Maria Francisca Bacelar Begonha de Alvarenga (E114-A139-B40D)

Curriculum Vitae

Maria Francisca Bacelar Begonha de Alvarenga

M. Francisca B. B. de Alvarenga researches on the areas of Gender Studies, LGBTQIA+ Studies and Queer Theory, Literature, and Cinema, and Horror Studies. She is currently working on her PhD project, at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where she is writing a dissertation connecting Memory Studies and Gender Theory to the representation of female hauntings on Victorian and neo-Victorian cinema and literature. She is a Collaborator at CEComp (Centre for Comparative Studies), at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisboa. She is a member of the Editorial Team, and recently became one of the Chief-Editors, of the open access online scholarly publication estrema. She completed her MA in Intercultual Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, with a thesis on bisexual identity and expression and its historical silencing, using film and media analysis. She was awarded her BA in Arts and Humanities with a Major in English Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. She has been developing research within the areas of Cinema, Literature, and Media with a particular interest for intersectional relations of power and resistance, necropolitics, identity politics, and queer representation.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Maria Francisca Bacelar Begonha de Alvarenga

Citation names

Alvarenga, M. Francisca de
Alvarenga, Maria Francisca Bacelar Begonha de
Alvarenga, M. Francisca B. B. de
Bacelar Begonha de Alvarenga, Maria Francisca

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: E114-A139-B40D
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3451-2042

Email addresses

mfalvarenga@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
mfalvarenga@campus.ul.pt (Professional)

Websites

https://cecomp.letras.ulisboa.pt/non-phd-researchers-profile.php?p=545 (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Humanities - Other Humanities
Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures
Humanities - Languages and Literatures
Social Sciences - Sociology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Beginner (A1)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/01 - 2025 Ongoing	Comparative Studies (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Victorian and neo-Victorian Female Hauntings as Memory Places: A Comparative Study of Victorian Gothic Horror Literature and 20th and 21st Century Gothic Horror Film" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2020/07/06 - 2020/08/10 Concluded	Summer Course. The Art of Dying: Philosophical Perspectives on Death (Outros) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/10 - 2020/05 Attended	Gender Studies (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2017 - 2019 Concluded	Intercultural Studies (Candidatus) Aarhus Universitet, Denmark "‘Is It Better to Speak or to Die?’: Labelling and Performance of Bisexuality on Call Me by Your Name and Media" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Passed
2016 - 2016 Attended	Medieval Studies (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2013 - 2016 Concluded	Arts and Humanities (Licenciatura) Major in English Studies Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	16/20

Affiliation

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/01 - Current	Chief-Editor of estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2021 - Current	Member of the Editorial Board of estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2013/01/02 - 2013/05/31	Collaborator	Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/01 - Current	Collaborator	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2020/01 - 2021/07	External Collaborator	Núcleo de Estudos em Género e Música, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/09/01 - Current	Victorian and neo-Victorian Female Hauntings as Memory Places: A Comparative Study of Victorian Gothic Horror Literature and 20th and 21st Century Gothic Horror Film UIDB/00509/2020 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Alvarenga, Maria Francisca Bacelar Begonha de. "Ódio de Si Próprio e Imagem Corporal em Starry Eyes e Frankenstein". In Os Labirintos do Mal. Ensaios sobre o Ódio na Literatura e no Cinema, edited by Gerd Hammer; Teresa Mendes; Luís Cardoso, 89-108. Lisboa, Portugal: Edições Colibri, 2024. Published Alvarenga, M. Francisca B. B. de. "Queering the Vampire and Illness: A Brief Introduction to Queer Studies and the Vampire". In Nosferatu. 100 Anos de Terror, edited by Viegas, Alexis F.; Patrícia Sá; Claudia J. Fischer, 45-54. Lisbon, Portugal: Edições Húmus, 2022. Published
Conference abstract	Alvarenga, M. Francisca de. "Is It Better to Speak or to Die?: Labelling and Performance of Bisexuality on Call Me by Your Name and Media". Paper presented in 2º Simpósio NEGEM - Música, Género, Media, 2020. Published Alvarenga, M. Francisca de (E114-A139-B40D). "The Social Power of Fandom and LGBT Communities". Paper presented in Messengers From The Stars, Episode IV, Lisboa, 2016. Published
Conference paper	Alvarenga, M. Francisca B. B. de. "Ódio de Si Próprio e Imagem Corporal em Starry Eyes e Frankenstein". Paper presented in Seminário Internacional. Os Labirintos do Mal: Ensaios Sobre o Ódio na Literature e no Cinema, Lisbon, 2023. Alvarenga, M. Francisca B. B. de. Corresponding author: Alvarenga, M. Francisca B. B. de. "Inhospitable Gendered Places: The Haunted House and the Female Ghost in Neo-Victorian Fiction and What It Can Tell Us about Female Agency". Paper presented in Hermes 2022 - Hosts, Hospitals and Hospitalities: Notions, Images and Narratives of Hospitality in Literature, Culture and the Arts, Lisbon, 2022. Accepted
Journal article	Bacelar Begonha de Alvarenga, Maria Francisca. "A utopia do harém: representações do harém nas cartas persas de Montesquieu e em Nasci num Harém de Fatima Mernissi". Via Atlântica 25 1 (2024): 442-473. https://www.revistas.usp.br/viaatlantica/issue/view/12289. Open access • Published Alvarenga, M. Francisca B. B. de. "Uma Breve Introdução aos Estudos sobre a Morte". P'arte: Recolhas Poéticas 4 (2023): 19-26. Open access • Published Alvarenga, Francisca B. B. de. "Volunteerism in fandom". Transformative Works and Cultures 36 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.2143. Open access • Published • 10.3983/twc.2021.2143
Thesis / Dissertation	de Alvarenga, M. Francisca. "'Is It Better to Speak or to Die?': Labelling and Performance of Bisexuality on Call Me by Your Name and Media". Master, Aarhus Universitet, 2019. https://soeg.kb.dk/permalink/45KBDK_KGL/1pioq0f/alma99122255767305763.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/09/17	FanVidding as Queer Community and Revindication	Mexe: 5º Encontro Internacional de Arte e Comunidade Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/07/19 - 2023/07/22	Volunteer at the International Colloquium on Fragmentology: Lost&Found: Traces of Early Music. Oversaw volunteer activities, as well. (2023/07/19 - 2023/07/22) Conference (Other)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
2021/07/01 - 2021/07/09	Staff at MedRen 2021 - 49th Medieval and Renaissance International Music Conference - a mixed in-person–online event organised by CESEM–Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music and hosted by the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. (2021/07/05 - 2021/07/09) Conference (Other)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
2019/05/08 - 2019/05/10	Volunteer at the International conference "Nordic Association of English Studies: Exchange, Transformation, Communication" (2019/05/08 - 2019/05/10) Conference (Other)	Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
2019/03 - 2019/04	Based on a project with Red Cross Aarhus and the project "Mere Mad, Mere Mening," this researcher and their group were invited to organise a workshop for their MA's 1st year students on how the project was organised, the methods used, and the resulting product. (2019 - 2019/04/07) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
2018/06/27 - 2018/06/30	Volunteer at the Organisation Committee for the International conference "The Anatomy of Polyphonic Music Around 1500" (2018/06/27 - 2018/06/30) Conference (Other)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
2016/10/13 - 2016/10/14	Volunteer at the International conference "In Remembrance of the Great War: Re-Working Myths" (2016/10/13 - 2016/10/14) Conference (Other)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2020/06/30 - 2020/06/30	Panel Moderation: Intimidade e Erotismo Conference	2º Simpósio NEGEM - Género, Música, Media Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
2020/06/30 - 2020/06/30	Round Table: on Call Me by Your Name (2017) Conference	2º Simpósio NEGEM - Género, Música, Media Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
2016 - 2016/04/27	Volunteer at the Open Day for University of Lisbon, Faculty of Arts Other	Open Day at FLUL Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016 - 2016/03/07	Attended the workshop "Social Media in Recruitment", in a partnership between the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon and the Jerónimo Martins group. Workshop	Social Media in Recruitment Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2015 - 2015/11/23	Attended the workshop "Promoção de Competências de Empregabilidade" Workshop	Promoção de Competências de Empregabilidade Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2015/03/11 - 2015/03/14	Student participant at the largest event for the showcase of educational offer at a higher level of education - Futurália 2015 - Salão de Oferta Educativa, Formação e Empregabilidade. In this case, this researcher represented the Arts and Humanities BA, addressing questions on academic offer. Other	Futurália 2015 - Salão de Oferta Educativa, Formação e Empregabilidade Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2014/03/26 - 2014/03/29	Student participant at the largest event for the showcase of educational offer at a higher level of education - Futurália 2014 - Salão de Oferta Educativa, Formação e Empregabilidade. In this case, this researcher represented the Arts and Humanities BA, addressing questions on academic offer. Other	Futurália 2014 - Salão de Oferta Educativa, Formação e Empregabilidade Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2018/09 - 2018/12	For the course "Intercultural Project Management in a Globalised World", at Aarhus University, our group of students partnered with Red Cross Aarhus and the project "Mere Mel, Mad Mening" to do an ethnographic research on the programme to help them identify the project's biggest difficulty - the relations between national volunteers and refugees - and then create a tool for them to develop intercultural skills. Based on the academic and ethnographic research conducted, a book of activities was created for them to use during their activities .	Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/11/16 - 2023/11/16	Aula convidada, "Maternidades Monstruosas", Estudos de Género Invited lecturer, "Monstrous Maternity", Gender Studies	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2015 - 2015/10/09	Student participation in the meeting for the evaluation committee of the external evaluation of the Arts and Humanities Other	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal