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Alexandra Assis Rosa teaches Topics of English Studies – Descriptive Translation Studies: An Introduction (MA) and Advanced Research in Descriptive Translation Studies (PhD).
She is Professor of English (Professora Catedrática) at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, where she has taught since 1990, holding her current rank since 2023. Her main research areas are Translation Studies, English Studies, English Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis, with a particular focus on indirect translation, translation history, and audiovisual translation. She has been a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (CEAUL/ULICES) since 1997, and a member of its Reception and Translation Studies Research Group since 2007. She sits on the Advisory Board of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) (since 2016) and is an adviser to the IndirecTrans Network (CEAUL/ULICES, since 2016). She has coordinated and taken part in several research projects, including IndirecTrans1 (coordinator, 2013–2014), IndirecTrans2 (adviser, 2015–2018), the MUST – Multilingual Student Translation Research Project (adviser, Portuguese team, Université catholique de Louvain, 2016–2023), and the Effort Project – Towards a European Framework of Reference for Translation (external member, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2020–2023). She has given plenary lectures and invited talks at universities and international conferences, including the University of Oslo, KU Leuven, the University of Antwerp, City University of Macau, and the Macao Polytechnic Institute, and serves on the scientific committees of international conferences in Translation Studies, such as the EST Congress, the IATIS Congress and the Retranslation in Context series. Homepage
Ana Mafalda Leite teaches Topics of African Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of African Studies (PhD).
Throughout her career, she has also worked on her creative, editorial and critical practices, as well as essay writing and teaching. She is a Senior Associate Professor, with Habilitation, at the University of Lisbon's Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUL-UL). She began her bachelor's degree course in Romance Philology at the Eduardo Mondlane University -Mozambique and completed her course at the University of Lisbon's Faculty of Arts and Humanities in 1978. She has a master's degree in Brazilian and African Literature (1985), a PhD in African Literature in Portuguese (1989) and Habilitation (1999) from the Lisbon Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Ana Cristina Mendes teaches Topics of English Studies – Visual Culture (MA) and Advanced Topics of English Studies – Visual Culture (PhD).
She uses cultural and postcolonial studies to examine literary and screen texts (in particular, intermedia adaptations) as venues for resistant knowledge formations to expand upon theories of epistemic justice. She is Professor of English Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, where she teaches courses in cultural studies, visual culture, adaptation studies, and English history and culture, with a focus on the British Empire. She is Chair of the ACS-Association for Cultural Studies (cultstud.org) (2022-2026).
Ângela Fernandes teaches Great Questions of Modern Literature.
She holds a PhD in Literary Studies - Theory of Literature, University of Lisbon, 2009, and is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (FLUL). Since 1997, when she was hired by FLUL, Ângela Fernandes has taught undergraduate, master's and doctoral courses on Spanish Studies and Literary Studies (Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature). She was visiting professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University - Bloomington (USA) in 2010, and has taught on Erasmus mobility at the universities of Bologna (Italy), Goettingen (Germany), Groningen (Netherlands), Paris 7-Diderot (France), and Salzburg (Austria).
Angélica Varandas teaches Topics of English Studies – Medieval Literature and Culture (MA) and Advanced Topics of English Studies – Medieval Literature and Culture (PhD).
Her main research areas are: Medieval English literature and culture, Medievalism and Neomedievalism, Fantasy Literature and Science Fiction, English linguistics. She is Head of ULICES (University of Lisbon) research center. She got her Habilitation for full Professorship at the University of Lisbon. She is the co-author of an awarded translation of Bewolf.
Bernardo Palmeirim teaches Topics of North American Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of North American Studies (PhD).
Bernardo Palmeirim is an Assistant Professor in American Studies at the School of Arts & Humanities of the University of Lisbon and a researcher at ULICES (ULisbon Center for English Studies). Bernardo teaches Post-WW2 American Literature, 20-21st c. US History and Culture, 20-21st c. Music History, Culture Industries in the USA, and Creative Writing in English. He has coordinated English Language Teaching at the English Studies Department. He holds a PhD in Theory of Literature (ULisbon) titled "What is Poetic Attention" (2014). His research interests include American short forms (poetry, short stories, songs), attention studies, theory of literature, music, philosophies of language and religion. He is also the band leader of NOZ ("NOZ2", 2015; "Powehi", 2022), and a songwriter with extensive music collaborations, including an awarded spoken-word research project. His latest spoken-word song project is "4 American Women Poets".
Carlo Arrigoni teaches Topics of Italian Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of Italian Studies (PhD).
