Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- David Callahan
Citation names
- Callahan, David
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 0213-AB94-E236
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4183-6691
Websites
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Other Humanities
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English (Mother tongue) | |||||
Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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1981/10 - 1989/10/01
Concluded
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English (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Outra:Cultura Inglesa
University College London Department of English Language and Literature, United Kingdom
"The Response of the English Literary World to Spanish Literature (1909-1939)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1978 - 1979
Concluded
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Master of Arts (Master)
Major in English
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
"A Study of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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First Class Honours |
1971 - 1973
Concluded
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Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor)
Major in English
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Not applicable |
Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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1998/10/01 - 2024/04/13 | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal | ||
1991/10/01 - 1998 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Línguas Literaturas e Culturas, Portugal |
1987 - 1991 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2024/04/14 - Current | Retired, but continuing as Research Sub-group Coordinator | Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Línguas Literaturas e Culturas, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Book review |
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Edited book |
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Encyclopedia entry |
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Journal article |
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Journal issue |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/11/07 | "Restaging Social Organization in the Far Future: Horizon: Forbidden West " | American Futurisms: 2024 Swiss Association for North American Studies
Swiss Association for North American Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
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2024/06/24 | "The Shame of Attentiveness in Scented Gardens for the Blind (1963)" | Janet Frame at 100
St John's College, University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2021 - Current | A Filmografia de David Lynch à Luz dos Estudos da Consciência de António Damásio e Amit Goswami
Supervisor
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Estudos Culturais (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2021 - Current | Repression and (Neo)Orientalism: Portuguese Fiction and Travel Writing about China from the late 19th century to the early
21st century.
Supervisor
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Estudos Culturais (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2021 - Current | Collective Memory and Individual Memories in Paris: Creative Responses 1920-2020.
Supervisor
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Estudos Literários (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2020 - Current | Afrofuturismo e a cultura de resistência em bandas desenhadas brasileiras.
Supervisor
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Estudos Culturais (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2018 - Current | Androcentrism in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Supervisor
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Estudos Literários (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2019/09 - 2023/04/06 | “Negotiating Power between Literature and Law: Unity Dow’s Women”
Supervisor
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Estudos Literários (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2007/06/01 - 2012/12/17 | “The Reception of British Literature under Dictatorships in Hungary and in Portugal”
Supervisor
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Literatura (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2006/06 - 2010/12/06 | “Present, Imagination and Memory in Zakes Mda and Mia Couto”
Supervisor
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Literatura
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2000 - 2005 | “Discurso Narrativo e Linhas Temáticas na Obra de Marian Engel”
Supervisor
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Literatura (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2000 - 2005 | “Dialogical Readings of the Grotesque: Contemporary Texts of Excess”
Co-supervisor
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Literatura (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2024/07/09 | "Queering Girlhood: Representations of Sapphic Adolescents in Contemporary Irish Young Adult Fiction in English"
(Thesis) Arguer
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Iria Seijas Pérez (PhD)
Universidade de Vigo, Spain
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2024/04/11 | “Identidade cultural europeia: utopia inatingível?”
Thesis Member
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Bruno Filipe de Azevedo Costa (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2023/06/02 | “YA Refugee Literature as Sustainable Pedagogy: Ethics and Affect in the English Classroom”
(Thesis) Arguer
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Stella Mililli (PhD)
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Norway
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2020/10/30 | “Masticating Multiculturalism: Culinary Discourses in the Works of Asian-Australian Authors”
(Thesis) Arguer
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Astrid Schwegler-Castañer (PhD)
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
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2018/10/24 | “Strategies of Cross-dressing and Gender-b(l)ending in U.S. Speculative Young Adult Fiction: Conformity or Transgression?”
