Curriculum Vitae
Beatriz de Almeida Santos
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Beatriz de Almeida Santos
Citation names
- de Almeida Santos, Beatriz
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- F315-D55F-193F
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4788-489X
Email addresses
- beatrizdealsantos@gmail.com (Professional)
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2025/09 - 2029
Ongoing
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Modern Literatures and Cultures (Doutoramento)
Major in Comparative Literary Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2024/09 - 2025/07
Ongoing
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Trends in English and North-American Studies (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2017/09 - 2019/09
Concluded
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Modern Literatures and Cultures (Pós-Graduação)
Major in English and American Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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18 |
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2013/09 - 2016
Concluded
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Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura)
Major in English and American Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/11/11 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/11 - Current | Cross-Cultural Discourses: Portugal, Britain and the Press
UIDB/04097/2020
Researcher
Centro de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2024/11 - 2025/01 | Bolsa de Iniciação à Investigação BII
755/2024/DRH
Master Student Fellow
Centro de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/05/27 - Current | Bridges between Fictional Narratives and Science (21 st Century)
UIDB/04097/2020
Researcher
Centro de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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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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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2026/05/21 | Guest talk titled "Remembered War: Neocolonialism and Translational Poetics in Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony" | "Postcolonial Studies: Literature, Culture and the Arts" Masters Seminar Guest Lecture
(coord. Ana Brígida Paiva)
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal)
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| 2025/11/14 | Inheriting War: Intergenerational Memory and Americanization in Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony | Symposium War in American History and Culture: Representations, Legacies, Consequences,
and Global Impacts
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Portugal)
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| 2025/11/13 | Guest Talk titled "A Investigação Científica e o Projecto Cross-Cultural Discourses: Portugal, Britain and the Press" | 'Cruzamentos Culturais Anglo-Portugueses' Undergraduate Seminar (coord. Professor
Teresa Pereira)
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
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| 2024/06 | “No religion? Are we stones, on Anarres?”: Ideological and Societal Parallels between the Puritans and the Odonians in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed | 44th APEAA MEETING
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/04/29 | Science Fiction: from Speculation to Application | JRAAS Open Seminar
CETAPS - FCSH UNL
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| 2019 | “The world had emptied”: The Weird Western in Stephen King’s First Instalment of The Dark Tower Series, The Gunslinger | 40th APEAA MEETING
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2018 | The Embrace of a Cage: Inter-Species Symbiosis and Human Resentment in Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild” | Mensageiros das Estrelas
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018 | “I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery”: Strategies of Sensitization in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred | Dikes of Courage
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018 | Beyond the Wall: Reading Neil Gaiman's Stardust According to Farah Mendlesohn’s Proposed Taxonomy | 39th APEAA MEETING
Departamento de Linguística e Literaturas da Universidade de Évora
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 - Current | "Only in Silence the Word": o Legado Fantástico de Ursula K. Le Guin (2018 - 2018)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2026/03/25 - 2026/03/25 | Organizer and co-moderator of the American Intersections Permanent Seminar session
"Past Lives: Between Korea and the US" with guest Kang Ji Yun (2026/03/25 - 2026/03/25)
Seminar (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 |
| 2025/11 - 2025/11 | NOVA Winter Doctoral Symposium (3rd Edition) (2025/11/10 - 2025/11/11)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2024/10/14 - 2025/06/02 | Co-organizer of the reading group LIBERA(Mente), funded by DGES (Direção-Geral do
Ensino Superior), and facilitator of the session on The Vegetarian by Han Kang (2024/10/14 - 2025/06/02)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Centro de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, Portugal |
| 2024/11/18 - 2024/11/19 | NOVA Winter Doctoral Symposium (2nd Edition) (2024/11/18 - 2024/11/19)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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Centro de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2024/06/04 - 2024/06/04 | 50th anniversary of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed Roundtable (co-organizer
and speaker) (2024/06/04 - 2024/06/04)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2024/04/09 - 2024/04/11 | International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games (2024/04/09 - 2024/04/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Centro de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2024 - 2024 | "Echoes of the Future" - Cycle of science fiction films screenings and debates (co-organizer
and speaker) (2024 - 2024)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/01 - Current | 46th APEAA Conference
Member
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2024 - Current | NOVA Winter Doctoral Symposium
Member
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2024/05 - 2024/11 | International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games
Member
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
Distinctions
Other distinction
| 2018 | Banco Santander Scolarship - Yale Summer Session
Banco Santander Portugal, Portugal
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