Fernanda Luísa da Silva Feneja (2A11-B6D0-3C0D)

Curriculum Vitae

Fernanda Luísa da Silva Feneja

Fernanda Luísa da Silva Feneja is a permanent teacher of English and German (groups 330 and 340) in Portugal’s secondary education system in Ministério da Educação. She holds a PhD (Doutoramento) in American Literature (2007/11/23, Universidade Aberta); a Master’s Degree (Mestrado) in American Studies (2000/04/27, Universidade Aberta): and a degree (Licenciatura) in Modern Languages and Literatures - English and German Studies (1986, Universidade de Lisboa). She is a researcher in the American Studies Research Group G3 at CEAUL/ULICES (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies). Her areas of academic research and interest focus mainly on twentieth-century American Literature (narrative fiction, modernist fiction, and science-fiction and fantasy narrative), travel literature, ecocriticism, American culture, literary theory; and teaching of foreign languages.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Fernanda Luísa da Silva Feneja
Date of birth: 1964/06/24
Gender: Female

Citation names

Feneja, Fernanda Luísa
Feneja, Fernanda Luísa da Silva

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 2A11-B6D0-3C0D
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9902-3576

Email addresses

luisasf@sapo.pt (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
German	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2002 - 2007/11/23 Concluded	American Literature - American Studies (Doutoramento) Major in American Literature Universidade Aberta Departamento de Humanidades, Portugal "Tese: "A Reinvenção do Paradigma Épico na Ficção Inicial de John Dos Passos : Uma Leitura de One Man's Initiation, Three Soldiers and Manhattan Transfer." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	PHD with Distinction and Honours
1997/04 - 2000/04/27 Concluded	American Studies (Mestrado) Major in American Culture Universidade Aberta, Portugal "Mimese - Representações do Real no Plano da Ficção Científica. Uma leitura de The Illustrated Man, de Ray Bradbury." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very Good (unanimous mark)
1991 - 1992 Concluded	Teacher Training: Pedagogical Project Component. (Outros) Major in Teaching Foreign Languages Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal
1990 - 1991 Concluded	Teacher pedagogical training: didactics and pedagogy: pedagogical project. (Outros) Major in Education Sciences. General Pedagogy. Teaching of Foreign Languages. Universidade Aberta, Portugal
1982 - 1986 Concluded	Modern Languages and Literatures - English and German Studies (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	15 valores

Affiliation

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
1986/10/16 - Current	Permanent teacher of English and German in Portugal's secondary education system (Languages) (English: group 330: German: group 340).	Ministério da Educação, Portugal
	Escola Secundária Poeta Al Berto, Portugal
2008/09/01 - 2013/09/30	Assistant Professor - Degree in Tourism	Universidade Europeia, Portugal

2005/09/01 - 2007/08/31	Research Scholarship - Ministry of Education	Ministério da Educação, Portugal
	Ministério da Educação, Portugal

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Feneja, Fernanda Luísa. "The individual quest - Aspects of Naturalism in Dos Passos's war fiction"". In Thoughts in Time: Dos Passos Revisited, 109-125. Funchal, Portugal: Direção Regional da Cultura. Secretaria Regional de Turismo e Cultura - Governo da Região Autónoma da Madeira., 2023. Published Feneja, Fernanda Luísa. ""The Individual and the Group: Allegory Revisited in Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat".". In American Studies Over-Seas 1: Narrating Multiple America(s). In Honour of Teresa F. Alves and Teresa Cid., 101-112. Nova Iorque, United States: Peter Lang, 2022. Published Feneja, Fernanda Luísa. ""John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer: A Snapshot of American Culture and Identity". (Special Guest Contributor)". In Amerikanistika. IX International Conference of American Studies., edited by Irakli Tskhvediani, 162-195. Kutaisi, Georgia: ATSU Center for American Studies. John Dos Passos Association of Georgia., 2022. Published Feneja, Fernanda. "Katherine Vaz's Lisbon Story: Representing Place and Cultural Identity". United States, 2016. Feneja, Fernanda. "Dos Passos´s Manhattan Transfer: A Modernist Reading of History". In A Time to Reason and to Compare. International Modernism Revisited One hundred Years After., 53-66. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Published Feneja, Fernanda. "Biblical Myths of the City in Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer". In The Power of Form. Recycling Myths., 184-196. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. Published Feneja, Fernanda. "Incomplete Itineraries: the World of Tourism in Henry James's Daisy Miller". In LitTour. Ensaios sobre Literatura e Turismo., edited by Sílvia Quinteiro e Rita Baleiro, 129-148. V. N. Famalicão, Portugal: Húmus, 2014. Published Feneja, Fernanda. "The Illustrated Man, de Ray Bradbury: Linguagem e Género Literário". In Literatura e Arte, edited by Mário Avelar, 37-75. Lisboa, Portugal: Cosmos, 2014. Published Feneja, Fernanda. "Tourist Experience in Narrative Fiction: E. M. Forster's A Room with a View". In Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism., edited by Anthony Barker, 105-110. Bristol, United Kingdom: Channel View Publications, 2014. Published
Conference paper	Feneja, Fernanda Luísa da Silva. "A ficção utópica como representação - negação da realidade histórica : "Fahrenheit 451", de Ray Bradbury". Paper presented in Literatura e História - para uma prática interdisciplinar, Lisbon, 2005. Published
Journal article	Feneja, Fernanda Luísa. "The Quest for Belief. (Non)-humanity in Kurt Vonnegut's Short Story "Jenny"". The ESSE Messenger. (The European Society for the Study of English) 28 1 (2019): 26-38. https://essenglish.org/messenger/vol-28-1-summer-2019/. Open access Feneja, Fernanda. "The English language in Europe: challenge and power.". The ESSE Messenger 26 1 (2017): 14-23. http://essenglish.org/messenger/web/vol-26-1-summer-2017/. Open access • Published Feneja, Fernanda. "The power of writing: resistance in Maya Angelou's "Visit to the Dentist"". Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature. Institute of English, Opole University. 4 (2016): 72-83. http://www.explorations.uni.opole.pl/show.php?id=21&lang=pl&m=1. Open access • Published Feneja, Fernanda. "To what end is nature? Rachel Carson's Under the Sea-wind and environmental literature". Revista Anglo Saxonica. University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies Ser. III 12 (2016): 59-82. http://www.ulices.org/anglo-saxonica/anglo-saxonica-en.html. Open access • Published Feneja, Fernanda. "Paths to Luso-Americanness: Dos Passos's Portugal Story". Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies". Neither here nor there, yet both: the Luso-American experience, (2015): Feneja, Fernanda. ""Identity and Otherness in Forrest Gump: a close-up into twentieth-century America".". Anglo Saxonica. Special issue - Changing Times, Performances and Identities on Screen. Ser. III 7 (2014): 155-169. http://www.ulices.org/images/site/publicacoes/anglo-saxonica/ASaxoIII-N7_2.pdf. Published Feneja, Fernanda Luísa da Silva. "The Anglo-American World in TEFL in Portuguese Secondary Education". (2014): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/27904. Feneja, Fernanda Luísa. "«Across Genres: John Dos Passos’s Brazil on The Move».". Revista Línguas e Letras 15 30 (2014): 1-19. http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/linguaseletras/article/view/9806/8077. Open access • Published Feneja, Fernanda Luísa. "Promethean Rebellion in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451": The Protagonist's Quest". Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica (2012): http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rev_amal.2012.v4.40586. 10.5209/rev_amal.2012.v4.40586

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2021/11/25	Morality and didactics in Kurt Vonnegut's environmental writings.	Science Fiction and Fantasy Conference. Episode VI. Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/09/12	The individual quest - aspects of naturalism in Dos Passos' s war fiction.	Life and Works of Dos Passos. Centro Cultural John Dos Passos (Ponta do Sol, Madeira, Portugal)
2019/07/05	The Individual and the Group: Allegory Revisited in Stephen Crane's "TheOpen Boat"	Over_Seas: Melville, Whitman and All the Intrepid Sailors” International Conference Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/11/29	We are all human: identity and deconstruction in Robert Heinlein's "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag".	Science Fiction and Fantasy International Conference Messengers from the Stars: Episode V. Fragments of Humanity. Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Letras. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/06/21	Dos Passos's narrative of Easter Island. Island of Enigmas	Third Biennial John Dos Passos Society Conference Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/11/18	Asimov's Star Light. Reframing the Journey Motiv.	Messengers from the Stars. Episode IV. Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/06/04	"Dos Passos Speaks!". Roundtable.	The Second Biennial John Dos Passos Society Conference Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio (Madrid, Spain)
2016/06/03	Women's Role in Dos Passos¿s Early Fiction.	The Second Biennial John Dos Passos Society Conference. Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio (Madrid, Spain)
2015/04	"Let us inquire, to what end is nature?”. Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea-Wind.	Naturally Emerson: Creative Reading, Self-Reliance and Cultural Agency International Conference. CEAUL. Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Letras. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/03/27	Autobiography as a social weapon: Maya Angelou's «Names» and human rights.	36th Annual Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) (Re)shaping the Humanities: new forms of representation, new ways of reading. Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) (Vila Real, Portugal)
2014/11/20	Ray Bradbury's «The Golden Apples of the Sun»: a journey beyond science fiction.	Messengers from the Stars - Episode III Science Fiction and Fantasy International Conference . Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Letras. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013/07/12	Paths to Luso-Americanness: Dos Passos's Portugal Story	International Conference on the Luso-American Experience. Neither Here Nor There, Yet Both Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, e Universidade Nova. (Lisboa., Portugal)
2013/05/10	The Anglo-American world in TEFL in Portuguese secondary education: re-thinking the role of literature.	34th APEAA Meeting. Academy as Community: English and American Studies in Portugal and Europe. Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Letras. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/11/27	Blurring boundaries between gothic and science-fiction: Ray Bradbury's «The Veldt» and «Zero Hour»	Messengers form the Star. Science Fiction and Fantasy International Conference. Episode II. Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Letras. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/11/26	Incomplete itineraries: the world of tourism in Henry James's Daisy Miller	Lit & Tour: International Conference in Literature and Tourism Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Letras. Centro de Estudos Comparados. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/11/08	Identity and otherness in Forrest Gump: a close-up into twentieth-century America.	Changing Times: Performances and Identities on Screen. International Conference. Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Letras. CEAUL. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/06/29	Tourism experience in narrative fiction: E. M. Forster's A Room with a View	«Routes and Roots»: Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism Conference. Universidade de Aveiro. Departamento de Línguas e Culturas. (Aveiro, Portugal)
2012/05/03	Biblical myths of the city in Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer.	Revisitar o Mito / Recycling Myths. Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Letras. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/03/02	Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer: a modernist reading of History	1912-2012: A Time to Reason and Compare An International Conference on Modernism Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Letras. (Porto, Portugal)
2011/05/12	Expatriate heroes: loss and quest in Hemingway and Dos Passos	XXXII Encontro da APEAA Universidade de Coimbra. Faculdade de Letras. (Coimbra., Portugal)
2011/01/14	Visions in the American mosaic: immigration and multiculturalism in Manhattan Transfer.	Facts and Fiction in John Dos Passos. Centro Cultural John Dos Passos. (Ponta do Sol, Madeira., Portugal)
2010/11	Ray Bradbury's short stories: fantasy as criticism.	Science Fiction and Fantasy International Conference. Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Letras. (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/03/08 - 2023/03/08	Workshop (short course) for teachers on Teacher Internal Assessment and Supervision (organization and lecturing). (2023/03/08 - 2023/03/08) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Centro de Formação de Associação de Escolas do Alentejo Litoral, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2013 - Current	Teacher assessment: external supervisor Other	Teacher superviosn and assessment Centro de Formação de Associação de Escolas do Alentejo Litoral, Portugal
2011 - Current	Teacher assessment: internal supervisor. Other	Ministério da Educação, Portugal
2008 - Current	Head of Department (Languages) Other	Coordination: Languages Department Escola Secundária Poeta Al Berto, Portugal
2023/01/18 - 2023/05/29	Pedagogical assessment: projects in teaching, learning and assessing. Workshop	Oficina de Avaliação Pedagógica II Projetos de Intervenção nos domínios do ensino, aprendizagem e avaliação Centro de Formação de Associação de Escolas do Alentejo Litoral, Portugal
2023/05/18 - 2023/05/18	Teacher assessment. Symposium	Avaliação de Desempenho Docente DGAE Direção Geral da Administração Escolar. Ministério da Educação., Portugal
2021/06 - 2021/07	Digital Skills for Teachers Seminar	Capacitação Digital de Docentes - Nível 2 Centro de Formação de Associação de Escolas do Alentejo Litoral, Portugal
2021 - 2021	Assessment as learning: training for examiner teachers in oral production assessment (national exams - foreign languages - secondary education) Seminar	Avaliar para aprender: formação de classificadores em critérios e procedimentos de avaliação da expressão oral nas línguas estrangeiras . IAVE. Instituto de Avaliação Educativa. Ministério da Educação., Portugal
2015 - 2018	Coordination: School Training Programme for Teachers	Escola Secundária Poeta Al Berto, Portugal
2017/02/15 - 2017/03/03	Students' assessment - external marking and assessment (national exams) in secondary education. Seminar	Classificação e avaliação externa das aprendizagens no ensino secundário. IAVE. Instituto de Avaliação Educativa. Ministério da Educação., Portugal
2017 - 2017	Seminar: Coordination and assessment of pedagogical committees - teacher training centres. (CFAE) Seminar	Coordenação, acompanhamento e avaliação da formação contínua. A atividade da secção de formação e monitorização da comissão pedagógica dos CFAE. DGAE Direção Geral da Administração Escolar. Ministério da Educação., Portugal
2015 - 2016	Creative/Literary Writing - course Workshop	Laboratório de Escrita Criativa - Nível Avançado Camões Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Portugal
2015 - 2015	Text Review: Exhibition "Ignoto"- Carlos No/Pedro Valdez Cardoso Exhibition	Ignoto - Carlos No/Pedro Valdez Cardoso Centro de Artes de Sines (CAS), Portugal
2015 - 2015	Certified examiner - Cambridge English Language Assessment . Other	IAVE. Instituto de Avaliação Educativa. Ministério da Educação., Portugal
2012 - 2012	LEP (Laureate English Programme) ¿ English Teacher Training Induction Course - Induction Course Seminar	Universidade Europeia, Portugal
2009 - 2010	Vice-President of the Pedagogical Council Other	Escola Secundária Poeta Al Berto, Portugal
2002 - 2005	President of the Pedagogical Council Other	Escola Secundária Poeta Al Berto, Portugal
1996 - 2000	Teacher Training (English) - Degree in Portuguese and English Teaching - University of Évora. Other	Teacher Training (Orientação de Estágio) Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2011 - Current	University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES/CEAUL)	Integrated member
2010 - Current	Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
2016 - 2018	John Dos Passos Society

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2012/11 - 2012/11	Member of the Executive Committee - International conference "Changing Times: Performance and Identities on Screen" Member	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2008 - 2013	English Language I English Language II	Tourism (Licenciatura)	Universidade Europeia, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2008 - Current	Teacher Assessment Committee (Pedagogical Council - SADDCP). Member	Escola Secundária Poeta Al Berto, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2021/10/21 - 2021/10/21	Invitation au Voyage ¿ Dos Passos à Madère.	John Dos Passos and Madeira Island - origins, biographical data and impact on his life and career.

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021 - 2021	AMLit - American Literatures. Online Journal. Vol. 2 (2022), Issue 2	Universidade de Graz