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Sara Graça da Silva. Completed the Licenciatura in Ensino de Português Inglês in 2002 (Universidade de Aveiro); Master in Victorian Literature and Culture in 2004 (Keele University, UK); Doctor of Philosophy in Victorian Studies in 2008 (Keele University, UK). Is, since 2019, Appointed Researcher (contract) at NOVA FCSH, after 6 years as a Postdoctoral Fellow (IELT, NOVA FCSH). Integrated at CETAPS since 2024. RESEARCH INTERESTS Area of specialization The nineteenth century, especially the interrelations between Victorian literature, science and art; Evolutionary theories of sexuality; Gender studies, in particular masculinity; Human evolution and adaptation; Darwinism; Actual interests Intersections between literature, culture and science; Application of phylogenetic methodologies to cross-cultural data; Utopian studies; Folktale studies; Evolutionary readings of literature; Morality; Emotion; biosignals and experimental approaches to literature. PI of the Portuguese Team in the H2020 project VAST - Values across Time and Space (2020-2023).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sara Graça da Silva

Citation names

  • Graça da Silva, Sara

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C31B-017A-CE5B
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4380-846X

Email addresses

  • saragsilva@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • NOVA FCSH, Colégio Almada Negreiros CAN, room 112 Campus de Campolide, , 1070-312, , Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2010 - 2010
Concluded
Advanced Pratical Course on Phylogenetics (Outros)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Completed
2010 - 2010
Concluded
Advanced Pratical Course on Phylogeography (Outros)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Completed
2004 - 2008
Concluded
Victorian Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science
Keele University, United Kingdom
"Sexual Plots in Charles Darwin and George Eliot: evolution and manliness in Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss’." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
very minor corrections
2003 - 2004
Concluded
Victorian Literature and Culture (Master)
Major in Victorian Literature and Culture
Keele University, United Kingdom
"Masculinity and Darwin’s Sexual Selection in George Eliot’s Middlemarch" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Very good
1998 - 2002
Concluded
Teaching of Portuguese and English (Licenciatura)
Major in Teaching of Portuguese and English
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Teaching Training: 17/ Final: 16
1995 - 1997
Concluded
Humanities Group 4 (Ensino secundário)
Major in Humanities
Secondary School Nº 1 Aveiro, Portugal
16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2013 - 2018 Postdoc (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/02 - Current Appointed Researcher (contract) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/10/01 - 2018/10/31 Visiting Researcher City University of New York, United States
City University of New York, United States
2013 - 2018 Visiting Researcher (1 to 3 months per year, anually) Durham University Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
Durham University Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2013 - 2018 Visiting Researcher (1 to 3 months per year, annually) Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Germany
Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Germany
2015/05 - 2015/06 Visiting Researcher Georg August Universität Göttingen CeMIS, Germany
The Archives for European Folktales, Enzyklopädie des Märchens, Germany
2013/01 - 2013/02 Visiting Researcher Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
2008 - 2012 Researcher Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, University of Porto, Faculty of Letters, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2013 - Current Morality and Emotion: (Un)conscious Journey to Being - Annual International Colloquium (since 2013 -6 editions so far)
-
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/12/01 - 2023/11/30 VAST: Values across Space and Time H2020
101004949
Invited Scientist Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2022 - 2022 (Un)Desirable
-
Invited Scientist Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Not funded
2013/01/01 - 2018 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MORAL EXPRESSION PATTERNS IN PORTUGUESE AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN FOLKTALE TRADITION: AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH2%FBPD2%F904332%F2012/PT
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020 - 2020 Bones Digital Footprint: Insights from Scientometrics and Social Media Analysis (ERC Consolidator Proposal)
-
Consultant
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Other

