Summary CV
Professor Hilary OWEN
University Education - The University of Nottingham.
1992: PhD in Portuguese Studies. DES-funded.
1984. B.A. Joint Honours in French and Spanish. 1st class. Elizabeth and J. D. Marsden
University Prize.
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Career History
1991-95: The Queen’s University of Belfast. Appointed Lecturer A in Hispanic Studies.
Lecturer B in 1993.
1990: University of Leeds. Spanish and Portuguese Department. Appointed Lecturer A in
Portuguese.
1987-1989: The Queen’s University of Belfast. Appointed Lecturer A in Hispanic Studies on a
fixed term five-year contract.
Present Appointment – The University of Manchester
2006 – Present. Professor of Portuguese and Luso-African Studies.
1998-2006. Senior Lecturer in Portuguese
1995-1998. Lecturer in Portuguese.
Research Grants Awarded
2007 – Present. “Consultora” for large grant project funded by FCT (Fundação de Ciência e
Tecnologia) on “Nação e Narrativa Pós-Colonial” directed by Professor Ana Mafalda Leite,
Universidade Clássica de Lisboa
2001-6. Co-applicant with Catherine Davies (Principal Investigator - University of Nottingham)
for a large AHRB grant (£342,452 over five years) for “Gendering Latin American
Independence. Women’s Political Culture and the Textual Construction of Gender. 17801850”. Outcomes graded as outstanding.
2003-4. AHRB Research Leave award of £13,153. Outcome graded as satisfactory.
2002-5. British Academy conference grants: £450 for AIL Conference at Brown University,
2002; £350 for APSA Conference at the University of Maryland, 2004; £200 for AIL
Conference at the University of Santiago de Compostela, 2005.
1998-9. AHRB Research Leave award of £12,232. Outcome graded as satisfactory.
PhD Supervision over last five years
Mariana Pinheiro. 2007- present. Self-funded.
Vanessa Silva Pereira. 2007- present. Graduate Teaching Fellow.
Maria Armanda Fortes Tavares, 2006 - present FCT funded.
Ana Margarida Dias Martins. 2005- present. FCT funded.
Sarah Bowskill. Submitted on time 2007. AHRC-funded.
Charlotte Liddell. Submitted on time 2005 AHRC funded.
Lígia Silva. Submitted early 2003. AHRB funded.
Postdoctoral Supervision
Dr Sheila Pereira Khan, 2004 – Present. “African Mozambican Immigrants in the former
‘motherland’. FCT- funded project based in Manchester. Co-supervised with Paula de
Menezes (Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra University).
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Administration and Committee Service over last five years
2005 – Present. Postgraduate Research Director for School of Languages, Linguistics and
Cultures.
2005 – Present. Chair of SLLC Postgraduate Research Committee.
2005 – Present. Faculty of Humanities Postgraduate Research Committee.
2004-5. SLLC Undergraduate Programmes Committee.
2004- 2005. Undergraduate Programme Director for Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
2004 – 2006. Co-coordinator of RAE submission for Spanish and Portuguese.
2005 - Present. School Policy, Planning and Resources Committee (PPRC)
Editorial Board Membership and Refereeing for Journals and Publishers
International Advisory Board: Ellipsis. Journal of the American Portuguese Studies
Association.
Editorial Board: Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Studies Series.
Editorial Advisory Board: Journal of Romance Studies.
Reader of submissions to Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Ellipsis,
Journal of Romance Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, Luso-Brazilian Review, Journal of
Women, Politics and Policy and Letras Femeninas
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Major Publications since 2003
Single Authored and Co-Authored Books
1) Hilary Owen, Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women’s Writing of Mozambique. 19482002. Lewisburg: Bucknell University, 2007.
2) *Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen, South American Independence:
Gender, Politics, Text. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006.
Edited Books
1) Sexual/Textual Empires. Gender and Marginality in Lusophone African Literature. Ed.
Hilary Owen and Phillip Rothwell. Lusophone Studies 2. Bristol: University of Bristol.
Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Dept. Humanities Series. 2004.
Introduction: “Sexing the Differences: A Lusophone African Perspective.” i-xvi.
Academic Journal Papers
1) “Third World/Third Sex: Gender, Orality and a Tale of Two Marias in Mia Couto and
Paulina Chiziane”, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, July 2007: 84.4. 475-88
2) *“Que importa quem fala? Ana de Barandas e as Feministas do Rio Grande do Sul”,
Presença Literária. Porto Alegre: Academia Literária Feminina do Rio Grande do Sul,
2006. 87-98.
3) *’“‘Out’performing the Matria in Natália Correia’s A Madona”, Italienistica Ultraiectina.
1. 2007. Igitur. University of Utrecht.
http://www.italianisticaultraiectina.org/publish/articles/000002/index.html
4) “The Serpent’s Tongue. Gendering Autoethnography in Paulina Chiziane’s Balada de
Amor ao Vento”, Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 10 (Spring 2003): 169-84
Book Chapters
1) “Portuguese Actually.” Producing Presences. Branching out from Hans Ulrich
Gumbrecht's Work. UMass, Dartmouth: Adamastor, 2007: 287-296.
2) “Luso-sexo-tropicalidade. Lília Momplé e as Mulheres em Branco” A Mulher em
África: Vozes de uma margem sempre presente. Eds. Inocência Mata e Laura
Cavalcanti Padilha (Niterói: EDUFF, 2005):
3) “Ironic Nations and the Women’s State in Paulina Chiziane’s Niketche. Uma História
de Poligamia.” Postcolonial Theory and Lusophone Literatures. Ed. Paulo de
Medeiros. Utrecht: Utrecht Portuguese Studies Series. 2007. 109-118.
4) “‘Antígonas Antagónicas’: Género, Génio e a Política de Performance.” Furor:
Ensaios Sobre a Obra Dramática de Hélia Correia. Ed. Maria de Fátima Sousa e
Silva. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2006. 77–92.
5) *“La vie en rose. Post-scriptum a um Império Assombrado (Sobre A Árvore das
Palavras de Teolinda Gersão).” Fantasias e Fantasmas Imperiais no Imaginário
Português Contemporâneo. Ed. Margarida Calafate Ribeiro and Ana Paula Ferreira.
Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. 165-78.
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