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João Pedro Oliveira teaches Asian Studies at Portuguese Catholic University (UCP), Lisbon. He is a PhD candidate in Culture Studies (FCH-UCP), for which he is writing a dissertation titled The Retellings of the Ramaya¿a and the Idea of India: Culture and Society (2010-2020), holds an M.A. in Linguistics (FLUL), for which he has written a thesis titled Tóri di Babel: Humor e Língua na Literatura em Crioulo de Macau (Tóri di Babel: Humour and Language in the Literature in Macanese Creole), a B.A in Language, Literature and Culture (FLUL) and another one in Cinema (ESTC). His research interests include: Asian languages and writing systems; narrative traditions and identity in Asia; Asian literature and cinema; popular culture and nationalism in Asia; Asian religions and philosophies.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Oliveira

Citation names

  • Oliveira, João Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
181B-C6F4-41F2
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2833-0418

Email addresses

  • john.olivetree@gmail.com (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 968075215 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Rua de Ceuta, nº 33, 3º dir, 2795-059, Linda-a-Velha, Oeiras, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics
  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1) Proficiency (C2)
Italian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
German Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Russian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Turkish Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Armenian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Hindi Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Chinese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Indonesian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Japanese Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Arab Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Persian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Vietnamese Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Thai Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Korean Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/09/01 - 2022/09/01
Ongoing
 Culture Studies (Doutoramento)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
"The Ramaya¿a and the Idea of India: Space, Time and Society (2010-2020)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/09/01 - 2018/09/01
Concluded
 Linguística geral (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Tóri di Babel: humor e língua na literatura em crioulo de Macau" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2010 - 2013
Concluded
 Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas (Licenciatura)
Major in Major em Estudos Ingleses
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 17
2007 - 2010
Attended
 Cinema (Licenciatura)
Major in Argumento
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Portugal
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/04/01 - Current Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020 - 2022 Investigador Instituto Correia Lacerda de Estudos Orientais, Portugal
Instituto Correia Lacerda de Estudos Orientais, Portugal
2018 - 2020 Ensino de Português como L2 Embaixada da República da Indonésia, Portugal
Embaixada da República da Indonésia, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. João Oliveira. O Latinórum na Tóri di Babel: humor e língua na literatura em crioulo de Macau. Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau. 2024.
    Accepted
Book chapter
  1. João Pedro Oliveira. "The Portuguese language in Asia, Asia in the Portuguese language". In Age of discovery: Portugal the first global empire, 13-29. São Roque Antiguidades e Galerias de Arte, 2024.
    Published
  2. João Oliveira. "Incredible India shining: the idea of India in political and touristic propaganda posters of the XXI century". In Pathologies and Dysfunctions of Democracy in the Media Context – The Return of the Propaganda Model. Emotions, Populism and Polarization, 121-151. Covilhã, Portugal: Editora LabCom, 2023.
    Published
  3. João Oliveira. "Bumi, Vatani, Yahani: Didgah-ha va Taamolati Piraun-e Ferdowsi va Camões [Local, nacional, universal: perspectivas sobre Ferdowsi e Camões]". In Portuguese Theatre (II). Luís de Camões. Auto chamado dos Enfatriões. Shab-e Sher, 2023.
    Accepted
Book review
  1. João Oliveira. "Review of Gaião (2019): Dicionário do Crioulo de Macau: Escrita de Adé em Patuá". 38, 1 (2023): 188-192.
    Published • 10.1075/jpcl.00110.oli
  2. João Oliveira. "Review of Raul Leal Gaião's (2019) Dicionário do Crioulo de Macau". (2022):
    Accepted
Journal article
  1. João Pedro Oliveira; João Oliveira. "What a Wonderful (Post-Apocalyptic) World: Representations of India and the West in Ramayan 3392 AD". Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2024):
    Accepted
  2. João Pedro Oliveira. "Society with Indian characteristics: caste, class, and species in contemporary retellings of the Ramaya¿a". Journal of Dharma Studies (2024): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/44477.
    Open access • Accepted • 10.1007/s42240-024-00167-y
  3. João Oliveira. "The progressive pilgrim: real and mythical Indian geography in the contemporary retellings of the Ramayana". Nations and Nationalism (2024): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85189202288&partnerID=8YFLogxK.
    Open access • Accepted • 10.1111/nana.13014
  4. João Oliveira. "O Selvagem Africano, o Falso Mouro e o Exótico Gentio". e-Letras 8 (2022): 119-143. http://e-lcv.online/index.php/revista/article/view/219/180.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.53943/ELCV.0122
  5. João Pedro Marques Morgado Ferreira de Oliveira. "O selvagem africano, o falso mouro e o exótico gentio: imagens dos orientais n’«Os lusíadas» e no presente". Letras convida 8 (2022): 119-143. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/40744.
    Open access • Published
Journal issue
  1. Oliveira, João Pedro; Miriam Thaler; Gloria Adu-Kankam. "Nostalgia". Diffractions 8 (2024):
    In press • Coeditor
Magazine article
  1. Oliveira, João Pedro. "Portugal’s Linguistic Legacy in Southeast Asia", Biblioasia, 2023
  2. joão pedro oliveira; João Oliveira. "The Illustrated Ramayana", Revista Oriente, 2023
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. João Oliveira. "Tóri di Babel: humor e língua na literatura em crioulo de Macau". Master, University of Lisbon, 2017.

Artistic / Performance

Visual artwork
  1. Ilustração da publicação de Zhou Shenglan (2018) Dating à Chinesa: Padrões de Selecção de Cônjuge e Comercialização do Casamento na China Contemporânea Refletidos no Programa de Encontros Fei Cheng Wu Rao ¿¿¿¿.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024 The 21st Century Ideas of India and Hinduism: Uniformity and Diversity in Discourses on a Nation and a Religion 4th Winter School for the Study of Communication: Media and Ambivalence
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024 The Processed Pilgrim: Real and Mythical Indian Geography in the Contemporary Retellings of the Ramaya¿a XII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies: Space Oddity: On Spatial Narratives
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024 The Processed Pilgrim: Real and Mythical Indian Geography in the Contemporary Retellings of the Ramaya¿a XII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies: Space Oddity
Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024 The 21st Century Ideas of India and Hinduism: Uniformity and Diversity in Discourses on a Nation and a Religion 4th Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication: Media and Ambivalence
(Portugal)
2023 Torre de Babel: Atitudes Linguísticas na Literatura Cómica em Crioulo de Macau Conferências da Primavera: Macau
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023 O Ramaya¿a na Índia do Século XXI: Invenções e Reinvenções Conferências da Primavera: Ásia
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau ( Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Portugal)
2023 What a Wonderful (Post-Apocalyptic) World: The Future of India and of the World in Ramayan 3392 AD XIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023 The Idea of India in the 21st Century: Postcolonialism and (Re-)Orientalism International Association for Media and Communication Research
International Association for Media and Communication Research (Lyon, France)
2023 The Idea of India in the 21st Century: Postcolonialism and (Re-)Orientalism IAMCR Lyon – 2023: Inhabiting the planet: Challenges for media, communication and beyond
(Lyon, France)
2023 What a Wonderful (Post-Apocalyptic) World: The Future of India and of the World in Ramayan 3392 AD XIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Future/Futures
Faculty of Human Sciences (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023 O Ramaya¿a na Índia do Século XXI: Invenções e Reinvenções Conferências da Primavera
2023 Torre de Babel: Atitudes Linguísticas na Literatura Cómica em Crioulo de Macau Conferências da Primavera
2022/09/05 The Trickster with a Thousand Faces: Nasreddin in the world and... In Portugal Asian Studies & Indian Ocean Summer School
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/08/27 The Retellings of the Ramayana and the Idea of India: Culture and Society (2010-2020) 2nd International South Asian Studies Summer School “Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation in South Asia”
Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2022/06 In Praise of Masks: The Cultural Meaning of the Mask in Japan during Covid Times XII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/04 Caught in Indra's net: The Ramayana and social divisions 5th Annual Conference on South Asia
Universidade de Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
2022/04 Humor e Língua na Literatura em crioulo de Macau Fundação Casa de Macau
Fundação Casa de Macau (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/04 Dalgado e as Religiões: Do Orientalismo ao pós-Orientalismo Congresso Internacional Dalgado 100: A obra de Sebastião Dalgado, 100 anos depois
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/03 Pérfidos Mouros e Exóticos Gentios: Imagens do Oriente e dos Orientais n'Os Lusíadas Congresso Internacional 450 anos de Os Lusíadas
Universidade da Indonésia (Jacarta, Indonesia)
2022 India Shining: A Ideia da Índia nos Cartazes de Propaganda Política e Turística 3ªas Jornadas Patologias e Disfunções da Democracia em Contexto Mediático
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
2022 India Shining: A Ideia da Índia nos Cartazes de Propaganda Política e Turística III Conferências Patologias e Disfunções da Democracia
(Covilhã, Portugal)
2022 The Trickster with a Thousand Faces: Nasreddin in the world and... In Portugal Asian Studies & Indian Ocean Summer School
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2022 The Retellings of the Ramaya¿a and the Idea of India: Culture and Society (2010-2020) 2nd International South Asian Studies Summer School “Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation in South Asia”
2022 In Praise of Masks: The Cultural Meaning of the Mask in Japan during Covid Times XII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
(lisbon, Portugal)
2022 Caught in Indra’s net: The Ramaya¿a and social divisions 5th Annual Conference on South Asia
2022 Humor e Língua na Literatura em crioulo de Macau
Fundação Casa de Macau
2022 Dalgado e as Religiões: Do Orientalismo ao pós-Orientalismo Congresso Internacional Dalgado 100: A obra de Sebastião Dalgado, 100 anos depois
2022 Pérfidos Mouros e Exóticos Gentios: Imagens do Oriente e dos Orientais n’Os Lusíadas Congresso Internacional 450 anos de Os Lusíadas
2021/12 The Male and the Female in the retellings of the Ramayana and in Indian Society BetFam 2021: Between Feminine and Masculine - Language(s) and Society
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021 The Male and the Female in the retellings of the Ramaya¿a and in Indian Society Between Feminine and Masculine - Language(s) and Society
Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020/06 Between Garden and Wilderness: The Forest in the Adaptations of the Indian Epics (2010-2020) X Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020 Between Garden and Wilderness: The Forest in the Adaptations of the Indian Epics (2010-2020) X Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Ecoculture
(Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/12/09 - 2021/12/10 Between feminine and masculine: language(s) and society (2021/12/09 - 2021/12/10)
Conference (Other)
 Faculty of Human Sciences, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/04 - Current Comparative Cultures of Asia Mestrado em Asian Studies (Mestrado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal
2024/05/03 - 2024/06/07 Grandes Narrativas da Ásia (Outros) Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal
2024/03 - 2024/05 História puxa História: transmissão narrativa entre a Europa e a Ásia (Outros) Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Portugal
2023/09 - 2023/11 Grandes Narrativas do Extremo Asiático (Outros) Fundação Oriente, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - 2024 Diffractions (2183-2188) Universidade Católica Portuguesa
2022 - 2024 Diffractions (2183-2188) Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Distinctions

Award

2022 Menção honrosa com o tema musical "Cruzamentos" no Concurso Aveiro Jovem Criador 2022
2022 Seleccionado com o conto "Homo" na 3ª edição do Prémio Literário - Fundação Lapa do Lobo
Fundação Lapa do Lobo, Portugal
2021 Vencedor com o roteiro de viagens "Volta ao Mundo: Viagem Musical" na 7ª edição do Prémio Internacional Books & Movies
2020 Vencedor com o conto "Igualdo" na 2ª edição do Prémio Literário - Fundação Lapa do Lobo
2020 Vencedor da modalidade conto, com o conto "Uma Folha em Branco" na 21º edição do Prémio Dr. João Isabel
2019 Menção honrosa com a colectânea de contos “Biblioteca de Alexandria” na 4ª edição do Concurso Prémio Literário UCCLA (União das Cidades Capitais de Língua Portuguesa

Title

2018 Seleccionado com o conto “Fim do Mundo”, publicado em Na Imensidão do Universo (2018), Lisboa: Editorial Divergência.
Editorial Divergência, Portugal