{"id":715,"date":"2014-03-06T16:32:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage2.comparatistas.umadesign.com\/en\/2014\/03\/06\/francesca-negro\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T16:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:59:50","slug":"francesca-negro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/research-team\/francesca-negro\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesca Negro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Researcher<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"subtitulo\">E-mail: <\/span><\/strong><a href=\"mailto:%20francescanegro42@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"subtitulo\">francescanegro42@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biographical note<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10004 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/foto_FN-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"foto_FN\" width=\"216\" height=\"144\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dr. Francesca Negro has a research background in Comparative Literature and Performance Studies. She has taught at BA and MA levels both in Italy, Portugal and England, and provided research supervision to BA and MA students. After dedicating herself for some years to <strong>Inter-Arts Studies <\/strong>in the THELEME group, especially studying the topic of the private space in literature with relation to architecture and Urban studies, she\u2019s now focused on the area of <strong>Performance Studies<\/strong> of the African Diaspora, an area that she has been exploring in the last decade and that took her to a second master graduation In Performing Arts at Universidade Nova, in Lisbon. Her main work is divided among the edition of her first monograph: <em>From Ritual to Stage. Afrocuban religious dances in their aesthetical and cultural development, <\/em>which comes from the master thesis in Performing arts, and the writing of a critical edition and translation of an inedited play on the character of Zumbi dos Palmares, Brazilian iconic figure of the slaves rebellion in colonial age. She\u2019s also collaborating to the research project Modern Moves, financed by ERC, in the research and analyses of the dances of Goa: developing a comparative structural analysis of Mand\u00f3 dance in relation to contemporary and previous group dances and traditional popular dances alive in overseas territories of the Portuguese Empire. She is also currently teaching Italian Language and Culture at the Language Centre of the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"subtitulo\">Main areas of research<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comparative Studies;<\/li>\n<li>Performing Arts;<\/li>\n<li>Post Colonial Studies;<\/li>\n<li>Cultural Anthropology;<\/li>\n<li>Cultural Studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span class=\"subtitulo\">Selected publications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Monographs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>From Ritual to Stage. Afrocuban religious dances in their aesthetical and cultural development.<\/em>\u00a0<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Books&#8217; Edition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cP\u00fablico e Privado. O deslizar de uma fronteira\u201d. Lisboa, H\u00famus, 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Chapters in books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Waltz with Bashir: est\u00e9tica da guerra e da mem\u00f3ria&#8221;, in Est\u00e9tica das Emo\u00e7\u00f5es, Lisboa H\u00famus 2011.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMem\u00f3ria e espa\u00e7o. Italo Calvino:As Cidades Invis\u00edveis e\u00a0 A Memoria do Mundo\u201d in ACT 20 Filologia memoria esquecimento, Lisbon, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cKatherine Dunham: choreographic reconstruction of the anthropologic journey\u201d, for a volume on Katherine Dunham that will be edited by Ananya Kabir, and published by Pelgrave, UK. (forthcoming)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Peer reviewed <\/strong><strong>Articles in Scholarly Reviews<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIl corpo come frontiera, Paolo Volponi e Tiziano Scarpa\u201d in, Between, Frontiere, Confini, Limiti Vol 1, N\u00b0 1. 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/ojs.unica.it\/index.php\/between\/article\/view\/199\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIl tempo dei luoghi: la memoria topogr\u00e1fica nell\u2019opera di Jos\u00e9 Saramago\u201d proceedings of the annual conference of COMPALIT 2007, N. Scaffai e C. A. Augieri (edit) \u201cMemoria e Oblio: le scritture del tempo\u201d\u00a0\u00abCompar(a)ison\u00bb, 2008, Vol. I, p.187-195.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOs projectos brasileiros de Alvin Ailey e o Teatro popular brasileiro de Solano Trinidade\u201d <em>to be published in Brasiliana<\/em>, Spring 2018. (forthcoming)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cZumbi dos Palmares\u201d critical edition and translation of the inedited play by Solano Trinidade e Marcio Tati, to be published in <em>Bras\u00edliana<\/em>. Spring 2018. (forthcoming)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/research-groups\/citcom\/memorialist-discourse-and-the-building-of-history\/\">Memorialist Discourse and the Building of History \/ CITCOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/research-groups\/theleme\/synesthesia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Synesthesia \/ THELEME<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Researcher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6625,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/6625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}