Designation Funders
2019 - Current EMOLABS www.emo-labs.com
-
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Ongoing
2019 - Current Street Emotions - Photography Exhibition about emotions comparing NY/Lisbon
(on hold due to the pandemic situation).
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
Ongoing
2018 - Current Research Group "Spatialities of literature, arts and culture", at IELT
-
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
Ongoing
2016 - Current Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition's Editorial Team
-
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016 - Current Cycle of edited volume editions on the topic of Morality and Emotion (Routledge/Palgrave)
-
Other
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Ongoing
2015 - Current Interdisciplinary Reading Group "Evolution Across Disciplines"
-
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
Ongoing
2017 - 2017 Participation in the project "Folktales: Stories without Time" for the MA Course in Science Communication
-
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Concluded
2008 - 2012 Mapping Dreams: British and North-American Utopianism
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Research Fellow
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Graça da Silva, Sara. Sexual Plots in Charles Darwin and George Eliot: evolution and manliness. 2024.
Book chapter
  1. Graça da Silva, Sara. ""You stink! Smell and moralization of the other" - published". In The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves, edited by C31B-017A-CE5B; Ana Falcato, 147-163. United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021.
    Accepted
  2. Graça da Silva, Sara. "Morality and Emotion or why this is a very complicated case. You know, a lot of ins, a lot of outs, a lot of what-have-you’s". In New Interdisciplinary Landscapes in morality and emotion, edited by Graça da Silva, Sara. London and New York, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018.
    Published
  3. Graça da Silva, Sara. "Morality and Emotion or well, that's another fine mess you got me into". In Morality and Emotion, edited by Graça Da Silva, Sara. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2016.
    Published
  4. Graça da Silva, Sara. "The Law of Sexual Selection in Edward Bulwer Lytton's The Coming Race (1871): Gendering Utopia¿,". In (Dis)entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on the Man and his Legacy,, edited by Graça Da Silva, Sara; Fátima Vieira. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publising, 2012.
    Published
  5. Graça da Silva, Sara. "Altos e Baixos da Ciência Experimental no Século XIX: Frenologia, Género e Moralização do Carácter em George Eliot". In Ciência e cultura : ficcionalizações da ciência na Grã-Bretanha (séculos XIX e XX), edited by Filipe Furtado; Gabriela gÂNDARA tERENAS. Lisboa, Portugal: Caleidoscópio, 2012.
    Published
Dictionary entry
  1. Graça da Silva, Sara. "Chatto and Windus; Frederick and Hall; Robert Chambers; ‘John Murray". London: Academia Press and British Library,, 2009.
  2. Graça da Silva, Sara. "Darwin". edited by Alex Warwick; Martin Wilils. Continuum, 2008.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Graça da Silva, Sara. The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves - published. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021.
    Published • Editor
  2. Graça da Silva, Sara. New Interdisciplinary Landscapes in Morality and Emotion. London: Routledge. 2018.
    Published • Editor
  3. Graça Da Silva, Sara. Morality and Emotion. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2016.
    10.4324/9781315651040
  4. Graça da Silva, Sara. (Dis)entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on the Man and his Legacy,. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2012.
    Published • Editor
Exhibition catalog
  1. Graça da Silva, Sara. "Real Brushstrokes of imagination", in Oliveira, Leonor C. S. R. e. A.; Alfaro, Catarina. eds. Paula Rego: Contos tradicionais e contos de fadas ed. 1. Cascais: Fundação D. Luís I, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, 2018.
Journal article
  1. M.Besher Massri; Inna Novalija; Dunja Mladenic; Janez Brank; Sara Graça da Silva; Natasza Marrouch; Carla Murteira; Ali Hürriyetoglu; Beno Šircelj. "Harvesting Context and Mining Emotions Related to Olfactory Cultural Heritage". Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/6/7/57.
    10.3390/mti6070057
  2. Bortolini E; Pagani L; Crema ER; Sarno S; Barbieri C; Boattini A; Sazzini M; et al. "Inferring patterns of folktale diffusion using genomic data.". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28784786.
    10.1073/pnas.1614395114
  3. Graça da Silva, S.; Tehrani, J.J.. "Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales". Royal Society Open Science 3 1 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84958073598&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1098/rsos.150645
  4. Graça da Silva, Sara. "Utopia e Espiritualidade". Utopian Studies Journal, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press 21 2 (2010): 381-385.
    Published
  5. Graça da Silva, Sara. "A Árvore de Darwin, Evolução Cultural e o Predicamento Humano: Novas Tendências em Antropologia". Colecção Ciências, Tecnologias e Imaginários, Estudos de História – séculos XVIII-XX, (2010): 21-27.
    Published
Newspaper article
  1. Graça da Silva, Sara. "A investigação tem de ser indisciplinada /Research has to be undisciplined",", Público, 2019, https://www.publico.pt/2019/02/06/ciencia/opiniao/investigacao-indisciplinada-1860848.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Graça da Silva, Sara. "Sexual Plots in Charles Darwin and George Eliot: Evolution and Manliness in Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss'". PhD, Keele University, 2008.
Working paper
  1. Graça da Silva, Sara; Jesse Prinz. 2024. "Pull Yourself Together: Identity, Emotions, and Enhancement" (working paper)".
  2. Graça da Silva, Sara. 2023. "Frog Kings and Other more Ordinary Frogs: why there is nothing heartless about being cold-blooded".
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/07/21 Grotesque elegance in Paula Rego’s fairy-tales. International Society for Folk Narrative Research Conference 2022
University of Arts, London (London, United Kingdom)
2022/05/26 Invited to give the opening talk at the conference "Da Letra às Letras" ( May 26, 27 and 28), to expand on the role of traditional tales in society. Da letra às letras
2019 ‘Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore' Morality and Emotion: (Un)conscious Journey to Being VI
NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/06/09 Mulheres malvadas e violência familiar no conto tradicional, FCSH-NOVA, Portugal.
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 Morality and Emotion or why “this is a very complicated case. You know, a lot of ins, a lot of outs, a lot of what-have-you’s” Morality and Emotion
Nova University (Lisbon)
2016/04/18 "Curiously parallel”: storytelling and phylogenetics https://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt//outreach/press&events/ver.php?id=593 Darwin’s Legacy Tea Party
Faculdade de Ciências Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/10/13 Comparative phylogenetic methods reveal an ancient origin for traditional Indo-European folktales THEO MURPHY INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Royal Society “Evolutionary Analysis beyond the Gene". (Chicheley Hall, United Kingdom)
2013/06/07 Once upon a time, and a space: Building interdisciplinary and international research collaborations across the humanities, social sciences and sciences
Keele University, Uk (Keele, United Kingdom)
2013 "Phylogenetic Study of Folktales
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. (Berlim, Germany)
2013 The evolution of Foltakes
Durham University Anthropology Department (Durham, United Kingdom)
2013 "Seeing is Believing: The power of image in 19th century Science" Artes e Ciências em Diálogo
Universidade do Algarve (Algarve, Portugal)
2013 Alfred Russel Wallace: a homage Ficcionalizações da Ciência na Grã-Bretanha III
NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012 Frog Kings and Other more Ordinary Frogs: why there is nothing heartless about being cold-blooded The Grimm Brothers Today Kinder- und Hausmärchen and Its Legacy, 200 Years Afte
NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012 Highs and Lows of Experimental Science in the 19th Century: phrenology, gender and character moralisation in George Eliot. Science FictionalizationS in Great Britain II
NOVA university (Lisbon, Portugal)
2010 Phylogenetic Analyses and New trends in Cultural and Evolutionary Anthropology “Life sciences, technologies and Imaginaries”
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2010 Charles Darwin and the Expression of Emotions IEC
IEC Mamarrosa (Aveiro, Portugal)
2009 The Law of Sexual Selection in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1871): Gendering Utopia
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2009 Undermining the Masculine Self in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss: Tom Tulliver and the Darwinian Inheritance” APEAA 30th Annual Conference “Self, Memory and Expression"
Porto University (Porto, Portugal)
2009 Darwin and Cultural Evolution Darwin, the Engineer
INESC, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, University of Porto, (Porto, Portugal)
2008 Performing Emotion: Masculine Subjectivity in Charles Darwin and George Eliot”, forming Emotion: Masculine Subjectivity in Charles Darwin and George Eliot”, The British Association for Victorian Studies Ninth Annual Conference: “Victorian Feeling: Touch, Bodies, Emotions”
Leicester University (Leicester, United Kingdom)
2007 Male Fatigue as the End of Fiction in George Eliot’s Novels Victorian Masculinities Conference
Birmingham and Keele Universities (Birmingham and Keele, United Kingdom)
2007 Human and Animal Emotion in George Eliot and Charles Darwin: Implications for the Construction of Masculine (Im)balance
Keele University (Keele, United Kingdom)
2007 Charles Darwin’s Sexual Selection and Dual Plots in Daniel Deronda: Masculine and Feminine (Un)conscious Performance
Bristol University (Bristol, United Kingdom)
2006 Phrenology and Sexual Selection Electrifying Experimentation: Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Sheffield University (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
2004 Charles Darwin and George Eliot on the Monstrous
Keele University (Keele, United Kingdom)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020/12/01 - 2023/11/30 Since December 2020, I¿m the PI of the Portuguese team of the H2020 project VAST Values across time and space, supervising 4 postdocs, 2 master students and one doctoral student. Our team employs an interdisciplinary approach to the study of European Folktales, crossing literary studies with experimental psychology and digital humanities.
Supervisor

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Annual organisation, since 2013, of the international colloquium ‘Morality and Emotion'. It brings together top researchers to discuss interdisciplinary views on emotion and morality. 2013 - https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion/ 2014 - https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion-ii/ 2015 - https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion-iii/ 2016 - https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion-iv/ 2017 - https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion-unconscious-journey-to-being/ 2019- https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion-vi (2013)
Conference
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
2019 - Current Street Emotions - Photography Exhibition on emotions comparing NY/Lisbon contexts. I spent October 2018 in NY working n the themes of emotion and morality at CUNY and decided to organise a photo exhibition entitled "Street Emotions". The question I asked people was simple yet deep: "How do you feel?". The replies were telling and addictive. Some prototypes can be access here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/LLMUB2AUFrUuRRbf8 The objective is to give the same attention to image and text. The project is looking for funding for framing and print. (2019)
Exhibition
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
2009 - Current ‘(Dis)Entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on the Man and His Legacy‘ (2009)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2022/10/26 - 2022/10/28 International conference "Return to animality: theoretical perspectives; cultural approaches and artistic manifestations" , NOVA FCSH (organising and scientific committee) (2022/10/26 - 2022/10/28)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/11/24 - Current H2020 VAST Project Advisory Board Meeting
Meeting
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/07/20 - 2032/07/23 Presentation of the paper "Grotesque elegance in Paula Rego’s fairy-tales" , exploring Paula Rego’s work and the subversive potential of tales by focusing on the opposing worlds, sensations and representations she pursues are superbly constructs in unsettling, crude portrayals that ultimately reveal the masks of humanity in their fragile, raw and beautiful ugliness.
Conference
2020/12/01 - 2023/11/30 2020 to present: Participation in H2020 VAST Project monthly plenary meetings as well as specific work package meetings, being the representative of NOVA team as the PI of the Portuguese Team.
Meeting
2017 - 2017 Participation in the MA in Science Communication at NOVA FCSH. My research was chosen for the students' course project "Folktales: stories without time", and resulted in the creation of a website https://betafcsh.wordpress.com/
Other
Folktales stories without time
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2009 - 2009 Guide to the Darwin Exhibition ‘Evolution and Biodiversity", during the celebrations of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species (1859".
Exhibition
Darwin Exhibition ‘Evolution and Biodiversity"
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021 - Current English Translator of the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition's biweekly Newsletter Translator

