)
Conferência (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2024/10/14 - Atual Clube de Leitura LIBERA(Mente) (2024/10/14 - 2025/06/02)
Outro (Coorganizador)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2024/06/04 - Atual Mesa Redonda: 50 anos de The Dispossessed (2024/06/04)
Mesa-redonda (Coorganizador)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2024/02/27 - Atual Ciclo de Cinema Echoes of the Future (2024/02/27 - 2024/03/19)
Outro (Coorganizador)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2026/06/18 - 2026/06/19 46 APEAA Conference 2026 - The times they are a-changing (2026/06/18 - 2026/06/19)
Conferência (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2025/11/14 - 2025/11/14 Symposium War in American History and Culture: Representations, Legacies, Consequences, and Global Impacts (2025/11/14 - 2025/11/14)
Simpósio (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2025/11/10 - 2025/11/11 NOVA Winter Doctoral Symposium (3rd Edition) (2025/11/10 - 2025/11/11)
Simpósio (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2023/12/11 - 2023/12/12 Co-organisation and member of the scientific committee of the NOVA Winter Doctoral Symposium (2023/12/11 - 2023/12/12)
Conferência (Coorganizador)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/10/20 - 2023/10/21 International Symposium American Dreams, American Crises (2023/10/20 - 2023/10/21)
Conferência (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/11/04 - 2022/11/04 (Brave) New Worlds Graduate Symposium (2022/11/04 - 2022/11/04)
Simpósio (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/12/05 - 2018/12/05 Paraísos Perdidos: As Distopias no Cinema - Children of Men (2018/12/05 - 2018/12/05)
Outro (Coorganizador)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/11/09 - 2018/11/09 Paraísos Perdidos: As Distopias no Cinema - Fahrenheit 451 (2018/11/09 - 2018/11/09)
Outro (Coorganizador)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/11/07 - 2018/11/07 "Only in Silence the Word": o legado fantástico de Ursula K. Le Guin" (2018/11/07 - 2018/11/07)
Mesa-redonda (Coorganizador)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

Arbitragem científica em conferência

Nome da conferência Local da conferência
2024/11/18 - 2024/11/19 NOVA Winter Doctoral Symposium (2nd Edition) CETAPS - NOVA FCSH

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

Disciplina Curso (Tipo) Instituição / Organização
2023/11/15 - 2023/11/27 Aesthetics of Dissensus in English and North-American Fiction Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, var. de Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/10/10 - 2023/10/24 Temáticas Contemporâneas da Ficção Inglesa e Norte-americana (Master) Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Brasil

Membro de associação

Nome da associação Tipo de participação
2022/09/22 - Atual International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2016 - Atual Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos Member
Distinções

Outra distinção

2020 (RE)Thinking Earth: From Representations of Nature to Climate Change Fiction Writing Competition
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal