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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Cecilia Beecher Martins

Citation names

  • Martins, Cecilia
  • Beecher Martins, Cecilia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
CA12-154C-2201
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3206-5856

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures
Education
Degree Classification
2012/12/20
Concluded
 Estudos de Literatura e Cultura: Estudos Americanos (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Simple Stories: alternative paradigms by cinema (and literature)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa com Laude
2004/01/04
Concluded
 Estudos Ingleses (Mestrado)
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
"“William Butler Yeats - Dyslexic poet or three-dimensional thinker”." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito Bom
1983/07
Concluded
 Bachelor of Science (Bachelor)
University College Cork National University of Ireland, Ireland
"Mild mutation of lactic acid bacteria to inhibit phage production while maintaining the capacity to produce lactic acid" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Honours Grade 2:2
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1988/06/01 - 1989/08/31 Science and Technology Management Salmon & Cia Limitada, Portugal
1985/02/01 - 1988/05/05 Science and Technology Management National Ingredient Suppliers Ltd, Ireland

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/12/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2022/11/30 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2009/10/20 - 2016/12/31 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2013/02/01 - 2015/07/31 Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Superior de Novas Profissões, Portugal
2004/02/01 - 2013/01/31 Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Superior de Novas Profissões, Portugal
1989/10/15 - 2004/01/31 Tutor (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Superior de Novas Profissões, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/02/02 - 2022/06/03 SHARE (Health and Humanities Acting Together PTDC/ELT-OUT/29231/2017)
PTDC/ELT-OUT/29231/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2022/02/01 - 2022/04/22 THE (Towards Healing Europe) through the cultural perception of shared vulnerability in the context of ongoing crises
101094601
Researcher
European Commission, Belgium
Not funded
2013 - 2015 Narrative & Medicine: (con)texts and interdisciplinary practises
PTDC/CPC-ELT/3719/2012
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Strategic Project - UI 114 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/ELT/UI0114/2011
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/09 - 2012/08 Simple Stories: The Alternative Paradigm offered by Cinema
SFRH/BD/44049/2008
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. Cinematic Narratives: Transatlantic Perspectives.. Lisbon, Portugal: Edições Humus. 2017.
    Published • Editor
Book chapter
  1. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "HERMENEUTICAL (IN) JUSTICE AND CRISIS: A CASE STUDY OF BELFAST & THE "TROUBLES"". In Companion on Literatures of Crisis, edited by Julia Kuznetski; Chiara Battisti. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Cecilia Beecher Martins. "Narrative Medicine Methods Applied to Film in Healthcare Education". edited by Teresa Casal; Maria de Jesus Cabral, 138-155. Hershey PA, United States: IGI Global, 2023.
    Published • 10.4018/978-1-6684-8064-9.ch009
  3. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "Bartleby: ‘A Bit of Wreck’ Lost at Sea as Captain Ahab?". In American Studies Over_Seas, edited by Vale do Gato, Margarida; Silva, Edgardo Medeiros da; Avelar, Mário; Irene Maria F. Blayer; Dulce Maria Scott; Tony McGowan, 163-174. United States: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022.
    Published
  4. Cavaco A; Catarina Martins Pires; Margarida Pinto Dias; Cecília Beecher Martins; Teresa Casal; Maria de Jesus Cabral; Cavaco, Afonso; et al. "Bridging Pharmacy Education and Health Humanities". In The Contribution of Narrative Medicine to Pharmacists' Caring Abilities, 91-113. {IGI, 2021.
    10.4018/978-1-7998-4486-0.ch005
  5. Martins, Cecilia. "Mirrors and Open-Ended Questions in Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown". In Cinematic Narratives: Transatlantic Perspectives., edited by Morris Beja; Ellen Carol Jones; Cecilia Beecher Martins; Suzana Ramos, 239-258. Ribeirão, Portugal: Edições Humus, 2017.
    Published
  6. Martins, Cecilia. "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Writing a Way out of Trauma". In Creative Dialogues: Narrative and Medicine., edited by Isabel Fernandes; Cecília Beecher Martins; Amandio Reis; Zuzanna Sanches, 179-193. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
    Published
  7. Martins, Cecilia; Martins, Cecília Beecher. "Gaining Awareness & Acceptance of Self and Developing Coping Skills through Film Analysis". In Narrativa e Bioética, edited by Antonio Barbosa, 117-132. Lisbon, Portugal: Centro de Bioética, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2015.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "Pontes de Partida e da Fuga em Nise: O Coração de Loucura e Hollywood". Paper presented in IV Congresso Internacional de ABRE, Lisboa, 2023.
  2. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "Movies and Me: Reflections on potential benefits of the reflective sharing of onscreen performances". Paper presented in Perform/Ability: An Introduction”, Verona, 2023.
  3. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "Cinematic Visualization of Alzheimer's in the First Person in "Still Alice".". Paper presented in Wastelands 34th European Association of American Studies Conference, 2022.
  4. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "Working with Film using Narrative Medicine Methods with Undergraduate Nursing Students". Paper presented in Caring and Sharing: Health and Humanities in Today's World, Lisbon, 2021.
