Fernanda Gil Costa – Comparatistas

Full Professor

E-mail: f ernanda.gilcosta@gmail.com

Biographical note

She is a full professor of the University of Lisbon. Between 1999 and 2001 she was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities(UL) and between 2003 and 2005 she was the President of the Scientific Advisory Board of the FLUL. She was also the head of the Department of Portuguese (FL) between 2006 and 2012 and the head of the Department of Portuguese of the University of Macau between 2012 and 2016. She received her PhD in German Literature from the University of Lisbon in 1987 and was made a full professor in 1999. Since then she has dedicated herself to Comparative Studies, Translation Studies and Literatures in Portuguese.

Main areas of research

Comparative Studies;
Translation Studies;
Literatures in Portuguese.

Selected publications

2011 – “Cidades atlânticas na obra de Agualusa – um olhar em trânsito pelas cidades da língua portuguesa.” Via Atlântica, 2011, 175-186. CAPES/ QUALIS A1
2012 -“Perspectiva e Focalização em Romances de J.E. Agualusa – um olhar em trânsito pelas cidades da língua portuguesa”, Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas. Avanços em Literaturas e Culturas Africanas e em Literatura e Cultura Galegas, Abril de 2012, Através Editora. Santiago de Compostela-Faro, pp.111-124.
2012 (2013) – “Framing the Nation from the Debris of Colonization – a Reading of J. E. Agualusa’s Novels Nação Crioula and O Vendedor de Passados (Creole and The Book of Chameleons)”, in Colonial/Post-Colonial: Writing as Memory in Literature, ed. Fernanda Gil Costa and Inocência Mata, Lisboa (Colibri) 93-104.
2014 – “O Regresso na Literatura Portuguesa Contemporânea. Aspectos da pós-colonialidade”, Colóquio Letras, Maio 2014 (Lisboa) 141-152. Publisher: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, journal evaluated as A1 by CAPES/ Qualis, indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation index, Dialnet, Latindex, Scopus, MLA –Modern Language Association Database, Periodicals Index online, SJR, H index 1.
2017 – “Fases da História, Faces da Memória. Nação e Identidade num romance de J E Agualusa”, Lisboa: Colibri. (forthcoming)
2017 (2016) – “Rotas de Signos: pós-colonialismo e globalização: Uma tendência das humanidades que não pode ser ignorada”, XXVI Encontro da Associação das Universidades de Língua Portuguesa – Rotas de Signos: Mobilidade Académica e Globalização no Espaço da CPLP e Macau, Timor-Leste, Díli 2016, 139-147.

Aesthetics of Memory and Emotions / MORPHE