Curriculum Vitae
Mariana Batista Cruz
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Mariana Batista Cruz
Citation names
- Cruz, Mariana Batista da
- Cruz, Mariana
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2E11-A14F-417B
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7465-4072
Addresses
- Avenida Júlio Dinis, n. 23 5º andar, 1069-970, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
| German | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2020/09 - 2025/01
Ongoing
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Modern Literatures and Cultures (Doutoramento)
Major in Literary Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2016/09 - 2019/03
Concluded
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Modern Literatures and Cultures (Mestrado)
Major in English and North-American Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"“A No Man’s Land of the Ages”: Colonialismo, Dinâmicas de Poder e Transculturalidade na ficção breve do Pacífico Sul, de
Robert Louis Stevenson" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2013/09 - 2016/06
Concluded
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Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura)
Major in English and Portuguese Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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18 |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021/09 - 2025/09 | In the Waiting Room: Age Narratives and Late Life Institutionalization in Anglo-American Care Home Stories
2021.07138.BD
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Outputs
Publications
| Book review |
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| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/06/27 | “That space between two futures”: A Generational Approach to Climate Change in Jessie Greengrass’s The High House (2021) | 44th Conference APEAA - Transitions: Freedom & Conflicts
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/01/09 | Like Men Living Among Aliens: Aging Masculinities and Long-Term Residential Care in Jon Hassler's Simon's Night (1979) | Within and Without: Representations of Ageing: International Symposium III - Special Issue
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/12/13 | Back on the Open Land: o Envelhecimento e o Tropo da Estrada em The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, de Rachel Joyce |
Universidade Federal de Tocantins (Palmas, Brazil)
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| 2023/10/21 | As long as they can do for themselves”: Self-Reliance and the Successful Aging Paradigm in Joss Hassler’s Simon’s Night (1979) | American Dreams, American Crises
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/06/22 | In the Well-Being Garden: Home and Late-Life Institutionalization in Rachel Joyce's The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy | Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English - (Dis)Locations: The Shifting Thematics of Home
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/06/16 | Reimagining the country and the city in the solar-powered futures of Andrew Hudson’s «Under the Grid» and Cat Rambo’s «Big Rural» | Un/Building the Future: The Country and The City in the Anthropocene
University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom)
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| 2022/09/30 | Letters from the Hospice: Aging, Illness and Creativity in Rachel Joyce’s The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy | ENAS & NANAS joint conference
European Network in Aging Studies and North American Network in Aging Studies (Bucareste, Romania)
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| 2022/09/08 | To the End of the Road: Aging and Mobility in Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | International Conference "Touring Travel Writing II"
Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2022/04/08 | Wasting Away: Aging Paradigms and the 'Nursing Home Specter' in Jon Hassler's Simon's Night | Wastelands: 34th European Association For American Studies Conference
European Association for American Studies (EAAS) (Madrid, Spain)
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| 2022/04/01 | Petro-masculinities, fossil fuel systems and the discourse of national identity in Jennifer Haigh's Heat and Light | Environments: Ecologies and (In)hospitalities: 42nd Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2021/11/26 | Of Cats and Crones: Hope and Eco-Feminist Utopianism in Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet | Messengers from the Stars - Science Fiction and Fantasy International Conference
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2021/02/25 | "Aging in Neverland: Reimagining the Space of the Nursing Home in Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet" | Interdisciplinary Doctoral Symposium on Aging and Care
Age and Care Research Group Graz (Graz, Austria)
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| 2018/04/27 | "Tusitala and the Travelling Monsters: Fantasy and Postcolonial Gothic in R.L. Stevenson's South Pacific Fiction" | 39th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
(Évora, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/12/11 - 2023/12/12 | Co-organisation and member of the scientific committee of the NOVA Winter Doctoral Symposium (2023/11/11 - 2023/11/12)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2023/10/20 - 2023/10/21 | International Symposium American Dreams, American Crises (2023/10/20 - 2023/10/21)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2023/05/04 - 2023/05/25 | Ciclo de Cinema "Women on the Move" (2023/05/04 - 2023/05/25)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2022/11/04 - 2022/11/04 | "(Brave) New Worlds" Graduate Symposium (2022/11/04 - 2022/11/04)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2018/12/14 - 2018/12/14 | "I write for the same reason I breathe": O Legado Literário de Isaac Asimov (2018/12/14 - 2018/12/14)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018/12/05 - 2018/12/05 | Paraísos Perdidos: as Distopias no Cinema - Children of Men - JRAAS (2018/12/05 - 2018/12/05)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018/11/09 - 2018/11/09 | Paraísos Perdidos: as Distopias no Cinema" - Fahrenheit 451 - JRAAS (2018/11/09 - 2018/11/09)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018/11/07 - 2018/11/07 | "Only in Silence the Word": o Legado Fantástico de Ursula K. Le Guin (2018/11/07 - 2018/11/07)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018/05/18 - 2018/05/18 | Ciclo de Conversas: Literatura e Arte (2018/05/18 - 2018/05/18)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018/04/20 - 2018/04/20 | Ciclo de Conversas - Literatura e Medicina (2018/04/20 - 2018/04/20)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018/04/11 - 2018/04/11 | Ciclo de Cinema "From Stage to Screen": Fences - JRAAS (2018/04/11 - 2018/04/11)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018/03/07 - 2018/03/07 | Ciclo de Conversas: Literatura e Identidade (2018/03/07 - 2018/03/07)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
| 2018/02/28 - 2018/02/28 | Ciclo de Cinema "From Stage to Screen": Coriolanus - JRAAS (2018/02/28 - 2018/02/28)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2022/07/11 - 2022/07/13 | Oral presentation of research project at PhD Workshop, followed by a peer-review and group discussion. Peer-review of other
research project presented at the event.
Workshop
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PhD workshop ‘Ageing in Europe: Towards more Inclusive Societies, Research and Policy'
Fachhochschule Campus Wien, Austria
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2022 - Current | American Intersections (CETAPS) | Member |
| 2021/01 - Current | European Network in Aging Studies | Member |
| 2018/04 - Current | Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos | Member |
| 2018 - Current | Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies (JRAAS) | Junior Researcher |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/10/31 - 2023/11/14 | Temáticas Contemporâneas da Ficção Inglesa e Norte-Americana | (Master) | Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Brazil |
| 2023/10/02 - 2023/10/11 | Aesthetics of Dissensus in English and North-American Fiction | Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas Modernas | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
| 2016 | Prémio de Mérito e Excelência NOVA FCSH: Melhores Licenciados
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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