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Currently enrolled in a PhD in Modern Literatures and Cultures (American Studies) at Nova University of Lisbon. Concluded the PhD lecture part in 04/12/2020, with the presentation of the research project, evaluated with 19/20. Obtained Master's degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (English and North-American Studies) in 14/12/2018 from the Nova University of Lisbon. Bachelor's degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and Portuguese) from University of Turin, Italy, concluded in 13/11/2015. Her main research fields are North-American literature, culture, and history and ecocriticism and geocriticism.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alice Carletto

Citation names

  • Carletto, Alice

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1F1C-D35B-FCC8
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3602-9265

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2026/01/31
Ongoing
Modern Literatures and Cultures (Doutoramento)
Major in Literary Studies - American Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2016/09/12 - 2018/12/14
Concluded
Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Mestrado)
Major in English and North-American Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
""Perspectives on Contemporary American Pastoralism: Philip Roth, Leslie Marmon Silko and Annie Proulx"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18
2012/09/30 - 2015/11/13
Concluded
Modern Languages and Literatures (Bachelor)
Major in English and Portuguese Studies
Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Italy
""Il progetto eteronimico: ricercando Pessoa"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
104/110
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Carletto, Alice. "American Pastoralism: Between Utopia and Reality". In Everything is a Story: Creative Interactions in Anglo-American Studies, 106-114. Portugal, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Carletto, Alice. ""And there is hope on the road": Nomadland's American West / “And There Is Hope on the Road”: El Oeste Americano de Nomadland.". Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 88 (2024): 127-138.
    Published
  2. Carletto, Alice. "William Least Heat-Moon’s American Travels: Representing Spaces through the American Road Narrative". [Inter]sections, Special Issue on "Mobility and American (Non)Fiction" (2024):
    Under revision
  3. Carletto, Alice. "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and The Human Stain: A Comparative Study on Two Passing Novels". Via Panoramica: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos 12 1 (2023): 73-88. http://ojs.letras.up.pt/.
    Open access • Published
  4. Carletto, Alice. "Anderson's Azorean Suite: A Love Affair between the Azores and Me". Journal of Anglo-Portuguese Studies 30 (2021): 221-234. : http://japs.fcsh.unl.pt.
    Published
  5. Carletto, Alice. "John Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley": In Search of What Kind of America?". Via Panoramica: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos 10 1 (2021): 10-27. http://ojs.letras.up.pt/..
    Accepted
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Carletto, Alice. ""Perspectives on Contemporary American Pastoralism: Philip Roth, Leslie Marmon Silko and Annie Proulx"". Master, 2018. https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/58448.

Other

Other output
  1. "Perspectives on Contemporary American Pastoralism: Philip Roth, Leslie Marmon Silko and Annie Proulx" / "Perspectivas Contemporâneas sobre o Pastoralismo Americano: Philip Roth, Leslie Marmon Silko e Annie Proulx". Dissertation abstract published in Op. Cit.: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos / A Journal of Anglo-American Studies. 2020. Carletto, Alice.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/10 "Automobility and (Eco)Spaces: Unsettling the American Road Narrative" Cultures of Automobility
University of Konstanz, Germany (Konstanz, Germany)
2024/04/13 Place, Self, and Community in Louise Gluck's Poetry The 2024 Texas Tech Symposium on Transnational American Studies Revisited
The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University (Lubbock, United States)
2023/10/21 "When memory is too much, turn to the eye": Looking at the American Environment through William Least Heat-Moon's Road Trip International Symposium American Dreams, American Crises
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/10/05 William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways: Representing Space through an American Road Narrative The 2023 RAAS-Fulbright Conference - MAPPING SPACES AND (THE) US
Faculty of Letters Ovidius University Constanta, Romanian Association for American Studies - RAAS (Constanta, Romania)
2023/06/01 "I'm still looking for my own version of America": Americana in Lana Del Rey's Music and Poetry 43rd APEAA Meeting - Culture(s) of the Self
FCH Universidade Catolica Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/10/04 "And there is hope on the road": Nomadland's American West V International Conference on the American Literary West: (Un)Charted and Nomadic West(s)
University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain)
2022/09/08 From Duluth to Dallas and Many Places in Between: New Insights on Larry McMurtry's American Road Narrative Touring Travel Writing II
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/08/31 Mobility in the Garden. The American Road Narrative: An Ecocritical and Geocritical Approach Doctoral Symposium ESSE Conference 2022 Mainz
University of Mainz, Germany (Mainz, Germany)
2022/04/07 The Texas Panhandle as a Wasteland in Annie Proulx's "That Old Ace in the Hole" 34th European Association for American Studies Conference "Wastelands"
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2021/11 A Reflection on the Texas-Mexico Border: Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies "Walls, Bridges, and Borders in America"
TAMIU College of Arts and Sciences (Laredo, Texas, United States)
2021/06/03 An American "in the land of the onion": Joseph Thompson Shaw's "Spain of To-Day" Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel Literature and Transatlantic Encounters: "The Iberian Peninsula as seen from North America" (1850-1950)
ATLAS (American Travel Literature about Spain) - Universidad de Alicante (Alicante, Spain)
2021/05/20 "The Cruise of the Rolling Junk": The Fitzgeralds Road Trippin' America 41st APEAA Meeting
Department of Languages and Cultures - University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2020/10/22 "I'm Walking Home, I'm Walking Back to Belonging: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony" International Symposium (Re)Thinking Earth: From Representations of Nature to Climate Change Fiction
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Portugal) (Portugal)
2019/12/05 "Leaving and Returning in Cesare Pavese¿s La Luna e i Falò: About Nostalgia, Roots, and Identity." International Conference, Touring Travel Writing: Between Fact and Fiction
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Portugal) (Portugal)
2018/11/24 "Learning Blackness in America: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah" International Conference, Dikes of Courage: Martin Luther King, The Civil Rights Movement and The Aesthetics of Protest.
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Portugal) (Portugal)
2018/04/27 "American Pastoralism: Between Utopia and Reality" 39th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
(Évora, Portugal)
2017/04/27 "Caucasia: from racial binaries to freedom" 38th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
(Braga, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/10/20 - 2023/10/21 International Symposium "American Dreams, American Crises" (2023/10/20 - 2023/10/21)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/04 - 2023/05 Ciclo de Cinema "Women On The Move" (2023/04 - 2023/05)
Other (Co-organisor)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2022/11/04 - 2022/11/04 (Brave) New Worlds Graduate Symposium (2022/11/04 - 2022/11/04)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2020/03/06 - 2020/03/08 International Conference "Historical Fiction, Fictional History, and Historical Reality" (2020/03/06 - 2020/03/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2017/05/18 - 2017/05/19 International Conference on Bob Dylan: "I Am Not There" (2017/05/18 - 2017/05/19)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
2017/04/03 - 2017/04/03 Cinema na NOVA/FCSH: "The Lovebirds" by Bruno de Almeida (2017/04/03)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/10/31 - 2023/11/14 Anglo-Saxonica

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021 - Current American Intersections (CETAPS) Member
2019 - Current Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies (JRAAS) Junior Researcher
2017 - Current Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies Collaborator
2016 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2023/06 - 2023/12 Winter Doctoral Symposium CETAPS - NOVA FCSH

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/12/12 - 2023/12/26 Temáticas Contemporâneas da Ficção Inglesa e Norte-americana - A Estrada Americana e a(s) sua(s) Narrativas Master Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Brazil
2023/10/16 - 2023/10/25 Aesthetics of Dissensus in English and North-American Fiction - ""Nomadland" and the American Road: Exploring Financial Crisis and Nomadism in Jessica Bruder’s Narrative (2017) and its Film Adaptation by Chloé Zhao (2020") (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2022 PhD Scholarship - 2022.13173.BD
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal