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Susana Araújo is Assistant Professor of Anglo-American Studies Section of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra and an integrated researcher at CEComp, Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon. She completed her PhD at the University of Sussex in 2004, she was granted an MA with Distinction from the University of Warwick in 1999 and a First Degree with Honours from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon in 1997. Apart from doctoral and postdoctoral grants, she was also awarded three highly competitive research contracts from FCT: in 2018 she was awarded CEEC Research contract as Investigadora Principal for the period 2019-2026; she had been previously awarded the Investigador FCT contract also as investigadora Principal (2014-2018) and a Ciência Contract (2008- 2013). Susana Araújo was Vice-Director of the Centre of Comparative Studies (CEC, FLUL) between 2013 and 2016. She taught at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUL) from 2009 to 2018, and is the Project leader of CILM – City and (In)security in Literature and the Media – an R&D project which received funding from FCT. She was also the coordinator of the research group LOCUS at CEC from 2009 to 2019 (a research group which embraced five research projects), before she moved to the University of Coimbra.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Susana Isabel Arsénio Nunes Costa Araújo

Citation names

  • Araújo, Susana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
8816-6CDA-E9D4
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9046-2211

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Literary Theory

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2004
Concluded
 DPhil (Doutoramento)
University of Sussex Sussex Centre for American Studies, United Kingdom
"Naturalism, Romance, Metafiction and the Gothic: Rewriting the Short Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 DPhil
1999
Concluded
 Masters in English and American Literature (Mestrado)
University of Warwick Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, United Kingdom
 Distinction
1997
Concluded
 Línguas e Literaturas Modernas: Português e Inglês (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"N/A" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16 valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/04/01 - 2019/09/01 Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
2008/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/02 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) University of Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Línguas Literaturas e Culturas, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/06/17 - 2018/06/17 SENIOR RESEARCHER (Investigadora Principal, Investigador FCT 2012) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2013/06/01 - 2015/06/30 Vice Director of CEC - Centre for Comparative Studies, UL Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2003/04/01 - 2007/12/31 Associated Tutor - Literature and Culture 6 Courses Taught University of Sussex, United Kingdom
2004/10/01 - 2007/10/01 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2007/03/04 - 2007/07/06 Tutor of Twentieth Century American Literature Department of American Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
2003/01/01 - 2007/01/31 Associated Tutor of American Cinema University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2004/10/01 - 2008/02/29 REALISMOS E HIPER-REALISMOS CONTEMPORÂNEOS: O “REAL SOCIAL” EM TEMPO DE “REALIDADE VIRTUAL”
SFRH/BPD/19818/2004
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
1999/01/01 - 2002/12/31 THE SHORT FICTION OF JOYCE CAROL OATES
PRAXIS XXI/BD/18067/98
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 DIS-SEC - Discourses and Fictions of (In)Security: A Comparative Cultural Studies Approach Between UK, French and Portuguese Texts and Contexts Concerning National/International Security (1991-2011),¿ncia
UID/ELT/00509/2019
CEECIND/00442/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013/06/17 - 2018/06/16 Fictions of (In)security: Transatlanticism, Literature and Visual Culture
IF/00061/2012/CP0190/CT0002
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/04/03 - 2014/10/01 CILM -- City and (In)security in Literature and the Media
PTDC/CLE-LLI/110694/2009
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/01/01 - 2014/01/01 City and (In) security in Literature and Media
PTDC / CLE-LLI / 110694/2009
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2008/03/01 - 2013/02/28 Estudos Comparatistas - Internacionalização
CONT_DOUT/55/UL/509/5908/ 37/2006
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Strategic Project - UI 509 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/ELT/UI0509/2011
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

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

Publications

Book
  1. Araújo, Susana. Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror: Images of Terror, Narratives of Captivity. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. 2015.
  2. Araújo, Susana; Marta Pinto; Sandra Bettencourt. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World. Rodopi/Brill. 2015.
  3. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World. 2015.
  4. Araújo, Susana; Ana Raquel Fernandes; Sandra Bettencourt. Inseguranças no Espaço Urbano: Estudos Literários e Culturais.. Húmus. 2012.
  5. (In)seguranças no Espaço Urbano. 2012.
  6. 'Securing Identities after 9/11: Challenges to Migration and Creolisation in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland. 2012.
  7. Araújo, Susana; Marta Pinto; João Ferreira Duarte. Trans/Oceanic, Trans-American, Trans/Lation: Issues in International American Studies. Newcastle-upon-Thyme: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2010.
  8. Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation. 2010.
  9. 'I'm Your Man': Irish American Masculinity in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. 2008.
  10. The Gothic-Grotesque of Haunted: Joyce Carol Oates's Tales of Abjection. 2007.
Book chapter
  1. Cascão, Leonardo; Araújo, Susana. "Critical Language Awareness, Multilingualism and Language Policies in Migration Narratives: Rocha de Sousa's Listen as a Teaching and Learning Resource in Higher Education¿". In Linguistic and intercultural landscapes in the European Higher Education. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Peter Lang, 2025.
    Accepted
  2. Araújo, Susana. "Nordic (In)securities, Transatlantic Anxieties and Global Crises: The Inhospitable Homeland in Northern European films". In Fear, Anxiety and Crisis in Europe: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Routledge. London, Portugal: Routledge, 2024.
  3. Araújo, Susana. "Elegy and the Melancholic Public from 9/11 to Trumpland". In Proceedings of the ICLA Congress 2023. Tbilisi, Georgia: University of Georgia UP, 2024.
    Accepted
  4. Araújo, Susana. ""Homeland(s) in Comparison: Contexts of Reterritorialization"". In Context in Literary and Cultural Studies. UCL Press (in the pipeline), 2020.
  5. Araújo, Susana. "The Wheel of Torture in J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year: The Pain of Colonial History and Contemporary Global Politics"". In En Torno Al Dolor: En La Cultura Moderna, 75-87. Granada: Atrio, 2016.
  6. Araújo, Susana. "The Wheel of Torture in J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year". In The Pain of Colonial History and Contemporary Global Politics. Spain, 2016.
  7. "Pamphilus: Desastre e Desassossego". In Prefácio e Carlos Garrido Castellano. Lisboa:Vega, 2016, 9-12. 2016.
  8. Araújo, Susana. "Inhospitality, Security, and the Global "Homeland" in Michael Haneke's Caché". In Security and Hospitality, edited by Jeffrey Clapp ; Emily Ridge. New York and London, 2015.
  9. Araújo, Susana. "European Security, European Identity? Fictions of Terror and TransNationality". In Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational: Literature and the New Europe, edited by César Domínguez; Theodoor L. D'haen. Amsterdam: Rodopi/Brill, 2015.
  10. Araújo, Susana. "Inhospitality, Security, and the Global Homeland in Michael Haneke's Caché". In Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture. London, Portugal: Routledge, 2015.
  11. Araújo, Susana; Pinto, Marta Pacheco; Bettencourt, Sandra. "Introduction". In Fear and Fantasy in a Global World, edited by Araújo, Susana; Pinto, Marta Pacheco; Bettencourt, Sandra, 1-11. Leiden: Brill | Rodopi, 2015.
    Published • 10.1163/9789004306042_002
  12. "Introduction: The Haunts and Homes of International American Studies”". 2010.
  13. "‘The Lotus’ by Jean Rhys". United States, 2007.
  14. "Propagating Images and Transatlantic Anxieties: McEwan in New York and Abu Ghraib". Canada, 2006.
Conference paper
  1. Araújo, Susana. "PLENÁRIA I: "Elexías e crise: populismo e melancolía na ficción estadounidense contemporánea"". Paper presented in II Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación en Estudios de la Literatura, 2023.
    tbc
Journal article
  1. Araújo, Susana. "Politics, Poetry and Performance at a time of Surveillance: (In)secure Home(land)s in Laurie Anderson’s Multimedia Art Work". CLO – Cahiers de Littérature Orale. Open Editions Journals 94 (2023): https://journals.openedition.org/clo/.
    Open access
  2. Scaraggi, Elisa; Honório, Salomé; Araújo, Susana; Tejero, Cristina Martínez. "Tracing the Contexts of Imprisonment: Perspectives on Incarceration between the Human and Social Sciences. An Introduction". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 120 (2019): 107116. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/rccs.9698.
  3. Araújo, Susana. ""Transatlantic Transactions: UK-US Relations and the 'War on Terror' in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer"". European Journal of English Studies 22 (2018): 178-191.
  4. Araújo, Susana; Garrido Castellano, Carlos; Martins, Susana S.. ""(In)Securities in Comparaison – From Comparative Literature to Critical Approaches to Comparative Security"". Dedalus 19 (2016): 1-14.
  5. Araújo, Susana; Carlos Garrido Castellano; Susana S.Martins. "Cultures of (In)security". Dedalus: Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada 19 (2015): http://aplc.org.pt/files/revista/Dedalus_19_2015_ndice.pdf.
  6. Ana Romão; Araújo, Susana. "Experimenting with torture: Abu Ghraib Through the Lens of Paul Scheuring's The Experiment". estrema: Interdisciplinary Journal for Humanities 5 (2014): http://www.estrema.letras.ulisboa.pt/ojs/index.php/estrema/issue/view/6.
    Published
  7. Marques, Nuno; Furão, Igor; Araújo, Susana. "Editors’ Introduction: “To Penetrate every Wall and Home”: Insecurity and Global Terror(s)". estrema: Interdisciplinary Review for the Humanities, Special Issue: Insecurity and Global Terror(s). 5 (2014): 1-8. http://www.estrema.letras.ulisboa.pt/ojs/index.php/estrema/article/view/97/60.
    Published
  8. Araújo, Susana. "Terrorism, Cosmopolitanism and Globalization: Joseph O'Neill's Netherland and Mohsin Hamid¿s The Reluctant Fundamentalist¿". Babilónia 12 (2012):
  9. Araújo, Susana. "Joyce Carol Oates's transatlantic personae: Fernando Pessoa and Jorge Luis Borges in the USA". Atlantic Studies 7 1 (2010): 63-78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810903480946.
    10.1080/14788810903480946
  10. "Joyce Carol Oates's Transatlantic Personae: Fernando Pessoa and Jorge Luis Borges in the USA". (2010):
  11. Miller, Glenn. "Security Unlocked and Fictions of Terror,". Review of International American Studies 3-4 (2009): 5-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/1086/43298.9.6.20010102/30987.6.
    10.1201/1086/43298.9.6.20010102/30987.6
  12. Araújo, Susana. "Images of Terror, Narratives of Captivity: the Visual Spectacle of 9/11 and Its Transatlantic Projections,". Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Relations 11 2 (2007): 27-47.
  13. "Images of Terror, Narratives of Captivity: The Visual Spectacle of 9/11 and Its Transatlantic Projections". (2007):
  14. Araújo, Susana. "Joyce Carol Oates Reread: Overview and Interview with the Author". Critical Survey 18 3 (2006): 92-105. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/001115706780586294.
    10.3167/001115706780586294
  15. Araújo, Susana. "Space, Property and the Psyche: Violent Topographies in Early Oates’s Novels". Studies in the Novel 38 4 (2006): 397-413.
  16. "Joyce Carol Oates Reread: Overview and Interview with the Author". (2006):
  17. "Book Review: Images of Idiocy: The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film”". in Journal of American Studies, Vol. 39, No. 03 (2005):
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875805340680
  18. "Book Review: "Andrea Most, Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical"". Journal of American Studies, Volume 39, Issue 3 (2005):
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875805450689
  19. ARAÚJO, SUSANA ISABEL. "Marriages and Infidelities: Joyce Carol Oates's Way Out of the Labyrinths of Metafiction". Women's Studies 33 1 (2004): 103-123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497870490267214.
    10.1080/00497870490267214
  20. "Marriages and Infidelities: Joyce Carol Oates's Way out of the Labyrinths of Metafiction". (2004):
Journal issue
  1. Scaraggi, Elisa; Lourenço, Daniel; Araújo, Susana; Tejero, Cristina. "Thematic Dossier: "Tracing the Contexts of Imprisonment: Perspectives on Incarceration between the Human and Social Sciences"". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 120 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/rccs.9431.
    Published
  2. Scaraggi, Elisa; Daniel L. Lourenço; Araújo, Susana; Cristina Martínez Tejero. "Dossier "Tracing the Contexts of Imprisonment: Perspectives on Incarceration between the Human and Social Sciences"". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 120 2019 (2019): URL: https://journals.openedition.org/rccs/9431.
    Coeditor
  3. "Cultures of Insecurity in Comparison". Dedalus, vol. 19 (2015):
  4. Marques, Nuno; Furão, Igor; Araújo, Susana. "Insecurity and Global Terror(s)". estrema: Interdisciplinary Review for the Humanities 5 (2014): http://www.estrema.letras.ulisboa.pt/ojs/index.php/estrema/issue/view/6.
    Published
  5. Araújo, Susana; Martins, Susana S.. "Special Issue "(In)securities"". Reconstructions 12 3 (2012): http://reconstruction.eserver.org/123/Araujo-Martins.shtml.
  6. Araújo, Susana; Martins, Susana S.. "(In)securities". Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 12 3 (2012):
  7. Araújo, Susana. "Special Issue on National/International Security". Review of International American Studies 4 1-2 (2009): http://www.iasaweb.org/uploads/85269a7a29636329bf5b99704b4d5257/RIAS_3_3-4.pdf.
  8. "Terror and Security". RIAS - Review of International American Studies, vo. 3, n3-4 (2009):
  9. "Terror and Security". RIAS - Review of International American Studies, vo. 3, n3-4 (2009):
  10. "Terror and Security". RIAS - Review of International American Studies, vo. 3, n3-4 (2009):
  11. "Terror and Security". RIAS - Review of International American Studies, vo. 3, n3-4 (2009):
Newspaper article
  1. "Review: 'What About The Rogue? Survival And Metamorphosis in Contemporary British Literature And Culture'", 2011, http://www.ulices.org/anglo-saxonica/serie-iii-no-2-2011.html.
Preface / Postscript
  1. Araújo, Susana; Silva, Edgardo Medeiros da. "Home_Lands and the Borders of America: Introductory Note". Preface to Home_Lands and the Borders of America - Special Issue of Anglo Saxonica, 11-16. Portugal: ULICES-CEAUL. 2017.
    Published
Distinctions

Other distinction

2016 CHOICE 'Outstanding Academic Title' (for book, TRANSATLANTIC FICTIONS OF 9/11 AND THE WAR OR TERROR)
2012 Finalista do Prémio Revelação Poesia
2001 Marcus Cunliffe Award
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
1998 MA with DISTINCTION