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MARIA de JESUS C. RELVAS is Professor of English Studies (with Tenure) at the Department of Humanities of Universidade Aberta (Distance Education University of Portugal), where she teaches English Literature of the Renaissance, English Society and Culture, Masterworks of Western Literature, Themes of Classic Culture and Portuguese Classic Literature. She is a Researcher at CEAUL/ULICES (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies), and a Collaborating Researcher at: — UID-FCT nº 4372, Laboratory of Distance Education and eLearning (LE@D), Universidade Aberta, Portugal (https://lead.uab.pt); — CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies). She is Associate Member of SEDERI (Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies) since 1992. Her areas of academic research and interest are Medieval and Renaissance studies, Renaissance imagery and iconography, Victorianism, Distance Education and Digital Humanities. She has participated in several research projects in Portugal and abroad, within the fields of Literature, Culture and Distance Education. The following works can be counted among her recent publications: "Lear and Quijote, two wanderers on uneven paths; “ ‘On such a full sea are we now afloat’: Travelling through Oceans, Writings and Images in Early Modern Times”; “Beholding a ‘Brave New World’. Sir Walter Raleigh’s The Discovery of Guiana and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest”; “Beyond Time and Oblivion: Sir Robert Sidney’s autograph manuscript”; “Icons of Supremacy and the Birth of an Empire – Two Portraits of Elizabeth I”; “A Villain and a Monster – The Literary Portrait of Richard III by Thomas More and William Shakespeare”; “Evaluating Continuous Assessment Quality in Competence-Based Education Online: The case of the e-Folio” (co-author; EDEN 2009 Best Research Paper Award).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maria de Jesus Crespo Candeias Velez Relvas

Citation names

  • Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.
  • Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.C.V.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9A1C-7988-0873
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5260-2626

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
German Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2002
Concluded
 Letras / Literatura Inglesa | PhD in Letters / English Literature (Doutoramento)
Major in Letras / Literatura Inglesa
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Actos Biográficos do Renascimento Inglês. Os Exemplos de Thomas More, Francis Bacon e George Cavendish | PhD thesis: Biographical Writings of the English Renaissance. The Examples of Thomas More, Francis Bacon and George Cavendish" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovação com Distinção e Louvor por Unanimidade|A
1986 - 1989
Concluded
 Estudos Anglo-Americanos | MA in Anglo-American Studies (Mestrado)
Major in Literatura Inglesa
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Contrastes Tópicos em Sir Robert Sidney (1563-1626) | Topical Contrasts in Sir Robert Sidney (1563-1626)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovação com Muito Bom por Unanimidade | Approved
1979 - 1982
Concluded
 Línguas e Literaturas Modernas — Estudos Ingleses e Alemães | BA in Modern Languages and Literatures — English and German Studies (Licenciatura)
Major in Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Não se aplica" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14 valores | 14 (out of 20)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2007 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2007 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Aberta Laboratório de Educação a Distância e E-learning, Portugal
Universidade Aberta Laboratório de Educação a Distância e E-learning, Portugal
2005 - 2007 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1995/06/18 - 2002/05/12 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Aberta, Portugal
1993/10/01 - 1995/06/16 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
1989/12/12 - 1995/06/16 Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal
1987 - 1989 Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco Escola Superior Agrária Biblioteca, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/02/06 - Current Investigação Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2007/05/13 - Current Professora Auxiliar de Nomeação Definitiva | Assistant Professor with Tenure Universidade Aberta Departamento de Humanidades, Portugal
1987/10/01 - 1989/09/11 Assistente (área científica de Inglês) | Lecturer (English) Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal
1985/01/02 - 1987/09/30 Assessora da Presidência e Vice-Presidência | Assessor to the President and to the Vice-President of ICALP ICALP — Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Faria, Luísa Leal de, 1948-; Malafaia, Maria Teresa; Miranda, Rui Gonçalves; Gonçalves, Fernando Xavier; Alves, Helen Santos; Paisana, Joanne; Silva, Lúcio Craveiro da, 1914- 2007, S.J.; et al. O lago de todos os recursos : [homenagem a Hélio Osvaldo Alves]. Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa. 2004.
Book chapter
  1. "Iconographic manuscripts: reading some portraits of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I". In English Literature in the World. From Manuscript to Digital, 85-96. Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal: Húmus, 2020.
    Published
  2. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. "Nota prévia e Introdução [da obra] Uma Apologia da Poesia (1595)". CEAUL/ULICES, 2015.
  3. Nobre, Ana; Relvas, Maria de Jesus. "Avaliação alternativa digital da oralidade “Em Qualquer Lugar do Mundo”". Universidade Aberta. LE@D, 2015.
  4. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. "Icons of supremacy and the birth of an empire: two portraits of Elizabeth I". Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
  5. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. "‘The pains which I uncessantly sustain’: expressions of suffering in Elizabethan Lyric Poetry". Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2011.
  6. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. "Sonetos e sequências de sonetos na literatura inglesa do Renascimento". Universidade Aberta, 2005.
Conference paper
  1. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. "“Fair eyes, sweet lips, dear heart” : a dama idealizada e a idealizac¸a~o da dama no tempo de Isabel Tudor". 2011.
  2. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. "O debate renascentista sobre a primazia das artes em Inglaterra : literatura versus história". 2005.
Edited book
  1. English Literature in the World. From Manuscript to Digital. Vila Nova de Famalicão: Húmus. 2020.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Maria de Jesus Crespo Relvas. "Lear and Quijote, two wanderers on uneven paths". The Grove - Working Papers on English Studies 26 (2019): 117-126. https://doi.org/10.17561/grove.v26.a7.
    10.17561/grove.v26.a7
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Oliveira, Susana Paula de Magalhães. "Uma cartografia das mentalidades : a diplomacia portuguesa na Corte Isabelina". PhD, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/35099.
  2. Fonseca, Susana Monteiro dos Santos de Sousa. "Utilização no ensino online de produtos multimédia na perspetiva digital storytelling". Master, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/3432.
  3. Oliveira, Susana Paula de Magalhães. "A mulher do renascimento inglês : segundo a escolástica e a tradição medieval". Master, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/1374.
  4. Martins, Olga Guimarães. "Condições de vida e de trabalho na Inglaterra da Revolução Industrial". Master, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/446.
  5. Aguirre, Stella Guedes Nascimento. "Euthanasia : a study of the age long controversial issue in Thomas More’s Utopia, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Brian Clark’s Whose Life is it Anyway?". Master, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/449.
  6. Mateus, Ana Cristina Gonçalves. "Ocultismo e esoterismo na obra de William Shakespeare : análise das peças Hamlet, The Tempest e The Winterïs Tale". Master, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/445.
  7. Câmara, Karin Gonçalves. "Intertextualidade (e anti-linenaridade) as obras de Janette Winterson : Oranges are not the only fruit, The passion e Sexing the chery : desafio, ou afirmação de convençõpes literárias?". Master, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/447.

