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Holds a PhD in Advanced English Studies with a dissertation on Contemporary South Pacific Indigenous Women’s Writing (Hawai’i, Tahiti, and Samoa) from the University of Vigo, 2021; and a Master’s degree in English Studies from the University of Aveiro, 2013. Currently, working as Invited Assistant Professor at University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. Member of the project Bodies in Transit 1&2, a collaborative project between Spanish universities. Research interests: Gender studies; Indigenous feminism; Decolonisation; TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge); Postcolonial and Transnational literature; Pacific studies; Pacific cultures and history; Tourism, Militourism and Globalization; Ecology; Environmental Humanities.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Cristina Gomes da Rocha

Citation names

  • Rocha, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2B1B-E05D-E9C7
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4620-7798

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/09/01 - 2021/04/21
Concluded
Estudos Ingleses Avançados - Linguística, Literatura e Cultura (Doktor (PhD))
Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Excelente cum laude
2010/09/01 - 2013/01/31
Concluded
Mestrado em Estudos Ingleses - Línguas, Literatura e Cultura (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2007/09/01 - 2008/07/31
Concluded
Curso de Especialização em Literaturas Românicas (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
1999/01/09 - 2006/07/31
Concluded
Português-Inglês (Ensino de) (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/09/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2024/08/31 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2014 - 2018/07/31 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Escola de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Rocha, Ana. "Beyond the Postcard: A Translated Hawai’i for Tourist". In Colonialism, Tourism and Place: Global Transformations in Tourist Destinations. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2020.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Rocha, Ana. "Epistemologies of Care: An Ecopoetic Conversation between Craig Santos Perez, Jamaica H. Osorio and Sia Figiel". Journal of American Studies in Italy (2025):
    In press
  2. Rocha, Ana. "Once upon a time there wasn’t and there isn’t”: (Re)writing History in André Brink’s Cape of Storms: The First Life of Adamastor.". Revista de Letras (2022):
    Published
  3. Rocha, Ana. "Book Review "Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai’i"". Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 9 1 (2021):
  4. Rocha, Ana. "Free Love by Sia Figiel – A Review". Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 7 1 (2019):
    Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04/23 "O nosso chão tem sonhos e vontade”: Análise Crítica do Discurso Multimodal de duas músicas de intervenção, ‘Uma canção a Zé Mário Branco’ (A Garota Não) e ‘A tourada’ (Naifa). XXVII EIRI_Encontro Internacional de Reflexão e Investigação
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal)
2023/06 Epistemologies of Care: An Ecopoetic Conversation between Craig Santos Perez, Jamaica H. Osorio and Sia Figiel EACLALS Triennal Conference 2023 - Imagining Environmental Justice in a Postcolonial World
Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris, France)
2022/04/05 Call Me by My Name: Childhood and Decolonial Love in Sia Figiel’s Freelove.
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal)
2021/06/28 Hope at Sea: Resistance, Ecology & the Empire(s) in the poetry of Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
University of Cardiff (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
2019/04/25 Bodies that Matter: The Visibility of Comfort Women in Kiana Davenport’s Song of the Exile. Vulnerability and Resistance in a Context of War
Universidade de Málaga (Málaga, Spain)
2018/11/28 Aloha ‘aina as a Countercolonial Narrative: Placing Hawaiian Identities in a Globalised Context. Tourism and the Americanisation of Hawai’i. Jornadas Global Trends / Local Identities
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2018/10/17 Voices that Matter: Women’s Mana and Native Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land and Self-determination Xornadas Quarta Onda Feminista? Activismo e Representacións de Xénero na Cultura Contemporánea
Universidade de Vigo (Vigo, Portugal)
2018/06/28 Paradise Remade and the Obliteration of Native Culture(s): A Translated Hawai’i for Tourists, and the Environmental Impact or a Second Great Mahele
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2018/05/27 Eco-violence and the Politics of Place: Native Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land and Self-determination. Women’s Mana and the Fight for Sovereignty in Hawai’i.
Instituto Universitario de Estudios de la Mujer, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2015/11/06 Encircling the Ocean and Writing across Borders: Entangled Subjects and the Convergence of Cultures in Kiana Davenport’s Shark Dialogues Pacific Waves: Reverberations from Oceania
University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
2015/04/16 ‘Aloha Betrayed’ and the Commodification of the Exotic: Moving Memories, Elapsed History. Tourism and the Obliteration of Native Culture
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2015/04/13 Through the Looking Glass or the Spectacle of the Other: Photography and the Commodification of Native Bodies. EIRI_Encontro Internacional de Reflexão e Investigação
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal)
2015/03/25 Mapping the Body, Exploring Exile. Diaspora and Migrant Bodies in Measures of Distance by Mona Hatoum. 25th Meeting of APEAA – Reshaping Humanities: New forms of reading, new forms of representation
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal)
2015/02/04 Navigating Islands: Memory and the (De)construction of Hawaiian Identity. The Convergence of Cultures in Kiana Davenport’s Shark Dialogues.
Universidade de Vigo (Vigo, Spain)
2014/05/03 Atravessando Fronteiras: Viagens Imaginadas através do Corpo e do (Ciber)Texto. Uma Leitura do Desejo na Construção da Corpo- realidade Feminina em The Powerbook de Jeanette Winterson. EIRI_Encontro Internacional de Reflexão e Investigação
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal)
2013/11/06 “Strangers to Ourselves”: CorpoReality and Women-Otherness in Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence. A Deconstruction of Memory Palaces as Spaces of Hybridity
Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras (Lisboa, Portugal)