Maria Teresa Casal (DC1C-B4B0-8CD9)

Curriculum Vitae

Maria Teresa Casal

Teresa Casal is Assistant Professor in English at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon and a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for Lisbon Studies (ULICES). Her main areas of research are narrative fiction and non-fiction, Irish Studies, and Medical Humanities. Her current research focuses on how contemporary narrative fiction and creative non-fiction represent experiences of dislocation, loss, and illness. She is equally interested in the experience and ethics of reading. She has published articles and book chapters in her areas of expertise and co-edited Global Perspectives in Probing Narratives in Healthcare (2023), the literary anthology Contar (com) a Medicina (2015; 2016; 2018), Beyond Diagnosis: Relating Person to Patient, Patient to Person (2014), and Revisitar o Mito / Myths Revisited (2015). She has given various workshops and coordinated reading and writing groups for healthcare providers. She is also a literary translator.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Maria Teresa Casal

Citation names

Teresa Casal
Maria Teresa Casal

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: DC1C-B4B0-8CD9
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6741-406X

Websites

http://ulices.letras.ulisboa.pt/en/research-groups/other-english-speaking-literatures-and-cultures-rg4/teresa-casal/ (Scholar)

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)
German	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2007/06/28 Concluded	Estudos Literários (Doutoramento) Major in Não Aplicável Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Creativity as Response-ability in Jennifer Johnston¿s Novels" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Summa cum laude
2007/06/28 Concluded	Estudos Literários (Doutoramento) Major in Especialidade: Literatura Inglesa Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal "Creativity as Response-ability in Jennifer Johnston´s Novels" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Summa cum laude
2000/09/04 - 2000/09/16 Concluded	Intensive Programme in Irish Studies - European Union Socrates/Erasmus Programme (Outros) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae, Belgium
1994/12/07 Concluded	Estudos Literários (Mestrado) Major in Literatura Inglesa Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centro de Estudos em Letras, Portugal "Dissertation: “Sean O’Faolain conta a Irlanda: Do eu ao outro pela narração". Pedagogic report: “’Lame and Useless Words’: Ler ‘The Dead’, reler Dubliners”." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1986 Concluded	Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, variante de Estudos Ingleses e Alemães (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2008/06/16 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

2000/12/15 - 2008/06/15	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

1994/12/14 - 2000/12/14	Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centro de Estudos em Letras, Portugal

1997/09/01 - 2000/08/31	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Camões Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Portugal
	University College Dublin School of Languages and Literature, Ireland
1989/11 - 1994/12/13	Trainee Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centro de Estudos em Letras, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018/06/05 - 2022/06/04	SHARE - Saúde e Humanidades Atuando em Rede. PIs: Isabel Fernandes; Maria de Jesus Cabral. http://humanidadesmedicas.letras.ulisboa.pt/en/project/ PTDC/LLT-OUT/29231/2017 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2012 - 2015	Narrative & Medicine: (con)texts and practices across disciplines. PTDC/CPC-ELT/3719/2012 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Teresa Casal. "“Imagining Myself Out of Myself”". In The Uses of Narrative Fiction and Memoir in Health Humanities. 2023. 10.4018/978-1-6684-8064-9.ch008 Teresa Casal. "‘What can we do, what does art do?’: Ethics and Aesthetics in Deirdre Madden’s Hidden Symptoms, One by One in the Darkness, and Molly Fox’s Birthday". In Deirdre Madden: New Critical Perspectives, edited by Anne Fogarty; Marisol Morales-Ladrón, 131-146. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press, 2022. Published Cavaco, Afonso Miguel; Pires, Catarina Martins; Dias, Margarida Pinto; Martins, Cecília Beecher; Teresa Casal; Cabral, Maria de Jesus. "Bridging Pharmacy Education and Health Humanities". In Advances in Medical Education, Research, and Ethics, 91-113. Pennsylvania, United States: IGI Global, 2021. Published • 10.4018/978-1-7998-4486-0.ch005 Teresa Casal. "Viver com demência: os pontos de vista da pessoa doente, da cuidadora e do profissional de saúde". In Entrecuzares Bioéticos. Orgs. António Barbosa e Isabel Fernandes, edited by António Barbosa; FERNANDES, ISABEL, 61-92. Lisboa, Portugal: Centro de Bioética, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, 2020. Published Teresa Casal. "Inhabiting Wounded Bodies". In Pain: Management, Expression, Interpretation, edited by Andrzej Danczak, 101-108. Leida, Netherlands: Brill, 2020. Published Teresa Casal. "'I Hope...Perhaps': Hope in the Face of Death". In Hope in All Directions, edited by Geoffrey Karabin, 125-136. Leida, Netherlands: Brill, 2019. Published Teresa Casal. "‘What Fools these Mortals Be’: What Do Mortals Play At when They Play with Fiction?". In Cultural Dynamics of Play, edited by Katarzyna Kuczma, 77-87. Leida, Netherlands: Brill, 2019. Published Teresa Casal. "A Century Apart: Intimacy, Love and Desire from James Joyce to Emma Donoghue". In Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context, edited by Diana Villanueva Romero; Carolina P. Amador-Moreno; Manuel Sánchez García, 235-263. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Published Teresa Casal. ""The Messiness and Weight of Real Human Life": Thinking with Stories of Grief and Bereavement". In Into the Irretrievable: Facing Grief and Bereavement, edited by António Barbosa, 105-119. Lisboa, Portugal: Centro de Bioética, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, 2017. Published Teresa Casal. "Can you die from not being listened to?". In Creative Dialogues: Narrative and Medicine, edited by Isabel Fernandes; Martins, Cecília Beecher; Amândio Reis; Zuzanna Sanches, 80-94. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. Published Teresa Casal. "Narrativa e Medicina: A perspectiva da Primeira Pessoa no Encontro Clínico". In Narrativa e Bioética, 55-71. Lisboa, Portugal: Centro de Bioética, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, 2015. Published Teresa Casal. "From Person to Patient: From Patient to Person?". In Beyond Diagnosis: Relating the Person to the Patient - The Patient to the Person, edited by Peter Bray; Teresa Casal, 83-110. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014. Published Teresa Casal. "“‘What Fools these Mortals Be’: What Do Mortals Play At when They Play with Fiction?”". In Cultural Dynamics of Play, edited by Katarzyna Kuczma, 77-87. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013. Published Teresa Casal. "Herdar histórias divididas, criar histórias ligadas: Hugo Hamilton e Glenn Patterson em Tradução". In A Scholar for all Seasons. Homenagem a João de Almeida Flor, edited by Carlos Viana Ferreira, 905-913. Lisboa, Portugal: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos, Universidade de Lisboa, 2013. Published Teresa Casal. "'I Hope...Perhaps': Hope in the Face of Death". In Hope in All Directions, edited by Geoffrey Karabin, 113-124. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013. Published Teresa Casal. ""When you look through the eyes of another": Mary and Lydia Cassatt in Art, Life, and Fiction". In Relational Designs in Literature and the Arts: Page and Stage, Canvas and Screen, edited by Homem, Rui Carvalho, 333-348. Leida, Netherlands: Brill, 2012. Published Teresa Casal. "Painting with Words and Becoming Other People: Theatre and the Visual Arts in Molly Fox's Birthday and Authenticity – an interview with novelist Deirdre Madden". In Relational Designs in Literature and the Arts: Page and Stage, Canvas and Screen, edited by Homem, Rui Carvalho, 399-411. Leida, Netherlands: Brill, 2012. Published Teresa Casal. "Inhabiting Wounded Bodies". In Pain: Management, Expression, Interpretation, edited by Andrzej Danczak; Nicola Lazenby. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2011. Published Teresa Casal. "'Frightened with my own Hatred’: Telling Violence in Jennifer Johnston’s Fool’s Sanctuary and The Invisible Worm". In Representation and Responsibility: Essays in Irish Cultural Studies, edited by Werner Huber; Michael Böss; Catherine Maignant; Hedwig Schwall, 53-66. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007. Published Teresa Casal. "'I did not know what to think, so I said nothing’: Narrative politics in Castle Rackrent". In 1798/1998: Back to the Present, Forward to the Past, edited by Patricia Lynch; Joachim Fischer; Brian Coates, 69-82. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2006. Published Teresa Casal. "Words Bursting, Words Witnessed: Language and Violence in Jennifer Johnston's War Novels". In New Voices in Irish Criticism, 99-105. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, 2000. Published
Book review	Teresa Casal. "Recensão de Ulisses, tradução portuguesa de Ulysses, de James Joyce, por Jorge Vaz de Carvalho". Review of Ulisses, tradução de Jorge Vaz de Carvalho 187 (2014): 254-257. Published
Dictionary entry	Teresa Casal. "Introduction à Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know". In Médecins, soignants, osons la littérature. Un laboratoire virtuel pour la réflexion éthique, edited by Cabral, Maria de Jesus ; Mamzer, Marie-France. Sipayat, 2020. Published Teresa Casal. "Introdução a Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know". In (O)usar a Literatura: Um laboratório de leituras para a reflexão em saúde, edited by Cabral, Maria de Jesus ; Mamzer, Marie-France. De Facto, 2019. Published
Edited book	Teresa Casal; Maria de Jesus Cabral. Global Perspectives in Probing Narratives in Healthcare. United States. 2023. 10.4018/978-1-6684-8064-9 Contar (com) a Medicina, 3ª edição (revista e aumentada).. 2018. Teresa Casal; FERNANDES, ISABEL; Cabral, Maria de Jesus ; Correia, Alda ; Diana V. Almeida. Contar (com) a Medicina. Ramada, Portugal: Pedago. 2016. Published • Editor Teresa Casal; FERNANDES, ISABEL; Cabral, Maria de Jesus ; Correia, Alda ; Diana V. Almeida. Contar (com) a Medicina. Ramada, Portugal: Pedago. 2015. Published • Editor Teresa Casal; Abel Nascimento Pena; Relvas, Maria de Jesus C.; Rui Carlos Ferreira Cavadas da Costa. Revisitar o Mito / Myths Revisited. Ribeirão, Portugal: Húmus. 2015. Published • Editor Teresa Casal. Beyond Diagnosis: Relating the Person to the Patient - The Patient to the Person. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press. 2014. Published • Editor
Journal article	Casal, Teresa. "¿His heart against his ribs¿: Embodied Tension in ¿The Dead¿ - https://www.revistas.usp.br/abei/article/view/179512". ABEI Journal 14 (2012): 55-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.37389/abei.v14i0.3610. 10.37389/abei.v14i0.3610 Teresa Casal. "Introduction to Away from Her". Anglo Saxonica III 2 (2011): 131-139. Published Teresa Casal. "'He said Ireland has more than one story': Multiple Belongings in Perspective". Anglo Saxonica II 27 (2009): 53-71. http://ulices.letras.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/anglosaxonica-II-27.pdf. Open access • Published Teresa Casal. "Introductory Note to Jennifer Johnston's Monologues". Anglo Saxonica II 27 (2009): 176-180. http://www.ulices.org/images/site/pdfs/anglosaxonica-II-27.pdf. Open access • Published Teresa Casal. "Creative Creatures and their Scenes of Creation in Jennifer Johnston's This Is Not a Novel". Anglo Saxonica II 26 (2008): 109-124. http://ulices.letras.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/anglosaxonica-II-26.pdf. Open access • Published
Journal issue	Teresa Casal. "Home_Lands and the Borders of America". Anglo Saxonica III 4 (2017): http://ulices.letras.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/asaxoiii-n14-2_1-1.pdf. Published • Coeditor
Newspaper article	Teresa Casal. "'How has life led me to this moment?' Creativity in Jennifer Johnston", Irish Times, 2017, Culture, https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/how-has-life-led-me-to-this-moment-creativity-in-jennifer-johnston-1.3135538.
Preface / Postscript	Teresa Casal. ""O que é que eu podia fazer?" Prefácio a Quando o silêncio se faz fala". Preface to Quando o silêncio se faz fala: A escuta na aprendizagem do cuidado de enfermagem, edited by Teresa Rebelo; Isabel Ferraz; Margarida M. Guedes; Graça Quaresma; Elisa Garcia; Otília Fernandes; Graça N. Carneiro, 13-19. Loures, Portugal: Lusodidacta. 2016. Published
Thesis / Dissertation	"Creativity as Response-ability in Jennifer Johnston's Novels". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, 2007.
Translation	Teresa Casal. Embaixador Extraordinário: Daniel O'Daly, 1595-1662. Dublin, Ireland: Arlen House. 2022. Published Teresa Casal. Salazar: Uma Biografia Política. Alfragide, Portugal: Dom Quixote. 2010. Published Teresa Casal. Tradução de Três Monólogos de Jennifer Johnston: Seventeen Trees; I Have Desired to Go; Billy and Christine.. Lisboa, Portugal: Anglo Saxonica. 2009. Published Teresa Casal. Imagens de Praga: Retratos de uma Cidade. Portuguese translation of Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City, by John Banville. Porto, Portugal: Asa. 2005. Published Teresa Casal. Florença, Um Caso Delicado. Portuguese translation of Florence: A Delicate Case, by David Leavitt.. Porto, Portugal: Asa. 2004. Published Teresa Casal. Chocolate. Portuguese translation of Chocolat, by Joanne Harris. Porto, Portugal: Asa. 2000. Published Teresa Casal. O Deus das Pequenas Coisas. Porto, Portugal: Asa. 1998. Published

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/05/16	Ficar ou Partir: O Dilema da Dublinense Eveline	U100: Centenário de Ulysses, de James Joyce \| U100: The Centenary of Ulysses, by JamesJoyce Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal \| National Library of Portugal. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/09/29	"Imagining Myself Out of Myself": Uses of Fiction and Memoir in Health Humanities	Il Pietrisco – Facets in the Health Humanities - Lecture series Il Pietrisco – Facets in the Health Humanities ((Verona) Online., Italy)
2021/06/25	An Overview of the Medical Humanities Elective at FMUL from 2019 to the Present	Caring and Sharing: Health and Humanities in Today’s World University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies: SHARE Project (Lisboa (Online), Portugal)
2021/06/16	“Getting further and further away from myself”: Experiencing Space in Dementia	Association for Medical Humanities Conference 2020: Making Space [Postponed to 2021] University of Limerick (Limerick (Online), Ireland)
2021/05/20	"Imagining myself out of myself”: Uses and Failures of Fiction in Colm Tóibín’s and Lucy Caldwell’s Stories of Grief	41st APEAA Meeting, 26-28 March 2020. Postponed to 20-21 May 2021. Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro (online), Portugal)
2020/12/02	O contributo da literatura nas Humanidades em Saúde. Palestra. On the contribution of literature to Medical Humanities. Talk.	Unidade curricular Humanidades em Saúde. Mestrado Integrado em Medicina. Regente: Maria Amélia Ferreira Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina (Porto (online), Portugal)
2020/04/20	Medicina Narrativa nas Humanidades em Saúde. In Workshop em Humanidades em Saúde.	Humanidades em Saúde. Mestrado integrado em Medicina. Moderação: Maria Amélia Ferreira e Susana Magalhães. Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina (Porto (online), Portugal)
2019/10/17	Medical Humanities Training in Medical Education: An Experiment at Undergraduate Level	Second One-day Meeting of Project SHARE - Health and Humanities Acting Together ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/07/25	‘“Imagining myself out of myself”: Uses and Failures of Fiction in Colm Tóibín’s and Lucy Caldwell’s Stories of Grief	Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures: “The Critical Ground” Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
2019/06/07	"There's nothing we can do, I'm afraid": Living with Dementia as Narrated in Fiction and Memoir, Panel: Arts, Literature and Health: Thinking and Practicing Medical Humanities	Encontro Annual da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras (Porto)
2019/03/25	How many words there are for home: On Irish Women's Prose Writing	JRAAS - Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies, Chapter XV CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Porto, Portugal)
2019/03/21	Comunicação, narrativa e medicina. In Workshop Comunicação em Saúde: Noções e Estratégias na Disseminação da Informação. Communication, Narrative and Medicine. Workshop on Communication in Health Care.	Portugal E-Health Summit 2019 Ministério da Saúde: SNS/SPMS (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/01/31	Decisão na demência: O ponto de vista da pessoa doente	III Encontro de Bioética da Universidade de Lisboa Reitoria da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/11/30	"For the first time in my life, fiction has failed me”: Estrangement and Grief in Lucy Caldwell’s Multitudes	Innovation and Experiment in Contemporary Irish Fiction Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
2018/10/25	“For the first time in my life, fiction has failed me”: Ficção, Doença e Medicina	Seminário Permanente do Projecto SHARE - Saúde e Humanidades Actuando em Rede \| Health and Humanities Acting Together Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/09/15	Workshop in Narrative Medicine. In Master in Applied Narrative Medicine.	Master in Applied Narrative Medicine Fondazione ISTUD (Milan, Italy)
2017/09/01	“She would work out how she was going to live”: Thinking with Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster	Biennial Conference of EFACIS - European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies Universidade da Coruña (Corunha, Spain)
2016/07/28	"Nothing She Could Do Would Make It Change”: What Lady Gregory Does in Colm Tóibín’s Stories	Annual Conference of IASIL - International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures: “Change” University College Cork (Cork, Ireland)
2015/11/23	“Now she was a shadow”: Experiencing Ageing in Jennifer Johnston’s Novel Two Moons	New Mellon Seminars on Ageing Centre for the Humanities and Health: King’s College, London (London, United Kingdom)
2015/07/21	Martyr or Murderer? Dead Brothers, Grief and Reconciliation in Deirdre Madden’s Hidden Symptoms and Molly Fox’s Birthday	IASIL Annual Conference: “Reconciliations” University of York (York, United Kingdom)
2015/05/22	«Face ao que «não nos cabe na cabeça»: ler e escrever «como quem respira»	Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos e Intervenção no Luto \| Portuguese Society for the Study and Intervention in Bereavement Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Psicologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/04/27	“Reading for Knowledge: An Experiment”. Panel: “Ways of reading, ways of knowing: On Narrative Medicine and its practice/s”	Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies: “(Re)shaping the Humanities: New Forms of Representation, New Ways of Reading Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal)
2015/01/14	Entre pessoas: sobre a subjectividade no encontro clínico Between Persons: On subjectivity in the clinical encounter	Narrative & Medicine Permanent Seminar Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/11/21	Hosts, Hostages and Guests of the Nation: From Gregory and Yeats to Frank O'Connor	Home Rule, Great War: fulfilment and disaster in the Irish imagination - An international symposium CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Porto, Portugal)
2014/10/30	Traduzir O Deus das Pequenas Coisas \| Mesa-redonda "Tradutores Reflectem sobre Tradução", moderada por João Ferreira Duarte \| Round-table "Translator on Translation", chaired by João Ferreira Duarte	international conference Moving Bodies Across Translation Centre for Comparative Studies (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/06/24	From Fiction to Memoir: Writing Illness	Narrative Matters 2014 – Narrative Knowing \| Récit et Savoir Université Paris-Diderot and American University Paris (Paris, France)
2014/03/14	Listening to the First Person in the Clinical Encounter	Storying Illness Across Disciplines, Project Narrative & Medicine: (Con)texts and Interdisciplinary Practices ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013/09/30	Entre sentir e sentido, viver e narrar	4º Workshop da Qualidade: “Profissionais: O Pulsar do Hospital.” Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013/06/20	'Taking In Before Letting Be’: Writing and Reading Illness Memoirs	A Narrative Future for Healthcare Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College, London, and Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University (London, United Kingdom)
2013/06/14	A Century Apart: Love and Desire from Joyce to Donoghue	Challenge and Enablement in Irish Culture: A Symposium CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Porto, Portugal)
2013/03/16	From Person to Patient: From Patient to Person?	3rd Global Conference of The Patient: Therapeutic Approaches Inter-Disciplinary Net (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013/03/11	‘I hope... Perhaps’: Hope in the Face of Death	5th Global Conference of Hope: Probing the Boundaries Inter-Disciplinary Net (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/12/14	Writing and Reading: In Sickness as in Health?	Ex certa scientia: Literature, Science and the Arts CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Porto, Portugal)
2012/08/29	For You to Decide’: Women Writers Address their Readers	VII Symposium of Irish Studies in South America, "Representations of Women in Contemporary Irish Culture" Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Brazil)
2012/08/22	“His Heart against his Ribs”: Embodied Tension in “The Dead”	Lecture - Cátedra W. B. Yeats Cátedra W. B. Yeats, Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
2012/07/12	‘What Fools these Mortals Be’: What Do Mortals Play at when they Play with Fiction?	Making Sense of: Play Inter-Disciplinary Net (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2011/12/02	Thunder, Fear, and Violence: Jennifer Johnston’s Rewriting of The Tempest	Dashed All to Pieces: tempests and other natural disasters CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Porto, Portugal)
2011/07/19	’I wondered what it was to be Molly Fox’: Ethics and aesthetics in Deirdre Madden’s novel	IASIL Annual Conference: “Conflict and Resolution” Centre for Irish Studies, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
2011/05/23	Inhabiting Wounded Bodies	Making Sense of: Pain Inter-Disciplinary Net (Warsaw, Poland)
2011/05/11	“Translation Studies at the University of Lisbon.” Panel on Translation Studies: “Current Debates in English and American Studies"	32 Annual Conf. of Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras (Coimbra, Portugal)
2010/11/27	Interview with Deirdre Madden	Relational Forms I: an Int. Conf. on Literature and the Arts CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Porto, Portugal)
2010/11/25	'When you look through the eyes of another’: Mary and Lydia Cassatt in Art, Life and Fiction	Relational Forms I: an Int. Conf. on Literature and the Arts CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Porto, Portugal)
2010/09/13	Can you die from not being listened to?	Int. Conf. Narrative and Medicine: Illness and Dialogue Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras (Lisboa, Portugal)
2010/07/27	Truth or Fiction: Does fiction carry truth, does truth need fiction?	IASIL Annual Conference: “Irish Literatures & Culture: New & Old Knowledges" National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Maynooth, Ireland)
2010/05/21	Can you die from not being listened to?	Narrative Matters 2010: Exploring the Narrative Landscape: Issues, Investigations, and Interventions St. Thomas University (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada)
2009/11/20	Introduction of the film Away From Her	From Sea to Sea: A Week of Canadian Culture in Lisbon Lisbon ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (Lisboa, Portugal)
2009/10/09	‘For me and you and all the rest of us’”: Last Suppers in James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ and Jennifer Johnston’s Foolish Mortals	Fundamental Sounds: Voices from Ireland: Irish Literary Festival Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto; Teatro Nacional São João; Companhia de Teatro Assédio (Porto, Portugal)
2007/03/15	Creative Creatures and their Scenes of Creation in Jennifer Johnston’s This Is Not a Novel	Inter-Art and Intercultural Dialogues ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (Lisboa, Portugal)
2004/11/05	Children of Love and Death’: Art and (Im)mortality in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Contemporary Irish Novels	Ireland, Memory, Translation Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2004/04/23	'This story that I didn’t want to hear’: History into Story in Jennifer Johnston’s The Gingerbread Woman	25th Annual Conf. Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, Forms of Representation, Ways of Reading Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal)
2003/12/11	'Frightened with my own hatred’: Telling Violence in Jennifer Johnston’s Fool’s Sanctuary and The Invisible Worm	IV Conf. of EFACIS - European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies: Representation and Responsibility Universidade do Minho, Escola de Letras, Artes e Ciências Humanas (Braga, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020 - 2022	Tradução para romeno de: Os da minha rua, de Ondjaki, e Bom dia, Camaradas, de Ondjaki. Programa Vieira, Bolsa de Tradução de Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua. Co-orientadora: Prof. Corina Nutu, Universidade de Bucareste. Supervisor	Programa Vieira (Other) Camões Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Proposta de Tradução de três obras de Mac Barreth: Brixton Brothers - The case of the case os Mistaken Identity, telephone e extra yarn Supervisor	Tradução (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2017 - 2017	The Transformative Poetics of Childhood Connections With Nature Throught The Leans of Life Writing: A Close Reading of Lorna Goodison´s From Harvey River, A Memoir of my Mother and her People; Michael Ondaatje´s Running in the Family and Eva Hoffman´s Lost in Translation Supervisor	Estudos Ingleses e Estudos Americanos (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Terminologia cientifica e técnica em tradução literária Supervisor	Tradução (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016 - 2016	A representação do Amor Sacrificial em The Happy Prince and other Tales (1888) e A House of Pomegranates (1892) Supervisor	Estudos Ingleses e Americanos (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Proposta de tradução de contos de Edna O´Brien em Saints and Sinners (2011) Supervisor	Tradução (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Traduzir o velho Japão: Japanese fairy tales de Lafcadio Hearn Supervisor	Tradução (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2014 - 2014	A problematica do nós na tradução para português de The Buddha in the Attic, de Julie Otsuka Supervisor	Tradução (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2018/06 - 2022/06	Ciclo de Seminários Permanentes: Projecto SHARE - Saúde e Humanidades actuando em rede \| Co-organizer of cycle of Permanent Seminars: Project SHARE - Health and Humanities Working Together (2018/07/18 - 2022/05/12) Other (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2014/03/24 - 2021/11/18	Representations of Home Open Seminars (22 seminars within RHOME - Representations of Home research project) (2014/03/24 - 2021/11/18) Other (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2021/06/24 - 2021/06/26	Caring and Sharing: Health and Humanities in Today’s World (2021/06/24 - 2021/06/26) Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2009/05/06 - 2021/03/11	Embassy of Ireland Lecture. Annual conference sponsored by Embassy of Ireland in Portugal (2009/05/06 - 2021/03/11) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2017/11/16 - 2017/11/17	Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English: Conflicts and/or Belonging: Thinking with Stories and Images (2017/11/16 - 2017/11/17) Congress (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2015/03/05 - 2015/03/07	Narrative and Medicine: Caring for the Future (2015/03/05 - 2015/03/07) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2015/03/05 - 2015/03/07	Narrative and Medicine: Caring for the Future (2015/03/05 - 2015/03/07) Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2014/11/13 - 2014/11/14	Representations of Home in English-speaking Literatures and Cultures (2014/11/13 - 2014/11/14) Congress (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2014/11/13 - 2014/11/14	Representations of Home in English-speaking Literatures and Cultures (2014/11/13 - 2014/11/14) Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2013/03/11 - 2013/03/13	Experiencing South Africa: Post-apartheid Culture and Society: Symposium and Film-screening (2013/03/11 - 2013/03/13) Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2012/05/02 - 2012/05/05	Recycling Myths / Revisitar o Mito (2012/05/02 - 2012/05/05) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2008/07/28 - 2008/08/01	International conference of IASIL - Association for the Study of Irish Literatures: “Home and Elsewhere: The Spaces of Irish Writing" (2008/07/28 - 2008/08/01) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2022/02/23	Things Are Not Separate”: Literary Symbiotic Metamorphoses in the Fiction and Critical Work of A. S. Byatt Thesis Member	Alexandra Isabel Bugio Bonito Batista Cheira (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2021/07/27	“Fronteiras, Voz e Identidade na Ficção de Deirdre Madden”. Projecto de Tese de Doutoramento. (Thesis) Arguer	Maria de Nazaré Faria Varelas Graça (Other) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2021/04/29	Tradução de ficção breve de Mark Twain pertencente ao ciclo de Adão e Eva: Contexto Histórico, Intertextualidade Bíblica, Humor e Realismo de Linguagem President of the jury	Madureira, Raquel Alexandra Teixeira (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2021/03/23	Performances de memória no romance irlandês contemporâneo (2000-2020) (Thesis) Arguer	Camila Franco Batista (PhD) Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Filosofia Letras e Ciências Humanas, Brazil
2021/01/13	Sister Outsider: esquecemo-nos de traduzir Audre Lorde? (Thesis) Arguer	Palos, Vera Sofia Sousa (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020/01/13	Tradução e Adaptação de The Scarlet Letter para o Público Infanto-Juvenil Português (Thesis) Arguer	Rocha, Micaela Filipa de Jesus (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/12/10	Reflexão sobre aspetos de variação linguística na tradução de Sula, de Toni Morrison (Thesis) Arguer	Santos, Nuno Miguel Faria (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2019/07/08	Embracing Mind. The Common Ground of Science & Spirituality, de B. Alan Wallace e Brian Hodel: proposta de tradução de uma obra de divulgação científica (Thesis) Arguer	Agostinho, João Pedro Marques (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/01/23	Censura e Tradução: George Bernard Shaw em Português (Thesis) Arguer	Campanella, Francesca (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2018/12/07	Tradução da Criatividade nas Obras de Harry Potter (Thesis) Arguer	Handley, Rebecca (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/07/26	“So many voices urging”: Transformation, Paradox and Continuity in the Poetry of James McAuley Thesis Member	Page, Rosemary Jean (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/07/24	Pensar sobre a Tradução de Teatro a Partir de The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams e os Artistas Unidos (Thesis) Arguer	Maurício, Mariana Silva Leal de Faria (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2018/06/19	A Tradução dos Discursos de Salazar para Língua Inglesa – Um Contributo para a História da Tradução durante o Século XX em Portugal. Projecto de Tese de Doutoramento em Estudos de Tradução. Orientadora: Teresa Seruya. (Thesis) Arguer	Isabel Augusta Chumbo (PhD) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal
2018/06/12	Saints, scholars and sinners: from dystopian vibrations to secular security in John McGahern’s novels (Thesis) Arguer	Mark John Richard Wakefield (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/03/20	Da tradução à representação: Reflexão sobre problemas e estratégias para a Tradução do texto Dramático (Thesis) Arguer	Pedro Rafael Gomes Ferreira (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/01/22	Transinfluências. (Po)ética nos contos de Mary Lavin e de Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (Thesis) Arguer	Monteiro, Maria Teresa Pedro Serra Líbano (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal
2017/12/06	Mary McCarthy e Portugal (1942-2017): (Não-)Tradução, Estudos de Género e Censura (Thesis) Arguer	Cruz, Mário Bruno Pais Brandão Franco da (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2016/11/02	The Search for Identity and the Construction of an Idea of India in the Novels The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai Thesis Member	Margarida Pereira Martins (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016/07/13	Efeitos da aprendizagem da análise literária de narrativas na temática da saúde por leitura cerrada e escrita reflexiva em estudantes universitários de Letras e Medicina (Thesis) Arguer	Marques, Maria Cristina Perdigão (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
2015/01/30	A Fear of Dark Water, de Craig Russell - Das Profundezas à Tradução Thesis Member	Bogdan, Irina Alexandrovna (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2012/01	Dreams from my Father: Uma Proposta de Tradução Thesis Member	Cerqueira, Ana Filipa Dias Pires (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2011/02/20	Liquid Transparencies: O Espaço Temporal em Cat’s Eye de Margaret Atwood Thesis Member	Henriques, Sara Freire da Cruz Paiva (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2011/01/21	Breakfast at Tiffany’s de Truman Capote em Português: Contributo para o Estudo da Tradução de Marcas Culturais (Thesis) Arguer	Vieira, Sofia Gomes da Silva (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2010/10/29	The Counter-Discourses of Femininity Thesis Member	Zuzanna Iwona Zabreska Sanches (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2022/01/25 - Current	EUNAMES - The European Narrative Medicine Society https://www.medicinanarrativa.eu/eunames
2021/01/21 - Current	Narrative Medicine International https://www.mhe.cuimc.columbia.edu/our-divisions/division-narrative-medicine/narrative-medicine-international
2020/02/01 - Current	AMH – Association for Medical Humanities	Member
2003/11/30 - Current	EFACIS – European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies	Member
1996/07/01 - Current	IASIL - International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures	Member; Portugal's Representative at the Bibliographic Committee
1994/03/17 - Current	European Society for the Study of English
1994/03/01 - Current	Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos \| Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies	Associada

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2020/01 - 2023/12	Vogal. Conselho Pedagógico \| Member of the Pedagogic Council Member	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2012 - 2022/06	Coordenadora de Grupo de Investigação 4 - Outros Literaturas e Culturas de Expressão Inglesa \| Coordinator of Research Group 4 - Other Literatures and Cultures in English Coordinator	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2017/01 - 2022	Comissão Científica Maiores 23 \| Member of the Scientific Committee for the access of mature students Coordinator	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2015 - 2019	Vogal. Direcção de Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa \| Member of the Board of ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies Member	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2021/06/24 - 2021/06/26	Caring and Sharing: Health and Humanities in Today’s World	ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
2017/11/16 - 2017/11/17	Representations of Home: Conflicts and/or Belonging: Thinking with Stories and Images	ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
2017/07/12 - 2017/07/15	Int. conf. Grief and Bereveament in Contemporary Society	Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina
2015/03/05 - 2015/03/07	Narrative and Medicine: Caring for the Future	Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; U Nova de Lisboa
2012/05/02 - 2012/05/05	Recycling Myths / Revisitar o Mito	Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras
2008/07/28 - 2008/08/01	IASIL Annual Conference: Home and Elsewhere: The Spaces of Irish Writing	Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2022/07 - Current	Advisor in Colección HEAL en Humanidades Médicas y Medioambientales	Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
2020 - Current	Rewriting Traditions: Contemporary Anglo-Irish Fiction. Research project PAPIME 400219 “Contemporary Anglo-Irish Literature, XX and XXI Centuries", Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Mexico
2022/08/30 - 2022/09/30	Peer-review of book proposal.	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2012/09/01 - 2022/07/31	Medicina Narrativa - Co-coordenação científica da unidade curricular e curso livre. \| Narrative Medicine - Scientific co-coordination of the curricular unit and open course	Estudos Ingleses e Americanos (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016 - 2022	Prática de Tradução Literária Inglês-Português \| Practice of Literary Translation English-Portuguese	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2012 - 2022	Literatura e Cultura Irlandesa \| Irish Literature and Culture	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2010 - 2022	Tradução Literária Inglês-Português \| Literary Translation English-Portuguese	(Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2001 - 2020	Inglês Língua Estrangeira \| English as a Foreign Language	(Licenciatura)
2016 - 2017	Introdução à Saúde Mental (Colaboração, introduzindo metodologia de Medicina Narrativa no ensino de turmas práticas). Regente: António Barbosa. Introduction to Mental Health (Co-teaching, introducing narrative medicine methodology in tutorials). Chair: António Barbosa.	(Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2020 - Current	Interface - Comunicação, Saúde, Educação (1414-3283)	Universidade Estadual Paulista
2020 - Current	American, British and Canadian Studies ( 1841-1487 / 1841-96)	Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
2016 - Current	Anglo Saxonica	Ubiquity Press
2015 - Current	Revista de Comunicação e Cultura (1646-4877)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
2017/02/01 - 2017/02/17	Atlantic Studies	Taylor and Francis