EDUCATION

Ph.D. student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures – Luso-Brazilian Literature at UCSB.

Completion of seminars/courses in Luso-Brazilian, Spanish and Cuban Literatures, Literary Theory, Textual Criticism, Catalan language and Applied Linguistics.

Masters of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Portuguese Literature, University of Porto (Portugal) – concluded in February 2004, with the dissertation Campo de Relâmpagos – Leituras do Excesso na Poesia de Luís Miguel Nava.

“Licenciatura” (five-year BA) in Modern Languages and Literatures – Portuguese and English – emphasis in Education, Univ. Porto – 1994 / 1999.

FELLOWSHIPS

Fellowship from the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology (years 2006 to current);
Merit fellowship from the UCSB Center for Portuguese Studies (June 2006 and June 2007).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University teaching

1. Lower division Portuguese language classes at UCSB (Fall ‘05 to Winter ‘08)

2. Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas, Felgueiras (Portugal, 2001/2005). Courses: Literature for Children; English; Methodology of English; Methodology of Portuguese; supervision of student teaching (English and Portuguese) in middle schools of the districts of Porto and Braga; direction of research thesis on Methodology of Teaching.

Middle School and High school teaching

Different private and public schools. Courses: Portuguese, English, and Translation Techniques (Portugal, 1999/2005).

PUBLICATIONS
Book
Campo de Relâmpagos – Leituras do Excesso na Poesia de Luís Miguel Nava. Lisbon: Assírio e Alvim (forthcoming, sponsored by the Portuguese National Book Institute). 

Articles in scholarly journals and reviews
“Viajar imenso, com Bernardo Soares”. Encruzilhadas (UCLA) 7 (2007): 175 - 80.
“Fixar o Olhar”. Relâmpago (Lisbon) 16 (2005): 63 – 76.
“Da Luz aos Ofícios em jorge melícias – a propósito de O Dom Circunscrito”. Apeadeiro (Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal) 3 (2003).
“A Metáfora, a Alegoria e o Desenvolvimento Cognitivo da Criança”, Itinerários (Odivelas – Portugal) 10 (2004). 

Assistant Editor to

Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies 6 (2002, but 2006).

PRESENTATIONS AT SCHOLARLY CONFERENCES
USA

1. "Como Vingar-se de Antologias - Jorge de Sena e a organização de antologias". Jorge de Sena - Cá e Lá: Novas Perspectivas, 30 Anos Depois. U.Mass Amherst, April 2008.

2. "Semidetached Memories: Recollections of the House in 'La Casa de las transfiguraciones' and 'La Casa de los espejos', by Guillermo Cabrera Infante". Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of UCSB, February 2008

3. “A Antologia Poética em Portugal no Século XX: Movimentos, Gerações, Décadas”. III Symp. Transatlantic Visions, U.Mass. Amherst, April 2007. 

4. “Violação de Correspondência – O modelo epistolar em A Queda de um Anjo, de Camilo Castelo Branco”, XXX Symp. Portuguese Traditions, UCLA, April 2007.

5. “A Dupla Ficção do Livro no Livro do Desassossego, de Bernardo Soares”, Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of UCSB, April 2007

6. “Câmara Exposta -  O Espaço Vigiado em Lá Fora, de Fernando Lopes”, “Grapshy” –Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of Georgetown University (Washington DC), October 2006. 

7. “Identidade Acelerada – Formas de Ser na Poesia de Luís Miguel Nava”, Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of UCSB, May 2006.

8. “Viajar Imenso, com Bernardo Soares”, XXIX Symp. Portuguese Traditions, UCLA, April 2006. 

Europe

1. “The Discourse of Authority in Contemporary Anthologies of Portuguese Poetry”, Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the U. Cambridge, England, January 2007. 
2. “A Metáfora, a Alegoria e o Desenvolvimento Cognitivo da Criança”, Colloquium “Língua e Literatura Portuguesas”, Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas de Felgueiras (Portugal), April 2002.

Tudo na vida caminha inexoravelmente para a liberdade. Bernardino Machado

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