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Carla M. Soares is a PhD grantee in the Department of English and American Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) and a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre of English and American Studies - ULICES. Her work focuses on English and American Literature, with emphasis on Science-fiction and Fantasy. She won the GU-ULICES Over_Seas Prize in 2023. Her doctoral project centers on the science fiction/fantasy writer China Miévellive's ab-cities, with emphasis on the city of New Crobuzon.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Carla Marina Martins Jorge Simoes Soares

Citation names

  • Soares, Carla M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0E12-CA5B-E594
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5435-9196

Email addresses

  • carlamsoares@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/09/01 - 2024/12/31
Ongoing
Estudos Ingleses e Americanos (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
18,4 (ano currícular)
2012/08/31
Concluded
Art History (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
17,9
2009/04/20
Concluded
North American Studies (Mestrado)
Major in Literatura e Cultura
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
"O Imaginário Fantástico de Tim Burton : Exemplos de Gótico Moderno [The Fantastical Imaginary of Tim Burton: Examples of Modern Gothic]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Muito Bom
1996/06/12
Concluded
Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, variante de Estudos Portugueses e Ingleses (Licenciatura)
Major in Ramo de Form.Educacional em L.L.M.-Est.Portugueses/Ingleses
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
15,25
Affiliation

Other Careers

Category
Host institution
Employer
1995/01/09 - Current Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) Republica Portuguesa Ministério da Educação, Portugal
Republica Portuguesa Ministério da Educação, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/09/01 - Current Researcher ULICES-CEAUL Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/08/01 - Current Translation Conta Própria, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Carla Soares. "Kingsman, Not My Fair Lady: Dialect and Stereotype in the Films The Secret Service and The Golden Circle". Anglo Saxonica (2024): https://doi.org/10.5334/as.160.
    10.5334/as.160
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "O Imaginário Fantástico de Tim Burton : Exemplos de Gótico Moderno [The Fantastical Imaginary of Tim Burton: Examples of Modern Gothic]". Master, Universidade Aberta, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/1368.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2009/03/20 Expressão e Imagem em Edgar Allan Poe e Tim Burton: Leituras de Fairy-Land, The City in the Sea e Edward Scissorhands International Symposium Poe and Gothic Creativity
ULICES - University of Lisbon's Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Lisbon, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/03/01 - 2024/12/06 The Street and the City V – Challenges (2024/12/05 - 2024/12/06)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2024/03/01 - 2024/11/09 American Studies Over_Seas: Active Ties, Tides, and Times Symposium (2024/11/07 - 2024/11/09)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/11/16 - Current A City Enclosed by the Sea: Insular Assemblage and the Invisible Wall in Miéville's Armada (winner of the GU-ULICES Over_Seas Prize)
Conference
GU- ULICES Over_Seas 2023 “National Culture, Transnational Politics, and the Question of Empire”
Georgetown University, United States
2024/12/05 - 2024/12/05 The City’s Underbelly: (Un)real London and the Abcity in Miéville’s Un Lun Dun and King Rat (presentation)
Conference
The Street and the City V – Challenges
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2024/11/07 - 2024/11/09 The Ocean in 21st Century Cinematic Climate Fiction: Languages of Destruction and Emotion (presentation)
Symposium
American Studies Over_Seas: Active Ties, Tides, and Times Symposium
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2024/06/27 - 2024/06/27 Invisible borders, “unseen” abcity - the peculiar split in China Miéville’s The City & The City 44th Conference APEAA Transitions: Freedom & Conflicts
2024/06/07 - 2024/06/07 Cities in Twenty-First Century Science-Fiction Film: Examples of Disruption and Transformation Postgraduate Conference 2024: Change and Disruption
2024/06/07 - 2024/06/07 Cities in Twenty-First Century Science-Fiction Film: Examples of Disruption and Transformation
Conference
Postgraduate Conference 2024: Change and Disruption
University of Stirling, United Kingdom
2023/05/01 - 2023/06/30 Old English Course
Other
Old English Free Course
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/06/02 - 2023/06/02 The (un)Expected Hero: the place of the self in 21st century sci-fi film
Conference
APEAA - Cultures of the Self
2010/04/17 - 2010/04/17 O Duplo e o Gótico em Tim Burton: SleepyHollow, Edward Scissorhands e Big Fish
Conference
APEAA: Geographies of the Self
Distinctions

Award

2023 GU-ULICES Over_Seas Prize
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal