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Maria José Canelo is researcher (since 2002) at the Center for Social Studies (CES), integrating Thematic Line 3, "Europe and the Global South: heritage and dialogues". She is Assistant Professor in Anglo-American Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (FLUC). She got her PhD in American Studies at New York University with a thesis titled "Carey McWilliams and the question of cultural citizenship in the 1940s". Her Masters in Anglo-American Studies and BA in English and German Studies were pursued at the University of Coimbra. She teaches in the BA in Modern Languages, the MA in Studies in Culture, Literature and Modern Languages, the MA in English Teaching and the PhD in Modern Languages: Literature, Culture, Translation. She coordinates the MA in Studies in Cultures, Literatures and Modern Languages (FLUC). She has been part of research projects at CES, such as "The representation of violence and the violence of representation" and "Memory, violence, identity: new comparative perspectives on modernism". Her current research interests include American and Interamerican studies; literary and cultural studies; questions of citizenship, national identity, and immigration; modernism and literary magazines; interculturality; and visual studies.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maria José Canelo

Citation names

  • Canelo, Maria José

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9213-129C-9DD4
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9441-6055
Scopus Author Id
56600801100

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
German Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
1998/09/01 - 2003/05/11
Concluded
Estudos Americanos (Doutoramento)
New York University, United States

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
"“Carey McWilliams and the question of cultural citizenship in the 1940s”" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Accepted
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2003/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2005/09/01 - 2023 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2005/09 - 2008/09 The Representation of Violence and the Violence of Representation
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Stichting Weten
2001 - 2005 Memória, Violência e Identidade: Novas Perspectivas Comparadas sobre o Modernismo”
POCTI/36434/ELT/1999
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Stichting Weten
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Canelo, Maria José. Comunidades Literárias e Projectos Nacionais: As revistas modernistas Orpheu, Portugal Futurista, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse e The Little Review.. Coimbra, Portugal: Editora Almedica / CES. 2022.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Canelo, Maria José. "Shaping the visuality of the "American Century" in Life magazine through the lenses of women photographers". In American Studies Over_Seas: Narrating Multiple America(s). In Honor of Teresa F. A. Alves and Teresa Cid, 261-276. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2022.
    Published
  2. Canelo, Maria José. "Cidadania". In Media, masculinidades e equidade de género: O papel da comunicação na transformação social., tba-tba. Coimbra, Portugal: Centro de Estudos Sociais, 2022.
    In press
  3. Canelo, Maria José. "Carey McWilliams' Activism and the Democratic Human Rights Tradition". In Human Rights in the Americas, 181-195. London and New York, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2021.
    Published
  4. Canelo, Maria José. "Spectacles of violence: passivity and agency in photographs of the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movements". In Everything is a Story: Creative Interactions in Anglo-American Studies, 159-174. Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal: Edições Húmus, 2019.
    Published
  5. Canelo, Maria José. "Telling stories from pictures: visual close reading tools for a critical visual literacy". In A Formação Inicial de Professores nas Humanidades: Reflexões Didáticas, 161-180. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2019.
    Published
  6. Canelo, Maria José. "Lessons in transnationalism as a framework of knowledge in the critiques of José Martí, Randolph Bourne, Herbert Bolton and Waldo Frank". In The edge of one of many circles: homenagem a Irene Ramalho Santos, 161-181. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2017.
    Published • 10.14195/978-989-26-1308-6_5
  7. Canelo, Maria José. "O uso da fotografia na sala de aulas". In O cruzamento de saberes na aula de inglês: contributos para uma prática multidisciplinar, 103-122. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2014.
    Published • 10.14195/978-989-26-0690-3_5
  8. Canelo, Maria José. "Dominar o Medo e Controlar a Violência: a Segunda Guerra Mundial na revista Common Ground". In Representações da Violência, 127-138. Coimbra, Portugal: Almedina, 2013.
    Published
  9. Canelo, Maria José. "Solidarity in difference: unveiling the coloniality of power in Ntozake Shange's sociopoetics". In Diasporic Identities and Empire. Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes, 40-52. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
    Published
  10. Canelo, Maria José. "'America': A View from the South". In America Where?: Transatlantic Views of the United States in the Twenty-first Century, 95-115. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2012.
    Published
  11. Canelo, Maria José. "Carey McWilliams, the public intellectual: reflections on citizenship and culture". In Intellectual Topographies and the Making of Citizenship, 163-176. Lisbon, Portugal: Universidade Católica Editora, 2011.
    Published
  12. Canelo, Maria José. "The geopolitical dimension of modernism: Mexican countercultures in California". In Translocal Modernisms / International Perspectives, 213-224. Bern, Switzerland: Peter lang, 2008.
    Published
  13. Canelo, Maria José. "Common Ground and Immigrant Literatures in the 1940s". In Novas Histórias Literárias / New Literary Histories, 295-306. Coimbra, Portugal: MinervaCoimbra, 2004.
    Published
  14. Canelo, Maria José. "Nações em Revista(s). As revistas literárias e a reconstrução da identidade nacional nos modernismos brasileiro, português e norte-americano". In Entre ser e estar. Raízes, Percursos e Discursos da Identidade, 437-471. Porto, Portugal: Afrontamento, 2002.
    Published
  15. Canelo, Maria José. "Elitism and populism: modernism's midwives at Poetry A Magazine of Verse". In Do Esplendor na Relva. Elites e Cultura Comum de Expressão Inglesa, 99-108. Lisboa, Portugal: Cosmos, 2000.
    Published
  16. Canelo, Maria José. "Shifting Bonds in Modernism. Male and Female Father-Figures in The Little Review". In Shifting Bonds, Shifting Bounds. Women, Mobility and Citizenship in Europe, 357-363. Oeiras, Portugal: Celta, 1998.
    Published
Book review
  1. Canelo, Maria José. "Maria Irene Ramalho Santos (2003), Atlantic Poets. Fernando Pessoa's Turn in Anglo-American Modernism, Hanover and London: University Press of New England". Review of Atlantic Poets. Fernando Pessoa's Turn in Anglo-American Modernism (2004): 61-62.
    Published
  2. Canelo, Maria José. "Mieke Bal e Hent de Vries (orgs.) (1997), The Practice of Cultural Analysis. Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Stanford: Stanford University Press". Review of The Practice of Cultural Analysis. Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation 3 (1999): 337-343. https://ojs.lib.umassd.edu/index.php/plcs/article/view/PLCS3_Canelo_page337/1116.
    Published
  3. Canelo, Maria José. "Jayne Marek (1995), Women Editing Modernism. 'Little' Magazines & Literary History, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995". Review of Women Editing Modernism. «Little» Magazines and Literary History 47 (1997): 201-205. http://www.ces.uc.pt/rccs/index.php?id=608&id_lingua=1.
    Published
  4. Canelo, Maria José. "Nuno Júdice (1997), A fonte da vida, Lisboa: Quetzal Editores". Review of A fonte da vida 47 (1997): 187-188. http://www.ces.uc.pt/rccs/index.php?id=608&id_lingua=1.
    Published
  5. Canelo, Maria José. "Rosa Alice Branco (1997), O único traço do pincel, Porto: Limiar". Review of O único traço do pincel 47 (1997): 188-189. http://www.ces.uc.pt/rccs/index.php?id=608&id_lingua=1.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Canelo, Maria José. "An America of South's Own". Paper presented in International American Studies Association 3rd World Congress, 2007.
    Published
  2. Canelo, Maria José. "Good Dances Make Good Neighbors: the U.S. welcome Carmen Miranda". Paper presented in XXVII Encontro da APEAA, Carcavelos, 2007.
    Published
  3. Canelo, Maria José. "Reading the Depression. Modernism and Documentary". Paper presented in XXV Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Vila Real, 2006.
    Published
  4. Canelo, Maria José. "Poesia Modernista e Diferença Cultural". Paper presented in XVIII Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Guarda, 1997.
    Published
Dictionary entry
  1. Canelo, Maria José. "Visualidade". In Palavras para lá da Pandemia. Cem lados de uma crise. Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, 2020. https://ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/palavras-pandemia/?lang=1&id=30197.
    Published
  2. Canelo, Maria José. "Cidadania". In Dicionário das Crises e das Alternativas. Almedina/CES, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/90853.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Caldeira, Isabel; Canelo, Maria José; Cholant, Gonçalo. Reinventar o social: movimentos e narrativas de resistência nas Américas. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. 2021.
    Published • 10.14195/978-989-26-2126-5 • Editor
  2. Canelo, Maria José; Soares, Marta. Discourses That Matter: Selected Essays in English and American Studies. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2013.
    Published • Editor
  3. Caldeira, Isabel; Canelo, Maria José; Ramalho, Maria Irene. America Where?: Transatlantic Views of the United States in the Twenty-First Century. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang. 2012.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Canelo, Maria José. "Paul Beatty s The Sellout as Allegory of the U.S. Carceral System". Atlantis - Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 44 2 (2022): 187-205. https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/issue/view/31.
    Published
  2. Canelo, Maria José. "Can the Undocumented Speak? Undocumented Immigrants and Self-Representation". American Studies Journal 69 (2020):
    Open access • Published • 10.18422/69-04
  3. Canelo, Maria José. "Redefining the Terms of National Belonging in War and Peace, in Randolph Bourne's Critique of the Great War". American and British Studies Annual 12 (2019): 9-23. https://ff.upce.cz/ff/volume-12-0#Canelo.
    Published
  4. Canelo, Maria José. ""Literatura e Cultura"". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais Número esp (2018): 217-236. https://journals.openedition.org/rccs/7862.
    Open access • 10.4000/rccs.7862
  5. Canelo, Maria José. "Nations in Review(s): modernist 'little' magazines and the (trans)national imagination". Comparative Literature Studies 55 3 (2018): 595-617. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/complitstudies.55.3.0595.
    Open access • Published • 10.5325/complitstudies.55.3.0595
  6. Canelo, Maria José. "Art as social commentary: visual syntax and meaning in Barbara Kruger's collages". Cescontexto - Debates 15 (2016): 70-78.
    Open access • Published
  7. Canelo, Maria José. "Producing good neighbors: Carmen Miranda's body as spectacular pan-Americanism". Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines 139 (2014): 60-76. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84928169794&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published • 10.3917/rfea.139.0060
  8. Canelo, Maria José. "Übersetzung, Subjektivität und Kulturbürgerschaft". Polylog 26 (2011): 115-124. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/43217.
    Open access • Published
  9. Canelo, Maria José. "Carey McWilliams and the magazine Common Ground". Op. Cit.: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos 9 (2007): 61-81. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/43216.
    Open access • Published
  10. Canelo, Maria José. "Dimensões geopolíticas do modernismo. Contraculturas mexicanas na Califórnia". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 74 (2006): 115-127. http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/937.
    Open access • Published • 10.4000/rccs.937
  11. Canelo, Maria José. "Carey McWilliams, a Forerunner of Cultural Citizenship in the 1940s". Anglo-Saxónica II 23 (2005): 231-249. http://www.ulices.org/anglo-saxonica/blog/pagina-4.html.
    Open access • Published
  12. Canelo, Maria José. "Portuguese modernism unbounded: a poetics for the "border identity"". Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 1 (1998): 89-108. https://ojs.lib.umassd.edu/index.php/plcs/article/view/PLCS1_Canelo_page89.
    Open access • Published
Journal issue
  1. Canelo, Maria José; Santos, Filipe; Serapioni, Mauro; Solovova, Olga; Peixoto, Paulo; Maeso, Silvia Rodríguez; Lima, Teresa Maneca; Neves, Vitor. "Portugal: um retrato ainda singular? 40 anos volvidos". e-cadernos CES 29 (2018): https://doi.org/10.4000/eces.2994.
    Published • 10.4000/eces.2994 • Coeditor
  2. Caldeira, Isabel; Canelo, Maria José. "Intervenções. Vozes privadas em espaços públicos". e-cadernos CES 27 (2017): https://journals.openedition.org/eces/2193.
    Published • 10.4000/eces.2193 • Coeditor
  3. "Estudos Americanos". Cabo dos Trabalhos 13 (2016): http://cabodostrabalhos.ces.uc.pt/n13/editorial.php.
    Published • Coeditor
  4. "A questão social no novo milénio". Travessias 6/7 (2008):
    Published • Coeditor
Preface / Postscript
  1. Canelo, Maria José. "Introduction". 1-8. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2013.
    Published
  2. Canelo, Maria José. "Prefácio". Preface to USA: mito, crise, guerra e consumismo durante a Feira Mundial de Nova Iorque de 1939. Curitiba, Brazil: Ed. Protexto. 2013.
    Published
Working paper
  1. Canelo, Maria José. 2021. "Notes on Undocumented Immigrants and Affective Citizenship". https://ces.uc.pt/pt/publicacoes/outras-publicacoes-e-colecoes/oficina-do-ces/numeros/oficina-459.
  2. Canelo, Maria José. 2016. "Randolph Bourne's 'Trans-national America': between pluralist and exceptionalist cosmopolitanism". https://ces.uc.pt/pt/publicacoes/outras-publicacoes-e-colecoes/oficina-do-ces/numeros/oficina-435.
  3. Canelo, Maria José. 2014. "The Disloyal Pacifist, the Complacent Intellectual, and the War State, in Randolph Bourne's Critique of the First World War". https://ces.uc.pt/pt/publicacoes/outras-publicacoes-e-colecoes/oficina-do-ces/numeros/oficina-413.
  4. Canelo, Maria José. 2012. "Inter-American Studies and the reconfiguration of US hegemony". https://ces.uc.pt/pt/publicacoes/outras-publicacoes-e-colecoes/oficina-do-ces/numeros/oficina-394.
  5. Canelo, Maria José. 2011. "Carey McWilliams, the Public Intellectual: Reflections on his work on citizenship and culture". https://ces.uc.pt/en/publicacoes/outras-publicacoes-e-colecoes/oficina-do-ces/numeros/oficina-362.
  6. Canelo, Maria José. 2010. "There is no Edge: unveiling the coloniality of power in Ntozake Shange's poetry". http://www.ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/oficina/index.php?id=2491.
  7. Canelo, Maria José. 2009. "Home Sour Home: Uncanny Experiences of the U.S. Home Front in the 1940s". https://ces.uc.pt/pt/publicacoes/outras-publicacoes-e-colecoes/oficina-do-ces/numeros/oficina-325.
  8. Canelo, Maria José. 2006. "Good Dances Make Good Neighbors: the U.S. welcome Carmen Miranda". https://ces.uc.pt/pt/publicacoes/outras-publicacoes-e-colecoes/oficina-do-ces/numeros/oficina-252.
  9. Canelo, Maria José. 2003. "Carey McWilliams e a ideia da cidadania cultural nos anos 40 e 50". https://ces.uc.pt/pt/publicacoes/outras-publicacoes-e-colecoes/oficina-do-ces/numeros/oficina-199.
  10. Canelo, Maria José. 1997. "Modernist Poetry and Cultural Difference". https://ces.uc.pt/pt/publicacoes/outras-publicacoes-e-colecoes/oficina-do-ces/numeros/oficina-96.

Other

Other output
  1. Introdução / Introduction / Introducción. Reinventar o social: movimentos e narrativas de resistência nas Américas. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 9-49. 2021. Caldeira, Isabel; Canelo, Maria José; Cholant, Gonçalo. http://monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/book/235.
  2. Introdução. e-cadernos CES, 29, 7-12. 2018. Canelo, Maria José. http://journals.openedition.org/eces/3018.
    10.4000/eces.3018
  3. Introdução. e-cadernos CES, 27, 4-11. 2017. Canelo, Maria José. https://doi.org/10.4000/eces.2196.
    10.4000/eces.2196
  4. Título: The Wall. Comentário de Maria José Canelo. In: Carlos Nolasco e Elsa Lechner, Dossier temático "Ciclo de cinema e debates 'Migrações clandestinas': Sinopses e comentários", Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais , 105, 125-160. 2014. Canelo, Maria José. https://journals.openedition.org/rccs/5838#tocfrom2n8.
  5. Introduction. Discourses That Matter: Selected Essays in English and American Studies. 2013. Canelo, Maria José. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/58554.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/06/02 Frederick Douglass and photography: visualizing the Black American Self 43rd APEAA Meeting - "Cultures of the Self"
Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) & Catholic University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/05/27 Narratives of undocumentedness and the notion of affective belonging 3-day international conference "Crises and Turns: Continuities and Discontinuities in American Culture"
Nordic Association for American Studies (Uppsala, Sweden)
2022/11/19 Affective landscapes of belonging in self-representations by undocumented migrants in the US Crossroads of Cultural Studies
13th biannuam meeting of the International Association for Cultural Studies & University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/11/11 Undocumented immigrants autobiographical texts as acts of citizenship Sixth Biennal Conference of the Inter-American Studies Association (IAS), Walls, Bridges, and Borders in the Americas
University of Texas in Laredo (Laredo, United States)
2021/09/16 Notas para discutir os estudos de cultura visual XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro (CONLAB 2021) Utopias pós-crise. Artes e saberes em movimento
Center for Social Studies (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/04/30 Issues of visuality and power: undocumented migrants in the US intimate public sphere, 33º Encontro da European Association for American Studies (EAAS), “20/20 vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal”, Universidade de Varsóvia, Polónia, 30 Abril de 2021 [evento adiado de 2020, devido à pandemia de Covid-19; realização online]. 33 Meeting of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal
University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
2019/04/30 Visual Culture Studies: ways of seeing, reading, and telling, integrado no ciclo InterSEAActions, Faculdade de Letras da UC, 30 de Abril, 2019. InterSEAActions conference cycle
SEAA - FLUC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/11/23 Reading visual representations of the Black Lives Matter movement Dikes of Courage: Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Aesthetics of Protest
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (lisboa )
2018/09/24 Can the Undocumented Speak? Undocumented Immigrants and Self-representation "Understanding America in the 21st Century: Culture and Politics"
Salzburg Seminar of the American Studies Association (SSASA) (Salzburg, Austria)
2012/04/12 Os Estudos Americanos e o Hemisfério: Notas sobre uma (re)descoberta Open seminar (American Studies PhD program)
SEAA - FLUC (Coimbra, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021/09/01 - Current 'The World Only Spins Forward'. Narrating Affects, Intimacies,and Experiences of Citizenship in HIV/AIDS Life Writings
Supervisor of Leonardo Correia Cascão
Línguas Modernas: Culturas, Literaturas e Tradução (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/05 - Current Inner Gaze: the Role of Prison Writings in the African American Movements for Racial Justice
Supervisor of Maria Mercone
Pós-Colonialismos e Cidadania Global (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018 - Current Children of the sun, the stars and the moon: silence, voice and racial representation in Effie Lee Newsome and Jacqueline Woodson
Co-supervisor of Liliana Raquel Miranda Costa Gomes dos Santos
American Studies (Literary and Cultural Studies) (PhD)
2015/07 - 2021/01 From Urban Dystopias to a Better Ecology in the Americas
Co-supervisor of Maria Isabel de Sousa
Línguas Modernas - Literatura, Cultura e Tradução (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2008 - 2014 Novos equilíbrios após o ’11-de-Setembro’: diálogos intelectuais entre os Estados Unidos da América e a França
Co-supervisor of Maria Manuella Tavares
American Studies (PhD)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2022/10/28 - 2022/10/28 One-day event in honor of the writer Jack Kerouac "Kerouac 100" (2022/10/28 - 2022/10/28)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/06/20 - 2022/06/24 Co-coordenação da CES Summerschool em Estudos Culturais - "Visualidades e Contravisualidades" (2022/06/20 - 2022/06/20)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2021/09/15 - 2021/09/17 Co-organisor of the working-group (56) - “Objetos e histórias no espaço visual: instrumentos de análise para uma cidadania visual e cultural” in the XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro (CONLAB 2021) "Utopias pós-crise. Artes e saberes em movimento" (2021/09/15 - 2021/09/17)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018/03/22 - 2018/03/24 5th International Meeting of the International Association for Inter-American Studies (IAS), “Reinventing the Social: Movements and Narratives of Resistance, Dissesion, and Reconciliation in the Americas”, org. by the Faculty of Arts and the Center for Social Studies (2018/03/22 - 2018/03/24)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2015/06/17 - 2015/06/20 2nd Symposium of the International Association of Discourse Studies (EdiSo), “Discursos e Sociedades em Movimento” (2015/06/17 - 2015/06/20)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2014/05/02 - 2014/05/03 2nd Postgraduate Colloquium in American and Englsih Studies at FLUC (2014/05/02 - 2014/05/03)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2011/05/12 - 2011/05/14 XXXII Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (2011/05/12 - 2011/05/14)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2021/06/02 Weaponized Women in Contemporary Visual Culture: Representing Military Women in the War on Terror, (PhD Studies in Literature and Culture)
(Thesis) Arguer
Ana Raquel Romão Alves (PhD)
2021/02/01 From Urban Dystopias to a Better Ecology in the Americas, PhD in Modern Languages, Literatures and Translation (Specialization in American Studies)
Supervisor
Maria Isabel de Sousa (PhD)

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021 - 2021 Revista de Estudos Literários (2182-1526 ) Universidade de Coimbra
2020 - 2020 Biblos. Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra (2183-7139) Universidade de Coimbra

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018 - Current Salzburg Seminar American Studies Association Fellow
2016 - Current International Association of Inter-American Studies Fellow
2009 - Current Associação Internacional de Estudos Americanos (IASA) Fellow
1998 - Current Membro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos Fellow
1998 - Current European Association for American Studies (EAAS) Fellow

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2021/11/01 - 2023/06/04 Membro da Mesa da Assembleia da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (APEAA)
Member
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/03/31 - 2022/04/02 Organization of scientific congress (42nd Meeting Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies)
President / Vice-president
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2023/03/01 - 2023/06/04 "Cultures of the Self" Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2001/09/01 - Current Undergraduate subjects and postgraduate seminars (Masters and PhD) in the areas of American Studies, Methodologies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies and teaching English

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2020 - Current Member of the Evaluation Panel of the Fulbright Commission in Portugal for scholarships in the area of English Literature
Evaluator
Comissão Fulbright, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2018 - Current Ad Americam. Journal of American Studies (1896-9461) Ksiegarnia Akademicka
2013 - 2021/07 e-cadernos ces Centro de estudos Sociais
2011/11 - 2018/03 Op. Cit., Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (0874-1409)

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020/05 - Current Specialist - classify an academic journal's scientific scope and editorial quality in an application to the Open Edition database
Distinctions

Other distinction

2007 Travel Grant (International Colloquium, Great Britain)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2002 Research and Travel Grant (Univ. of California in Los Angeles)
Fundação Luso-Americana, Portugal
2001 Student Travel Grant
1998 PhD Scholarship (PRAXIS XXI Program )
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
1998 Fulbright PhD Scholarship
1997 Research Scholarship (PRAXIS XXI Program)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
1997 Scholarship for research abroad (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
1996 1996 Academic Merit Prize
1995 Scholarship for research abroad (Madison, WI, USA)
Fundação Luso-Americana, Portugal
1995 Masters' Scholarship (PRAXIS XXI Program)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal