Curriculum Vitae
Ana Brígida Paiva
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Ana Brígida Paiva
Citation names
- Paiva, Ana Brígida
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- EE1E-D499-AEB9
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3876-5861
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific 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) | |
| French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2018/09 - 2022
Ongoing
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Literaturas e Culturas Modernas (Doutoramento)
Major in Estudos Literários Comparados
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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2014
Concluded
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Tradução (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"O Estatuto do(a) Tradutor(a) de Literatura Infantil: o Caso das Traduções Portuguesas de Roald Dahl" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
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2012
Concluded
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Línguas Literaturas e Culturas (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2023/09/01 - Current | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
| Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2014/06/01 - Current | Member of the Center English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) | Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2019/09/01 - 2020/03/15 | Language trainer (English and Portuguese) | Centro Europeu de Línguas, Portugal |
| 2015/09 - 2018/08 | Language trainer (English and Portuguese) | inlingua Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| 2015/04 - 2015/09 | Translation trainee | European Parliament Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | CETAPS - Centro de Estudos Ingleses, de Tradução e Anglo-Portugueses
UID/ELT/04097/2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2010/09 - 2011/09 | Anthropology project titled "Cobrir o Corpo"
1224
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Dictionary entry |
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| Journal article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/04/23 | Lecture titled “‘The body is a blade that sharpens by cutting’: Tenderness, Trauma, and Breaking the Cycle of Violence in Ocean Vuong’s Poetry” | American Dreams Permanent Seminar
Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2024/05/15 | Lecture on Anglo-Portuguese Relations Via Macau and Hong Kong (16th-21st Centuries) (coord. Professor Gabriela Gândara Terenas) | Anglo Portuguese Studies Undergraduate Seminar
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2024/05/13 | Guest talk on Ocean Vuong’s poetry | Ciclo de Conversas sobre Literatura e Migração / Cycle of Talks on Literature and Migration
CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2024/05/08 | Guest talk on translation traineeships in the European Parliament and freelance translation (coord. Professor Hanna Pieta) | Translation Undergraduate Seminar
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025/05/14 - Current | Member of the Organizing Committee for the conference "A Arte como Comentário Social: Representar Problemas Sociais Contemporâneos" (2025/05/14)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2025/03/10 - Current | Co-organizer of the reading group LIBERA(Mente), funded by DGES (Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior), and facilitator of the
March session on Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. (2024/10/14 - 2025/06/02)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2024/06/04 - Current | Co-organizer of the roundtable on the 50th anniversary of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (2024/06/04)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2024/04/10 - Current | Organizer and moderator of a film session dedicated to Fallen Angels, directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai (2024/04/10)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2023/03/09 - 2023/04/13 | Organizer and moderator of five film sessions dedicated to Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai (Session 1: Days of Being Wild;
Session 2: Chungking Express; Session 3: Happy Together; Session 4: In the Mood for Love, Session 5: 2046) (2023/03/09 - 2023/04/13)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2021/06/24 - 2021/06/26 | Panel hosting for the "Picturebooks and Graphic Narratives in Education and Translation: Mediation and Multimodality" international
congress (2021/06/24 - 2021/06/26)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018/12/14 - 2018/12/14 | Co-organizer of the round-table discussion "I write for the same reason I breathe: o legado literário de Isaac Asimov" (2018/12/14 - 2018/12/14)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018/11/07 - 2018/11/07 | Co-organizer of the round-table discussion "Only in silence the word: o legado fantástico de Ursula K. Le Guin" (2018/11/07 - 2018/11/07)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2025/03/20 - Current | Facilitator of the session titled "O cinema na poesia / A poesia no cinema" at Biblioteca / Espaço Cultural Cinema Europa
Festival
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Feira do Livro de Poesia 2025 (Lisbon Poetry Book Fair 2025) |
| 2024/12/18 - Current | Presenter at the book launch of Isabel Milhana Machado’s poetry collection "O Sol em Maio," published by Editora Urutau
Other
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| 2024/10/19 - Current | Co-moderator in an interactive translation session (PT¿EN) (with Allison Wright)
Meeting
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Mediterranean Editors and Translators' 2024 Meeting |
| 2023/10/05 - 2023/10/07 | Conference paper titled "Self-Representation in the Wake of Trauma: The Symbolic Significance of the Art Gallery in Cat's
Eye and As Rosas Mortas"
Conference
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The 2023 RAAS-Fulbright Conference: Mapping Spaces and (the) US |
| 2022/09 - 2022/09 | Conference paper titled "The Motif of the Travelling Child in Portuguese Children's Literature Set in Macau"
Conference
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Touring Travel Writing II: Between Fact and Fiction
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
