Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Zsófia Gombár
Citation names
- Gombár, Zsófia
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 581B-2FCF-7D1C
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8202-9928
Email addresses
- zsofiagombar@letras.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Alameda da Universidade, Faculdade de Letras Lisbon, Portugal, 1600-214, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- http://ulices.letras.ulisboa.pt/en/research-groups/reception-and-translation-studies-rg-6/zsofia-gombar/ (Scholar)
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8202-9928 (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures - General Literature Studies
- Social Sciences - Educational Sciences
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Hungarian (Mother tongue) | |||||
German | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) |
Italian | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2007 - 2012
Concluded
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Doutoramento em Literatura (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"The Reception of British Literature under Dictatorships in Hungary and Portugal " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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aprovado (por unanimidade) |
1999 - 2005
Concluded
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MA in Hungarian Language and Literature with Teaching Qualification (Mesterfokozat)
Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem Bolcseszettudomanyi Kar, Hungary
"Magyar történelmi drámák a huszadik század második felében. Németh László: Galilei, Páskándi Géza: Vendégségben, Székely
János: Caligula helytartója (Hungarian History Plays in the 20th Century)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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4 (on a 5 point scale) |
1998 - 2004
Concluded
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MA in English Language and Literature, with TESOL Qualification (Master)
Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem Bolcseszettudomanyi Kar, Hungary
"Portugal and English Romanticism: Robert Southey and Lord Byron’s Visits to the Country" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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4 (on a 5 point scale) |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020 - Current | Principal Investigator (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal (...) |
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2019/05/01 - Current | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/02 - Current | Affiliated researcher at the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute | University of Southern California, United States |
USC Shoah Foundation, United States | ||
2014/03/01 - 2019/04/30 | FCT-funded post-doctoral researcher | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal | ||
2007 - 2011 | Fully-funded PhD researcher | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2014 - 2019 | English-Language Literature and Censorship in Portugal and Hungary during the Second Half of the Twentieth Century,
SFRH/BPD/92486/2013
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2007 - 2012 | The Reception of British Literature under Dictatorships in Hungary and Portugal
BD/REITORIA/3855/2007
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Universidade de Aveiro
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/05 - 2026/04 | DECONSTRUCT - Digital Education and Campaign to Stand up and Counter Holocaust Distortion and Misinformation
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Zachor Alapítvány a Társadalmi Emlékezetért, Hungary
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Commission Européenne Représentation au Luxembourg
Ongoing
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2021/04/05 - 2023/04/04 | Remembering the Past, Learning for the Future: Research-Based Digital Learning from Testimonies of Survivors and Rescuers
of the Holocaust in Portugal
ID-740639658
UIDB/00114/2020 and UIDP/00114/2020
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2011 - 2015 | Censura e mecanismos de controlo da informação no Teatro e no Cinema. Antes, durante e após o Estado Novo
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Informação e Cultura Digital Pólo FCSHNOVA, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2020 - Current | Intercultural Literature in Portugal, 1930-2000: A Critical Bibliography
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Portugal |
Ongoing
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2012 - Current | Intercultural Literature in Portugal, 1930-2000: A Critical Bibliography
UIDB/00114/2020
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Portugal |
Ongoing
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2019 - 2021 | IndirecTrans 3: Indirect translation and sustainable development
Researcher
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal |
Ongoing
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2015 - 2018 | IndirecTrans 2: Centres and Peripheries
Researcher
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal |
Concluded
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2009 - 2018 | English-Language Literature and Censorship, 1945—1989
