Rita Baleiro
Assistant Professor
E-mail: rita.baleiro@gmail.com
Biographical note
Rita Baleiro is a senior lecturer of English for Specific Purposes and Portuguese Language and Culture at the School of Management, Hospitality and Tourism (ESGHT) of the University of the Algarve. Currently, she is the chair of the department of English and Portuguese Languages of this School, and member of the School’s scientific board. In 2002, she was invited to join the editorial board of Dos Algarves: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal and she has been co-chief-editor of this journal since 2007. Rita Baleiro holds an undergraduate degree in Modern Languages and Literatures – Portuguese and English Studies from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon (1993) and a master’s degree in Anglo-Portuguese Studies from the same university (2001). She completed her PhD, also in Anglo-Portuguese Studies, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon in 2012. Rita Baleiro has participated in several national and international conferences and published in national and international refereed journals.
Main areas of research
- Literature and Tourism;
- Literary tourism;
- Comparative literature;
- Literary reading.
Selected publications
- Baleiro, R. & Quinteiro, S. (2017). Construção de um passeio literário: Cândido Guerreiro e a aldeia de Alte. Loulé: Câmara Municipal de Loulé.
- Lopes, D. A., Baleiro, R. & Quinteiro, S. (2017). Os guias de viagens de Fernando Pessoa e de Manuela Bandeira: Uma leitura comparada. Acta Scientiarum, 39(1), 93-102. https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/article/view/31383
- Lopes, D., Baleiro, R. & Quinteiro, S. (2017). Memórias modernistas da cidade: Belo Horizonte nos discursos literários de Carlos Drummond de Andrade. In M. Lousada, V. Ambrósio (Eds.), Literatura, viagens e turismo cultural no Brasil, em França e em Portugal (pp. 156-169). Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Universidade de Lisboa. https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/27298
- Quinteiro, S. & Baleiro, R. (2017). If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see: Encenação e prática turística, em A Small Place de Jamaica Kincaid. In M. Lousada, V. Ambrósio (Eds.), Literatura, viagens e turismo cultural no Brasil, em França e em Portugal (pp. 364-376). Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Universidade de Lisboa. https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/27298
- Baleiro, R., Quinteiro, S. & Santos, I.D. (2016). Literatura e Turismo: Viagens, Relatos e Itinerários. Faro: Universidade do Algarve
- Quinteiro, S., Baleiro, R. & Santos, I.D. (2016). Literatura e Turismo: Turistas, Viajantes e Lugares Literários. Faro: Universidade do Algarve. https://www.comparatistas.edu.pt/publicacoes/volumes/literatura-e-turismo-turistas-viajantes-e-lugares-literarios.html
- Quinteiro, S. & Baleiro, R. (2014).Uma personagem à procura da literatura: A ficção literária e a prática turística. Dos Algarves: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal, 24, Special Issue Languages, Literature and Tourism, 10-27. Mais info.
- Quinteiro, S.& Baleiro, R. (Orgs.) (2014). Lit&Tour: Ensaios sobre Literatura e Turismo. Lisboa: Edições Húmus.