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Ana Paula Laborinho

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Senior Lecturer

Email: anapaula.laborinho@sapo.pt

Biographical note

PhD in Literary Studies at the University of Lisbon where she has been teaching since 1982. She lived in Macao from 1988 to 1992, having worked at the Macao Cultural Institute and the University of Macau from 1995 to 2002; She was the President of the Portuguese Institute of the East (Instituto Português do Oriente) from 1996 to 2002 and President of Camões – Institute of Cooperation and Language (Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua) between 2009 and 2017.

Main areas of research

• Literature and Discoveries;
• Travel Narratives (15th-17th centuries);
• Orientalism;
• Literature of Macao;
• Colonial Literature;
• Postcolonial Studies.

Selected publications

• 2006. “Da descoberta dos povos ao encontro das línguas: o português como língua intermediária a Oriente”, Actas do Colóquio Internacional. O Humanismo Latino e as Culturas do Extremo Oriente. Treviso: Fondazione Cassamarca. 71-91.
• 2004. O essencial sobre Wenceslau de Moraes. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda. Internacional.
• 2004. “Auteurs portugais traduits en langues orientales.” in L’édition d’auteurs portugais à l’étranger. Arquivos do Centro Cultural Calouste Gulbenkian. Vol. XLVII. Lisboa-Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro Cultural Calouste Gulbenkian. 129-142.
• 2004. “Literatura e Descobrimentos: viajantes portugueses na China no século XVI”, Homo Viator. Estudos em Homenagem a Fernando Cristóvão Amorim, Maria Adelina et al. Lisboa: Colibri. 135-147.
• 2001. “Globalização e Humanismo na Ásia”, Convegno Internazionale, Globalizzazione e Umanesimo Latino. New York (1-3 Maio 2000). Treviso: Fondazione Cassamarca.

ORION – Portuguese Orientalism / LOCUS