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Diana Marques is a researcher with a PhD on the representation of the Middle Ages in contemporary fantasy literature, specifically in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. She is also a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES), in Research Group 1 ¿ English Studies: Literature. She also teaches English as a Second Language at ISEC Lisboa, and she's a member of Messengers from the Stars, an interdisciplinary research group devoted to the study of science fiction and fantasy. In 2013, she concluded her MA with a dissertation on the importance of the sword Excalibur in some medieval Arthurian texts produced in England.. Some of her research interests include: Medievalism and Neomedievalism, Fantasy Literature, Medieval English Literature and Culture, Arthurian legend.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Diana Marques

Citation names

  • Marques, Diana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
8311-7474-711D
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0316-7925

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2014/09 - 2020/07/24
Concluded
 Estudos Ingleses e Americanos (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Ecos da Idade Média em A Song of Ice and Fire de George R. R. Martin" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa Cum Laude
2013
Concluded
 Mestrado em Estudos Ingleses e Americanos (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Excalibur: A Espada na Bruma" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2010
Concluded
 Línguas Literaturas e Culturas, variante em Estudos Ingleses, Norte-Americanos e Alemães (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Universidade Aberta Departamento de Humanidades, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/09 - Current Docente do Ensino Superior (UCs de Inglês em Licenciatura e Cursos Técnicos Superiores Profissionais) Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, Portugal
Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, Portugal
2022/10 - 2023/09 Tutora na UC de Sociedade e Cultura Inglesas I; Sociedade e Cultura Inglesas II; Prática da Tradução; Técnicas de Comunicação em inglês Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
2017/04/10 - 2020/04 Bolseira de Gestão de Ciência e Tecnologia (BGCT) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2017/06/19 - 2017/06/27 ESC (English Studies Courses) #46 - Medievalism: The Middle Ages in the Modern World - Teaching of a Module about Neomedievalism Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2016/06/20 - 2016/06/28 ESC (English Studies Courses) #39 - The Fantastic in Medieval Imagination - Teaching of a module about the medieval forest Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2016 - Current Messengers from the Stars
non-funded
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Marques, Diana. "Boromir, Um herói imperfeito". In J. R. R. Tolkien: Construtor de Mundos. Personagens, Lugares e Adaptações, edited by Maria Angélica Sousa Oliveira Varandas Azevedo Cansado; Nuno Simões Rodrigues, 63-82. Portugal: Colibri, 2023.
    Published
  2. Marques, Diana; Martins, Ana Rita. "Aragorn e Andúril: a representação do herói e da espada medieval". In J. R. R. Tolkien: Construtor de Mundos. Personagens, Lugares e Adaptações, edited by Maria Angélica Sousa Oliveira Varandas Azevedo Cansado; Nuno Simões Rodrigues, 83-112. Portugal: Colibri, 2023.
    Published
  3. Marques, Diana; Martins, Ana Rita. "'A house as old as this one becomes, in time, a living thing': O Terror Doméstico em Crimson Peak". In Na raíz de todos os males: Terror Doméstico no séc. XXI, 67-88. Portugal: Caleidoscópio, 2023.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Marques, Diana; Martins, Ana Rita. "Aragorn and Boromir: Looking at Medieval Heroes in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings". Paper presented in Avanca|Cinema - International Conference on Cinema, Aveiro, 2017.
    Published
Dictionary entry
  1. Marques, Diana. "Fantasia Histórica". In Dicionário Digital do Insólito Ficcional. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2022. http://www.insolitoficcional.uerj.br/f/fantasia-historica/.
    Published
  2. Marques, Diana. "Fantasia Imersiva". In Dicionário Digital do Insólito Ficcional. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2022. http://www.insolitoficcional.uerj.br/f/fantasia-imersiva/.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Ana Rita Martins; Diana Marques. "RECONFIGURING ARTHUR: THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND AS PALIMPSEST IN GUY RITCHIE’S KING ARTHUR: THE LEGEND OF THE SWORD (2017)". Abusões 23 (2024): 538-581. https://doi.org/10.12957/abusoes.2024.79725.
    Open access • Published • 10.12957/abusoes.2024.79725
  2. Marques, Diana. "Neomedievalist Interpretations of the Sword Excalibur". New Academia XI II (2022): 11-30. https://interactionsforum.com/new-academia-vol-xi-issue-ii-april-2022.
    Open access • Published
  3. Marques, Diana. "Power and the Denial of Femininity in Game of Thrones". Canadian Review of American Studies 49 1 (2019): 46-65. https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cras.49.1.004.
    Published • 10.3138/cras.49.1.004
  4. Marques, Diana. "Swords of Westeros: Swords as Symbols of Identity in A Song of Ice and Fire". Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy 1 (2016): 33-46. http://messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt/journal/archives/article/swords-of-westeros.
    Open access • Published
  5. Marques, Diana; Marques, Diana. "The Haunted Forest of A Song of Ice and Fire: a space of otherness". Fafnir - Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (2016): http://journal.finfar.org/articles/the-haunted-forest-of-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-a-space-of-otherness/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04/26 The Allure of the Past: Contemporary Representations of the Renaissance as a Cabinet of Curiosities 34th SEDERI International Conference: Cabinets of Curiosities: Collecting, Displaying, Consuming
Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain)
2023/07 'A house as old as this': Domestic Horror in Del Toro's Crimson Peak Avanca | Cinema International Conference
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2023/06 Da Fantasia à Idade Média I Congresso Internacional de Humanidades
Universidade Aberta (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/06/04 Cursed: Re-imagining Excalibur in the Arthurian Narrative Re-writing/Re-imagining the Past
Universidade de Bucareste (Bucareste, Romania)
2019/11 A Song of Ice and Fire and Neomedievalism: A Fantasy of the Middle Ages In the Middle: Recreating the Middle Ages in Popular Culture
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/04/06 Subversões medievais em "A Guerra dos Tronos" Contacto: Festival de Ficção Científica e Fantasia
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/10/25 A Game of Heroes: Monomyth in A Game of Thrones 5th International Conference on Mythcriticism: Myth and Audiovisual Creation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2017/12/06 J.R.R. Tolkien e George R.R. Martin: Construtores de Mundos Tolkien, Construtor de Mundos…
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/07 Aragorn and Boromir: Looking at Medieval Heroes in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Avanca | Cinema International Conference
(Avanca, Portugal)
2017/06 Brienne of Tarth: The one true knight in A Song of Ice and Fire International Conference Reading the Middle Ages Today: Sources, Text and Translation
Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2017/06 Excalibur on TV: Closer to the Middle Ages or Contemporary Fantasy? International Conference The Middle Ages in the Modern World III
University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2016/12/07 Boromir: Um Herói Imperfeito Tolkien: Construtor de Mundos
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/11 The Mistborn Trilogy: Who¿'s the Hero After All? Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy - Episode IV
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/03 Of Wolf and Man - The Symbolism of the Wolf in A Song of Ice and Fire 37th APEAA Conference
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/05 Aragorn e Andúril: representação do herói e da espada medieval Tolkien Construtor de Mundos...
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/11 "All must dance the Macabray": a Dança Macabra em The Graveyard Book, de Neil Gaiman Messengers From the Stars: Episode III – International Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras (Lsiboa, Portugal)
2012/11 As Espadas de Westeros: o Legado das Espadas Medievais em As Crónicas de Gelo e Fogo Messengers From the Stars: Episode II – International Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016 - Current Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference Messengers From the Stars (held every two years) (2016)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2019/05 - 2019/05 Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference SEDERI – Brave New Worlds: Early Modern Discoveries (2019/05)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference English Literature in the World: From Manuscript to Digital | New Pathways (2018)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2015 - 2020 Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature in English Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016 - 2019 Seminar "Fantasy and Medieval Imagination" Estudos Medievais (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2017 - 2017 Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico (2014-7910)