Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Maria Joana Reis Paiva Nunes de Melo
Citation names
- Melo, Maria
- Maria Joana de Melo
- Maria Joana Paiva Nunes de Melo
- Joana Mello
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8E17-50D4-97E1
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3168-5383
Email addresses
- joana.pn.mello@gmail.com (Professional)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 936801614 (Personal)
Addresses
- Rua Almeida e Sousa, n.65, 2º Direito, 1350-010, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Literary Theory
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
French | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) |
Italian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
German | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) |
Ancient Greek (until 1553) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Latin | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2004 - 2011/09/01
Concluded
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Estudos Portugueses (Doutoramento)
Major in Estudos Literários - Comparativos
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal "Desígnio Inteligente - Actualização da Poética de Aristóteles como teoria do método e funcionalidade específicos de uma arte
audiovisual de larga difusão." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Muito Bom (Classificação Máxima à época) |
2003/10/01 - 2004/06/01
Concluded
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Estudos Portugueses (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Major in Ciencias Literárias
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Muito Bom (Classificação máxima à época) |
1995 - 1999
Concluded
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Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, variante de Estudos Portugueses (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Bom Com Distinção |
1992 - 1995
Attended
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Língua Portuguesa e Línguas Estrangeiras Aplicadas (Licenciatura)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020 - 2024 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal | ||
2004 - 2008 | Researcher (Research) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020/02/01 - 2024/08 | Invited Full Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Other Careers
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2000 - 2004 | Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) | Círculo de Lectores SA, Spain |
1999 - 2000 | Coordenador Técnico (Assistente Técnico) | Rádio e Televisão de Portugal SA, Portugal |
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal SA, Portugal | ||
1995 - 1999 | Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico) | GlaxoSmithKline Portugal, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/01 - 2024/08 | GHOST-Espectralidades: Literatura e Artes (Portugal e Brasil)
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2004/01 - 2019/01 | Bolsa de Doutoramento
SFRH/BD/16857/2004
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Fundação Para a Ciência e Tecnoloia |
Outputs
Publications
Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Artistic / Performance
Artistic exhibition |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/02/15 | Feminin Horror: «Sabbath» by António de Macedo (1991), and «Amelia's Children» by Gabriel Abrantes (2024) | Um Real Vagamente Figurativo
FCSH, Nova University (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/11/06 | The Laboratory as Spectral Space, on «The Strange Death of Professor Antena» by Mário de Sá Carneiro (1914) | La Spectralité dans la littérature et les arts au Portugal et au Brésil : Espaces spectraux
Sorbonne Université (Paris, France)
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2023/09/14 | Resident Ghosts: The Goat Foot Lady, by Alexandre Herculano |
Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica da Universidade de Pisa (Pisa, Italy)
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2023/05/05 | Haunted Media: Adriana Molder and Film Noir | Haunted Media
Nova, FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2011/12 | One hour lecture given to senior students of Law at the Nova University of Lisbon, presenting and debating the issue of Oedipus's inocence or guilt, focusing on the political and ethical lessons in Sophocles' plays and the mitigating circumstances of the so called tragic flaw or hamartia. | «A concept of Justice in Oedipus Rex»
Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2022/11/29 - 2022/11/30 | Introducing the ghost theme in Jorge Brum do Canto's 1929 film «A Dança dos Paroxismos»
Conference
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Cinema Português - Uma História de Fantasmas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
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2022/06/08 - 2022/06/12 | Presentation and discussion of a paper called «Mimesis of Evil, Aristotle's Horrific Animals and Dead Bodies»
Conference
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IX Closed Conference on Popular Literature and Culture, Interpretations, Analyses and Contexts.
Uniwersytet Wroclawski Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, Poland
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2019/11/26 - 2019/11/26 | 20 minute presentation in the Colóquio Paisagem Sem Propriedades, held by the Institute of Tradition and Literature Studies,
UNL, on November 26, 2019. The presentation called «The city, place of the Noir», intended to view the urban landscape in
american film noir as the proper locus for tragedy and the tragic hero, as a space for trespass and transgretion, ecstay and
exile of the self, exploring the concepts of the city as transitional space, carnival and labyrinth.
Symposium
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Colóquio «Paisagem Sem Propriedades»
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
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2019/06/12 - 2019/06/16 | Presentation of the a paper called «Greek tragedy as Cradle of Political Responsability and Awareness in Popular Fiction».
Conference
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VIII Closed Conference, «Popular Literature and Culture: analyses, interpretations, contexts»
Uniwersytet Wroclawski Instytut Filologii Romanskiej, Poland
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2016/06/02 - 2016/06/08 | Presentation of a paper called «The heroic Temper in Hamlet and Taxi Driver», in the 2016 International Crime Festival in
Wroclaw, dedicated to Shakespeare and held by the Institute of Polish Philology. In this paper I used the heroic features
proposed in Bernard Knox' book «The Heroic Temper» to compare Hamlet with Travis Bickle. I also focused on the aesthetic setting
of the criminal mind, and the nurturing of a criminal action, supported by oblique signs of sexual frustration and suicidal
goals.
Conference
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Shakespeare in Crime Fiction
Uniwersytet Wroclawski Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, Poland
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2016/05/03 - 2016/05/06 | Presentation of a paper called «Framed: Cine Niegro Y Tragedia Griega», comparative studie between Greek tragedy and Film
noir, namely «Out of the Past» (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) and «Night and the City» (Jules Dassin, 1950), focusing on emotional
impact of the Off-screen techniques and Aristotle's «Out-of-the-play» scenes. And also on the metaliterary feature of film
noir and tragic plot.
Congress
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Congresso de Novela y Cine Negro: La Globalization del Crimen
Universidad de Salamanca Facultad de Filología, Spain
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2016/03/03 - 2016/03/04 | Co-presentation of a paper on the importance of storytelling in participatory filmmaking and Maasai self-representation. Viewing
and narrative analysis of participatory videos regarding symbolization, irony and storytelling skills of the Maasai tribe.
Round table
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«Action Movies We Shot Ourselves», Café dos Investigadores
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
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2014/05/06 - 2014/05/10 | Presentation of a paper called «Tragedy's 24 hours and the movie's fast Pace», (International Conference
on Philosophy and Film, Thinking Reality and Time through Film), focusing on the
Congress
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International Conference on Philosophy and Film
Goethe Institut Portugal, Portugal
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2013/07/05 - 2013/07/05 | Workshop sobre Frei Luís de Sousa, de Almeida Garrett, a propósito do centenário da publicação da obra. Apresentação de uma
leitura da obra focada na co-incidência do Reconhecimento, anagnorisis, com o Sofrimento, pathos, sendo que este se forma
na mente da personagem enquanto reconstituição trágica de eventos não-trágicos.
Workshop
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«Frei Luís de Sousa, Uma tragédia Clássica, Romântica ou Contemporânea»
Município de Vila Real, Portugal
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Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2020/02/01 - Current | Teaching: Post-Graduation Degree in Literary Art (Pós-graduação Artes da Escrita, FCSH, UNL, «Escrita e Cinema II»). Close reading and analysis of Aristotle's Poetics, in order to approach greek tragedy as classic standard for popular art and comercial fiction, namely classical XXth century film. Diferent approaches to a new kind of literary fiction influenced by visual conception. Functionality, colectiveness and amotional solicitation in the tragic model. | Artes da Escrita (Pós-Graduação) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2004 | Bolsa de Doutoramento, FCT
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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