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Leonardo Cascão é Bolseiro de Investigação e frequenta o Doutoramento em Línguas Modernas: Culturas, Literaturas, Tradução na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, pela qual obteve o grau de Mestre em Estudos Ingleses e Americanos (Mestrado em Estudos de Cultura, Literatura e Línguas Modernas), em 2021. Desde 2020, é membro de diversas associações internacionais de Estudos Anglo-Americanos. Os seus principais interesses de investigação incluem literaturas inglesa e americana, estudos de cinema e teatro. Atualmente, foca-se no estudo dos afetos e de intimidade em relação com experiências de cidadania, particularmente através da representação destes temas nas escritas biográficas anglo-americanas contemporâneas e noutros géneros híbridos.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Leonardo Cascão

Citation names

  • Cascão, Leonardo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A219-93F1-183E
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8940-8456

Email addresses

  • leonardo.cascao@uc.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures
  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - General Literature Studies
  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021 - 2025
Ongoing
 Culturas e Literaturas Modernas (Doutoramento)
Major in Literaturas e Culturas Anglo-Americanas
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/06/20 - 2022/06/26
Concluded
 Futures of American Studies Institute (Outros)
Dartmouth College, United States
2019/09 - 2021/07
Concluded
 Estudos de Cultura, Literatura e Línguas Modernas (Mestrado)
Major in Estudos Ingleses e Americanos
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"From Monsters to Men: Affective representations in HIV/AIDS visual narratives and the experience of citizenship" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2020/07/13 - 2020/07/17
Concluded
 Exploring Linguistics Course (Outros)
University of Essex, United Kingdom
2011/09 - 2014/07
Concluded
 Relações Internacionais (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
 13
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/19 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/09 - 2022/09/01 Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Divisão de Relações Internacionais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03/01 - Current Tradutor Freelance Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/09/15 - Current European Campus of City-Universities - EC2U Alliance
Grant Agreement:101004065
Research Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
 European Union
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Cascão, Leonardo. "An intimate epidemic: the experience of citizenship in a bad dream the world is having". Paper presented in British Association for American Studies 2022 Conference, 2022.
  2. Cascão, Leonardo. "'America Is No Country for the Infirm': Affect and the experience of citizenship in HIV/AIDS visual narratives". Paper presented in 42º Encontro Internacional da APEAA, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, 2022.
    Published
  3. Cascão, Leonardo. "Virginia Woolf's London and Mental Health: An analysis of Mrs Dalloway". Paper presented in 41º Encontro Internacional da APEAA, Aveiro, 2021.
    Published
  4. Cascão, Leonardo. "Can there be angels in America? Representations of affect in HIV/AIDS visual narratives and the experience of citizenship". Paper presented in Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference, 2021.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Cascão, Leonardo. ""From Harlem with Love: An Album of Beauty in The Sweet Flypaper of Life"". JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy (2023): https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/issue/view/633.
    Published
  2. Leonardo Cascão. """There are Parts I Won't Tell You": Biography, Trauma and Violence in Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project"". Anglo Saxonica (2023): https://doi.org/10.5334/as.104.
    10.5334/as.104
Report
  1. 2022. Partnership Assessment Report Erasmus 2014-2019.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "From Monsters to Men: Affective representations in HIV/AIDS visual narratives and the experience of citizenship". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, 2021.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/06/21 'There are parts I won't tell you': Biography, Trauma and Violence in Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project Futures of American Studies Institute
Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, United States)
2022/04/22 An intimate epidemic: the experience of citizenship in a bad dream the world is having British Association for American Studies 2022 Conference
University of Hull (Hull, United Kingdom)
2022/03/31 'America Is No Country for the Infirm': Affect and the experience of citizenship in HIV/AIDS visual narratives 42º Encontro Internacional da APEAA
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/11/24 Can there be angels in America? Representations of affect in HIV/AIDS visual narratives and the experience of citizenship Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference
Macquarie School of Social Sciences (Sydney, Australia)
2021/05/21 Virginia Woolf's London and Mental Health: An analysis of Mrs Dalloway 41º Encontro Internacional da APEAA
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/11/09 - 2022/11/11 Organização do Workshop 'New multilingual learning and teaching spaces for European Campuses II', na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, promovido pela Aliança EC2U, de 9 a 11 de novembro de 2022. Mediação da sessão sobre metodologias de investigação e boas-práticas para estudantes de doutoramento. (2022/11/09 - 2022/11/11)
Workshop (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/07/12 - 2022/07/14 Organização do XXXII Encontro da Associação de Universidades de Língua Portuguesa (AULP) na Universidade de Coimbra, de 12 a 14 de julho de 2022; nomeadamente, tradução da documentação a utilizar e das apresentações/discursos dos participantes de Inglês para Português (2022/07/12 - 2022/07/14)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/03/31 - 2022/04/02 Colaboração na organização do 42º Encontro Internacional da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos na Universidade de Coimbra (2022/03/31 - 2022/04/02)
Congress (Other)
 Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/07/13 - 2020/07/17 Summer School – Exploring Linguistics Course: Sociolinguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics/Psycholinguistics, TESOL, Teaching Practice
Other
 Exploring Linguistics Course
University of Essex, United Kingdom

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/10/01 - Current New Directions in the Humanities Research Network
2022 - Current British Association for American Studies (BAAS)
2020 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (APEAA)
2020 - Current European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
2020 - Current European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
Distinctions

Award

2022 Emerging Scholar Award
New Directions in the Humanities Research Network, United States
2022 Prémio da Fundação Eng. António de Almeida para apoio à participação no Futures of American Studies Institute, na Dartmouth College, NH, E.U.A.
Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida, Portugal