Szombathely/2009
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
Nyugat Magyarorszagi Egyetem Savaria Egyetemi Kozpont, Hungary Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, Hungary Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem Angol-Amerikai Intezet, Hungary Pécsi Tudományegyetem Bölcseszettudomanyi Kar, Hungary Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Hungary |
Concluded
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2013 - 2014 | IndirecTrans 1: Indirect Translations of English Literature Published in Portugal (1901-1950)
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
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Concluded
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2012 - 2014 | ETC Estudos de Tradução à Conversa/ETC Monthly Talks on Translation and Interpreting Studies
UIDB/00114/2020
UIDP/00114/2020
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2002 - 2003 | Érdy-kódex internetes kritikai kiadása” [Digital Edition of Érdy Codex]
Erdy-kodex
Other
Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem Bolcseszettudomanyi Kar, Hungary
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference abstract |
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Conference paper |
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Encyclopedia entry |
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Journal article |
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Online resource |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Website |
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Other
Dataset |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/01/09 | Ageless Voices: Survivor Testimonies in the Digital Era | International Symposium: Within and Without: Representations of Ageing
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/06/22 | Holocaust Education in Portugal: New Avenues and Approaches | Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English Dislocations: The Shifting Thematics of Home
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/04/26 | The Reception of Hungarian Exile Authors in State Socialist Hungary and Estado Novo Portugal | Congress Banned Images. Exile, Repression and Censorship in Artistic Creation in the Iberian Space 20th and 21st Centuries
Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid, Spain)
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2022/10/13 | Subversion or Perversion: Reader’s Reports on English-Language Literature with Homosexual Content in State-Socialist Hungary | Conference Version Subversion II: The Canon Reloaded? Translation and Its Discontents
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2022/05/17 | Aging and Holocaust Education | International Symposioum on Aging Within Without
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2021/04/12 | Forbidden (Homo)sexual Images in Translated Literature in Estado Novo Portugal and State-Socialist Hungary | Imagens proibidas, Cinema e literatura no espaço ibérico - séculos XX e XXI
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2019/06/06 | Wartime Censorship in Estado Novo Portugal | 40th APEAA Conference
Universidade do Porto (Oporto, Portugal)
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2019/05/08 | The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Estado Novo Portugal and in State Socialist Hungary | From Espelho Inicial (First Mirror, 1960) to Estranhezas (Prodigies, 2018)
Universidade de Liboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/11/23 | Spanish Civil War Books in Translation in Estado Novo Portugal and in State Socialist Hungary | III Simposio en Traducción Literaria y la Iberia Contemporánea. Traducción, Poder y Política
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/11/06 | Literature in English and Its Women Readers in Estado Novo Portugal and State-Socialist Hungary | 1818-2018 – The Silent Revolution: of Fears, Folly & the Female
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/10/12 | Anglophone Literatures and Literacy Education in Estado Novo Portugal and State-Socialist Hungary | International Conference on Translation & Literacy
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/06/27 | Queer Short Stories in Estado Novo Portugal and State-Socialist Hungary | The 15th International Conference on the Short Story in English
School of Arts and HUmanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/06/01 | Uncensored Queer-Themed Short Stories in Estado Novo Portugal and Socialist-State Hungary | Conference Queering Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies
Universidade do Porto (Oporto, Portugal)
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2018/04/26 | Personalised Histories Censored in Estado Novo Portugal and Socialist Hungary | 39th APEAA Conference
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
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2017/07/20 | The Fear of War: Censorship in Estado Novo Portugal during Wartime | Translating Fear
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2017/06/17 | Exile Hungarian Literature Censored in State-Socialist Hungary | Conflict and/or (Be)longing: Thinking with Stories and Images
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2017/05/05 | Queer Literary Texts and Censorship in Estado Novo Portugal and State Socialist Hungary between 1949 and 1974 | Queering Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies
University of Birmingham (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
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2016/08/23 | Spanish Civil War Books in Estado Novo Portugal and Communist Hungary between 1949 and 1974 | ESSE 13
National University of Ireland Galway (Galway, Ireland)
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2016/05/19 | Censored Knowledge: Anglophone Literatures in Portuguese and Hungarian Textbooks | Under Control. Childhood and 20th Century Dictatorships (1917-1991)
University of Warwick (Warwick, United Kingdom)
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2016/03/21 | The Reception of British Classics in Hungary and Portugal between 1949 and 1974 | 37th APEAA Meeting, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015/12/19 | The Taste of the Forbidden Fruit: Translation Anthologies of Formerly Prohibited Literature (1975-1980) | Concluding Conference of the Research Project CC/ST - Contar um Conto/StoryTelling
University of Birmingham (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
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2015/10/30 | English-Language Literature Censored in Estado Novo Portugal | International Colloquium: “Creativity, Political Repression and Censorship in the Iberian and Ibero-American Contexts
Saramago Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015/10/22 | The Absence of Revolution: Theatre Translations in Estado Novo Portugal, 1946-1955 | Translation & Revolution
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015/03/28 | Literary Censorship and Homosexuality in Kádár-Regime Hungary and Estado Novo Portugal | Queering Translation
Centre for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
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2014/07/10 | Theatre Translations Censored in Portugal (1929-1945) | 50 Years that Changed the World - Translation in the 1st Half of the 20th Century
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2013/06/10 | Direct versus Indirect Translations in Literary Exchange between Portugal and Hungary | JET1: Voice in Indirect Translation
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2013/04/24 | Reliving the Past in Contemporary Hungary | Images of Terror, Narratives of (In)security: Literary, Artistic and Cultural Responses
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2012/12/07 | The Frightful Stage and Theatre Translations in Salazar’s Portugal | IV Seminário Internacional Media, Jornalismo e Democracia - Homenagem a Nelson Traquina
NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2012/10/21 | Teaching English-Language Literature in Hungary before and after Khrushchev’s Thaw | 'Reformas educativas e políticas linguísticas para o ensino das línguas estrangeiras: do século XIX ao século XXI' APHELLE
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2010/10/01 | Bowdlerised Shakespeare Productions in Hungary and Portugal | Art Made Tongue-Tied by Authority: Theatre Censorship around the World
Royal Irish Academy (Dublin, Ireland)
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2010/06/14 | Censorship and the Reception of English-Language Authors in Hungary between 1945 and 1989 | Cultural Institutions and Literary Reception in Europe
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS) School of Advanced Study, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
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2010/05/06 | Translation Anthologies and British Literature in Portugal and Hungary between 1949 and 1974 | 6th Conference on Translation Studies in Portugal International Conference on Translation in 19th- and 20th- century Anthologies
and Collections
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2009/10/12 | Censorship in Hungary | Conference on Rehistoricising Joyce: Resistance & Surrender
University of West Hungary (Szombathely, Hungary)
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2009/10/12 | Literature and Censorship, 1945-1989. Round Table Conversation | Conference on Rehistoricising Joyce: Resistance & Surrender
University of West Hungary (Szombathely, Hungary)
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2009/01/22 | British Literature in Hungary and Portugal from 1949 to 1974 | 9th, International Conference of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE-9)
University of Pécs (Pécs, Hungary)
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2009 | Brit költészet Magyarországon és Portugáliában 1949 és 1974 között | Idegen költok – Örök barátaink, Európai irodalom a magyar kulturális emlékezetben
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)
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2008/10/08 | Hungarian Literature Education and Literary Theories from 1979 to the Present Day | VI Congresso APLC / X Colóquio de Outono
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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2008/08/25 | British Books in Hungary and Portugal from 1945 to 1974 | ESSE-9 Conference
Aarhus University (Århus, Denmark)
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2008/08/23 | Reception of English Authors in Portugal and in Hungary | ESSE-9 Conference
Aarhus University (Århus, Denmark)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2023/02 - 2023/09 | A tradução dos discursos de Salazar para língua inglesa: Um contributo para a história da tradução no século XX em Portugal
Co-supervisor of Isabel Augusta Chumbo
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PhD in Translation Studies (PhD)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2016 - 2016 | Workshop “Lisbon Hub- the Wikipedia Translation Studies Editathon”(European Society for Translation Studies & Centro de Estudos
Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa). Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/TranslationStudiesMeetUp#Attending_in_person_in_Lisbon_(session_taking_place_between_11_a.m._and_4_p.m._(WET))
(2016 - 2016)
Workshop (Other)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
2013/01/07 - 2013/11/15 | International Conference on Theatre and Cinema Censorship, 13-15 November, 2013. (2013/11/13 - 2013/11/15)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2013/09/24 - 2013/09/25 | Conference Schleiermacher, 7th Colloquium on Translation Studies in Portugal, 24-25 October, 2013. http://www.etc.ulices.org/Schleiermacher.2013/Welcome.html
(2013/09/24 - 2013/09/25)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Portugal |
2013/06/10 - 2013/06/11 | JET1: Voice in Indirect Translation (CEAUL), Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 10-11 June, 2013. http://www.etc.ulices.org/jet/JET1-Archives.html (2013/06/10 - 2013/06/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2023/05/09 | A memória coletiva do Holocausto na União Europeia do século XXI within the MA program in European Studies
(Thesis) Arguer
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Jorge Ricardo Martins Trigo (Master)
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2023/05 - Current | Memoshoá- Associação Memória e Ensino do Holocausto | |
2022/03 - Current | Translation History Network | |
2015 - Current | Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (APEAA) | |
2015 - Current | Member of the The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) | |
2012 - Current | Associação Portuguesa para a História do Ensino das Línguas e Literaturas Estrangeiras (APHELLE) | |
2009 - 2012 | Hungarian James Joyce Society |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/06/01 - Current | Secretary on the Executive Board of the Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2024/01/16 - 2024/06/27 | APEAA Conference 2024: Transitions: Freedom & Conflicts | CEAUL/ULICES |
2024/01/25 - 2024/01/26 | New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies VII | NOVA FCSH |
2023/06/22 - 2023/06/23 | Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English - (Dis)locations: the Shifting Thematics of Home | Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa |
2023/02/16 - 2023/02/17 | New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies VI | NOVA FCSH |
2013/01/07 - 2013/11/15 | International Conference on Theatre and Cinema Censorship, 13-15 November, 2013. | NOVA FCSH |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2020/10 - 2024/05 | History and Theory of Translation | História e Teoria de Tradução (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
2020/02 - 2020/05 | Research Seminar (Translation Studies) II | Seminário de Investigação II (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
2019/09 - 2019/12 | English, Threshold Level (B1.1) | Inglês Limiar B1.1 (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
2018/09 - 2019/05 | English, Strong Threshold Level (B1.2) | (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
2014/07 - 2014/07 | ESC – English Summer Courses: Workshop ESC#26 "Bibliographical Sources in Translation History: What are They (Good For)?” (with Hanna Pieta, coord., Rita Bueno Maia and Marta Pacheco Pinto) ESC - English Summer Courses. (CEAUL), Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa. http://www.ulices.org/past-events/esc-26-workshop-qbibliographical-sources-in-translation-history-what-are-they-and-what-are-they-good-forq.html | ESC English Summer Courses: Workshop ESC#26 Bibliographical Sources in Translation History: What are They (Good For)? (Outros) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2022/06 - 2022/08 | External Examiner for the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
Evaluator
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European Research Council, Belgium |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2023/03 - 2023/06 | Mentoring and supervising an Erasmus Plus student | Sára Schóber |
2018/09 - 2019/03 | Mentoring and supervising an Erasmus Plus student | Júlia Réka Kiss |
2018/03 - 2018/05 | Mentoring and supervising an Erasmus Plus student | Brigitta Cser |
2017/09 - 2018/03 | Mentoring and supervising an Erasmus Plus student | Adél Szekeres |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2021 - 2022 | Member of the PhD Grant Committee: The individual fellowship financed by FCT under the Collaboration Protocol for the Financing of the Multiannual Plan for Research Fellowships for PhD Students, signed between FCT and the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (CEAUL/ULICES) R&D, UI / 00114/2020 |