Other

Other output
  1. “On such a full sea are we now afloat:” Travelling through Oceans, Writings and Images in Early Modern Times. For centuries, the Western notion of exoticism and otherness comprehended a relatively limited space, whose epicentre was the Mediterranean Sea. With the maritime expansion on the Atlantic, initiated by the Iberian nations in the fifteenth century and afterwards undertaken by other European countries, deep changes would occur in every domain. Horizons were broadened, geographically, and conceptual. 2018. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/7804.
  2. As humanidades no mundo de hoje: da tradição à modernidade. 2017. Guerreiro, Maria João; Silva, Helder Matta e; Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.; Bello, Maria do Rosário Lupi. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/6411.
  3. Beyond time and oblivion : Sir Robert Sidney’s autograph manuscript. Dealing with ancient manuscript or old printed texts often constitutes a difficult task, especially to philologists and editors, for two main reasons: the precarious state of preservation of the documents and the uncertainty regarding their origin, authenticity and authorship. These problems are aggravated by spurious versions, due to the publication of truncated works, poorly supervised miscellan. 2015. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/5310.
  4. Myths (re)told in the iconography of Elizabeth I. The English sixteenth century constitutes a double re-naissance, for it recovers both the Classical Antiquity and the Italian Quattrocento in a most peculiar way. It was, in fact, a re-covery, but also a re-discovery, a re-visitation and a re-writing: of theories, themes, matters, characters and myths, skilfully amalgamated with the native substratum, the Breton matter and the medieval courtly tra. 2015. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/6025.
  5. Beholding a ‘Brave New World’: Sir Walter Raleigh’s The Discovery of Guiana and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the idea of the world was broadened on an unprecendented scale. The Portuguese and the Spaniards dominated a first stage in the maritime expansion and even divided the planet into two halves. Those times were primarily characterized by a need to overcome the fear of the unknown, to explore and cross the oceans, to reach coast after coast and to register in maps. 2015. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/6027.
  6. Sir Walter Raleigh and Guiana : a mysterious search, a metaphorical discovery. The essay analises Sir Walter Raleigh's report (1595) of his search for Guiana, as well as his reflection on the New World and its inhabitants, which is, in many aspects, different from his contemporaries.. 2013. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/5314.
  7. On righteousness and dignity : two challenging issues since early modern times. Concepts such as righteousness, equality, tolerance and freedom are nowadays considered fundamental issues that should prevail in any society. Balance and righteousness thrive however on a very thin layer. We are, in fact, living in an era of duality and antithetical paradigms. This essay approaches two Renaissance authors who dealt with the same matters in their works, at a very different time an. 2013. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/5312.
  8. A Villain and a Monster — The Literary Portrait of Richard III by Thomas More and William Shakespeare. The process of vilification of Richard III started at the end of the fifteenth century, when a well-planned policy of Tudor propaganda was set in motion by Henry VII himself, who commissioned a series of historiographical writings, mainly aiming at the solidification of the newly founded dynasty. One of the strategies, probably the major one, consisted in the definitive annihilation of the last Pl. 2013. Relvas, Maria de Jesus Crespo Candeias Velez. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/10059.
  9. A villain and a monster : the literary portrait of Richard III by Thomas More and William Shakespeare. The process of vilification of Richard III started at the end of the fifteenth century, when a well-planned policy of Tudor propaganda was set in motion by Henry VII himself, who commissioned a series of historiographical writings, mainly aiming at the solidification of the newly founded dynasty. One of the strategies, probably the major one, consisted in the definitive annihilation of the last Pl. 2013. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/5010.
  10. The renaissance portraits of two kings and one cardinal. At a time when the word biography had not yet been coined, the written portraits were called 'Lives' and contain such an abundance of puzzling elements that one is led to wonder about the characters created by the authors and the intentions they had to shape them in such a way. The Renaissance concepts of history, literature, fiction and factual truth, as well as the authors’ special involvement i. 2010. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/4978.
  11. Metaphors of opulence and power in the life of Thomas Wolsey, the King’s Cardinal. This essay approaches the display of power and rulership both through the art of writing and the art of painting by focusing on George Cavendish's biographical account of Thomas Wolsey.. 2009. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/5311.
  12. Evaluating continuous assessment quality in competence-based education online : the case of the e-Folio. The pedagogical model, in use at Universidade Aberta (UAb) since 2007, is based on four cornerstones: student-centered learning; flexibility; interaction; digital inclusion. The cornerstone of digital inclusion is particularly important in the context of a fully virtual learning environment such as the one offered at UAb. The article was the result of a research project developed at the Distance E. 2009. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.; Pereira, Alda; Oliveira, Isolina; Tinoca, Luís; Amante, Lúcia; Pinto, Maria do Carmo Teixeira; Moreira, Darlinda. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/5007.
  13. A Sociedade de Corte Isabelina : um microcosmo de cultura e cerimonial no espaço europeu de quinhentos. Os reinados de Henrique VIII e Isabel I de Inglaterra decorrem durante o peri´odo lato do Renascimento, com toda a sua complexidade, diversidade de influe^ncias e grande dinamismo. Numa época ímpar, assistiu-se ao alargar do mundo, a` percepc¸a~o de novos espac¸os, novas gentes e estranhas formas de vida; assistiu-se ao substituir extraordina´rio de uma concepc¸a~o do universo, que alterou radical. 2008. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/5309.
  14. The road to rulership : Henry Tudor, King of England. At the close of the Wars of the Roses, a new dynasty was founded by a man lacking a prince’s education; moreover, his weak claim to the throne of England gave rise to a set of serious problems. These two crucial, interrelated elements are central in Francis Bacon’s biographical account of Henry VII. The literal road leading Richmond from exile to victory in Bosworth Field, in 1485, is eventually t. 2007. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/5313.
  15. "A malign vapour flew to the heart, and seized the vital spirits": a prevalência da cosmovisão medieval na era da revolução científica. 2005. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/4173.
  16. The literary construction of a monstrous portrait : King Richard III by Thomas More and William Shakespeare. Thomas More’s narrative The History of King Richard the Third (ca. 1514) and William Shakespeare’s play King Richard III (ca. 1591) may be considered the epitomes of a tradition that has for ever vilified the last Plantagenet monarch of England. Even in later fictional works, it is hard to come across a more distorted and evil character, whose outward appearance faithfully mirrors his inner moral. 2003. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/4829.
  17. Baltasar Gracián and the ethics of the Renaissance. The essay approaches the ethics relevantly inherent to the Renaissance courtly society of Europe, in general, and of England, in particular. Its most vivid and symptomatic formulation is contained in the works by two authors of the Continent who, in different ways, deeply influenced the Elizabethan authors: Baldassare Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano (1502; 1528) and Baltasar Gracia´n’s El he´roe (1637. 1998. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/4879.
  18. Sir Robert Sidney’s Poems Revisited: the alternative sequence. The essay approaches the lyric sequence written by Sir Robert Sidney (1563-1626) in the Elizabethan age, by mainly exploring its unique formal structure, which encloses an alternative sequence formed by a re-numbering of several poems.. 1997. Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/4876.
Distinctions

Other distinction

2009 EDEN 2009 Best Research Paper Award: "Evaluating Continuous Assessment Quality in Competence-Based Education Online: The Case of the e-Folio" (co-autora | co-author)