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João Pedro Oliveira teaches Asian Studies at the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP) in Lisbon. He currently holds a research grant to study a collection of Asian artifacts at the Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, and a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to translate the Armenian epic Daredevils of Sassoun from Armenian into Portuguese. He holds a Ph.D. in Culture Studies (FCH-UCP), for which he wrote a thesis on Indian mythological fiction based on the Ramaya¿a; an M.A. in Linguistics (FLUL), with a thesis on the Macanese Creole and its literature; a B.A. in Language, Literature and Culture (FLUL); and a B.A. in Cinema (ESTC). His research interests primarily include narrative, identity, and nationalism in Asia.
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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)
Persian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Korean Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/09/01 - 2025/09/01
Concluded
 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
2018 - 2020 Ensino de Português como L2 Embaixada da República da Indonésia, Portugal
Embaixada da República da Indonésia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2025 - Current “A história das histórias: grandes narrativas da Ásia e a sua expressão na colecção Kwok On”
NA
Research Fellow
Ongoing
2020 - 2022 Versão revista do Glossário Luso-Asiático
NA
Research Fellow
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2025 - 2027 Introduction, translation and annotation of Daredevils of Sassoun/David of Sassoun to Portuguese
325690
Tradução / Translation
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Portugal
Ongoing
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. Oliveira, João Pedro; Alves, Jorge Santos. "Anotação para capítulos sobre Malaca e Arquipélago Indonésio". In The Suma Oriental by Tomé Pires. Revised text, Notes and Indexes. Lisboa, Portugal: Fundação Oriente / Fundação Macau, 2026.
    In press
  2. 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
  3. João Pedro Marques Morgado Ferreira de 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, 121-150. Editora LabCom, 2023.
    Published
  4. 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. Oliveira, João Pedro. Corresponding author: Oliveira, João Pedro. "Recensão a The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule, de Audrey Truschke". 18, (2025):
    Published
  2. 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
Journal article
  1. Oliveira, João Pedro. Corresponding author: Oliveira, João Pedro. "As grandes narrativas e a literacia narrativa do Islamicado, Indosfera, Sinosfera e mais além". Revista Oriente 33 (2026):
    Accepted
  2. João Pedro Oliveira. "Almost different, but not quite: neoliberal discourses on the Mahabharata". Journal of Dharma Studies 8 2 (2025): 347-372. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/53760.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/s42240-025-00203-5
  3. João Pedro Oliveira. "Hindutopia: indian mythological fiction writing and representations of India and Hinduism". South Asian Studies 41 1 (2025): 44-58. https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105016265396.
    Published • 10.1080/02666030.2025.2458466
  4. Oliveira, João Pedro. Corresponding author: Oliveira, João Pedro. "Choque de civilizações e guerra dos sexos: Usos anglófonos do Ramaya¿a no século XXI [Clash of Civilisations and the War of the Sexes: Anglophone Uses of the Ramaya¿a in the 21st Century]". Daxiyangguo – Portuguese Journal of Asian Studies 34 (2025): 67-89.
    Published
  5. Oliveira, João Pedro. Corresponding author: Oliveira, João Pedro. "Lois Patiño, Samsara: A Jornada da Alma (2023)". Revista Oriente 31 (2025):
    Published
  6. João Pedro Oliveira. "Society with Indian characteristics: caste, class, and species in contemporary retellings of the Ramaya¿a". Journal of Dharma Studies 7 3 (2024): 279-297. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/44477.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/s42240-024-00167-y
  7. João Pedro Oliveira. "What a wonderful (post-apocalyptic) world: representations of India and the West in Ramayan 3392 AD". Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2024.2355935.
    10.1080/21504857.2024.2355935
  8. João Oliveira. "The progressive pilgrim: real and mythical Indian geography in the contemporary retellings of the Ramayana". Nations and Nationalism 30 4 (2024): 719-734. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/46483.
    Open access • Published • 10.1111/nana.13014
  9. João Pedro Oliveira. "Speaking with attitude language attitudes in comic literature in Macanese Creole". Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (2024): https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85203307488.
    Accepted • 10.1075/jpcl.23025.oli
  10. João Pedro Oliveira. "Humour in Macanese Creole literature as an identity creator and consolidator". European Journal of Humour Research 12 2 (2024): 99-119. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/46100.
    Open access • Published • 10.7592/EJHR.2024.12.2.883
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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". e-Letras com Vida 8 (2022): 119-143. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/40744.
    Open access • Published
  14. 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". e-Letras com Vida: Revista de Estudos Globais — Humanidades, Ciências e Artes (2022): https://doi.org/10.53943/ELCV.0122_119-143.
    10.53943/ELCV.0122_119-143
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 Tema: “On a tightrope: Humour as a sociocultural strategy in Macanese Creole literature”. Asian Studies & Indian Ocean Summer School
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024 Tema: “Subversion and Inversion: The Ramaya¿a in 21st century India” (Subervsão e Inversão: O Ramaya¿a na Índia do século XXI) The 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars
Universitas Airlangga (Surabaya, Indonesia)
2024 Tema: “War and Santi: The cultural war between India and the West in 21st century Indian retellings of the Ramaya¿a” XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon, 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) (Lisboa, 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 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: Ásia
2023 Torre de Babel: Atitudes Linguísticas na Literatura Cómica em Crioulo de Macau Conferências da Primavera
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)
2022/03 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 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
(Lisboa, 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 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 In Praise of Masks: The Cultural Meaning of the Mask in Japan during Covid Times XII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: MASQUERADES
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2022 Pérfidos Mouros e Exóticos Gentios: Imagens do Oriente e dos Orientais n’Os Lusíadas Congresso Internacional 450 anos de Os Lusíadas
(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 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)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025 - Current A Comparison of Hakodate’s Sister-City Relations in the Japanese Sea Rim
Supervisor
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2025 - Current Official and Unofficial Discourses on K-pop
Supervisor
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2024 - Current Final Fantasy VII Remake and JRPGs as Tools for Eco-Political Activism
Supervisor
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 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

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025 - Current Journal of Cultural Geography
2025 - Current Critical Research on Religion
2025 - Current GeoJournal
2025 - Current Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development
2024 - 2025 Journal of Dharma Studies

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025 - Current Comparative Asian Political Systems (Mestrado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2025 - Current Leccionamento do curso “Não são todos judeus ou muçulmanos: Compreendendo os povos e culturas do Médio Oriente” (7 sessões de 1h30) / Lecturer of the course “Not All Are Jews or Muslims: Understanding the Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East” (7 sessions of 1.5 hours). (Outros) Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal
2025 - Current Leccionamento das sessões “A arte de contar histórias” (3 sessões de 3 horas sobre a China, Índia e Irão) / Lecturer of the sessions “The Art of Storytelling” (3 sessions of 3 hours about China, India and Iran in Portuguese). (Outros) Fundação Oriente, Portugal
2024/04 - Current Comparative Cultures of Asia Mestrado em Asian Studies (Mestrado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Leccionamento da sessão “Música, islão e representação”, inserido no ciclo “Artes e Espiritualidades: relações corpo-mente nas cosmovisões asiáticas” (1 sessão de 3 horas) / Lecturer of the session “Music, Islam and Representation”, within the cycle “Arts and Spiritualities: Body–Mind Relations in Asian Worldviews” (one 3-hour session in Portuguese). (Outros) Fundação Oriente, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Leccionamento do curso “De fazer crescer água na boca: Culturas gastronómicas da Ásia” (6 sessões de 1h30) / Lecturer of the course “Making Your Mouth Water: Asian Food Cultures” (6 sessions of 1.5 hours in Portuguese). (Outros) Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Leccionamento do curso “Iconografia da Ásia: arte e cultura popular” (7 sessões de 1h30) / Lecturer of the course “Asian Iconography: Art and Popular Culture” (7 sessions of 1.5 hours in Portuguese). (Outros) Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Leccionamento do curso “Grandes Narrativas da Índia” (8 sessões de 3 horas) / Lecturer of the course “Great Narratives of India” (8 sessions of 3 hours in Portuguese). (Outros) Fundação Oriente, Portugal
2024/05/03 - 2024/06/07 Leccionamento do curso “Grandes Narrativas da Ásia” (12 sessões de 1h30) / Lecturer of the course “Great Narratives of Asia” (12 sessions of 1.5 hours in Portuguese). (Outros) Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal
2024/03 - 2024/05 Leccionamento do curso “As Narrativas da Ásia no Contexto Europeu Pré-Contemporâneo” (11 sessões de 1h30) / Lecturer of the course “Asian Narratives in the Pre-Contemporary European Context” (11 sessions of 1.5 hours in Portuguese). (Outros) Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Leccionamento de Português como Língua Estrangeira (PLE), nível A1.1 (30 sessões de 2 horas) / Lecturer of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PLE), A1.1 level (30 sessions of 2 hours). (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Leccionamento da sessão “Narrativas da Pérsia, da Índia, e da China” (1 sessão de 1h30) / Lecturer of the session “Narratives of Persia, India, and China” (one 1.5-hour session in Portuguese). (Outros) Livraria Verney – Rede de Bibliotecas Municipais de Oeiras, Portugal
2023/09 - 2023/11 Leccionamento do curso “Grandes Narrativas do Extremo Asiático” (8 sessões de 3 horas) / Lecturer of the course “Great Narratives of Far East Asia” (8 sessions of 3 hours in Portuguese). (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