Curriculum Vitae
Tânia Cerqueira
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Tânia Cerqueira
Citation names
- Cerqueira, Tânia
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- CB1E-3FEB-E21F
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1396-0353
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| French | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2019/09 - 2026/06/23
Concluded
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Estudos Literários, Culturais e Interartísticos (Doctorate)
Major in Estudos Anglo-Americanos
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
""I live in a world where shadows have teeth": Gothic Visions in YA Dystopian Fiction" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovada por Unanimidade |
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2016/09 - 2019/10/07
Concluded
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Estudos Anglo-Americanos (Master's Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
""Are you afraid of your own shadow?": O Monstro e a Construção da Identidade em Monsters
of Verity" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2018/06/18 - 2018/06/30
Concluded
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Intensive Erasmus+ Programme "New Faces, Facing Europe in Crisis: Shakespeare's World
and Present Challenges" (Others)
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France
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2011/09 - 2014/06/30
Concluded
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Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas (Licenciate Degree)
Major in Monodisciplinar Inglês
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2017/06 - 2018/06 | Research Trainee (Research) | Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2026/04/01 - 2026/06/30 | Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2017/10 - Current | Colaboradora | Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal | ||
| 2020/07 - 2020/10 | Apoio Executivo | Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal | ||
| 2019/06/01 - 2020/05/14 | Apoio Executivo | Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2022/05/01 - 2025/10/31 | I live in a world where shadows have teeth: Visões Góticas em Distopias Young Adult
2021.04547.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2025/09 - Current | Research Strand "From Classicism to Victorianism"
UID/04097/2025
Researcher
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
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| Book review |
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| Conference abstract |
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| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Newsletter article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2026/02/19 | “The loftiest intelligence": Edgar Allan Poe’s Madness Portrayed in YA Adaptations | IV EAPSA International Conference: Edgar Allan Poe and Popular Culture
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
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| 2025/06/10 | Haunted Tomorrows: Monsters, Trauma, and Time in YA Dystopian Narratives | Children’s Literature Association 2025 Virtual Conference
Children’s Literature Association (United States)
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| 2025/06/06 | A Girl Full of Wires: Sexual Violence and the Cyborg Body in The Lunar Chroniclee | Mediating Violence: Pop Culture and Contemporary Adaptations International Conference
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (Osijek, Croatia)
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| 2024/11/09 | “We’re not supposed to know poems or writing": Subverting Control Through Writing in Ally Condie’s Matched Trilogy | Relational Forms IX | Sustainable Objects?: Books, Screens and Creative Transit in
the Cultures of the English Language
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2024/06/06 | From Fiction to Reality: Igniting Social Change Through The Hunger Games Trilogy | Care, Community, and Hope: Hybrid Children’s and YA Literature
Goldsmiths, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2024/05/18 | Raparigas em Chamas: Distopias e Literatura para Jovens Adultos | Simpósio Tempos de Utopia II: Perspetivas Teóricas
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2024/05/10 | "36.28 percent not human": Exploring Posthuman Heroines in YA Dystopian Fiction | SFRA 2024 | Transitions
University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia)
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| 2023/10/21 | Fragments of the Past: Gothicizing Textual Pieces in Video Games | Games and Language Conference
Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen (Debrecen, Hungary)
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| 2023/10/13 | Amor Deliria Nervosa: The Erasure of Love in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction | Relational Forms VIII: Love and Sex in Literature and the Arts since the 1960s
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2023/08/19 | Disrupting the Disruption: Diverse Young Adult Dystopian Fiction | Disruptive Imaginations - SFRA 2023
TU Dresden (Dresden, Germany)
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| 2022/11/30 | "When we heal our land, we are healed also": Indigenous Young Adult Dystopias and Interconnectedness | Green Utopia Now! A Transdisciplinary Symposium on How to Deal with the Climate Crisis
University of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
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| 2022/11/04 | "When we heal our land, we are healed also": Diverse New Worlds in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction | (Brave) New Worlds Graduate Symposium
NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2022/10/22 | May the Odds Be Ever in Everyone's Favour: Sparking Social Change in The Hunger Games | Between Fiction and Society: Imagination and World Building in the Aftermath of a
Global Pandemic
Iulm University (Milano, Italy)
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| 2022/09/03 | "Even’s nightmare was just beginning…": Lost in Random and the Gothic Tradition | Video Games as a Common Ground
University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia)
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| 2022/08/07 | "The school has to be fed somehow": Schoolhouse Gothic in The Scholomance Trilogy | Narratives of Criminality, Punishment & Social Justice in CYA Literature
Department of English, Jadavpur University & Association for Children's Literature
in South Asia (Jadavpur, India)
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| 2022/07/14 | "If I let myself hope…": Memory and Hope in Donna Barba Higuera's The Last Cuentista | 22nd Conference of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe - Opening Utopia: New Directions
in Utopian Studies
University of Brighton (Brighton, United Kingdom)
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| 2022/06/28 | "Había una vez": Storytelling in Donna Barba Higuera's The Last Cuentista | Futures From the Margins - Science Fiction Research Association 2022 Annual Conference
CoFutures (Oslo, Norway)
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| 2022/04/01 | "The woods are bad enough - I'd swear they want us for their own": The EcoGothic in Rory Power's Wilder Girls | 42.º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2022/02/18 | "Are you the Sh-shadowman?”: The Gothic Tradition in Lost in Random | The Impact of Video Games on Culture and Education
NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities / CETAPS (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2021/12/11 | "It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down": Small Acts of Rebellion and Empowerment in Young Adult Dystopias | 21st Conference of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe - Utopian Possibilities: Knowledge,
Happiness & Wellbeing
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2021/11/25 | "In the woods the Tox is still wild": The EcoGothic in Rory Power's "Wider Girls" | Messengers from the Stars: Episode VI
School of Arts and Humanities | ULisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2021/07/23 | Rethinking the (Post)Human: Pandemics in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction | Dark Economies: Anxious Futures, Fearful Pasts
Falmouth University (Cornwall, United Kingdom)
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| 2021/06/18 | ‘Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to show the Capitol they don't own me’: The Body as Commodity in The Hunger Games Trilogy | Science Fiction Research Association 2021 Annual Conference
Seneca College (Toronto, Canada)
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| 2021/05/20 | "I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking": Trauma in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins | 41.º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2021/01/15 | Pandemics in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction: Rethinking the (Post)Human | Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics
Cappadocia University (Cappadocia, Turkey)
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| 2020/11/06 | May the body be ever in your favour: The Body as Currency in The Hunger Games Trilogy | Relational Forms V: Capital and the Imagination: Literature, the Arts, and Modern
Finance
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2020/01/17 | “Scent blood, fangs drop”: Undead Memory na trilogia Darkness Before Dawn de J. A. London | Jornadas de DELCI
DELCI / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2019/06/07 | Cadaver Queens & Dark Descents: Rewritting Frankenstein to Young Adults | 40.º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2018/08 | Plain Janes & Cadaver Queens: Retelling Classic Gothic Novels to Young Adults | Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches (International
Gothic Conference)
Manchester Metropolitan University / Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies (Manchester, United Kingdom)
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| 2018/06/08 | Apresentação das actividades comemorativas do bicentenário da publicação de Frankenstein | Mary Shelley: Para Além do Monstro
CETAPS / University of Porto & Frankenreads (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2018/04/28 | "Where are You Kate?": Trauma in Victoria Schwab's Monsters of Verity | 39.º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
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| 2018/03/13 | Skeletons, Rag Dolls and Burlap Sacks: The Monster in Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas | III Colóquio JRAAS - Dissecting the Human Body: Rethinking its Materiality, Sensibility
and (Ab)Normality
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2018/02 | "Off With their Heads": The Subversion of the Female Role in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | IJUP'18
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2017/11 | Drowned Angels and Watery Graves: Representations of Female Suicide in Victorian Art | II Colóquio JRAAS - Exploring the Inevitability of Death
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2017/05/23 | Jonas, The Pathfinder: Finding Utopia in Forgotten Memories | I Encontro de Estudos Anglo-Americanos JRAAS
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2023 - 2024 | Realidade Aumentada, Passado - Presente - Futuro: Um Projeto de Humanidades Digitais
em Valongo
Co-supervisor
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Multimédia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026/02 - 2026/11/06 | Defining YA Studies and Culture (2026/11/02 - 2026/11/06)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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YA Studies Association, United Kingdom |
| 2025/12 - 2026/10/30 | Women and/of the Empire(s): On the 150th Anniversary of Queen Victoria’s Proclamation
as Empress of India (1876-2026) (2026/10/29 - 2026/10/30)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2026/05/15 - 2026/08/04 | (Re)pensar a Inglaterra Medieval (2026/08/04 - 2026/08/04)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2024/07 - 2025/10 | More Pride, Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250 (2025/10/02 - 2025/10/04)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2025/02 - 2025/07 | YA Studies Around the World: The Series -- Panel One: Beth Kemp & Supriya Baijal (2025/06/16 - 2025/06/16)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Young Adult Studies Association, United Kingdom |
| 2025/02 - 2025/07 | YA Studies Around the World: The Series -- Panel Two: Ashly Isac & Ritwika Roy (2025/07/02 - 2025/07/02)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Young Adult Studies Association, United Kingdom |
| 2025/02 - 2025/07 | YA Studies Around the World: The Series -- Panel Three: Nichol Brown & Isabel Waters (2025/07/24 - 2025/07/24)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Young Adult Studies Association, United Kingdom |
| 2024/06 - 2025/04 | International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games (2025/04/09 - 2025/04/11)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2024/01/15 - 2024/11/22 | Facing the Dream: On the 60th Anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (2024/11/22 - 2024/11/22)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2024/05/09 - 2024/11/08 | YASA 2024 Online Conference: YA Literature, Media, & Culture Today (2024/11/04 - 2024/11/08)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Young Adult Studies Association, United Kingdom |
| 2024/01/19 - 2024/04/26 | Imagining Extinction in Video Games: An International Symposium (2024/04/26 - 2024/04/26)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2019/02/13 - 2019/06/08 | 40.º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (2019/06/06 - 2019/06/08)
Congress (Other)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2018 - 2018/06/08 | Mary Shelley: Para Além do Monstro (2018/06/08 - 2018/06/08)
Other (Other)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018 - 2018/05/15 | II Encontro de Estudos Anglo-Americanos JRAAS (2018/05/14 - 2018/05/15)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018 - 2018/05/15 | JRAAS Seminar: “A Pedra que os Construtores Rejeitaram, Tornou-se Pedra Angular”:
Circunstâncias de um Percurso Intelectual - Mário Avelar (2018/05/15 - 2018/05/15)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018 - 2018/04/19 | JRAAS Seminar: Expressão Obscura / Clareza da Obscuridade: Edgar Allan Poe em Português
- Margarida Vale de Gato (2018/04/19 - 2018/04/19)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018 - 2018/03/13 | III Colóquio JRAAS - Dissecting the Human Body: Rethinking its Materiality, Sensibility
and (Ab)Normality (2018/03/13 - 2018/03/13)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018 - 2018/02/20 | JRAAS Seminar: Imagined Cities in Utopia and Social Sciences - Elton Dias Xavier (2018/02/20 - 2018/02/20)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018 - 2018/01/23 | JRAAS Seminar: Louis MacNeice and the Politics of Museum Culture: Making Sense of
the Earth - Rui Carvalho Homem (2018/01/23 - 2018/01/23)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2017 - 2017/12/05 | JRAAS Seminar: Restless Excitement and a Wealth of Paradoxes: An Exegesis of a 1964
Special Issue of Life Magazine About Japan - David Pinho Barros (2017/12/05 - 2017/12/05)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2017 - 2017/11/21 | II Colóquio JRAAS - Exploring the Inevitability of Death (2017/11/21 - 2017/11/21)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2017 - 2017/11/07 | JRAAS Seminar: “So relatable!”: Empathy and Otherness, Fiction and Ethics - Sofia
de Melo Araújo (2017/11/07 - 2017/11/07)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2022/11/03 - 2022/11/03 | Monsters, Monstrosity, and other Scary Topics
Round table
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YA Studies Around the World: The Conference
YA Studies Association, United Kingdom
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| 2021/05/03 - 2021/05/07 | An event exploring the diverse representations of sexuality and gender in YA studies.
Congress
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Let's Talk About Sex in YA
University of Cambridge Homerton College, United Kingdom
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| 2020/11/02 - 2020/11/06 | An event exploring diverse research perspectives in YA studies.
Congress
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YA Studies Around the World
YA Studies Association, United Kingdom
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| 2020/10/22 - 2020/10/23 | Event about the use of digital tools (Digital Humanities) for the analysis of children’s
literature.
Congress
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Children's Literature and Digital Humanities Conference 2020
Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
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| 2020/10/13 - 2020/10/14 | Event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Meeting
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III Encontro de Literatura de Língua Inglesa - Distopia e Outros Bichos
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Câmpus de Assis, Brazil
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2025 - Current | Children’s Literature Association | |
| 2022/03 - Current | Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos | |
| 2020/10 - Current | YA Studies Association | Executive Board (2022-2026) |
| 2018/04 - Current | International Gothic Association | |
| 2021 - 2024 | Science Fiction Research Association |
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
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| 2026/07/06 - 2026/07/20 | Defining YA Studies and Culture | Online |
| 2024/07/01 - 2024/07/20 | YA Literature, Media, & Culture Today | Online |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2026/04/01 - 2026/06/30 | Literatura Inglesa | Línguas e Culturas Estrangeiras (Licenciate Degree) | Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2024 - 2026 | VIA PANORAMICA (2182-9932) | Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto |
Distinctions
Award
| 2017 | Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies Traineeship
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Associação Luso-Britânica do Porto, Portugal |