Nuno da Silva Marques
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Nuno da Silva Marques
[email protected] 911776874 / 961126094
Current Position
Scholarship Holder in the CILM Project - City and Insecurity in Literature and Media at
the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon.
Education:
Master’s Degree in English and American Studies; University of Lisbon; (thesis in
conclusion);
Bachelor’s Degree in North-American Studies; University of Lisbon in 2009.
2008/09 – Investigation Project with a Grant of the University of Lisbon/ Amadeu Dias
Foundation.
Scientific papers presented, published and written:
2013 - Personal Memory as the Place of Truth vs. National Memory as Virtualization in
Art Spiegelman’s In The Shadow of No Towers, 34th APEAA Meeting, FLUL
2013 - Gary Snyder’s meditation on compassion as a possible antidote for violence in
Danger on Peaks; Internacional Conference Images of Terror, Narratives of (In)security:
Literary, Artistic and Cultural Responses, FLUL;
2012 – Todos Embalados por Máquinas de Amorosa Graça - a Ecologia Cibernética de
Richard Brautigan; Conference Mensageiros das Estrelas – Ficção Científica e Fantasia
Episódio II, FLUL;
2011 –In The Shadow of No Towers e 11 – M La Novela Gráfica como momentos de
silêncio entre o ruído da tragédia, 1ªs Conferências de Banda Desenhada, Institut
Français du Portugal, Lisboa (forthcoming);
2010 –William Burroughs e a Ficção Científica, Conference Mensageiros das Estrelas –
Ficção Científica e Fantasia FLUL;
2010 –Experiences of death and dissolution in Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky and
Jack Kerouac’s Desolation Angels and The Dharma Bums, International Conference
Centenário de Paul Bowles FLUL (Ed. Rodopi, forthcoming);
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2009 –Solitary Bartlebies: the Beat Generation’s Choice of the Self, XXX APEAA
Conference - Self, Memory and Expression – FLUP;
2008 - Is Bartleby an Anarchist?, XXIX APEAA Conference - Success and Failure Universidade de Aveiro;
2008/2013- Translation; Text Revising and Editing
2012/2013 - Text revising and editing of the Complete Works of José Augusto Mourão
CLEPUL;
2008/2013 - Translation; text revising and editing of scientific papers on Literature and
Social Sciences;
2011/2013 – Translation and text revising at: aquickFix.Wordpress.com;
2012 - Selection, translation, introductory and index notes of excerpts of William
Burroughs, The Soft Machine, in the Reader (In)seguranças no Espaço Urbano:
Perspectivas Culturais; V.N. Famalicão: Edições Húmus. 2012;
2012 - English translation of Annabela Rita, Figurações da Morte;
2011/2012 - Transcription project for Productive Playhouse California;
2011 - English translation of João José Cúcio Frada, Guia Prático: Como Organizar um
Curriculum,
2011 - English translation of the first chapter of the movie É na Terra não é na Lua
directed by Gonçalo Tocha and presented at the Indie Festival Lisboa 2011;
2010 – Translation of online Cut-E’s HR tests and manuals for Ray Human Capital;
2008/2009 – Translation and text revising of the Sociedade Civil, Democracia e Direitos
Humanos em Angola; Catholic University of Angola and the Center for Social Studies of
the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra.
Other Editing Experiences
2003/2006 – Portuguese Navy
•Seaman on Tall Ship Sagres and correspondent of the on board newspaper in a three
months journey to the North Sea: interviews, translation, editing.
•Seaman on the Naval Academy, librarian of the crew’s library.
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2000 – Carpe Diem Cultural Association
•Reviewing, editing and presentation of the book Conversa Circular.
1998/2000 – University of Porto, Faculty of Letters
•Member of the editorial staff of the newspaper Letras & Imagens and director for the
last two editions of 2000.
Teaching Experience
2012 – Pó dos Livros Bookshop Lisbon
• Lectured a Course on American Literature in two sessions, addressing a cultural and
literary history of the American Literature of the 20th century.
2011 – Pó dos Livros Bookshop Lisbon
• Lectured a Course on American Literature in two sessions addressing a cultural and
literary history of the American Literature of the 20th century.
2010 – Trama Bookshop Lisbon
• Lectured a Course on American Literature in two sessions discussing the
autobiografic genre.
Language Skills:
• Portuguese – mother tongue
• English – Proficiency
• French B1
• Spanish B1
Other Experiences:
Bookseller at Livros&Etc; Biblos e Fnac.
Other References:
Personal webpage: http://nunomarques.pt.la
Personal online magazine http://aquickfix.wordpress.com
Academia Page http://independent.academia.edu/NunoMarques
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