He studied at the studied at the Università degli Studi di Siena (B.A., 2010), the University of Lisbon (M.A., 2013), and Columbia University (Ph.D., 2021). He is also a member of the Department of Romance Literatures at the University of Lisbon. He has taught Italian literature and cinema at Columbia University and the University of Oklahoma. His interests include 19th- and 20th-century literature and the history and theory of the novel. He is currently writing a monograph on the European and American naturalist novel.
Carlos Alberto Marques Gouveia teaches Topics of English Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of English Studies (PhD).
He is Associate Professor of English Studies (with professorship in Discourse Analysis) at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, and Researcher at the Centre for General and Applied Linguistics Studies (CELGA-ILTEC), at the University of Coimbra. He is the author of more than 80 publications, including books (7) and scientific articles (73), and has supervised 12 doctoral theses and 34 master's dissertations. He has also supervised 10 post-doctoral research internships and 17 doctoral studentships of foreign colleagues at the University of Lisbon. He obtained a PhD in Letters (specialising in Applied Linguistics) in 1998 from the University of Lisbon, an MA in Anglo-American Studies (specialising in Linguistics) in 1992 from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon and a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures in 1986 from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon.
Cecília Beecher Martins teaches Topics of North American Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of North American Studies (PhD).
Her main research areas: American Literature and Culture, Film Studies, Medical Humanities, Canadian Literature and Cinema. She holds a MA in American Studies at the Portuguese Open University and a PhD at the University of Lisbon.
Chiara Nifosi teaches Topics of French Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of French Studies (PhD).
She studied at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (BA, 2011; MA, 2013) and at the University of Chicago (PhD, 2020). After two years of postdoctoral research in Chicago, she is now a member of the Department of Romance Literatures at the University of Lisbon. A specialist in Marcel Proust, her interests in French studies include avant-garde cultures and modernism, poetry between symbolism and World War II, gender and sexuality studies, and the history of social sciences. She is currently working on her first book, Le Paysage et la carte. Pour une nouvelle rhétorique de l'espace chez Proust. She is co-director of the online magazine Nouvelle Fribourg.
Claudia Fischer teaches Topics in German Studies and Advanced Topics in German Studies.
Claudia J. Fischer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, where she also directs the Master's program in Comparative Studies. At the Centre for Comparative Studies, she coordinates the research subgroup "Synesthesia/THELEME," dedicated to Interart and Intermedia Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Literary Theory in 2007 with a thesis on Grace and Gracefulness (Verbo, 2015). In 2018, she was a visiting professor at the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University (USA) and has taught through Erasmus mobility programs at the Universities of Göttingen (Germany) and Salzburg (Austria). Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of literature and music, with a focus on 19th-century authors. She has translated works by Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter Benjamin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and, in collaboration with Vera San Payo de Lemos, Tempo do Coração (Antígona, 2020), the correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan. Research Areas: Music and Literature; Translation Studies; German Romanticism.
Gerd Hammer teaches Topics of German Studies.
He obtained his PhD degree in Contemporary German Literature at Philipps University Marburg / Germany, in 1989. Since 1991 he has been working in Portugal, where he also lives, first at Oporto University, and since 1994 at Lisbon University. His main areas of scientific activity are Comparative Studies, German Literature, Media History, and the History of Emotions. He is a member of the Research Group on "Aesthetics of Emotions" at the Centre for Comparative Studies.
Hélio J. S. Alves teaches Research in Modern Literatures (MA and PhD).
He is an Associate Professor with Habilitation for full Professorship at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, and the current Director of its research Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp). He taught earlier at the University of Évora, Portugal, and the University of Macau, China. He is mainly dedicated to the literature of the European and Portuguese Renaissance/Early Modernity, with a special focus on the following domains: philology (critical and commented editions 'de verbo ad verbum'); literary criticism, including a sub-area on classical Portuguese drama; comparative epic and heroic poetry; and Camões studies. This production is substantially concerned with placing Portuguese literature in a world perspective, providing on the way innovative contributions to the effective knowledge of 16th and 17th-century literatures in Spanish (Cervantes; Góngora) and English (drama; Milton).
Inocência Mata teaches Topics of African Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of African Studies (PhD).
She holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Lisbon and post-doctoral studies in Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Studies, Identity, Ethnicity, and Globalization, University of California, Berkeley). She is a professor at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon in the area of Literature, Arts and Culture (LAC). She is a senior researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies. University of Lisbon. She has widely published in the area of Postcolonial Studies, African Studies (Literatures and Cultures).
Isabel Almeida teaches...
PhD in Portuguese Literature (University of Lisbon), with a thesis on Portuguese Books of Chivalry, from the Renaissance to Mannerism (1999); Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts of this University. Isabel Almeida has been part of the team responsible for editing Os Lusíadas Comentados por D. Marcos de S. Lourenço (CIEC, 2014). Studies on Gil Vicente, Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Fr. António Vieira or Camões have been published in magazines and collective volumes, such as Dicionário de Luís de Camões(2011), directed by Vítor Aguiar e Silva. She prepares nowadays the edition of the comments that Manuel Pires de Almeida wrote about Os Lusíadas. Interests: Reception; Commentary; Camões.
Joana Matos Frias teaches Topics of Brazilian Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of Brazilian Studies (PhD).
She studied at the University of Porto (B.A., 1995; M.A., 1999; Ph.D., 2006) and the University of Lisbon (Habilitation for full professorship, 2023). She is also a member of the Department of Romance Literatures. Her interests include modern and contemporary literature, aesthetics, and rhetoric. She is the author of the books O Erro de Hamlet (Hamlet's Mistake) (2001), Repto, Rapto (Challenge, Abduction) (2014), Cinefilia e Cinefobia no Modernismo Português (Cinephilia and Cinephobia in Portuguese Modernism) (2014), and O Murmúrio das Imagens (The Murmur of Images) (2018), and co-editor of, among others, A Time to Reason and Compare: International Modernism Revisited One Hundred Years After (2016), Ofício Múltiplo: Poetas em Outras Artes (Multiple Craft: Poets in Other Arts) (2017) and, more recently, Oscilações (poetry in every sense) (2023). She is the editor of Colóquio magazine.
João R. Figueiredo teaches.
Holds degrees from the Universidade de Lisboa (BA, 1995; MA, 2000; PhD, 2006; Agregação, 2023), where he is also affiliated with the Romance Literatures Department. He serves on the Editorial Board of our journal, Forma de Vida. His interests include aesthetics, art history, Italian Studies, literary criticism and Portuguese literature. He is the author of A Autocomplacência da Mimese (2003), was one of the co-editors of O Cânone (2020), and is the author of several essays on Camões. He is currently preparing a commentary edition of Camões' Os Lusíadas and writing a long essay on Guido Reni. He co-curated the permanent exhibition Torre Literária [Literary Tower], at the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation (2020), and very recently curated the Meu matalote e amigo Luís de Camões [Luís de Camões, my Friend and Mate]exhibition, for the new opening of the Pavilhão de Portugal, in Lisbon. His next book will be Literatura e arte [Literature and Art] (in press).
José Duarte teaches Topics of North-American Studies – Film Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of North-American Studies – Film Studies (PhD).
He teaches undergradute seminars od Cinema at the School of Arts and Humanities (Universidade de Lisboa). He is a researcher at ULICES (University Lisbon Centre for English Studies) in American Studies. He also co-coordinates the project Messengers from the Stars dedicated to the study of Science Fiction and Fantasy and his essays have been published in several international journals. He got his Habilitation for full Professorship at the University of Lisbon.
José Pedro Sousa teaches Research in Modern Literatures.
José Pedro Sousa completed his PhD in Theater Studies in 2018 (School of Arts and Humanitites, University of Lisbon) and his MSc in Digital Humanities in 2023 (University College London). He is a Researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies (University of Lisbon [UL]), where he is also the co-coordinator of the group "History of Theatre and Performance". He is a member of the research group DIIA (Ibero and Iberoamerican Dialogues), at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp, UL). He coordinates of the podcast Tu cá tu lá com a história do teatro. He is convenor of the section "From the archives" of the European Journal for Theatre and Performancea, European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance (EASTAP). His research is published in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and the United Kingdom. His main areas of interest are Portuguese Theatre History, Global Iberian Studies, Digital Humanities and Textual Scholarship.
Luísa Afonso Soares teaches Topics of German Studies and Advanced Topics of German Studies.
Luísa Afonso Soares (PhD in German Literature, University of Lisbon, 1998) is Full Professor of the Department of German Studies of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. She has been visiting professor at the Universities of Cologne and Erlangen (Germany) and at the University of São Paulo (Brasil). She is Director of the German Studies Department and Senior Researcher of the Centre of Comparative Studies, where she works on the subgroup "Aesthetics of Memory and Emotions" (MORPHE). Areas of Research; Memory Studies; Gender Studies; Film Studies.
Margarida Martins teaches Major Issue in Modern Literatures.
Margarida Pereira Martins is a researcher at ULICES (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies) and an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She holds a degree in Social Anthropology and Ancient History (University College London), a Masters in American Literature and Culture (Keele University, UK) and a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (University of Lisbon). Her doctoral thesis focuses on Indian postcolonial literature and culture, and examines themes of agency and identity through the lenses of historiography, ethnography, postmodernism and poststructuralism in the novels of Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. Her primary research interests lie in contemporary literatures and cultures, with a strong emphasis on postcolonial and cultural studies. Her work adopts an interdisciplinary approach to narrative analysis, exploring how texts engage with questions of identity, agency, decolonisation, the limits of the human and modes of representation.
Margarida Vale de Gato teaches Topics of North-American Studies – Ecopoetry (MA) and Advanced Topics of North-American Studies – Ecopoetry (PhD).
She is Associate Professor in the areas of US Literature and Translation at the School of Arts and Humanities, Universidade de Lisboa, where she coordinates the American Studies courses. She published a number of essays on North-American literature, translation and reception studies, such as Edgar Allan Poe em Portugal (2009) and the co-edited volumes (with Emron Esplin) Translated Poe (2014), and Anthologizing Poe: Translations, Editions, and (Trans)national Canons. Her latest publications include the journal article "'Still more a fixture than before': Poe and Melville working in close(d) chambers" (in Leviathan, 2022), a translated anthology of 19C poetry in French, English and German (Outono de Oitocentos, 2022), and the edited book Furo (2022) on the Anthropocene and the Future.
Maria Sequeira Mendes teaches Topics of English Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of English Studies (PhD).
She studied at the Catholic University of Lisbon (B.A., 2000) and the University of Lisbon (M.A., 2005; Ph.D., 2012; Habilitation for full professorship, 2023). She is also a member of the Department of English Studies. Between 2005 and 2017, she taught at the School of Theater and Cinema of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. She was a Beaufort Visiting Scholar at St John's College, University of Cambridge. Her interests include literary criticism, law and literature, Shakespeare, and theater. She is the author of The Ordeals of Interpretation (2020) and is writing a second book on flattery and Shakespeare.
Mário Avelar teaches Great Questions of Modern Literature (MA and PhD).
He holds a Phd on American Literature (Lisbon University, 1993), and since 2005 is Professor of English and American Studies. Director of the PHd and of the Master of Arts Programs of Modern, Literatures, Arts and Cultures (School of Arts and Humanities - Lisbon University, 2022-). He has supervised more than one hundred PhD thesis and MA dissertations. He is the author of eleven books and many essays on Anglo-American Literature, Film Studies and Inter-Arts Studies. His latest book on this topic was published in 2017 by Imprensa Nacional along with his Collected Poems. Meanwhile in 2024 he published A Literatura e o Mar (Literature and the Sea) and has in press The Quiet Lure of Images - Essays in Film Studies. He is also author of two novels. He has translated several English-speaking authors, namely Herman Melville, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Mary Renault, Robert Lowell, Lewis Carroll.
Marta Pacheco Pinto teaches
Marta Pacheco Pintois Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She completed her PhD in 2013 from the University of Lisbon in Translation History. She coordinates the research project MOV. Moving Bodies: Circulations, Narratives, and Archives in Translation and was the principal investigator of the TECOP. Texts and Contexts of Portuguese Orientalism – International Congresses of Orientalists (1873-1973) project, which was funded by the Portuguese research council in 2016-2019 (PTDC/CPC-CMP/0398/2014). She collaborates in C&WL – Comparative and World Literature project and is a researcher of the exploratory project PortAsia – Asian Writing in Portuguese: Mapping Literary and Intellectual Archives in Lisbon and Macau (1820-1955) (EXPL/LLT-LES/1191/2021). In 2022, she won the University of Lisbon/Caixa Geral de Depósitos Scientific Award. She is part of the editorial board of the Journal of World Literature (Brill) and Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, and integrates the IndirecTrans network Dedicated to Bringing together Research on Indirect Translation. Areas of research: History of Translation (in Portugal); Portuguese Orientalism (19th and 20th centuries); Reception Studies (Japanese literature in Portugal); Genetic Translation Studies.
Miguel Ramalhete Gomes teaches Research in Modern Literatures (MA and PhD).
He is Professor of English and American Studies. He studied at the University of Porto (BA, 2006; PhD, 2011) and the Habilitation for full Professorship at the University of Lisbon (2023). He is also a member of the Department of English Studies. His interests include English Renaissance drama, especially Shakespeare, as well as utopian studies, Irish studies, and comics. He is the author of Texts Waiting for History: William Shakespeare Re-Imagined by Heiner Müller (2014); he co-edited, with Jorge Bastos da Silva, English Literature and the Disciplines of Knowledge, Early Modern to Eighteenth Century (2017) and, with Teresa Botelho and José Eduardo Reis, Utopian Foodways: Critical Essays (2019). He is currently preparing a book on the uses of Shakespeare in times of austerity in Portugal.
Miguel Tamen teaches...
Miguel Tamen is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota and a BA in Modern Languages and Literatures, from the University of Lisbon. He has held a number of visiting positions and fellowships, namely at the National Humanities Center, at the Stanford Humanities Center, at Stanford University, and at the University of Chicago. He was also Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. He is the author of several books, among which The Matter of the Facts, Friends of Interpretable Objects, What Art is Like: In Constant Reference to the Alice Books, and Closeness. In February 2025 he was appointed founding director of the Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study.
Patrícia Soares Martins teaches...
Patrícia Soares Martins is an Assistant Professor at FLUL. She holds a Ph.D. in Literary Theory with a thesis titled Blanchot: a Possibilidade da Literatura, published in 2003 by Edições Vendaval. A member of CLEPUL, she coordinated the publication Central de Poesia, dedicated to Fernando Pessoa, from 2010 to 2017. Among her most recent publications are "António Ferro e Colette: um encontro na modernidade" (Colóquio Letras, No. 180, 2012), "O Texto-Molde: Escrita-Leitura de L'Arrêt de Mort de Maurice Blanchot" (Morte e Espectralidade nas Artes e na Literatura, Edições Húmus, 2019), and "Al Berto: uma poética da metamorfose" (Al Berto: "O que vejo já não se pode cantar", Não(Edições), 2019).
Ricardo Gil Soeiro teaches Topics of German Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of German Studies (PhD).
Ricardo Gil Soeiro (PhD, Univ. of Lisbon, 2009) is Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies. He has taught graduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Lisbon, ranging from contemporary Portuguese literature to the MA course "Memory and Literature in a Globalised Culture". His publications include Iminência do Encontro (Roma, 2009), A Sombra Que Ilumina (2020), collections of poetry, and the edited volume The Wounds of Possibility (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and collections, including Journal of Lusophone Studies, Estudios Romanicos, Revista de Filologia Romanica, and the Journal of Romance Studies. He is the recipient of several national literary and academic awards, including two PEN Prizes, awarded in 2010 and 2024, as well as the Prize Amicus Romaniae 2019. His main areas of research are: German Studies; Comparative Studies, Contemporary Portuguese Poetry, Hermeneutics, and Critical Posthumanism.
Rita Queiroz de Barros teaches Topics of English Studies – Linguistics (MA) and Advanced Topics of English Studies – Linguistics (PhD
She is Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon. Her main research áreas are History of English and Sociolinguistics. She holds a PhD in Linguistics (English Linguistics) – University of Lisbon, and MA in Portuguese Descriptive Linguistics (Sociolinguistics) – University of Lisbon, and a Degree in Modern Languages and Literature (English and German Studies). She is Head of the English Department and recently published "Descriptivism as stance of imperialistic language ideology: revisiting Hobson-Jobson, a Victorian dictionary of Indian English". Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics XXV 1 (2024): 37-48.
Santiago Perez Isasi teaches Topics of Hispanic American Studies and Topics of Spanish Studies (MA), and Advanced Topics of Hispanic American Studies and Advanced Topics of Spanish Studies (PhD).
He is Assistant Lecturer at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. He completed a PhD in Spanish literature in 2009 by Universidad de Deusto, with a dissertation on "Spanish National Identity and Literary History (1800-1939)", and a Master in Education and IT in 2013 by Universidad Abierta de Cataluña. Between 2015 and 2020 he worked as Assistant Researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where he developed the project "Digital Map of Iberian literary relations (1870-1930)". He previously worked as post-doctoral researcher at the same institution, with a grant from the Basque Government (2010-2012) and from the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (2012-2015). He has published several articles in journals, chapters of books and six books.
Teresa Casal teaches Topics of North-American Studies (MA) and Advanced Topics of North-American Studies (PhD).
She holds a B.A. from University of Porto, an M.A. from University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, and a PhD from the University of Lisbon. She is Associate Professor in English at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. She is also a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for Lisbon Studies (ULICES), where she coordinates the Project in Medical Humanities. Her main areas of research are narrative fiction and non-fiction, Irish Studies, and Medical/Health Humanities. Her doctoral thesis (2007) focused on the role of creativity in response to existential and human-inflicted violence, as represented in the work of Irish novelist Jennifer Johnston.