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| 2022/08 - 2022/08 | Conference paper titled "Representations of Chinese dragons in British picturebooks set in Hong Kong"
Conference
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7th International Academic Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 2022/08 - 2022/08 | Conference paper titled "Representations of Macau and Hong Kong in Portuguese and British Children's Literature of the Late
20th century and Early 21st Century"
Symposium
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ESSE Doctoral Symposium
European Society for the Study of English, Italy
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| 2022/03/09 - 2022/03/12 | Conference paper titled "Representações de Macau na Literatura Infanto-Juvenil Portuguesa na Transição do Século XX para o
Século XXI" (Representations of Macau in Late 20th to Early 21st Century Portuguese Children's Literature)
Conference
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Conferências da Primavera: Conferência sobre Macau
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Portugal
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| 2021/12/02 - 2021/12/04 | Conference paper titled "The past is an idealized colony: expressions of nostalgia in British and Portuguese children's literature
set in Hong Kong and Macau"
Conference
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Relational Forms VI - Imag(in)ing the Nation: Literature, the Arts and Processes of National Construction
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2021/06/24 - 2021/06/26 | Conference paper titled "Chinese dragons in British and Portuguese picturebooks from the late 20th century and early 21st
century"
Congress
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Picturebooks and Graphic Narratives in Education and Translation: Mediation and Multimodality
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
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| 2019/06/07 - 2019/06/07 | Conference paper titled "A Borrowed Place on Borrowed Time: The Symbolic Power of the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong in
Martin Booth's Music on the Bamboo Radio (1997)"
Conference
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40th APEAA Meeting
Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Portugal
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| 2018/10/06 - 2018/10/08 | Conference paper titled "The fictional (self-)portrait as literary device in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira's
As Rosas Mortas"
Congress
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Congresso Internacional O Retrato: Representações e Modos de Ser
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
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| 2013/12/12 - 2013/12/14 | Conference paper titled "Gender indeterminacy in translation: the case of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps gamebooks via Portuguese
translation"
Conference
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Version, Subversion: Translation, the Canon and its Discontents - An International Conference on Literary Translation
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2013/05/08 - 2013/05/10 | Conference paper in co-authorship with Ricardo Silva, titled "Rebelling in Macau through Cross-cultural Matrimony: Emotional
Landscape(s) and Strategies of Acceptance and Excusion in Henrique de Senna Fernandes' The Bewitching Braid (1993)"
Conference
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International Conference on Macau Narratives
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
Fundação Oriente, Portugal |
| 2011/10/26 - 2011/10/26 | Conference paper titled "O Alfaiate Português: Memória e Identidade na Representação do Cliente" (The Portuguese Tailor: Memory
and Identity through the Client Representation), as part of the Integration into Research Grant "Cobrir o Corpo", awarded
by IELT (Instituto de Estudos de Literatura Tradicional)
Conference
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Jovens Investigadores do IELT em Jornada
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
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Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/12/11 - 2025/12/01 | Member of the Organizing Committee for CETAPS' Winter Doctoral Symposium: Literatures and Cultures in English
Member
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2025/01/22 - 2025/01/24 | Member of the Organizing Committee for the New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies VIII Graduate Symposium
Member
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2024/01/25 - 2024/01/26 | Member of the Academic Advisory Board for the New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies VII Graduate Symposium
Advisor / Consultant
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/10/02 - Current | Invited Assistant Lecturer for the Translation undergraduate course "Scientific and Technical Translation Practice - English to Portuguese" | Tradução (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2023/10/02 - 2024/12/15 | Invited Assistant Lecturer for the Translation undergraduate course "Literary Translation Practice - English to Portuguese" | Tradução (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2023/11/21 - 2023/12/05 | Three-lesson module titled "O Trauma na Literatura Anglófona Contemporânea: Nação, Identidade e Biografia em Slaughterhouse Five (1969), de Kurt Vonnegut" (Trauma in Contemporary Anglophone Literature: Nation, Identity, and Biography in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five), taught as part of the subject "Temáticas Contemporâneas da Ficção Inglesa e Norteamericana" (Contemporary Themes in English and North American Fiction) (coord. Professor Rogério Miguel Puga) | (Mestrado) | Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Brazil |
| 2023/10/30 - 2023/11/13 | Three-lesson module titled "'When they ask you where you're from, tell them your name': Rethinking identity, masculinity, and memory in Ocean Vuong's Poetry", taught as part of the undergraduate seminar "Aesthetics of Dissensus in English and North-American Fiction" (coord. Professor Rogério Miguel Puga) | Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
| 2015 | Distinction - Best Performing Master's student
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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