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2020 - Current Invited Research member to the H2020 call project submisison DT-TRANSFORMATIONS VAST: Values across Space and Time. Funded project (start date Dec 2020)
Member
Institouto Plerophorikes kai Telepikoinonion, Greece
2016 - Current Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition's Editorial Team. IELT's editorial activity is developed along three lines: a) Individual works of national and foreign researchers on topics within the scope of the project IELT's strategic plan; b) Collective works ; c) Works of dissemination. I am part of the team since its inception (2016).
Member
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2014 - Current We are the Folk Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Facudalde de Ciências sociais e Humanas
2012 - Current Grimm in Lisbon NOVA FCSH LISBON

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020 - 2020 Invited consultant in the ERC Consolidator project proposal submission "Bones Digital Footprint: Insights from Scientometrics and Social Media Analysis" , for participation in the study of emotions in the context of Human Osteology. P.I. Francisca Alves Cardoso (CRIA, NOVA FCSH). Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/10 - Current Summer School Proposal "Mirror, Mirror on the Screen»: Retelling Fairy Tales with Biosignals and New Media Arts". Composed of researchers, multimedia artists, psychologists and engineers, this initiative of the Institute on the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT) is part of VAST_Values ¿¿Across Space and Time, a European project combining Literary Studies, Digital Humanities and Experimental Psychology.
2022/03/16 - Current Optional curricular Unit proposal"Morality and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" . Akin to the submission of the previous year, this course will engage in a multidisciplinary voyage through historical, literary, philosophical, sociological, artistic, anthropological and biological debates concerning this relationship, challenging self-containing disciplinary views on the nature and importance of this symbiosis. Aimed at Master's students. (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021 - Current Invited to teach a session of a summer course "The narrative phenomenon: multidisciplinary views", at NOVA FCSH . My session will be entitled "Curiously parallel: literature, evolution and phylogenetics". The narrative phenomenon: multidisciplinary views Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021 - Current Optional curricular Unit proposal"Morality and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" Understanding morality and emotion has occupied scholars since the days of Plato and Aristotle, and this study has become increasingly interdisciplinary over the past few decades. This course will engage in a multidisciplinary voyage through historical, literary, philosophical, sociological, artistic, anthropological and biological debates concerning this relationship, challenging self-containing disciplinary views on the nature and importance of this symbiosis. (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2016 - Current Member of the jury for the Atlas scholarship. https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/Projetos/atlas-das-paisagens-literarias-de-portugal-continental/
Evaluator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição
2020 - 2021/02 President of the jury for selection of 4 postdoctoral researchers to work on the Horizon 2020 Project VAST - VALUES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
Other
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Horizon 2020

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2017 National Geographic Magazine piece on folktake ancestry. National Geographic Magazine
2017 New York Times. Help with a story about the evolution of myths and folktales. New York Times
2016 Expresso Newspaper. interview about my article on folktale ancestry published in Royal Society Open Science EXPRESSO
2016 The Guardian. Interview about the findings of my article on folktale ancestry published in Royal Society Open science. The Guardian
2016 Globo Newspaper, Brazil. Interview about the findings of my article on folktale ancestry published in Royal Society Open science. GLOBO, Brazil
2016 The Telegraph. Discussion of the findings on folktale ancestry published in the Royal Society Open Science article. The Telegraph

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2020/05 - Current Invited Speaker to the Science Youtube Podcast Programme "The Dissenter". Human Cultural Evolution; Study of Emotion and Morality
2020 - Current RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse, Daily science show CQFD The Evolution of Folktales
2016 - Current BBC Radio 4. Interview about the findings of my article on folktale ancestry published in Royal Society Open science. Folktale ancesntry
2014/10/13 - Current Ciência 2, Antena 2 Morality and Emotion

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020 - Current Peer-Reviewer for the journal PLOS-ONE regarding the article "Phylogenetic analysis of homeland and time depth of Sino-Tibetan language family". PLOS-ONE, United States
2018 - Current Invited to peer-review the article "Cultural additivity” and how the values and norms of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism co-exist, interact, and influence Vietnamese society: A Bayesian analysis of long-standing folktales, using R and Stan" Religions Journal, Switzerland
2017 - Current Peer-Reviewer of the article “Dualities, Crossings and Convergences: Contemporary Art and Popular Cultures" MEMORIAMEDIA Journal, Portugal
2014 - Current Peer-Reviewer of the article "Oral Fairy Tale or Literary Fake? Investigating the Origins of Little Red Riding Hood Using Phylogenetic Network Analysis" The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities , United Kingdom
Distinctions

Award

2014 Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting Travel award
Royal Society, United Kingdom
2010 Visiting Travel Award Durham's University Anthropology Department
Durham University, United Kingdom
2005 Research Institute Grant by Keele University Humanities Department
Keele University, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2018 Visiting Researcher grant to conduct research at the City University of New York Graduate Centre (October 2018)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2013 Postdoctoral Scholarship (6 years)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2002 4 years PhD scholarship by ‘Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia’, FCT.
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal