Curriculum Vitae
Margarida Pereira Martins
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Margarida Pereira Martins
Citation names
- Martins, Margarida Pereira
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2410-1D26-11B3
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3534-6787
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures
- Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| French | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Beginner (A1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| Italian | Advanced (C1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Beginner (A1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2016
Concluded
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Estudos de Literatura e Cultura (Doutoramento)
Major in Literatura e Cultura de Expressão Inglesa
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"The Search for identity and the construction of an idea of India in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and the Inheriatnce
of Loss by Kiran Desai" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor |
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2003/06 - 2003/09
Concluded
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TESOL (Pós-Graduação)
Columbia University, United States
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A |
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1999
Concluded
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Masters in American Literature and Culture (Mestrado)
Keele University, United Kingdom
""The way out is the way in" understanding the narrative style of William S Burroughs in The Naked Lunch" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Merit |
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1996
Concluded
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BA Joint Honors in Social Anthropology and Ancient History (Licenciatura)
University College London Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2 Class Honors Degree |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2012/06/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017/10 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Aberta, Portugal |
| 2013/09/01 - 2017/08/31 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Universidade Aberta, Portugal |
| 2010/09/01 - 2012/09/30 | Assistant (University Teacher) | Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/07/12 - Current | Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English
RHOME
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
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Not funded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Book review |
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| Conference paper |
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| Journal article |
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| Newsletter article |
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| Translation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2023/12/08 | “Hitching a ride to Pate Island with water chasing butterflies” |
Universidade Nova (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/06/07 | "Quando a morte chegar, eu já cá não estarei" o artista e a sua morte | Congresso Internacional de Humanidades
Universidade Aberta (Portugal)
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| 2023/06/02 | Female subjectivity in Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess (2014) and When I Hit You (2017) | 43.º Encontro da APEAA, Culture(s) of the Self
FCH - Faculdade de Ciências Humanas Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Portugal)
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| 2023/03/15 | "Reinventing the (in)hospitable in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" | Ecological (In)hospitality in the 20th and 21st century Seminar
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) 2024 Annual Meeting, Montreal, (Montreal, Canada)
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| 2023/03/08 | "Rewriting Women in Yvonne Adhiambo Owour’s Dust (2014)" | Seminário - Representations of Women in Third-Generation African and African American Novels
NeMLA (Northeastern Modern Languages Association) 56th Annual Convention (Boston, Portugal)
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| 2022/10/28 | “Roots” and “routes” in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge |
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
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| 2022/05/29 | The Archaeology of Absence in Kamila Shamsie's A God in Every Stone | 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien
/ GAPS)
Goethe-Universität | Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)
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| 2021/11/25 | But amnesia does not mean absence (Das) Indian experience of World War I | English Literature, Silence, Memory and Identity
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2021/06/03 | If you were from here, you'd know, ennet. Creolization, Community and Postcolonial Renaissance in Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City. |
Tours University (Tours (online), France)
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| 2021/05/11 | My mother is forgetting, and there is nothing I can do about it. Memory and meaning in Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar | WITHIN & WITHOUT: REPRESENTATIONS OF AGEING
University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES/CEAUL) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2019/10/14 | Reinventing and reassessing postcolonialism | Decolonising the Victorians
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2019/06/06 | Roots and Tilled Earth in Manjushree Thapa's stories of Nepalese lives |
Faculdade de Letras, University of Porto. (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2019/03/03 | The rubble and the dust of everyday life in Nepalese stories of the 2015 earthquake. |
Madras Christian College (Madras, India)
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| 2018/03/05 | The universal paradigm: a sustainable alternative to postcolonial discourse. | World Literature: Postcolonial Perspectives
University of Delhi (Deli, India)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2021/01/19 - 2023/01/19 | A Memória do Holocausto na União Europeia do século XXI - Em busca de uma memória coletiva europeia
Supervisor
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Estudos sobre a Europa (Master)
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
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| 2021/10/28 - 2022/03/31 | The importance of a strategic approach to speaking skills in order to enhance the communicative competence of L2 in the classroom
Supervisor
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Didática do Inglês
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2021/10/01 - 2022/03/31 | The importance of affect and affect teachers’ training in attaining L2 language proficiency
Supervisor
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Didática do Inglês (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2020/01/17 - 2021/05/27 | Learning Culture through films and television ads in the English Language Classroom.
Supervisor
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Didática do Inglês (Master)
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2020/09/22 - 2021/04/23 | L2 acquisition and digital media world: the importance of modern media tools in the ELT
Supervisor
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Didática do Inglês (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2023/10/19 - 2023/10/19 | "USING INTONATION IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS (QUESTIONS, PRESENTATIONS, CHATTING, ETC.)"
Workshop
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Using Intonation
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
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| 2023/05/23 - 2023/05/23 | Oficina de escrita em inglês:
Writing workshop (English): from brainstorming to proofreading
Workshop
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Universidade Aberta, Portugal
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| 2023/04/29 - 2023/04/29 | Oficina Online de Escrita Criativa
Workshop
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Feira do Livro de Reguengos de Monsaraz
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
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Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 - 2012 | Inglês para Relações Internacionais | Extensão e divulgação científica (Curso médio) | |
| 2011 - 2011 | Inglês para Apresentações | Extensão e divulgação científica (Curso médio) | |
| 2011 - 2011 | Inglês para Reuniões e Negociações | Extensão e divulgação científica (Curso médio) |
Distinctions
Award
| 2023 | Selo de Qualidade para o Ensino a Distância da Universidade Aberta
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
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