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Personal
Born 1956, Lisbon, Portugal
Married, two children
Portuguese and European Union citizen
Specialisation areas: American Studies; English Studies,
Special interest area: Poetry and Visual Culture(painting, movies,
photography, sculpture, architecture)
Other interest areas: Portuguese and French Literature (19th and
20th centuries),
I am
currently teaching a seminar
on American Poetry and the Visual Arts. Plato’s Cratylus, Homer’s “Achilles
Shield”, Horace’s Ars Poetic, and Lessing’s Laocoön provide
the main theoretical background for this approach. Among the American poets that we
read, there’s a special focus on Whitman (photography), Melville (architecture),
Crane, Berryman, O’Hara,
Ashbery and Jarrell (movies), Stevens, Williams, Auden, O’Hara and Ashbery
(pintura), and Plath (painting and sculpture). We also pay a particular
attention on contemporary poets essays on the visual arts.
This is the cover of my book Ekphrasis – O Poeta no Atelier do Artista (Ekphrasis – The Poet in the
Artist’s Office) (edicoescosmos@iol.pt)
Institutional
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Full Professor of English and American Studies,
Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), 2005
Vice-Rector,
Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), 2002-2006.
Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Universidade Aberta
(Portuguese Open University), 2001-2005
Habilitation for full professorship, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open
University), 2000
Head of Department, Universidade Aberta (Open University), 1999-2004
PhD in American Literature, University of Lisbon, 1993 (dissertation on
Sylvia Plath’s poetry); Post-Graduation on American Literature,
University of Lisbon, 1986 (dissertation on Herman Melville’s poetry)
First (Licentiate’s) degree in English and French Studies, Faculty of
Letters, University of Lisbon, 1981
Member of Lisbon University History Studies Centre
Member of Lisbon
Geographic Society (Chair of the “Arts and Literature” Section)
Scientific
Coordinator of the English Studies post-graduation course, 2001 onwards
Scientific Coordinator of the Anglo-American Studies Centre, 2001-2006
Scientific Coordinator of the American Studies post-graduation course,
1999 onwards
Coordinator of Teacher's training programme, University of Lisbon,
1993-1997
Publications
Books published:
Ekphrasis – o poeta no atelier do artista (Cosmos, 2006)
História(s) da Literatura Americana – Preface by George Monteiro
(Universidade Aberta, 2004)
Sylvia Plath – o rosto oculto do poeta (Cosmos, 1997)
América – Pátria dos heróis (Colibri, 1994)
Translations
Fiction, poetry,
drama and letters, by William Faulkner, Paul Selig, Sylvia Plath, Mary
Renault, Robert Lowell, Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll
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