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Alexandra Isabel Bugio Bonito Batista Cheira completed her PhD in English and American Studies (2022/02/23, University of Lisbon - Faculty of Arts), her Master's degree in English Literature (2005/02/04, University of Lisbon - Faculty of Arts), and a Degree in Modern Languages ¿¿and Literatures, Portuguese and English Studies (1994/06/30, University of Lisbon - Faculty of Arts). She is a researcher at the Centre for Anglistic Studies at the University of Lisbon (CEAUL), a teacher of primary and secondary education and a guest adjunct professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja (Department of Arts, Humanities and Sports). She has published 15 articles in specialized journals. She has published 26 book chapters and has edited three volumes of essays. She works in the area of ¿¿Humanities, with an emphasis on English Language and Literature. In her professional activities, she has interacted with several collaborators in co-authoring scientific works. In her Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production are: Byatt, Antonia Susan; Canongate Myth Series; Östergren, Klas; Ragnarök; Norse mythology; Cinderella; Basile; Madame d'Aulnoy; Perrault; Brothers Grimm; Magic; Metamorphosis; Wonder Tales; Conteuses; Social Criticism; Literature; Identity; Fiammarosa; Snow White; Snow Queen; White; Fusion; Anglo-American Studies; Translation and Reception Studies; Narrative and Medicine; Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies; Anglo-American Studies; Translation and Reception Studies; Narrative and Medicine; Diaspora and postcolonial studies.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alexandra Isabel Bugio Bonito Batista Cheira

Citation names

  • Cheira, Alexandra

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1E11-EA38-7C5A
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2384-4025

Email addresses

  • alexandra.cheira@campus.ul.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • CEAUL/ ULICES, Alameda da Universidade Faculdade de Letras , 1600-214, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • 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) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2)
French Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2009/09/20 - 2022/02/23
Concluded
 English and American Studies (Doutoramento)
Major in Studies in Literature and Culture
Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"“Things Are Not Separate”: Literary Symbiotic Metamorphoses in the Fiction and Critical Work of A. S. Byatt " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa cum laude
1999/09/20 - 2005/02/04
Concluded
 English Literature (Mestrado)
Major in Identity Studies: Constructions and Figurations of Female Sexual Identity
Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"‘“As Coisas (Não) São o que Parecem”: ambivalência, androginia, simbiose e metamorfose nas representações da identidade sexual feminina em Possession, “Morpho Eugenia” e “Cold” de A. S. Byatt” " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito Bom
1990/10/01 - 1994/06/30
Concluded
 Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, variante de Estudos Portugueses e Ingleses (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/01 - Current Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Beja Departamento de Artes Humanidades e Desporto, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2021/02/22 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Beja Departamento de Artes Humanidades e Desporto, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Beja Departamento de Artes Humanidades e Desporto, Portugal
2000/09/01 - 2003/08/31 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Beja Departamento de Artes Humanidades e Desporto, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1995/01/26 - Current Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) Republica Portuguesa Ministério da Educação, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/01 - Current Diretora da revista Op. Cit. APEAA - Op. Cit., Portugal
APEAA - Op. Cit., Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2011/09/01 - Current Investigadora Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2015/08/31 Professora de Inglês (Universidade Sénior, Beja) Instituto Politécnico de Beja Departamento de Artes Humanidades e Desporto, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Beja Departamento de Artes Humanidades e Desporto, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa
UID/ELT/00114/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Cheira, Alexandra. "“The Gendered Construction of Childhood through the Looking Glass in Victorian England: Victorian Wonder Tales”". In Studies in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel. Ed. Adrian Radu., 52-61. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024.
    Published
  2. Cheira, Alexandra. "Teaching Gender in the Civic Education Classroom at the Secondary School Level in Portugal: Challenging Gender(ed) Inequality among Teenagers". In Estudos de Género, Feministas e sobre as Mulheres: Reflexividade, Resistência e Ação, 433-444. Lisboa, Portugal: Edições ISCSPS, 2023.
    Published
  3. Alexandra Cheira. "Introduction to Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt". In Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt. Ed. Alexandra Cheira., vii-xxiv. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023.
    Published
  4. Alexandra Cheira. "“(Un)Weaving Arachne’s Web: Myth, Autofiction, and (Meta)Fictional Feminist Narratives in A. S. Byatt’s ‘Arachne’”.". In Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Fiction. Ed. Alexandra Cheira, 33-51. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023.
    Published
  5. Alexandra Cheira. "“All old stories (…) will bear telling and telling again in different ways”: Literary and Mythological Motifs in ‘The Threshold’". In Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt. Ed. Alexandra Cheira., 51-67. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing., 2023.
    Published
  6. Cheira, Alexandra. "Introduction to Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Fiction". In Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Fiction. Ed. Alexandra Cheira, x-xlii. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023.
    Published
  7. Alexandra Cheira. "Love Your Body, Love Yourself: Re(ad)dressing the Relationship between Female Teenagers' Distorted Body Perception and Eating Disorders in the Junior EFL Classroom". In Retos educativos para un desarrollo humano integral, 24-35. Spain: Adaya Press, 2022.
