Curriculum Vitae
Elena Bollinger
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Elena Bollinger
Citation names
- Bollinger, Elena
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8D17-D60D-53B2
Email addresses
- elena.bollinger@staff.uma.pt (Professional)
- elenabollinger81@gmail.com (Personal)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 927349969 (Personal)
Addresses
- Caminho da Penteada , 9020-105, Funchal, Funchal, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Russian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| German | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| Italian | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2021
Concluded
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Estudos Ingleses e Estudos Americanos (Doutoramento)
Major in PhD in English Literature and Culture, specialty Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon / Summa cum laude
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"“There is Something Behind It All”: The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory in Julian Barnes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado com Distincao e Louvor / Summa cum laude |
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2008
Concluded
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Estudos Ingleses e Americanos (Mestrado)
Major in Comparative Literature - English / Russian
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Muito Bom |
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2005
Concluded
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Tradução (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Major in Postgraduate Degree in Translation Studies - English, German, Russian
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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18 |
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2002
Concluded
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Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, variante de Estudos Ingleses e Alemães (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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15 |
Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2023/09/17 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades, Portugal |
Other Careers
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/09/01 - 2023/09/01 | Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) | Colégio Mira Rio, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/05/23 - Current | Researcher | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal |
Projects
Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/06/25 - Current | Reading British Novelists in Contemporary Russia
CM
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2021/09/16 - Current | Shared Memories: Literatures and Cultures in English and Portuguese
GM
Researcher at ULICES
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2023/01 - 2025/01 | Between Remembering and Forgetting: Reception Studies and Memory Studies in Dialogue
CM
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
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Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Journal article |
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| Journal issue |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/05/24 | "Life always refused simplicity": Reflections on home and time in Julian Barnes's work |
Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2025/01/31 | "Seeing the World through the Eyes of the Other": Peripheric Discourses in lan McEwan's Saturday" | PERIPHERIES IN TIMES OF GRISES: Representations, Narratives, Discourses
Universidade da Madeira (Funchal, Portugal)
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| 2024/12/05 | “A glance towards the past”: City as 'prosthetic memory' in Julian Barnes's Metroland | The Street and the City — Challenges.
Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/11/29 | “Between the Heart and the Genitals”: Literary Reflection on the Aesthetics of Obsolescence in Julian Barnes’s Before She Met Me | The Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction, Conferência Internacional
Universidade da Madeira / LCIR (Funchal, Portugal)
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| 2024/07/20 | “In Silence, with sick recoil I read the story of my life”: Exploring travelling memories in Julian Barnes’s fiction. | MSA 8th Annual Conference
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima, Peru)
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| 2024/06/25 | Revising Minor Discourses in J. Barnes’s Elizabeth Finch |
Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/05/31 | “Mapping Life Narratives, Exploring Biographies": The Dialectics of Silence in Julian Barnes’s The Lemon Table |
LCIR, Centro Congressi Cavour, Rome, Italy (Roma , Italy)
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| 2023/12/02 | “The Shifting Light of History”: Questioning Borderlands in Elizabeth Finch |
Birkbeck, University of London (Londres, United Kingdom)
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| 2023/11/25 | "The Shifting Light of History": Revising discourses on religion in Elizabeth Finch | Colóquio “Mulheres e Género: Religião, Mitologia e Magia"
Universidade da Madeira (Funchal, Portugal)
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| 2023/06/22 | A moment of long ago: exploring displacement in J. Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending |
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/06/01 | Rethinking Transcultural Reception of Memories in Nothing to Be Frightened Of |
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2022/11/21 | The 3 Anthologies “between remembering and forgetting” | International Conference on Anglo-Portuguese Studies III: a tribute to Professor Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2022/03 | "A tale of two halves": Recollection of history in Doris Lessing's Alfred & Emily and Leo Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood and Youth. | The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place, Conferência Internacional
LCIR, online (Londres, United Kingdom)
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| 2021/11 | "I Have a Vivid Memory of Pulling out Crime and Punishment": Dostoevsky's Phenomenology of the 'Grotesque Mind' in Barnes's Before She Met Me |
FLUL / Centre for Slavic Languages and Cultures (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2019/11 | Rethinking Authority in J. Barnes’s The Noise of Time |
University of Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria)
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| 2019/03 | Discursive Construction of Memory in Gogol and Barnes |
Bruges - progressive Connexions (Bruges , Belgium)
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| 2018/10 | The Identity of a Dying Self in The Death of Ivan Ilych and in Mrs. Dalloway |
Lisbon - Progressive Connexions (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/05 | "Life Comes as Spring Comes, from All Sides”: Barnes’s Self Beyond Time and Representation |
FLUL / Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/04 | The Plethora of Choice as a Double Shift Retrieval in Julian Barnes’s The Lemon Table |
Universidade de Évora (Evora, Portugal)
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| 2017/04 | "The wonderful eye observes everything": Woolf translating Tolstoy |
Universidade do Minho (Braga , Portugal)
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| 2017/03 | “’Toda a Questão está no Acaso”: A Construcção de Identidade em Depois do Baile, de Leo Tolstoi |
FLUL / Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/10/29 - 2025/10/31 | Conferência Internacional Discourses in Interaction, Universidade da Madeira em associação com a Universidade de Lisboa e
Universidade de Lodz (2025/10/29 - 2025/10/31)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| 2025/03 - 2025/06 | Unwritten Conversations: Stories in the Making with... Co-organizado com Margarida Martins e Vanessa Guignery
Conversas com escritores sobre a escrita criativa (2025/03/26)
Round table (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Madeira, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal École normale supérieure de Lyon Département de Sciences humaines, France |
| 2025/03/19 - 2025/03/19 | Writing, Imagination, and the Surreal: Workshop on Literature & Writing by Camilla Grudova
(2025/03/19 - 2025/03/19)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| 2024/11/29 - 2024/12/01 | Conferência Internacional “The Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction”, em colaboração com LCIR, que decorreu
na Universidade da Madeira, de 29.11.202 a 01.12.2024 (2024/11/29 - 2024/12/01)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| 2024/11/25 - 2024/11/25 | Writing for Publication: 5 Golden Rules from Literary Agent, Writer, and Doctoral Research Scholar Laetitia Rutherford (2024/11/25 - 2024/11/25)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| 2024/09/02 - 2024/09/07 | IX SIMELP - Simpósio Mundial de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa / VI Congresso da AILP
Universidade da Madeira, 02.09.2024 a 07.09.2024 (2024/09/02 - 2024/09/07)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| 2024/06/27 - 2024/06/29 | Desire, Imagination & Dream: Angela Carter in Portugal, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (2024/06/27 - 2024/06/29)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2024/02/28 - 2024/05/08 | Creative Readings: Lectures
https://www.uma.pt/en/noticias/creative-readings-lectures/?contentid=164602 (2024/02/28 - 2024/05/08)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| 2024/05/02 - 2024/05/02 | Creative Readings: (Trans)Cultural Insights
Semana das Artes e Humanidades, FAH, Universidade da Madeira
https://www.uma.pt/noticias/iii-a-semana-das-artes-e-humanidades/ (2024/05/02 - 2024/05/02)
Round table (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| 2024/05 - 2024/05 | Organização da visita da Professora Agnieszka Lowczanin à Universidade da Madeira, no âmbito do programa de mobilidade Erasmus
+ (2024/05 - 2024/05)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| 2023/06/21 - 2023/06/21 | Book Launch / University of Lisbon, Faculty of Arts and Humanities (2023/06/21 - 2023/06/21)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/12/05 - 2024/12/06 | The Street and the City - Challenges
Moderação da sessão Urban Memories
Conference
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The Street and the City — Challenges.
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2024/11/29 - 2024/11/29 | Moderação da sessão “Decay and Protest: The Intersection of Art and Ruin”
Conference
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"Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction"
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
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| 2024/11/21 - 2024/11/22 | Memory Studies Association Research Centers Network Nottingham, 21 -22 November 2024
Meeting
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Memory Studies Association Research Centers Network Nottingham
Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
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| 2024/05/31 - 2024/05/31 | Moderação da sessão “Conjunction: Aspects of Place”
Conference
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Birkbeck College, United Kingdom
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2020/10/01 - Current | Memory Studies Association | A member of Memory Studies Association |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/10/24 - Current | Membro do Conselho de Curso de Licenciatura LERE (Línguas e Relações Empresariais), da Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades,
da Universidade da Madeira
Member
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Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/10/29 - 2025/10/31 | Discourses in Interaction | Universidade da Madeira |
| 2024/11/29 - 2024/12/01 | "Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction" | Universidade da Madeira |
| 2022/02/01 - 2022/04/30 | Experiencing and Envisioning Food. Designing for Change. | Faculdade de Arquitectura Universidade de Lisboa |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/07/01 - 2024/07/14 | Seminário em Literatura Russa dos séculos 19 e 20, no âmbito da oferta académica de "Summer School" promovida pela Unin«versidade da Madeira | (Outros) | Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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| 2022/01/09 - 2024/01/09 | Peer review of academic articles
Evaluator
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Academic Journals Inc, United States |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/06/20 | Entrevista a Diário de Notícias da Madeira, com o objectivo de apresentar "Desire, Imagination & Dream: Angela Carter in Portugal", Conferência Internacional organizada pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa | Diário de Notícias |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/07 - Current | Diário de Notícias da Madeira | Seminário em Literatura Russa desenvolvido na Universidade da Madeira |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/02 - Current | Anglo Saxonica - Associate Editor (2184-6006) |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/06 - 2025/06 | Concurso Especial para Estudante Internacional do Primeiro Ciclo em Línguas e Relações Empresariais | Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| 2025/05 - 2025/05 | Provas especialmente adequadas destinadas a avaliar a capacidade para a frequência do ensino superior dos maiores de 23 anos do Primeiro Ciclo em Línguas e Relações Empresariais | Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| 2024/07/09 - 2024/07/09 | Concurso Especial para Estudante Internacional do Primeiro Ciclo em Línguas e Relações Empresariais | Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| 2024/05/29 - 2024/05/29 | Provas especialmente adequadas destinadas a avaliar a capacidade para a frequência do ensino superior dos maiores de 23 anos do Primeiro Ciclo em Línguas e Relações Empresariais | Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades, Portugal |
Distinctions
Title
| 2021 | Doctor of Philosophy
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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