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Inês Vaz is a PhD student, recipient of a PhD research grant provided by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), and integrated researcher at CHAM (Centre for Humanities). Pursuing a degree in Modern Literatures and Cultures at NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, the focus of her research is fantasy fiction, namely, representations of monstrous creatures in contemporary animation works. Holding a MA degree in English and North-American Studies from the same institution, her master's dissertation looked at female renditions of the monomyth in children's fantasy literature. Other published works explore many of the same themes, and others, within fantasy contexts.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Inês Guedes Vaz

Citation names

  • Vaz, Inês
  • Vaz, Inês Guedes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F518-9942-76CF
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1592-6319

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Portuguese gestual language Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/09 - 2027/09
Ongoing
Literaturas e Culturas Modernas (Doutoramento)
Major in Literatura Comparada
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/09 - 2022/01
Concluded
Literaturas e Culturas Modernas (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"“The Heroine’s Journey: Female Rendition of the Monomyth in The Clockwork Crow Series”" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2015/09 - 2018/06
Concluded
Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas (Licenciatura)
Major in Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/09 - Current Integrated Researcher CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/09 - Current PhD Thesis
2023.00682.BD
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Inês Vaz. "“The clock is grey with dust in the land where time is lost”; time as a narrative dimension in The Clockwork Crow series". 2023.
    10.1201/9781003260554-55
Conference abstract
  1. Inês Vaz. "Us Princesses Have to Stick Together". 2025.
  2. Vaz, Inês. "Monster Girls Turning Darkness to Light: Subversive Uses of Monstrosity in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and Nimona". Paper presented in GIFCon 2024: Conjuring Creatures and Worlds, 2024.
Journal article
  1. Inês Vaz. "Bringing Fantasy Animation into a New Era". Messenger from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy 7 (2025): 10-26. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/307324f0-f72e-4d43-80a3-500ce381db15.
  2. Inês Vaz. "Navigating the Stars". Messenger from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy 5 (2020): 109-125. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/d41367a2-8974-43db-ac92-3fb4c34315a8.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "The Heroine´s Journey: Female Rendition of the Monomyth in Catherine Fisher´s The Clockwork Crow Series". Master, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/136216.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/09/26 “Go back to the shadows from whence you came!”: Nimona’s Subversion of Difference as Marker of Otherness and Monstrosity III Atlantic Conference 2025 | Fears, Beliefs and Representations
CHAM Açores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2025/06/24 “Magic, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Fairest One of All?”: The Evolution of the Evil Stepmother Archetype in Disney’s Fantasy Animation and Other Relevant Works DisNet’s Third Annual Conference: Disney and the Multi-Media-Verse: Disney’s Engagement with Multimedia, Space and Culture
DISNET: Disney, Culture and Society Research Network
2025/05/09 Us Princesses Have to Stick Together: Uses and Representations of Queerness in Contemporary YA Fantasy Animation GIFCon 2025: Queering the Fantastic
Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow, School of Critical Studies
2025/04/29 "New Looks For Old Hags:The Crone in Contemporary Fantasy Animation" A Thesis Project Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic Meeting
Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow, School of Critical Studies (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
2024/11/29 Fantasia e Literatura Fantástica “Biblioteca Fantástica Portuguesa - FUNTASIA 2024”
Municipal Library D. Dinis (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/11/18 A Look into Fantastic Female Monstrosity Winter Doctoral Symposium - Literatures and Cultures in English
JRAAS/CETAPS (NOVA University of Lisbon) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/11/15 Fantastic Female Monstrosity: An in-Depth Look at the Hag/Crone Character in Fantasy Narratives Bachelor's English Class
Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/06/27 "Remember who the enemy is:" Gamemakers and the Makings of War in Suzanne Collins' The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 44th Conference APEAA | Transitions: Freedom & Conflicts
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/05/16 Monster Girls Turning Darkness to Light: Subversive Uses of Monstrosity in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and Nimona GIFCon 2024: Conjuring Creatures and Worlds
University of Glasgow
2023/08/06 (Re)Visiting Hades: Depictions of the Underworld in Virgil's and Rick Riordan's Work Online Midsummer Seminar
Mythopoetic Society
2022/10/06 The clock is grey with dust in the land where time is lost: Time as a narrative dimension in The Clockwork Crow series 8th International and Multidisciplinary Congress PHI 2022 – “Time and Space”
CHAM (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/11/18 - 2024/11/19 Co-organisation of the NOVA Winter Doctoral Symposium 2024 (2024/11/18 - 2024/11/19)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/11/18 - 2024/11/19 NOVA Winter Doctoral Symposium CETAPS