    Published
  8. Alexandra Cheira. "“‘A Bereaved Mother Writer and a Bereaved Mother Written: The Case of A. S. Byatt’s ‘The July Ghost.’”". In Short Story Criticism. Ed. Rebecca Parks (commissioned reprint), 119-128. Detroit, United States: Prod. Layman Poupard, 2022.
    Published
  9. Alexandra Cheira. "“Pedagogical Tools to Deal with Internalised Sexism in the Classroom: The Use of Civic Education Classes at the Lower Secondary School Level in Portugal”.". In Conference Proceedings: CIVINEDU 2021 – 5th International Virtual Conference on Educational Research and Innovation, 96-101. Madrid, Spain: Adaya Press, 2021.
    Published
  10. Alexandra Cheira. "“(Criando) Princesas que puedan sostenerse sobre sus propios pies: usando las narrativas de los cuentos de hadas para cambiar los estereotipos de género de los adolescentes em las clases EFL em Portugal”.". In Género em la Educación: Pedagogía y Responsabilidad Feministas em Tiempos de Crisis Política., 195-213. Madrid, Spain: Ediciones Morata, 2019.
    Published
  11. Alexandra Cheira. "“And they Lived Unhappily Ever After”: A. S. Byatt’s Uncanny Wonder Tales”.". In Everything is a Story. Ed. Maria Antónia Lima, 43-51. Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal: Edições Húmus, 2019.
    Published
  12. Alexandra Cheira. "“From the Golden Age to the Age of Lead: The Great War in A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book”". In Crystals Beneath the Surface: Selected Essays in Honour of Celia M. Wallhead. Ed. Mauricio Linde and Margarita Carretero González, 39-48. Granada, Spain: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2018.
    Published
  13. Alexandra Cheira. "“Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/And Eternity in an hour”: Visual Art and History in Tracy Chevalier’s Novels”". In Narrative Strategies in the Reconstruction of History in the Work of Contemporary British Women Novelists. Ed. Ana Raquel Fernandes, 91-114. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
    Published
  14. Alexandra Cheira. "“They say that women change: ‘tis so: but you/ Are ever-constant in your changefulness”: (A)Chromatic Representations of Female Identity in A. S. Byatt’s Possession, “Morpho Eugenia” and “Cold”". In Book Practices and Textual Itineraries. A. S. Byatt, Before and After Possession: Recent Critical Approaches. Eds. Armelle Parey and Isabelle Roblin, 111-126. Nancy, France: Presses Universitaires de Lorraine, 2017.
    Published
  15. Alexandra Cheira. "“(Fostering) Princesses that Can Stand on Their Own Two Feet: using wonder tale narratives to change teenage gendered stereotypes in Portuguese EFL classrooms”". In Teaching Gender: Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of Political Crisis. AtGender Series. Ed. Beatriz Revelles-Benavente and Ana M. González Ramos, 146-162. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2017.
    Published
  16. Alexandra Cheira. "Science Imparted by Literature: A Meeting of “the Two Cultures” in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction". In Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s: Converging Realms. Ed. Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes, 104-114. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
    Published
  17. Alexandra Cheira. "“The myth to end all myths”: The Doomed Gods of Asgard Through the Looking Glass of A. S. Byatt’s Ragnarök: The End of the Gods". In Revisitar o Mito/ Myths Revisited. Ed. Abel Nascimento Pena, et al, 291-298. Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal: Editora Húmus, 2015.
    Published
  18. Alexandra Cheira. "“A. S. Byatt, ‘Frieza’: Nota introdutória e tradução de Alexandra Cheira”". In Contar um Conto. Ed. Ana Raquel Fernandes and Mário Semião, 161-216. Lisboa, Portugal: Textos Chimaera, 2014.
    Published
  19. Alexandra Cheira. "“From the Angel in the House to the Babe in Total Control of Herself: a Critique of the Cultural Constructions of Female Power(lessness)”". In Women Past and Present: Biographic and Multidisciplinary Studies. Eds. Maria Zina Gonçalves Abreu and Steve Fleetwood, 106-115. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
    Published
  20. Alexandra Cheira. "Gendered Textual Erasures: Writing Charlotte Perrault and Louisa Carroll Out of The Wonder Tale Canon in Seventeenth-Century France and Nineteenth-Century England". In The Failed Text: Literature and Failure. Eds. José Luis Martínez-Dueñas Espejo and Rocío G. Sumillera, 97-112. Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
  21. Alexandra Cheira. "Evil Monsters as War Metaphors in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction: “Dragon’s Breath” and “The Thing in the Forest”". In Concerning Evil. Eds. Grace Halden and Gabriela Madlo, 47-54. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013.
    Published
  22. Alexandra Cheira. "Change Your Princesses, Change Thyself: Magic and Metamorphosis in Madame d’Aulnoy’s Wonder Tales and Wondrous Life in 17th Century France". In (Re)Presenting Magic, (Un)Doing Evil: Of Human Inner Light and Darkness. Ed. Alexandra Cheira, 3-10. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012.
    Published
  23. Alexandra Cheira. "Madness and Psychotherapy Through the Looking Glass: Scheherazade’s Talking Cure.". In Rethinking Madness: Interdisciplinary & Multicultural Reflection, 131-151. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press., 2012.