  5. Duarte, António; Pereira, Patrícia; F. C. Mesquita. "Medical Humanities in Nursing Training: A Study at Undergraduate Level". Paper presented in Caring and Sharing: Health and Humanities in Today's World. School of Arts and Humanities, Lisbon, 2021.
  6. Beecher Martins, Cecilia; Soares, Marta. "Visual Literacy Applied to Film Still Analysis in Medical Training". Paper presented in 40th APEAA Conference, Porto, 2019.
  7. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "Rafael Campo – Re-membering the lost voices in the patient-carer relationship". Paper presented in Remembering Lost Voices MLA International Symposium, Lisbon, 2019.
  8. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "What the chaos of Todd Haynes’ Safe (1995) may add to the definition or understanding of illness narratives". Paper presented in EBAAS Conference, London, 2018.
  9. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "To Read Fiction or Non-Fiction: Now that is a Question". Paper presented in 39th APEAA Conference, Evora, 2018.
  10. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "Benefits of close reading and open writing on fictional texts on health topic in medical and humanities students". Paper presented in Critical Stories Conference, Keale, 2017.
Conference poster
  1. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. Corresponding author: Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "Free Associative Film Analysis - Some New Perspectives". Paper presented in 16th International Neuropsychoanalysis Conference, 2015.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.21007.38564
Edited book
  1. FERNANDES, ISABEL. Creative Dialogues: Narrative and Medicine. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2015.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Duarte, António; Beecher Martins, Cecilia; Mesquita, Filipe; Pereira, Patrícia; Gonçalves, Joana; Duarte, António Manuel; Martins, Cecilia Beecher; et al. "Health humanities in nursing training: A multiple case experiment at undergraduate level". Teaching and Learning in Nursing 19 1 (2024): e11-e16. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/62027.
    Published • 10.1016/j.teln.2023.08.002
  2. Cecilia Beecher Martins; Antonio Manuel Duarte; Cristina Perdigão Marques; Filipe Mesquita; Beecher Martins, Cecilia; Duarte, António. "THE INFLUENCE OF NARRATIVE MEDICINE TECHNIQUES ON THE ROLES OF POTENTIAL PATIENT AND FUTURE CAREGIVER – A PILOT STUDY". Revista Conhecimento Online 2 (2020): 03-03. https://doi.org/10.25112/rco.v2i0.2108.
    10.25112/rco.v2i0.2108
  3. Duarte, António; Beecher Martins, Cecilia; Marques, Cristina; Mesquita, Filipe Castro; Duarte, António M.; Martins, Cecilia Beecher; Marques, Maria C.; Mesquita, Filipe C.. Corresponding author: Duarte, António M.. "Deepening the analysis of literary texts among university students using close reading and writing: A pilot study". Anglo Saxonica 17 1 (2020): 1-13. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/62041.
    10.5334/as.25
  4. Maria de Jesus Cabral; Marie-France Mamzer; Christian Hervé; Beecher Martins, Cecilia; Rita Charon. "Narrative Medicine: What Discourse Adds to Listening". Anglo Saxonica Ser III. Nr. 13 (2017): 159-180.
    Published
  5. Martins, Cecilia; Martins, Cecília Beecher. "Free Associative Film Analysis". Belgrade English Language & Literature Studies VII (2015): 153-175. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/27804.
    Published • 10.18485/bells.2015.7.8
  6. Martins, Cecilia Beecher; Braz, John; Fonseca, Diana; Maia, Ana Clara; Martins, Cecilia. "What the tourism industry can learn from travel and historical writing". (2014): http://hdl.handle.net/10437/7939.
  7. Martins, Cecilia. "Shared Identity Constructs and the Cognitive Triad Represented in Poe’s ‘Alone’". Edger Allan Poe Review. Volume XI nº 1 Pennsylvania State University. (2010): http://www2.lv.psu.edu/PSA/EAPR/EAPRspring2010.pdf..
  8. Martins, Cecilia Beecher. "Norman Holland’s ‘Meeting Movies’ applied to Cameron Crowe’s ‘Elizabethtown’". (2009): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/10120.
Journal issue
  1. Fischer, Lucy; Beecher Martins, Cecilia; Duarte, Josè. "Changing Times: Performances and Identities on Screen". AngloSaxonica Ser III 7 (2014):
    Published • Coeditor
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Beecher Martins, Cecilia. "Simple stories:alternative paradigms offered by cinema and (literature)". PhD, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/8015.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/09/20 - Current Viajando e escutando entre as Irlandas
Co-supervisor
 Modern Literatures Arts and Cultures (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2024/08/15 - Current Independent Jo: from Louisa May Alcott to Greta Gerwig
Supervisor of Ruben marques
 Modern Literatures Arts and Cultures (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/09/03 - Current The role cultural differences may have played in mediating people’s response to COVID 19 related regulations and measures
Supervisor of Rachida Rasha Naddar
Modern Literatures Arts and Cultures (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2021/08/15 - Current O cinema na educação e formação farmacêuticas: análise narrativa de episódios de intervenções profissionais na comunidade na série documental "The Pharmacist"
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2024/02/08 - 2024/07/16 O desenvolvimento das Humanidades e do Ensino Artístico no enquadramento de intercâmbio educacional Fulbright
Supervisor
 Languages Literatures and Cultures (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2024/02/08 - 2024/07/16 The Relevance of Media Literacy
Supervisor
 Langiages Literatures and Cultures (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/09/17 - 2019/09/30 O Papel do Farmacêutico Comunitário na Gestão da Dor Crónica: Análise do Filme "Cake – Um Sopro de Vida"
Co-supervisor of Margarida Pinto Dias
 Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal