Workshop: Identity
Subversion in Contemporary Women Artists II
New conditions for attendance
22 February – 22 March 2013
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
Room 5.2. Fridays. 6 p.m.
– 8.30 p.m.
Total:
5 WEEKS/ 12h30 (1 ECTS)
Convenors
Ana
Raquel Fernandes MA, PhD (ULICES/Univ. of Birmingham)
Diana
V. Almeida MA, PhD (ULICES/FCT)
Zuzanna
Sanches PhD (ULICES/CETAPS)
Organization:
University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
Aims
and Objectives
This
workshop will address the work of contemporary women artists in the United
Kingdom, Ireland, the U.S.A and Portugal. The analysis of the literary
production by different authors and the dialogue
established with the work of contemporary visual artists will lead us to a
debate concerning concepts central to female authorship: identity and
creativity, agency and subversion, the public and private realms.
Teaching Methods and
Assessment
1. There are five 2h30 weekly
seminars.
2. Seminars given by the three
convenors.
3. Four assignments/thinking
points (10%) and a 4,000 word essay (60%).
Full Plan of the Module
including Reading and Assignments at http://identitysubversion.blogspot.com/
Registration Form:
Name:__________________________________________________________________
Profession:_____________________________________________________________
Institution:
_______________________________________________________________________
Address:
_______________________________________________________________________
Telephone:
_______________________________________________________________________
E-mail:
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FEE / With assessment and certificate
General
Public – 50 Euros
Other
university students (undergraduates, MA and PhD) – 30 Euros
FLUL students
– 20 Euros
· Payment may be:
by bank transfer (to NIB: 0035 0824 00005247630 04, CGD)
OR by cheque (to Faculdade
de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa) sent by post to:
Centro de Estudos Anglísticos
A/C Daniela Coelho
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
Alameda da Universidade
1600-214 Lisboa
Portugal
Note:
Only after proof of payment will the registration be accepted.
Availability: A maximum of 25 students may attend the workshop.
Bio Notes
v Ana Raquel
Fernandes (ULICES/Univ. of Birmingham)
Dr Fernandes took her first degree in the Universidade de Lisboa,
in Modern Languages and Literatures. She received an MA in Comparative
Literature (Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, 2004). Her
thesis was published in a book entitled: O
Pícaro e o Rogue. Sobrevivência e Metamorfose de Daniel Defoe a Julian Barnes
(Lisboa: Colibri, 2006). In 2008 Dr Fernandes completed her PhD (Universidade
de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas). Her thesis was turned into a book
entitled: What about the Rogue? Survival
and Metamorphosis in Contemporary British Literature and Culture and
published by Peter Lang in 2011 (Comparatism and Society Series, No. 15).
Currently she is a
researcher at the ULICES – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. She
has been awarded a grant by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal,
to carry out research for her Postdoctoral work on the short story in
contemporary British and Portuguese women’s writing. The research project is
being developed in joint collaboration with the Cátedra Gil Vicente in the University of Birmingham. She has also
been conferred upon the title of Honorary Research Fellow in the School of
Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music, University of Birmingham.
Dr Fernandes
currently teaches at ISLA Campus Lisboa – Instituto Superior de Línguas e
Administração.
v
Diana V. Almeida
ULICES (University of Lisbon Center for
English Studies)//FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology)
Editor of Women
and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity. Peter Lang, 2013.
Currently teaches Creative Writing, North
American Art, Visual Culture, and US Literature at FLUL (Faculty of Letters,
University of Lisbon).
Post-graduate project: Bodily Figurations in
the works of Elizabeth Bishop, Luiza Neto Jorge, Cindy Sherman and Helena
Almeida. Creative writing in the museum (Berardo Collection) connecting
literature and photography.
PhD in American Literature and Culture. The Contours of Light and Words:
Storytelling and Photography in Eudora Welty’s Short Stories, FLUL, 2007.
// M.A. In American Literature and Culture. Raymond
Carver: American Polaroids, FLUL, 2000.
Has researched and published on short story
and poetry in dialogue with other arts. Has translated Dylan Thomas, Edith
Wharton, Eudora Welty among others.
Photography: arodaemroda.blogspot.com
v
Zuzanna Sanches (ULICES/CETAPS)
Holds a PhD in English Literature written on The Counter-Discourses of Femininity in Elizabeth Bowen’s longer
fiction. Studied at the University of Warsaw, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and
Universidade de Lisboa. Presently she is a researcher at ULICES/CEAUL – (Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da
Universidade de Lisboa) in the Moderna
Diferença research cluster. She is a collaborator with CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese
Studies)/Relational Forms
and the IIH (International Institute for Hermeneutics).
She has a FCT post-doctoral fellowship with a
project on contemporary Irish women writers supervised by Professora Doutora
Luísa Flora and Professor Margaret Kelleher. She is a visiting research fellow
at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