(Thesis) Arguer
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Selene Molares Pascual (PhD)
Universidade de Vigo, Spain
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2018/07/26 | “‘so many voices urging’: Transformations, Paradox and Continuity in the Poetry of James McAuley”
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Rosemary Jean Page (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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2018/02 | “Masculinity, Melancholia and Misogyny in the Films of Sam Peckinpah”
Thesis Member
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Elsa Cascais Silva Andrade Machado (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2017/03/11 | “Migrações, Memória Cultural e Representações Identitárias: A Literacia Fílmica na Promoção do Diálogo Intercultural”
(Thesis) Arguer
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Isabel Moreira Macedo (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2017/03 | “Hitchcock’s Films on the Couch: Freudian and Lacanian Readings of Symbolic Space”
Thesis Member
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Mark William Poole (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2016/01/20 | “‘Beyond the Line’: Murray Bail’s Spatial Poetics”
(Thesis) Arguer
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Marie Herbillon (PhD)
Université de Liège, Belgium
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2015/06/25 | “Study on the Representation of Trauma in Gail Jones’s Black Mirror (2002), Sixty Lights (2004) and Sorry (2007)” May 2015
(Thesis) Arguer
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María del Pilar Grasa Royo (PhD)
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
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2013/06 | “‘Your Sons of Strangers’: Lesser-Known British Writers in the Spanish Civil War”
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Paul Joseph Melia (PhD)
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
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2012/10/11 | “The Unharnessed World: Janet Frame and Buddhist Thought”
(Thesis) Arguer
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Cindy Gabrielle (PhD)
Université de Liège, Belgium
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2012/06/07 | “The Question of Boundaries and the Re/De/Construction of an Australian Identity in Janette Turner Hospital’s The Last Magician
and Oyster”
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Isabel Fraile Murlanch (PhD)
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
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2012/03/29 | “Gothic Fiction in an Australian Landscape: An Analysis of Gabrielle Lord’s Tooth and Claw, Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well and
Tim Winton’s In the Winter Dark” (), University of Zaragoza, Spain, March 2012
(Thesis) Arguer
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María Pilar Baines Alarcos (PhD)
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
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2011/07 | “Sources, Signification and Genre Stability in Film Noir”
Thesis Member
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Joaquim da Silva (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2005/01 | “Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature” (), University of Aveiro, Portugal, January 2005
Thesis Member
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Reinaldo Francisco Silva (PhD) |
2003/01 | “O Espírito da Terra na Obra de Toni Morrison, Rudolfo Anaya e Joy Harjo”
(Thesis) Arguer
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Joaquim João Cunha Braamcamp de Mancelos (PhD)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
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2002/04 | “Stedman’s Narrative: Its Origins and Transformations”
(Thesis) Arguer
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Landeg White (PhD)
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
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2001/07 | “A Hegemonia Involuntária dos Estados Unidos da América” (), Open University, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2001
(Thesis) Arguer
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Álvaro Joaquim Marcelino Martins (PhD)
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
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2000/06 | “Britain at the Margins of Europe: Images and Reality”
Thesis Member
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Gillian Grace Owen Moreira (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2021 - Current | Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies (1137-6368) | Universidad de Zaragoza |
2019 - Current | Games & Culture (1555-4120) | Sage |
2011 - Current | Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (2013-6897) | European Association for Studies on Australia |
2010 - Current | Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature (0893-5580) | Wayne State University Press |
2024 - 2024 | Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Política (2795-4765) | Observatório Político |
2024 - 2024 | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (1744-9863) | Taylor & Francis |
2023 - 2023 | Open Cultural Studies ( 2451-3474) | De Gruyter |
2022 - 2022 | Journal of Intercultural Studies (1469-9540) | Taylor & Francis |
2022 - 2022 | Commonwealth: Essays and Studies (0395-6989 ) | French Society for Postcolonial Studies |
2021 - 2021 | Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (0217-9520) | University of Singapore |
2018 - 2018 | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies ( 0022-4634 ) | Cambridge University Press |
2018 - 2018 | Remate de Males (2316-5758) | IEL - Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Unicamp, Brasil |
2016 - 2016 | Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (1369-801X) | Taylor & Francis |
2016 - 2016 | Ariel: A Review of International English Literature ( 0004-1327 ) | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2003 - Current | New Zealand Studies Association | Member of the Council of the Association |
1993 - Current | American Association of Australasian Literary Studies | Ordinary Member |
1990 - Current | European Association for Studies on Australia | Former Chair of the Association; Former Secretary of the Association; Former Board Member; Ordinary Member |
1990 - Current | Modern Language Association (of America) | Ordinary Member |
1990 - Current | European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies | Ordinary Member |
1988 - Current | Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos | Former Secretary of the Association; Former Board Member; Ordinary Member |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2018/10/03 - 2018/10/05 | Chair of External Evaluation Report of the Research Unit "CEREP" (Centre for Teaching and Research in Postcolonial Studies)
at the University of Liège, Belgium, 2018.
Coordinator
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Université de Liège, Belgium | Université de Liège |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2016 - Current | Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia (2013-6897) | European Association for Studies on Australia |
Distinctions
Award
2011 | Walter McRae Russell Award for the best book of literary scholarship on an Australian subject published in the preceding two calendar years |
1980 | Fowlds Memorial Prize for the Most Distinguished Student in the Arts Faculty
The University of Auckland Faculty of Arts, New Zealand
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