Research

Current research interests

Identities and postcolonial studies

Portuguese language literatures

Memory and Postmemory Studies and Writing

Europe

Eduardo Lourenço Thought

Colonial War and Liberation Movements

Women and War

Cultural heritages of Portuguese influence

Research Projects

2023 - 2024 - "Eduardo Lourenço - Colonialismo e Salazarismo", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Cátedra Edurado Lourenço, Universidade de Bolonha/ Camões, Instituto da Cooperação e Língua.

2021-11-01 - 2023-06-30 - "TRAMES TRAnsmitir e educar através de MEmórias e histórias europeiaS", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Erasmus+.
    Project Partnership:
              - Inter-Réseau Histoires et Memoires, France
              - COSPE Cooperazione per lo Sviluppo dei Paesi Emergenti Onlus

2021-01-01 - 2023-01-01 - "MAPS European Postmemories - A Postcolonial Cartography", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by FCT.

2020 - 2023 - "José Luandino Vieira, "Acervo digital: Papéis da Prisão" ", as coordinator researcher.

2018-11 - 2022-06 - "História, circulação e análise de discursos literários, artísticos e sociais, Universidade Federal Fluminense, coordenação Sílvio Renato Jorge.", coordinated by Sílvio Renato Jorge, sponsored by CAPES Universidade Federal Fluminense.

2018 - 2020 - "Papéis da Prisão, de José Luandino Vieira - o desafio da tradução", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Camões, Instituto da Língua e da Cooperação, Cátedra Eduardo Lourenço (Universidade de Bolonha), Cátedra Fernando Pessoa (Universidade de Los Andes), Cátedra D. João II (Universidade de Oxford).

2015 - 2020 - "MEMOIRS-Children of Empires and European Postmemories", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by European Research Council (ERC-Consolidator Grant).

2013 - 2015 - "Atlantic Routes: women and postcolonial experience", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by CAPES/ FCT.

2013 - 2015 - "Internacionalização do Programa do Doutoramento Patrimónios de Influência Portuguesa", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

2013 - 2015 - "José Luandino Vieira: diaries of Tarrafal", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

2012 - 2015 - "From S. Paulo de Luanda to Luuanda, from Lourenço Marques to Maputo: colonial capitals in postcolonial times", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by FCT.

2011 - 2014 - "Liberation Movements in Angola and Mozambique: anticolonialism and identitary ruptures declined in the feminine", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by FCT.

2011 - 2012 - "E-LOCAL: Electronically Learning Other Cultures and Languages", coordinated by Prof. Andrea Ceccherelli (University of Bologna), sponsored by European Commission (EACEA).

2010 - 2014 - "Complete Works of Eduardo Lourenço", coordinated by Carlos Mendes de Sousa and João Tiago Pedroso de Lima, sponsored by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

2010 - 2013 - "New Portuguese Letters 40 years later", coordinated by Ana Luísa Amaral, sponsored by FCT (consultora).

2010 - 2012 - "Postcolonial Studies in Portuguese-speaking Countries", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Instituto Camões/ Cátedra Eduardo Lourenço - University of Bologna (with Roberto Vecchi).

2007 - 2011 - "Children of the Colonial Wars: postmemory and representations", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by FCT and the Ministry of Defense.

2007 - 2009 - "Poetry of the Colonial War: the ontology of the shattered 'self'", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by FCT and partial funding by the Ministry of Defense.

2002 - 2004 - ""Cartografias Identitárias: novas negociações de sentido nas literaturas de língua portuguesa"", coordinated by Laura Cavalcante Padilha, sponsored by CNPq.

2002 - 2004 - "Portuguese Women and Colonial Wars", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by FCT - Bolsa Pós-doutoramento.

1999 - 2000 - "Processo de Globalização e a Identidade Nacional: a Dupla Face da Identidade Portuguesa nas Narrativas da Guerra Colonial", coordinated by Isabel Allegro de Magalhães, sponsored by FCT.

Networks

AIL - Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas.

APLC - Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada.