MARK J. L. SABINE
Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies,
University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD
Tel.: 0115-8466441 Mobile: 07771-956560 [email protected]
(1) CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Lecturer (scale B) in Lusophone Studies
University of Nottingham, 2003 – present. Tenure confirmed summer 2006.
Post-doctoral Researcher (funded by the European Commission)
Institute of Romance Studies, University of London School of Advanced Study, 20012003.
Part-time Lecturer
University of Nottingham, 2002-2003.
University of Oxford, 2002-2003.
University of Southampton, 2001-2003.
Visiting Lecturer (* funded by the E.C. Socrates-Erasmus programme)
University of Manchester, 2001-2003
*Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, 2005-present
.*Università degli Studi di Bologna, from 2011
(2) EDUCATION
1991-2001
1997.2001
University of Manchester
PhD in Portuguese, supervised by Prof. Hilary Owen.
British Academy AHRB postgraduate studentship, 1997-2000.
Thesis: 'Form and Ideology in the Novels of José Saramago 19801989'.
Examiners: Prof. Paulo de Medeiros (University of Utrecht) and Prof.
Clive Willis (University of Manchester).
Archive work at the Universidade de Coimbra, 1998-1999, supervised
by Dr Stephen Wilson and Dra Ana Paula Arnaut.
1996.1997
MA with Distinction, in European Languages and Culture (Spanish
and Portuguese).
Vicente Cañada Blanch Foundation postgraduate scholarship.
1991-1995
First Class BA Honours in Hispanic Studies.
One year spent as an Erasmus student at the Universidade de
Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
Anglo-Portuguese Society Annual Prize for outstanding student of
Portuguese at a British University, 1995.
(3) PUBLICATIONS
(3.1) EXISTING PUBLICATIONS
Edited volumes
2010 O Corpo em Pessoa: Corporealidade, Género, Sexualidade (Lisboa: Assírio &
Alvim). 366 pp.
Co-edited with Anna M. Klobucka, trans. by Humberto Brito. Part-funded by
the Instituto Camões and the Luso-American Development Foundation.
2007 Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press). 332 pp.
Co-edited with Anna M. Klobucka.
2006 In Dialogue with José Saramago: Essays in Comparative Literature
(Manchester: Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Studies). 195 + x pp.
Co-edited with Adriana Alves de Paula Martins. Funded by the Gulbenkian
Foundation and the Luso-American Development Foundation.
Volume articles
2014 ‘Colonial Masculinities under a Woman’s Gaze in Margarida Cardoso’s “A Costa
dos Murmúrios”’, in H. Owen & A.M. Klobucka (eds), Gender, Empire, and
Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections (NY: Palgrave-Macmillan), 87-109.
2013 ‘Reconstruindo o corpo político de Angola: Projeções globais e locais da
identidade e protesto em O Herói’, in Alessandra Meleiro (ed.), Filmes da África
e da diáspora (Salvador: EDUFBA).
2013 ‘Al Berto: ‘Truque do pêssego’, in Cláudia Pazos Alonso & Stephen Parkinson,
Reading Texts in Portuguese (Oxford: Tamesis).
2012 ‘Inverted Aesthetics: Pessoa, Campos, and António Botto’s Canções’, in Mariana
Gray de Castro (ed.), Fernando Pessoa: Influences, Dialogues, Responses
(Oxford: Tamesis).
2012 'Saramago's ‘Other’ Pessoas and ‘Pessoan’ Others: Heteronymic Creation
and the Ethics of Alterity', in David Frier (ed.), Fernando Pessoa in an
Intertextual Web: Influences and Interpretations (Oxford: Legenda, 147-170).
2011 ‘Re-fitting the Lexicon of Resistance: Saramago, symbolism and dictatorship’, in
Alison Ribeiro de Meneses& Catherine O’Leary (eds), Legacies of War and
Dictatorship in Contemporary Spain and Portugal (Oxford-Bern: Peter Lang), 3965.
2010 ‘Introdução: Os Corpos de Pessoa’ (co-written with Anna M. Klobucka), in O
Corpo em Pessoa: Corporalidade, género, sexualidade (details above), 13-47.
2010 ‘“Contínuo mistério reposto e repetido”: Homossexualidade e heteronímia em
Antinous’, in O Corpo em Pessoa: Corporalidade, género, sexualidade (details
above), 189-226.
2010 ‘Putting Violence back in the Picture: Margarida Cardoso’s A Costa dos
Murmúrios and Post-Colonial War Anamnesis’, in Conflict, Memory Transfers
and the Reshaping of Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars’ Press), 291303.
2010 ‘Writing after the Dictatorship’ (co-written with Claire Williams), in Stephen
Parkinson (ed.), A Companion to Portuguese Literature (Oxford: Tamesis), 182201.
2010 ‘Killing (and) nostalgia: Testimony and the image of empire in Cardoso’s ‘A Costa
dos Murmúrios’, in Cristina Demaria & Macdonald Daly (eds), The Genres of
Post-Conflict Testimonies (Nottingham: CCCP), 249-276.
2009 ‘Uma Penélope pós-colonial: Des(a)fiando a odisseia lusa’, in Ana Paula Arnaut
(ed.), António Lobo Antunes (Cânone) (Lisboa: Edições Setenta).
2007 'História, harmonia, verdade: Sobre o simbolismo da música em Memorial do
Convento', in Paulo de Medeiros and José N. Ornelas (eds), Da Possibilidade
do Impossível: Leituras de Saramago (Utrecht Portuguese Studies Series)
(Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht), 283-92.
2007 'Pessoa's Bodies' (co-written with Anna M. Klobucka), in Embodying Pessoa:
Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (details above). 3-36.
2007 'Homosexuality and Heteronymy in Antinous', in Embodying Pessoa:
Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (details above), 149-77.
2006 'Saramago and the Politics of Literary Quotation' (co-written with Adriana
Martins), in In Dialogue with José Saramago (details above), 1-23.
2006 'Risen from the Ground after One Hundred Years of Solitude: The telling of
time and truth in Saramago and García Márquez' in In Dialogue with José
Saramago: Studies in Comparative Literature (details above), 141-61.
2005 '"Once but no longer the Prow of Europe": National Identity and Portuguese
Destiny in José Saramago's A Jangada de Pedra', in José Saramago, ed.
Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House). 75-94. Republication: originally
published 2001 (see below).
2004 'Gender, Race and Violence in Luís Bernardo Honwana's Nós matámos o
Cão-tinhoso: The emasculation of the black patriarch', in Hilary Owen and
Phillip Rothwell (eds), Sexual/Textual Empires: Gender and Marginality in
Lusophone African Literature (Lusophone Voices Series, 2) (Bristol: University
of Bristol), 23-44.
2004 'Um Olhar Consumidor: O antropofagismo luso-queer nos "Truques de
ilusionismo" de Al Berto', in Sérgio Aboud, Denilson Lopes, Berenice Mello,
and Wilton Garcia (eds), Imagem e Diversidade Sexual (São Paulo: Nojosa
edições/ABEH), 316-28.
1997 'Giovanni Pontiero's translation of Clarice Lispector's Laços de Família' in Juan
Sager and Pilar Orero (eds), The Translator's Dialogue: Giovanni Pontiero
(Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamin), 145-53.
Journal/ Series articles
2012 ‘Rebuilding the Angolan body politic: global and local projections of identity and
protest in O Herói’, Journal of African Cinemas 3:1, ‘Lusophone Africa’ (ed. by
Alessandra Meleiro), 211-29.
2011 ‘Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso: A emasculação de África e a crise do patriarca
negro’, Via Atlântica 17, 88-104.
2010 ‘“Pedaços de corpos envoltos no coral”: Cânone literário, identidade, e
expressão “queer” em “Salsugem” de Al Berto’, Colóquio-Letras 173 (Janeiro
de 2010), 47-63.
2007 'Gender Dysphoria and Sexual Difference in Eça de Queirós's O Primo Basílio
and O Padre Amaro'. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 12, ‘The Other
Nineteenth Century’ (edited by Kathryn Bishop-Sánchez), 117-137.
2006 'Shrinking the Leviathan Erection: Power, satire and the body in Saramago's
Memorial do Convento', article published in National University of Ireland,
Maynooth, Lusophone Studies Series, 15. 30pp.
2002
'Re-incarnating the poet: Pessoa, the body and society in José Saramago's O
ano da morte de Ricardo Reis', Journal of Romance Studies 2.2 (Summer
2002), 37-52.
2001 '"Once but no longer the Prow of Europe": National Identity and Portuguese
Destiny in José Saramago's A Jangada de Pedra', Portuguese Literary and
Cultural Studies, 6 On Saramago (ed. Anna Klobucka), 185-203.
Review articles
2007 'Worlds of Difference, Words of Equivalence: The Selected Prose of Fernando
Pessoa, trans and ed. by Richard Zenith', Portuguese Literary and Cultural
Studies, 7 (in press).
2005 'The Twilight World of the Lusosexual: Exploring sexuality in Portugueselanguage literatures', JRS 5.2 (Summer 2005), 103-112.
2001 On Carlos Reis, Diálogos com José Saramago, PLCS, 6 (see above), 251-6.
Reviews
2012 Review of Josiah Blackmore (ed.), The Songs of António Botto (translated by
Fernando Pessoa) (2010), Ellipsis (Journal of the American Portuguese Studies
Association), 10 (forthcoming).
2011 Review of Hilary Owen, Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women’s Writing of
Mozambique, 1948-2002 (2007) (forthcoming).
2007 Review of Adriana Alves de Paula Martins, A Representação da Nação na Obra
de José Saramago e de Gore Vidal (2006), Ellipsis (Journal of the American
Portuguese Studies Association), 5.
2004 Review of conference Transcultural Samplings and Global Reverberations, UK
newsletter of International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
(3.2) ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION OR IN PREPARATION
2012 Introduction (c.5000 ww) for English-language translation of Eduardo Pitta’s
Fractura: A Condição Homosexual na Literatura Portuguesa Contemporânea
(2004).
(3.3) CURRENT PROJECTS
Monograph volumes
José Saramago: Truth, Utopia, and the Necessity of Error. Manuscript to be
submitted, by invitation, to Manchester University Press, Winter 2011.
Articles
‘“Estranha forma de vida”: Amália as gay icon’. To be submitted, by invitation, to
Luso-Brazilian Review.
'The Mariner and the Nomad: Exile and elsewhere in the work of Al Berto'.
'Post-Imperial Penelopes: Re-writing the hero's return in Portuguese literature of
the 1980s'.
(4) MAJOR RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS
(4.1) CONFERENCES ORGANISED
2010 American Portuguese Studies Association 7th international conference, Brown,
University, October. Conference co-chair.
2009 Association of British and Irish Lusitanists 3rd internatinal conference, NUI
Maynooth, Ireland, September. Conference programme co-chair.
2008 American Portuguese Studies Association 6th international conference, Yale
University, 10-12 October. Conference chair.
2006 American Portuguese Studies Association 5th international conference, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 12-15 September. Section organiser.
2006 Association of British and Irish Lusitanists First International Conference,
University of Nottingham, 15-16 September 2006. Principal organiser.
2006 Popular Musics of the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, University of Newcastle,
14-16 July. Co-organised with Vanessa Knights and Ian Biddle, in association
with the organizers of the ¡Vamos! Festival of Latin Culture, Newcastle Gateshead, 7-16 July.
www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/popularmusics
www.vamosfestival.com
2003 Latin American Popular Music: Transcultural Samplings and Global
Reverberations, Institute of Romance Studies, London, 5-6 December. Coorganised with Patricia Montenegro (UCL).
(4.2) MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS
2010-present Global Cities/ Global Citizenship (funded by the European
Commission & US Govt Atlantis partnership programme).
Academic Partners: University of Bologna; University of Denver;
Portland State University.
2009-present Cinema of Post-Conflict in Africa
Academic Partners: University of Cape Town; Eduardo Mondlane
University, Maputo; University of Naples ‘l’Orientale’; University of
Minho; Queen Mary, University of London; New York University; School
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
2007-2009
Estudos Comparados da Narrativa Lusófona Pós-Colonial
Academic Partners: Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo; University
of Lisbon; University of Naples ‘l’Orientale’; University of São Paulo;
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
2004-present Post-Conflict Cultures (coordinated by University of Nottingham and
University of Bologna)
2001.2003
Cultural Units of Learning - Tools and Services (funded by European
Commission)
Academic partners: Technical University of Berlin, University of
Salzburg, University of Southampton, University of Tartu, University of
Tel Aviv, University of Vienna.
(4.3) AFFILIATIONS
American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA) – Executive committee
member 2006-present.
Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL)– Conference secretary and
steering group member, 2005-2006; executive committee member, 20062009.
Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas (AIL)
Brazilian Association for the Study of Homoculture (ABEH)
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
(4.4) EDITORIAL/ PEER-REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
Peer-reviewer for proposals and manuscripts for the following:
Ashgate Press
Manchester University Press
St Jerome Press
University of Wales Press
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
Ellipsis (journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association)
Hispanic Research Journal
Journal of Romance Studies
Modern Language Review
Politics and Policy
The Review of Politics
(5) RESEARCH FUNDING AWARDED
2009 £26,000 from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, to part-fund
research leave to undertake the researching of José Saramago: Truth, Utopia,
and the Necessity of Error.
2009 £950 from University of Nottingham Centre for Advanced Study, to fund
participation in international conference ‘Sexual/ Textual Empires’, University of
Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA.
2008 €1,500 from the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), to part-fund
translation and publication of O Corpo em Pessoa (see above).
2007 €1,000 from the Instituto Camões, to part-fund translation and publication of O
Corpo em Pessoa (see above).
2007 £650 from Nottingham Humanities Research Office, to part-fund translation and
publication of O Corpo em Pessoa (see above).
2007 £880 from Nottingham Humanities Research Office, to fund participation in the
MLA annual convention in Chicago, USA.
2006 £1450 from Nottingham Humanities Research Office, to fund participation in the
5th APSA international conference at the University of Minnesota, USA, and to
part-fund the publication of Embodying Pessoa (see above)
2006 £900 from University of Nottingham Dean of Arts Fund, to part-fund publication of
Embodying Pessoa (see above).
2005 £1600 from Nottingham Humanities Research Office, to fund participation in
international conferences at the University of Maryland, USA; the University of
Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain; and the University of Leipzig, Germany.
2004 £1200 from Gulbenkian Foundation, to half-fund publication of In Dialogue with
José Saramago.
2004 £1200 from Luso-American Foundation for Development (FLAD), to half-fund
publication of In Dialogue with José Saramago.
2006 £2000 from Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
(NIASSH), to underwrite international conference Popular Musics of the Hispanic
and Lusophone Worlds.
2004 £1000 from Nottingham Humanities Research Office, to fund participation in
international conferences at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro,
and Universidade de Brasília, Brazil.
2003 £1700 from the Universities of Nottingham and London (KCL, UCL and IRS), and
from corporate sponsors, to fund international conference Transcultural
Samplings and Global Reverberations.
(6) SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND GUEST LECTURES
(* indicates activities carried out with institutional or external funding)
2012 ‘Political & aesthetic innovation and continuity in Saramago’s Levantado do
Chão’. Guest lecture, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, 19
October.
2012* ‘Beyond Nation, beyond Gender: Al Berto from ‘luso-queer’ to nomad’. American
Portuguese Studies Association Fifth International Conference, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, 4-6 October.
2012* Respondent: ‘Jorge Amado and the Lusophone World’. International
conference ‘The World of Jorge Amado/ Jorge Amado and the World’, British
Library, 8 June.
2012* ‘Beyond Iberianism: Internationalism and (Inter-)identity in A Jangada de
Pedra’. Dept of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies research
seminar, University of Leeds, 25 April.
2011 ‘Visual Cultures/ Plural Cultures: Using Cinema and Visual Arts in Teaching
Lusophone Studies’ (with Rhian Atkin). III E. Allison Peers Symposium,
‘Iberia’s Plural Cultures, Past and Present: Reflections on Research-led
Teaching’, University of Liverpool, 9 December.
2011* ‘Portuguese Men at War: Picturing Masculinities in Margarida Cardoso’s A
Costa dos Murmúrios’. IV CECC International Conference on Culture and
Conflict, ‘(Post-)Conflict Cinema: Remembering Out-breaks and In-tensions’,
Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, 5-6 December.
2011* ‘Saramago and the Micro-politics of Desire’, IV Association of British and Irish
Lusitanists International Conference, University of Leeds, 9-10 September.
2011* Respondent, plenary session on ‘Migrações e Subalternidades’, International
Conference ‘Nação e Narrativa Pós-Colonial Angolana e Moçambicana’,
ISEG-University of Lisbon, 1-2 July.
2010 ‘The films of Flora Gomes: An introduction’. Festival de Cinema ‘35 Anos da
Independência dos PALOP’, Queen Mary University of London, 9-13
November.
2010* ‘Post-conflict Cinema in Lusophone Africa: Projecting Local Visions in
Globalized Spaces’. International Colloquium ‘Post-Conflict Cultures:
Topographies of Reconstruction’, University of Bologna, 4-6 November.
2007* '"Gay" literature in modern Portugal: the contested paternity of an invented
tradition'. Contribution to 'Queering/Querying the Portuguese Twenty-first
Century' (special session in memory of Timothy McGovern), Modern
Languages Association International Congress, Chicago 27-30 December.
2007* ‘Conflicts of Memory and Memories of Conflict in Saramago’s “Iberian” Fiction’.
International conference ‘Contested Pasts: Approaches to War and Dictatorship
in Contemporary Spanish and Portuguese Culture’, University College, Dublin,
19-29 October.
2007* ‘AIDS and the politics of transition in the work of Cazuza’, day symposium
‘Brazilian Studies in the North-West’ (funded by AHRC), University of
Manchester, 22 June.
2007* '(Self) Discoveries and (Rough) Trade: Queer Portuguese identities and
beyond in the work of Al Berto'. Plenary lecture, 12th Iberian Studies Forum,
University of Oxford, 1-2 June.
2007 '"Vida breve… vida imensa": Popular music and the HIV/AIDS pandemic in
Portugal and Brazil'. Public lecture at the Lisbon Inn, Liverpool, organized by
the Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Liverpool, 16 February.
2007 'Re-thinking heteronymity: Ricardo Reis and Saramago's other Pessoas',
International symposium on Literary Representations of Fernando Pessoa,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Leeds, 24
January.
2006* 'Post-imperial Penelopes: Re-writing the hero's return in Portuguese literature
of the 1980s', American Portuguese Studies Association Fifth International
Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 5-7 October.
2006 'Fernando Pessoa's Antinous: Art, love and the multiple self'. Public lecture
accompanying the exhibition 'Antinous: The Face of the Antique', Henry Moore
Institute, Leeds, 5 July.
2006 'Size matters: Corporeal imagery and satire in Memorial do Convento'. Guest
lecture, Department of Spanish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 27
April.
2005* 'Apologia pelo invertido, ou imperialismo andrógino: A temática do
homoerotismo na obra de Fernando Pessoa'. German Association of
Lusitanists International Conference, University of Leipzig, 15-18 September.
2005* ''Salsugem' de Al Berto: (Re)visão queer do cânone português', Associação
Internacional de Lusitanistas International Conference, University of Santiago
de Compostela, 18-23 June.
2005* 'Des(a)fiando a lusa odisseia: Reinscrições de Penélope na literatura
portuguesa pos-colonial'. Guest lecture, Universidade Católica Portuguesa,
Viséu, 9 April.
2004 'The mariner and the nomad: Exile and Al Berto's queering of national identity'.
International conference on Exile And Migration from/to Portuguese-Speaking
Countries, Institute of Romance Studies, London, 26-27 November.
2004* ''Gender, race and violence in Luís Bernardo Honwana's Nós Matámos o Cãotinhoso: The emasculation of the black patriarch'. American Portuguese
Studies Association Fourth International Conference, University of Maryland,
USA, 14-16 October.
2004* 'Camões, Campos e a reinterpretação queer dos Descobrimentos em
"Salsugem" de Al Berto'. International colloquium O Cânone e a Política do
Silêncio, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil, 15 June.
2004* 'A alquímia do princípio luso-queer: Os "Truques do ilusionismo" de Al Berto'.
Brazilian Association for the Study of Homo-culture Second International
Conference, University of Brasília, Brazil, 16-19 June.
2004* 'José Afonso and the music of 25 de Abril'. Colloquium Trinta Anos do 25 de
Abril, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies,
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 28 April.
2004* Public interview with novelist and playwright Hélia Correia, Department of
Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Manchester, 19 March.
2003 'Genre trouble: The representation of sexual transgression in two recent
adapatations of O Crime do Padre Amaro'. International conference Forms of
Rewriting and Intertexuality, Institute of Romance Studies, London, 12-13
September.
2002* 'A problem in Pessoa's ethics: Homoerotism, beauty and art'. Modern
Languages Association annual convention, New York City, USA, 27-30
December.
2002* 'García Márquez's Cien años de soledad and Saramago's Levantado do Chão:
Ideology, fantasy and the dynastic saga'. American Portuguese Studies
Association 3rd international conference, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, USA, 7-9 November.
2002* 'The satiric body in Saramago's Memorial do Convento'. University of Oxford
(Portuguese sub-Faculty Research Seminar), 7 March.
2001* 'Pessoa embodied: Saramago's materialist critique in O Ano da Morte de
Ricardo Reis'. Jornada Internacional de Estudos Pessoanos, St Peter's
College, University of Oxford, 23 November.
2001 'Gender dysphoria and sexual morality in Eça de Queiroz's O Primo Basílio
and O Crime do Padre Amaro'. Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies
annual conference, Insitute of Romance Studies, London, 29 June.
2000* '"Em Abril, falas mil": The New Dawn chorus in Saramago's Levantado do
Chão'. Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland annual
conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, 3-5 April.
1999* 'From spurious borders to uncertain frontiers: New voyages of discovery in
José Saramago's A Jangada de Pedra'. Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in
the Humanities international conference Bordering Europe, University of Kent,
Canterbury, 20-22 September.
1999 '"Ever-repositioned mysteries": Male homosexual subjectivity and the phallus
in Fernando Pessoa's Antinous'. Hispanic Lesbian and Gay Experience
Conference, University of Bradford, 7 May.
1999 Guest lectures delivered on José Saramago's O Ano da Morte de Ricardo
Reis and A Jangada de Pedra at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
University of Leeds, 17 March.
1999* 'From a European Rift to Utopian Drift: Trajectories of integration and
fragmentation in José Saramago's A Jangada de Pedra'. European Studies
Research Institute, international conference Beyond Boundaries II: New
Europe... Pan-Europe?, University of Salford, 20 February.
1998* 'A canon full of wrath: Literature as a political weapon in Saramago's O Ano da
Morte de Ricardo Reis'. Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
international conference, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, 5-11
September.
(7) TEACHING
(7.1) MODULES DEVISED, CONVENED AND TAUGHT
(Full details of current University of Nottingham final year modules are available at
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hispanic/year%20abroad/index.htm)
Final year undergraduate
 'Remapping Portuguese Identity since the 1974 Revolution'. University of
Nottingham, 2003-2011.
 'Gender and Sexuality in Portuguese Literature and Culture, 1875-1974'.
University of Nottingham, 2003-2011.
 ‘Lusophone Identities: Cultural exchanges in the contemporary Portuguesespeaking World’. University of Nottingham, commencing 2011-2012.
Second year undergraduate
 'Fernando Pessoa and José Saramago'. University of Oxford, 2002-2003.
 'Lusophone Africa on Film'. University of Nottingham, 2007-2009.
 'Discoveries, Colonies and Empire in the Portuguese-speaking World: Part 2'.
University of Nottingham, 2010-present.
First year undergraduate
 'Portuguese History and Society 1750-2000'. University of Nottingham, 20032009.
 ‘Spain and Portugal in the Twentieth Century’. University of Nottingham, 2010present.
Convened Final year dissertation module, University of Nottingham 2003-present.
Supervised final year dissertations, University of Nottingham, 2002-present.
(7.2) MODULES CO-DEVISED AND CO-TAUGHT
Final year undergraduate
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'Advanced Portuguese Translation'. University of Nottingham, 2002-2003;
‘Brazilian Cultural Studies’, University of Nottingham, 2011-2012.
'Culture and Identity in the Portuguese-speaking World'. University of
Southampton, 2001-2002.
 'Gender and National Identities in Spanish cinema', University of Southampton,
2002-2003.
 Lecturer on Portuguese and Mozambican literature, University of Manchester,
1999-2001.
Second year undergraduate
 'Discoveries, Colonies and Empire: Portugal, Africa and Brazil, 1450-1750'.
University of Nottingham, 2004-2005.
 'Introduction to Portuguese and Brazilian Culture and Society'. University of
Southampton, 2001-2002.
 'Luso-African literature since 1960'. University of Oxford, 2002-2003.
 'Portuguese grammar and translation'. University of Oxford, 2002-2003.
 'Língua Portuguesa Nível Intermédio'. University of Nottingham, 2006-present.
First year undergraduate
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'Twentieth-century Brazilian Literature'. University of Oxford, 2002-2003.
'Introduction to Portuguese History and Society'. University of Nottingham,
2002-2003.
'Introduction to Western European Society: Germand, France, Spain and
Portugal'. University of Nottingham, 2003-present.
(7.3) GUEST LECTURES
 Visiting lecturer, University of Bologna, 2012-2013, funded by the EC Erasmus
Lecturer Mobility Scheme.
 Visiting lecturer, University of Coimbra, 2005-2008, funded by the EC Erasmus
Lecturer Mobility Scheme.
(7.4) POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION AND TEACHING
Current Ph.D. Supervisions
 Laíz Chen Capra 'Literary Canon Formation in Brazil: The reception of the work
of Patativa do Assaré'. Commenced September 2005 (part-time). Commenced
writing up September 2010.
 Alexandrina das Neves Oliveira 'Governmental Policy on the International
Provision of Portuguese Language Teaching since the 1974 Revolution'.
Commenced September 2006 (part time).
 Anderson James Engkiong Commenced February 2011.
Postgraduate modules devised, convened and taught
 40-credit MA module ‘Introduction Visual Culture’, University of Nottingham,
Malaysia Campus, 2011-present.
 40-credit MA module ‘Prose and Poetry in Contemporary Portugal’, University of
Nottingham, 2008-2009.
 Supervised 40-credit MA dissertation of Mr James Hodgson, on the cinema of
Glauber Rocha (passed with distinction, 2009).
Postgraduate Research Skills seminars
 'Building and managing a bibliography', SAS, University of London, 2001-2003.
 'Editing theses and articles', University of Manchester, 1998-2000.
 'Planning and Completing your Ph.D. Programme', SAS, University of London,
2001.
(7.5) LANGUAGE TEACHING
 Língua Portuguesa Nível Avançado (translation component), University of
Nottingham, 2010-present.
 Intermediate Portuguese grammar, University of Nottingham, 2006-2009.
 Elementary and intermediate Portuguese language, University of Manchester,
1996-2000.
 First year (post A-level) Spanish grammar and translation, University of
Manchester, 1996-1998.
Teacher of E.F.L. to adults and children
Various schools in the U.K., Poland, Spain and Slovakia, 1990-1996.
(7.6) EXTERNAL EXAMINING
 External examiner for PhD programmes in Portuguese:
- University of Cambridge, 2008-present.
- University of Leeds, 2010-present.
 External examiner for Masters’ programmes in Portuguese:.
- University of Cambridge, 2011-present.
- King’s College, London, 2011-present.
- Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Viseu, 2007.
 External examiner for undergraduate programmes in Portuguese:
- Goldsmiths' College, University of London, 2004-2008.
- University of Southampton, 2005-2009.
- University of Newcastle, 2008-present.
- University of Oxford, 2010-present.
- University of Manchester, 2009; 2012.
- King’s College, London, 2011-present.
(8) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
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SPLAS Dept Senior Tutor, University of Nottingham, from 2011.
SPLAS Dept Director of Undergraduate Programmes, 2010-2011.
SPLAS Dept Examinations Officer, University of Nottingham, 2006-present.
SPLAS Dept Year Abroad Officer, University of Nottingham, 2003-2006.
SPLAS Dept Website Officer, University of Nottingham, 2004-2006.
SPLAS Dept Personal Tutor, University of Nottingham, 2003-present.
SMLC Careers Liaison Officer, University of Nottingham, 2007-2009.
SMLC Examinations Committee, University of Nottingham, 2006–present.
SMLC Year Abroad Committee, University of Nottingham, 2003-2006. Chair,
2005-2006.
SMLC Internationalization Committee, University of Nottingham, 2004-2006;
2010-present.
Joint responsibility for project management, reporting and accounts,
CULTOS project, IRS, 2001-2003.
Co-ordinator of workpackages, CULTOS project, IRS, 2001-2003.
Contributed to preparations for QAA inspection of SMLC, University of
Nottingham, 2003-2004.
SPLAS Dept Teaching Committee, University of Nottingham, 2006–present.
SPLAS Dept Working party on Curriculum Development, University of
Nottingham, 2004.
SPLAS Dept Working party on Teaching of History, University of
Nottingham, 2004.
SPLAS Dept Working party on Website Development (Chair), 2005present
SMLC Working party on Year Abroad provision for students with
disabilities, 2004-2006.
(9) RELEVANT SKILLS AND INTERESTS
(9.1) LANGUAGES
Spanish - fluent
Portuguese - fluent
French – upper intermediate
Welsh - upper intermediate
Italian - reading knowledge
Polish - intermediate
German - basic
Slovak – basic
Malay (Bahasa Malaysia) - basic
(9.2) I.T. SKILLS
MS Office (good) inc. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook.
HTML, Netscape Composer, FrontPage, basic Photoshop.
Knowledge of database design and extensive experience of collaborating
with software engineers in design and testing of new software
applications.
Co-devised new data management systems for HLAS Dept Year Abroad
and Examinations, and new web pages for HLAS Year Abroad, University
of Nottingham.
(10) REFERENCES
Prof. Catherine Davies,
Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies and Head of SMLC,
University of Nottingham
Dept of Hispanic and Latin American Studies,
University of Nottingham,
University Park,
NG7 4RD
Tel.: 00 44 115 9515655, Fax: 00 44 115 9515812
E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Hilary Owen,
Professor of Portuguese and Luso-African Studies,
University of Manchester
Dept of Spanish and Portuguese Studies,
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
M13 9PL
Tel.: 00 44 161 2753687, Fax: 00 44 161 2753031
E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Paulo de Medeiros,
Professor of Portuguese Language and Culture,
University of Utrecht
Kromme Nieuwegracht 29,
3512 HD Utrecht,
The Netherlands
Tel.: 00 30 253 6400, Fax: 00 30 253 6167
E-mail: [email protected]