Marta Pacheco Pinto
Post-doctoral Researcher
E-mail: egma@sapo.pt
Biographical note
Marta Pacheco Pinto (BA in Translation, 2006) has a PhD in Translation History (2013) from the University of Lisbon. She coordinates two research projects at the CEC: MOV. Moving Bodies: Itineraries and Narratives in Translation (CITCOM group) and TECOP. Texts and Contexts of Portuguese Orientalism: The International Congresses of Orientalists (1873-1973) (LOCUS group), which is funded by the Portuguese Research Council, FCT (PTDC/CPC-CMP/0398/2014). She is also co-PI of the VISTAC – Science and Technology Visuals in Translation project hosted at New Mexico Tech. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited collective volumes and two special issues of scientific journals: Cadernos de Tradução: Moving Bodies across Transland 37.1 (2017) and connexions: Translation and International Professional Communication: Building Bridges and Strengthening Skills 3.2 (2015). She is an early career researcher of the Journal of World Literature (Brill) and assistant director of the journal Textos e Pretextos.
Main areas of research
- History of Translation;
- Reception Studies;
- Intercultural Studies (East-West encounters);
- (Portuguese) Orientalism;
- Professional Communication.
Selected publications
- 2016. From the Far East to the Far West. Portuguese Discourse on Translation: A Case Study of Camilo Pessanha. Journal of World Languages. East and West Encounters: Translation across Time 3 (1): 37-53. DOI: 10.1080/21698252.2016.1224137. More info.
- (Co-ed. Ariadne Nunes). 2015. Relance da Alma Japonesa, de Wenceslau de Moraes. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda. ISBN 978-972-27-2399-2
- (Co-ed. Rita Bueno Maia & Sara Ramos Pinto) 2015. How Peripheral Is the Periphery? Translating Portugal Back and Forth. Essays in Honour of João Ferreira Duarte. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-7420-5
- (Co-ed. Susana Araújo & Sandra Bettencourt). 2015. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi. DOI: 10.1163/9789004306042.
- 2013. A lira chinesa em trânsito: de Machado de Assis a António Feijó. Scientia Traductionis: Machado de Assis & Tradução 14: 93-106. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1980-4237.2013n14p93. More info.
- 2013. Cancioneiro chinez: The First Portuguese Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. In Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries). Ed. Teresa Seruya, Lieven D’hulst, Alexandra Assis Rosa & Maria Lin Moniz. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 57-74. DOI: 10.1075/btl.107.06pac
- 2013. Oriental Paradises at the Crossroads of Cultural Translation. In Provocation and Negotiation: Essays in Comparative Criticism. Ed. Gesche Ipsen, Timothy Mathews & Dragana Obradović. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 33-45.
- (Co-ed. Ana Paula Laborinho) 2010. Macau na escrita, escritas de Macau. Ribeirão: Húmus.
Some publications are available in the repository of the University of Lisbon.
MOV. Moving Bodies: Circulations, Narratives and Archives in Translation / LOCUS