    Published
  24. Alexandra Cheira. "Madness and Psychotherapy Through the Looking Glass: The Case of King Shahryar’s Ma(d)gic Internal Wound and Fair(y) Scheherazade". In Madness in Plural Contexts: Crossing Borders, Linking Knowledge. Eds. Fátima Alves, Katrina Jaworski and Stephen Butler, 57-66. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012.
    Published
  25. Cheira, Alexandra. "Introduction to (Re)Presenting Magic, (Un)Doing Evil: Of Human Inner Light and Darkness". In (Re)Presenting Magic, (Un)Doing Evil: Of Human Inner Light and Darkness. Ed. Alexandra Cheira, vii-xvii. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012.
    Published
  26. Cheira, Alexandra. "“I Can’t Let (Myself) Go”: Piercing (Through) Motherly Landscapes of Loss in A. S. Byatt’s “The July Ghost”". In Making Sense of Suffering: Theory, Practice, Representation. Eds. Bev Hogue and Anna Sugiyama, 175-184. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2011.
    Published
  27. Cheira, Alexandra. "“Things Are (Not) what They Seem: In Between Dream and Nightmare Images of Female Submission in A. S. Byatt’s “Morpho Eugenia”". In Studies in Identity. Ed. Luísa Maria Flora, 151-172. Lisboa, Portugal: Edições Colibri, 2009.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Alexandra Cheira. Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2023.
    Published
  2. Cheira, Alexandra. Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Fiction. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2023.
    Published
  3. Cheira, Alexandra. (Re)Presenting Magic, (Un)Doing Evil: Of Human Inner Light and Darkness. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press. 2012.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Cheira, Alexandra. "Second Fleet Baby by Nadia Rhook (book review)". Limina 29 1 (2024): 66-68. https://www.uwa.edu.au/limina/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/limina/pdfs/291-elias.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  2. Alexandra Cheira. "Cultural Memory in Contemporary Fiction: F. R. Leavis’s and Matthew Arnold’s Intellectual Presence in A. S. Byatt’s Work". English Language, Literature & Culture (2024): https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ellc.20240904.11.
    10.11648/j.ellc.20240904.11
  3. Alexandra Cheira. "“Mocking Eternities”: Writing Beyond the Ending of Possession, or A.S. Byatt’s Intersections between Academia, Literary Criticism, and Fiction". American, British and Canadian Studies 40: 80-103. (2023):
    Open access • Published
  4. Alexandra Cheira. "“Twice Upon a Time There Was ‘The Glass Coffin’: A. S. Byatt in Grimmland”.". Op. Cit.: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies. 2nd Series, no. 10-11: 2021-2022: 93-108. (2023):
  5. Cheira, Alexandra. "Classic Readings on Monster Theory (book review)". Limina 28 2 (2023):
    Open access • Published
  6. Alexandra Cheira. "“‘Big Brother is Watching You’: The Hunger Games Trilogy as a Post-Apocalyptic Tale on the Destructiveness of All Forms of Totalitarianism”". ADAMarts, Special issue The 6th International Conference of the European Narratology Network, vol. 3: 2022, 47-65. (2022):
  7. Alexandra Cheira. "“‘A Jinx is Feared . . . Knowledge Must Be Paid For’: The Configuration of the Ageing Woman as Crone and Witch in A. S. Byatt’s “The Dried Witch”". Journal of the Short Story in English 76: 57-72. (2022):
  8. Alexandra Cheira. ""A Miscigenated Metamorphosis under Glass": O Vidro como Metáfora do Equilíbrio entre Princípios Opostos nos Contos "The Glass Coffin" e "Cold" de A. S. Byatt". Anglo Saxonica (2021): https://doi.org/10.5334/as.36.
    Published • 10.5334/as.36
  9. Alexandra Cheira. "“I Have This Kind of Grief for the Earth”: A. S. Byatt’s Ecopoetics in Ragnarök, “Thoughts on Myth”, and “Sea Story”". American, British and Canadian Studies 35: 44-67. Special Issue Writers of the Millennium: Trends and Challenges. Guest edited by Ana Raquel Fernandes (2020):
  10. Cheira, Alexandra. ""The myth in which the gods themselves were all destroyed”: Reading A. S. Byatt’s Ragnarök: The End of the Gods and Klas Östergren’s The Hurricane Party". Anglo Saxonica Series III 13 (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/29017.
    Published
  11. Alexandra Cheira. "“Neo-Victorian Sexual De[f|v]iance: Incest, Adultery, Breaking the Virginity Taboo and Female Sexual Agency in A. S. Byatt’s ‘Morpho Eugenia’”". Neo-Victorian Studies. no. 9, vol. 2. Special Issue Neo-Victorian Sexploitation. Guest edited by Inmaculada Pineda Hernández and Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz. 126-153. (2017):
  12. Alexandra Cheira. "“I am a Cold Grey House”: Houses as Sites of Female (Stopped) Energy in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction". Op. Cit.: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies. 2nd series. Number 5. (2016): https://sites.google.com/site/opcitapeaa/home.
  13. Alexandra Cheira. "“One Thousand and One Nights Revisited: The Female Aladdin in A. S. Byatt’s “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye”". Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy (2016): http://messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt/journal/archives/article/one-thousand-and-one-nights.
  14. Cheira, Alexandra. "A Bereaved Mother Writer and a Bereaved Mother Written: the Case of A. S. Byatt’s “The July Ghost”". Op. Cit. 2ª série 1 (2012): 46-62.
    Published
  15. Alexandra Cheira. "“A Walking Metamorphosis”: para uma leitura da fusão de opostos nas construções e figurações da identidade sexual feminina em “A Stone Woman” de A. S. Byatt”". Op. Cit. 12. 115-133. (2010):

Other

Other output
  1. A Fairy Godmother of Her Own in 17th Century France: Subversive Female Agency in Madame d’ Aulnoy’s “The White Cat”. 2014. Cheira, Alexandra. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/27498.
  2. Re-engendering “Cinderella” on Screen: Andy Tennant’s Ever After: A Cinderella Story. 2014. Cheira, Alexandra Isabel Bugio Bonito Batista. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/11837.
  3. Snowy fusion: Andersen's Snow Queen and the Grimm's Snow White Blend in A.S. Byatt's Fiammarosa. 2012. Cheira, Alexandra. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/7978.
  4. A moderna diferença: studies in identity. 2009. Cheira, Alexandra. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/3810.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/12/05 Post-Apocalyptic Streets and Cities: (Non) Human Flows and Architectural Challenges in The Walking Dead and The Last of Us, The Street and the City 5th International Conference, FLUL, Lisboa, Portugal, 5-7 dezembro
FLUL, Lisboa, Portugal (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/12/01 The Anthropocene as Environmental Decay and Urban Collapse: The Walking Dead and The Last of Us, “The Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction” International Conference, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal/ Online, 29 novembro – 1 dezembro
Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal/ Online (Funchal, Portugal)
2024/11/01 Gender, Exclusion, Transphobia, Murder, Memory, Change: Remembering Gisberta Salce Eighteen Years Later, 2nd Global Conference on Gender Studies, Copenhaga, Dinamarca, 1-3 novembro
Copenhaga, Dinamarca (Copenhaga, Denmark)
2024/10/17 “Time Brings Everything to Pass”: History and Fiction in Madame d’Aulnoy’s Hippolytus, Earl of Douglas (1690), ) Imaginary Communities: Reading, writing and translating early modern women’s fiction, University of Huelva, Espanha, 17-18 outubro
University of Huelva, Espanha, (Huelva, Spain)
2024/10/10 “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book”: On Helping Portuguese Lower Secondary-School Students Find the Right Book, Conference A Reading Crisis? Stockholm University, Estocolmo, Suécia, 10-11 outubro
Stockholm University, Estocolmo, Suécia (Estocolmo, Sweden)
2024/09/03 “May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour” – Playing Games of Life and Death in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy, George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones and The Thousand and One Nights, ESCL Congress 2024 (European Society of Comparative Literature), “Le jeu: Gambling, Gaming and Play in Literature”, Université de La Sorbonne, Paris, França, 2-6 setembro
Université de La Sorbonne, Paris, França (Paris, France)
2024/08/30 “Fictions could be as powerful as histories”: The (Un)Making of Salman Rushdie’s Victory City, 17th ESSE Conference, Round Table “Salman Rushdie and the Historical Novel”, University of Lausanne, Suíça/ online, 26-30 agosto
University of Lausanne, Suíça/ online (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2024/08/22 An Examination of Totalitarian Regimes in Dystopian Fiction: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy, Freedom and Authenticity - 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Gdansk, Polónia/ online, 22-23 agosto
University of Gdansk, Polónia/ online, (Gdansk, Poland)
2024/07/16 “Fictive truth”: Séances as Historical Mo(nu)ments in Possession, 16th Annual Victorian Popular Fiction Conference: ‘Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture’, Canterbury Christ Church University/ online 16th Annual Victorian Popular Fiction Conference: ‘Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture’,
Canterbury Christ Church University/ online (Canterbury, United Kingdom)
2024/06/25 “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength”: The Cases of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy, 44º Encontro da APEAA, FLUL 44º Encontro da APEAA
FLUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/05/22 Keynote lecture: “That happened a long time ago, so why should I care now?” Teaching the Holocaust in the Context of the Portuguese State School Special Programme for At-Risk Students, 8th International Virtual Conference on Educational Research and Innovation, Universidad del País Vasco (online) 8th International Virtual Conference on Educational Research and Innovation
Universidad del País Vasco (online) (Spain)
2023/09/23 "Narratives inside narratives inside narratives”: Mythological Re-Visions and Literary Adaptation in A. S. Byatt’s “The Threshold", , , 23-24 September 2023
Birkbeck University (online) (Londres, United Kingdom)
2023/08/26 Playful Dealings With(in) Fiction: A. S. Byatt’s Use of Postmodern Parody in Possession, Freedom and Authenticity - 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Gdansk, Poland/ online, 25-26 August 2023
Freedom and Authenticity - 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Gdansk (Gdansk, Poland)
2023/07/12 (Neo-)Victorian Signs of the Times: Evolution and the Anxiety over Human Nature, or the Scientist and the Reverend in A. S. Byatt’s “Morpho Eugenia”, 15th Annual Victorian Popular Fiction Conference: Hidden Histories/ Recovered Stories, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK/ online, 12-14 July 2023
15th Annual Victorian Popular Fiction Conference: Hidden Histories/ Recovered Stories, Bishop Grosseteste University (Lincoln, United Kingdom)
2023/07/08 Motherhood as Self-Unfulfilled Destruction Vis-à-Vis Art as Self-Fulfilled Creation: Female Writing and Motherhood in A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book, “From Stabat Mater to Mater Movens: Analysing Discourses on Motherhood” International Conference, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Birkbeck University, London, UK, 8-9 July 2023
¿From Stabat Mater to Mater Movens: Analysing Discourses on Motherhood¿ International Conference, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Birkbeck University (Londres, United Kingdom)
2023/07/06 A “vestigial memory of an other world where women were powerful”: Breton Mythology and the Gothic Sublime in Dahud of Armorica’s Transgressive Figuration in A. S. Byatt’s Possession, Conference Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments, Falmouth University, UK, 4-6 July 2023 Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments
Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments, Falmouth University (Falmouth, United Kingdom)
2023/06/23 “This was not a safe space”: Representations of Home, (Un)Belonging and Displacement in Contemporary Dystopian Novels, Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English – 3rd Conference, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 22-23 June 2023
Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English – 3rd Conference, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/06/16 Teaching, Gender, Responsibility, Connections: Teaching Out of the (Gendered) Box, Gender, Sex and Sexualities Conference 2023, University of Adelaide, Australia (online), 15-16 June 2023
Gender, Sex and Sexualities Conference 2023, University of Adelaide (Adelaide, Australia)
2023/06/03 “Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am?”: De/ Re/ Constructions of Self-Conscious Fictions of the Writing Self and/ or Writing about the Self in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction, ) 43rd APEAA Conference, Catholic University, Lisbon, Portugal, 1-3 June 2023
43º Encontro da APEAA, Universidade Católica (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/03/14 Weaving the Web of (Feminist) Literature: Art, Creativity, and Representations of Women Writers in A. S. Byatt’s Possession, I Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores en Estudios Literarios Feministas, Asociación de estudios literarios feministas, Pandora & Universidad de Granada, 13-15 March 2023
I Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores en Estudios Literarios Feministas, Asociación de estudios literarios feministas, Pandora & Universidad de Granada (Granada, Spain)
2023/01/13 Fighting Gendered Stereotypes: The Uses of Wonder Tale Narratives in the EFL Classroom, TEFL 8 Conference, NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal, 13-14 January 2023
TEFL 8 Conference, FCSH Universidade Nova (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/10/28 “And what we long for/ Is to hear each other’s tales/ And to tell them again”: Refugee Tales and the Quest for Political Change, European Network for Short Fiction Research – ENSFR 2022 Conference on “Short Fiction as World Literature” Faculty of arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 27-29 October 2022
European Network for Short Fiction Research – ENSFR 2022 Conference on “Short Fiction as World Literature”, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/10/12 Literary Representations of Epidemics: From Bocaccio’s Decameron to The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic, Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada – APLC Conference, University of Évora, Portugal, 12-14 October 2022
Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada – APLC Conference, Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2022/09/14 Sexual and Textual Politics in Popular Fiction: Identity, Self-Representation and Female Power in Marian Keyes’s Novels
Popular Culture Research Centre International Conference, Auckland University of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand)
2022/09/09 Beautevil Female Monsters: Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla and Bram Stoker’s The Lair of the White Worm
2022 Monsters Conference, Reading University (Reading, United Kingdom)
2022/09/08 The Street and the City in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction
The Street and the City 4th International Conference, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/09/01 The Gendered Construction of Childhood through the Looking Glass in Victorian England: Victorian Wonder Tales
16th ESSE Conference, Round Table “The Construction of Childhood in Victorian England”, Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany)
2022/08/25 Writing Beyond the Ending of A. S. Byatt’s Possession: Maud Bailey-Michell’s Letter and Christabel LaMotte’s Unpublished Poems in Victorian Poetry (1995), Freedom and Authenticity: 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Gdansk, Poland/ online, 25-26 August 2022
(Gdansk, Poland)
2022/07/22 A Case Study of Promoting Health Literacy through Literature: Using Historical and Autobiographical Accounts of Starving, and Literary Portraits of Binge-Eating and Starving to Address Eating Disorders in the Junior EFL Classroom
International Congress on 21st Century Literacies/ ICCLL22, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém (Santarém, Portugal)
2022/07/13 “You are underbred, Sir, you are no good match for my sister. There is bad blood in you, vulgar blood”: Racial and Sexual (Im)Purity in A. S. Byatt’s “Morpho Eugenia” (1995)
14th Annual Victorian Popular Fiction Conference, Loughborough University (Londres, United Kingdom)
2022/07/10 Of Woman (Artist) Born: Literary Mothers in A. S. Byatt’s Possession
“Discourses on Motherhood”: International Conference, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (Londres, United Kingdom)
2022/05/26 The Woman Writer and the Women Written in A. S. Byatt’s Possession: Christabel LaMotte’s Fictionalised Self-Representations as Arachne and the Lady of Shalott
Fifth Postgraduate and Early-Career Scholars’ Conference, Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain)
2022/04/01 “The sempiternal nurdles, indestructible, swayed on and under the surface of the sea”: Ecocritical Concerns in A. S. Byatt’s Short Fiction
42º Encontro da APEAA, Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/03/12 The Experience of Being Ill: Contemporary Women Writers’ Memoirs
International Conference on Medical Humanities, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (Londres, United Kingdom)
2022/02/19 Victorian Palaeontology: Male Scientific Communities Vis-à-Vis Female Lay Communities in Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures
Historical Fictions, Historical Fictions Research Network (Londres, United Kingdom)
2021/11/26 “I won’t let another one die”: Cinematic Ecocriticism in How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Messengers from the Stars: Episode VI, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/10/17 “A tale of love and environmental disaster”: A. S. Byatt’s Ecopoetics in “Sea Story” (2013)
International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies Conference, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (Londres, United Kingdom)
2021/09/29 Pedagogical Tools to Deal with Internalised Sexism in the Classroom: The Use of Civic Education Classes at the Lower Secondary School Level in Portugal
5th International Virtual Conference on Educational Research and Innovation, Universidade de Salamanca, Universidade de Martin-Lutter de Halle-Vitemberga, Universidade de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (salamanca, Spain)
2021/09/15 “Big Brother is Watching You”: The Hunger Games Trilogy as a Post-Apocalyptic Tale on the Destructiveness of all Forms of Totalitarianism
6th International Conference of the European Narratology Network, RISEBA University of Applied Sciences/ European Narratology Network (Riga, Latvia)
2021/08/31 A Meeting of the Literary and Critical Imagination in Autobiographical Writing: Autofiction as an Exercise in Alternative Real Imaginings of A. S. Byatt’s Life as a Writer, and Literary Experiments in Writing about Life
Freedom and Authenticity: 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Gdansk/ Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Gdansk, Poland)
2021/08/14 Uncanny Dolls: A Comparative Analysis of E. T. A. Hoffman’s “The Sandman” and A. S. Byatt’s “Doll’s Eyes” Mediated by the Freudian Discourse on the Uncanny The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture¿ International Conference
“The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture” International Conference, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (Londres, United Kingdom)
2021/07/15 Redefining Literacy for the Modern Age: Literary Elites, Difficult Readings, and the Politics of Canon and Syllabus Formation
International Congress on 21st Century Literacies/ ICCLL21, Institutos Politécnico de Portalegre, Santarém e Beja (Santarém, Portugal)
2021/05/21 Neo-Victorian Representations of Female Vision and Art: The Woman Artist in A. S. Byatt’s Possession
41º Encontro da APEAA, Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2019/07/26 Gender(ed) Inequality among Portuguese Teenagers: Stud Bragging vs. Slut Shaming
II CIEG International Congress, ISCSP - Institute of Social and Political Sciences (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/07/24 And They Did Not Live Happily Ever After: Remembering the Lost Voices of the 17th – Century Conteuses
2019 MLA International Symposium, Universidade Católica (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/07/09 Neo-Victorian Biographical Fictions of Pre-Raphaelite Women: Suzanne Cooper’s Effie, H.D.’s White Rose and the Red, and Rita Cameron’s Ophelia’s Muse
International Conference on (Neo)Victorian Studies: “Frames of Mind”, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (londres, United Kingdom)
2019/07/08 Mind, Matter, Spirit: The Supernatural as a Form of Knowledge in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Lady of the Shroud, and The Lair of the White Worm
11th Annual Victorian Popular Fiction Conference, University of Greenwich (Londres, United Kingdom)
2018/11/30 “A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times”: Filmic Representations of Fragments of (In)Humanity in Steven Spielberg’s Artificial Intelligence (2001), Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go (2010) and Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water (2017)
Science Fiction and Fantasy International Conference Messengers from the Stars: Episode V – “Fragments of Humanity", Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/10/10 Narrating Illness: Autobiographical Accounts of Contemporary Women Writers
Literatura e Ciência: Diálogos Multidisciplinares II, Universidade Aberta (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/08/30 Happily Ever After? A. S. Byatt’s Wonder Tales of Female Empowerment
14th ESSE Conference, Seminar Fairy Tales and Myth in Contemporary Literature, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic)
2018/06/28 Twice Upon a Time: “The Glass Coffin” by the Brothers Grimm and A. S. Byatt
15th International Conference on the Short Story in English, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/05/07 Postmodern Wonder Tales: A. S. Byatt’s “New Fairies”
English Literature in the World: From Manuscript to Digital (New Pathways), Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/04/27 And They Lived Unhappily Ever After: A. S. Byatt’s Uncanny Wonder Tales
39º Encontro da APEAA, Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2017/04/21 The Glass Stories: A. S. Byatt's Wonder Tales of Female (Em)Power(ment) 76th Western States Folklore Society Meeting
76th Western States Folklore Society Meeting, University of Eugene, Oregon (Eugene, Oregon, United States)
2016/11/16 “Dolly Keeps a Secret”: Uncanny Dolls in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction
Conference Messengers From the Stars: Episode IV, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/10/14 From the Golden Age to the Age of Lead: The Great War in A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book
Conference In Remembrance of the Great War: Re-Working Myths, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/09/28 Mapping the Two World Wars in the Feminine: A. S. Byatt¿s The Children¿s Book and Ragnarök: The End of the Gods
Conference Women in Modern Wars, FCSH Universidade Nova (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/09/27 (Neo-)Victorian Signs of the Times: Evolution and the Anxiety over Human Nature, or the Scientist and the Reverend in A. S. Byatt’s “Morpho Eugenia”
3rd International Conference Victorians Like Us: Progress. A Blessing or a Curse?, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/08/22 “Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/ And Eternity in an hour”: Visual Art and History in Tracy Chevalier’s Novels
13th ESSE Conference (Mesa-Redonda Narrative Strategies in the Reconstruction of History in the Work of Contemporary British Women Novelists), NUI Galway (Galway, United Kingdom)
2016/06/28 “Fiction informed by Science”: A Meeting of “The Two Cultures” in A. S. Byatt’s A Whistling Woman
Colloque: Littérature et Science, Dialogues Multidisciplinaires, FCSH Universidade Nova (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/04/30 The Water Stories: A. S. Byatt's Wonder Tales of Female (Em)Power(ment)
46th NeMLA Convention (Mesa-redonda Wonder Tales in A. S. Byatt's Fiction), Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada)
2015/03/26 "They say that women change: ¿tis so: but you/ Are ever-constant in your changefulness¿: Achromatic Representations of Female Identity in A. S. Byatt¿s Possession, ¿Morpho Eugenia¿ and ¿Cold¿
Conference A. S. Byatt: In Memoriam Jean-Louis Chevalier, Université de Caen (Caen, France)
2015/03/07 ‘“Do not go gentle into that good night/ Rage, rage against the dying of the light”: Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor
International Conference Narrative & Medicine: Caring for the Future, Fundação Gulbenkian (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/12/13 Half Woman, Half Snake: A. S. Byatt¿s ¿Melusina: A Proem¿ and ¿A Lamia in the Cévènnes¿
Congress Visions of the Fantastic, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2014/11/28 Angel or Imp? Gendered Constructions of Girlhood in Victorian Wonder Tales
2nd International Conference Victorians Like Us. The Victorian Household: Power, Policies, Practices, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/11/20 ¿¿Is fiction, which makes fact alive, fact too?¿ The Case of Stephen Morris's Trilogy Come Hell or High Water
Conference Messengers From the Stars: Episode III, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/11/13 ‘“I am a cold grey house”: Houses as Sites of Female (Stopped) Energy in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction
Conference Representations of Home in the English-Speaking World , Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/11/06 Make the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour: Emotional Detachment in the First-Person Narrative of The Hunger Games Trilogy
Conference Aesthetics of Emotional Restraint, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/10/21 “The myth in which the gods themselves were all destroyed”: Reading A. S. Byatt’s Ragnarök: The End of the Gods and Klas Östergren’s The Hurricane Party
Conference Myths in crisis/ The crisis of myths, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2014/09/11 Written on the Body: Colour and Female Identity in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction
Conference GEsIPI’s Identity: Representation and Practices, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/08/29 Sexual Defiance/ Deviance in A. S. Byatt’s Neo-Victorian “Morpho Eugenia”: Incest, Breaking the Virginity Taboo and Female Sexual Agency
12th ESSE Conference (Seminário Gender and Sexuality in Neo-Victorianism), Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (Kosice, Slovakia)
2014/07/04 Thrice Upon a Time: Latent Upheaval in End–of–the–Century Wonder Tale Writing in France and England
IV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Latencies - Europe 1914-2014 The Lisbon Consortium - Universidade Católica (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/04/03 “Old Tales, New Forms”: A. S. Byatt in Wonderland
45th NeMLA Convention (Painel Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women’s Literature) Susquehanna University, Harrisburg (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States)
2013/07/25 Literature Meets Science Meets Literature: Snails, Ants and Butterflies Trail Across “The Two Cultures” in A. S. Byatt’s “Morpho Eugenia”
20th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Université de Sorbonne (Paris, France)
2013/05/09 What has Academia Got To Do With It? Teaching Wonder Tales at High School
34º Encontro da APEAA: Academy as Community, Faculdade de letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013/03/11 Evil Monsters as War Metaphors in A. S. Byatt’s fiction: “The Thing in the Forest”, “Dragon’s Breath” and Ragnarök: The End of the Gods
14th Global Conference: Evil and Human Wickedness (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/12/15 Science Imparted by Literature: A Meeting of “The Two Cultures” in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction
Conference Relational Forms II, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2012/11/29 A. S. Byatt in Wonderland: “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” or The Female Aladdin
Conference Messengers From the Stars: Episode II, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/11/24 Victorians Like Us: The Woman Artist in A. S. Byatt’s Possession
1st International Conference Victorians Like Us: Memories, Dialogues and Trends, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/11/08 Re-Engendering Charles Perrault’s “Cinderella” On Screen: Andy Tennant’s Ever After
Conference Changing Times, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/09/21 New Fairies at the Crossroads of Identity and Difference: Flying in Between Authority Land and Alterity Land
33º Encontro da APEAA: Diversities? Inequalities? Challenges in the Construction of an Inclusive Society, Universidade Católica (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/09/07 The Grimms’ “Snow White” Through the Looking Glass of Walt Disney and Michael Cohn
Conference After Grimm: Fairy Tales and the Art of Storytelling, Kingston University (Londres, United Kingdom)
2012/06/22 The Grimms’ “The Glass Coffin” Through the Looking Glass of A. S. Byatt’s Retelling
Conference Grimm (and you) in Lisbon 2012, FCSH Universidade Nova (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/05/02 “The myth to end all myths”: The Doomed Gods of Asgard Through the Looking Glass of A. S. Byatt’s Ragnarök: The End of the Gods
Conference Recycling Myth, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/04/18 Gendered Textual Erasures: Writing Charlotte Perrault and Louisa Carroll Out of Tthe Wonder Tale Canon in 17th-Century France and 19th-Century England
Conference The Failed Text, Universidad de Granada (Granada, Spain)
2012/03/29 A. S. Byatt’s Snow Queen and Snow White Fiammarosa: Fusing the Eponymous Wonder Tales’ Evil and Good Female Characters by Means of The Colour White
CECC Conferência Thinking Colors: Perception, Translation and Representation, Universidade Católica (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/03/15 Change Your Princesses, Change Thyself: Magic and Metamorphosis in Madame d’Aulnoy’s Wonder Tales and Wondrous Life in 17th Century France
3rd Global Conference: Magic and the Supernatural (Praga, Czech Republic)
2011/09/27 Madness and Psychotherapy Through the Looking Glass: The Case of King Shahryar’s Ma(d)gic Internal Wound and Fair(y) Scheherazade
4th Global Conference Making Sense of: Madness, Mansfield College (Londres, United Kingdom)
2011/06/01 From the Angel in the House to the Babe in Total Control of Herself: a Critique of the Cultural Constructions of Female Power(lessness)
Conferência A Mulher em Debate, Universidade da Madeira (Funchal, Portugal)
2010/11/24 A Bereaved Mother Writer and A Bereaved Mother Written: The Case of A. S. Byatt’s “The July Ghost”
Conference Landscapes of the Self: Identity, Discourse, Representation, Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2010/11/11 “I Can’t Let (Myself) Go”: Piercing (Through) Motherly Landscapes of Loss in A. S. Byatt’s “The July Ghost”
1st Global Conference: Making Sense of: Suffering (Praga, Czech Republic)
2010/04/15 “A Walking Metamorphosis”: para uma leitura da fusão de opostos nas construções e figurações da identidade sexual feminina em “A Stone Woman” de A. S. Byatt
31º Encontro da APEAA: Geographies of the Self, Sociedade de Geografia (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018/01/30 - 2018/08/29 Co-organização e co-moderção do seminário Fairy Tales and Myth in Contemporary Literature (14th ESSE Conference, Brno, Czech Republic) (2018/08/29 - 2018/09/02)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Masarykova univerzita, Czech Republic
2014/11/01 - 2015/05/03 Organização e moderação da mesa-redonda Wonder Tales in A. S. Byatt's Fiction (46th NeMLA Convention, Ryerson University, Toronto) (2015/04/30 - 2015/05/03)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Ryerson University, Canada

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/04/17 - 2024/04/17 Talk: “Judging a Book by Its Cover: A. S. Byatt’s Possession, Angels and Insects and The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye”
Workshop
 Creative Readings: Lectures
Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades, Portugal
2023/06/01 - 2023/06/01 Book presentation: Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Fiction (Ed. Alexandra Cheira. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023), 43rd APEAA Conference, Catholic University, Lisbon, Portugal, 1 June 2023
Conference
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2023/06/01 - 2023/06/01 Book presentation: Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt (Ed. Alexandra Cheira. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023), 43rd APEAA Conference, Catholic University, Lisbon, Portugal, 1 June 2023
Conference
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2018/04/28 - 2018/04/28 Co-apresentação do livro Narrative Strategies in the Reconstruction of History in the Work of Contemporary British Women Novelists (Ed. Ana Raquel Fernandes. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018)
Conference
 39º Encontro da APEAA
Universidade de Évora Escola de Artes, Portugal
2018/04/17 - 2018/04/17 Co-moderadora da mesa-redonda
Round table
 A Cura pelas Histórias: Katia Canton em Exposição
Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/06/30 - Current ESCL - European Society of Comparative Literature
2022 - Current APLC Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada
2021 - Current APPI Associação Portuguesa de Professores de Inglês
2020 - Current ENN European Narratology Network
2019 - Current VPFA Victorian Popular Fiction Association
2012 - Current CEAUL Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa Grupo de Investigação nº 1, Estudos Ingleses – Literatura
2010 - Current APEAA Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/05/22 - 2024/05/23 8th International Virtual Conference on Educational Research and Innovation Universidad del País Vasco, Spain (online), 22-23 May 2024
2023/09/28 - 2023/09/30 7th International Virtual Conference on Educational Research and Innovation, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain (online), 28-30 September 2023 Online
2023/06/22 - 2023/06/23 Representations of Home 2023 Conference, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 22-23 June 2023 Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
2022/09/29 - 2022/09/30 6th International Virtual Conference on Educational Research and Innovation Online

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/09 - 2022/11 Apreciação da proposta de organização do volume Myth and 21st century Environmentalism. Literary and Artistic Practices for Saving the Planet (eds. Esther Sánchez-Pardo, María Porras Sánchez, José Manuel Correoso-Ródenas), Routledge Routledge, United Kingdom

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022 - Current Alicante Journal of English Studies
2021 - Current Anglo Saxonica
2021 - Current Diffractions
Distinctions

Title

2022 Doctor of Philosophy
Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras, Portugal