Sara Graça da Silva (C31B-017A-CE5B)

Curriculum Vitae

Sara Graça da Silva

Sara Graça da Silva. Completed the Licenciatura in Ensino de Português Inglês in 2002 (Universidade de Aveiro); Master in Victorian Literature and Culture in 2004 (Keele University, UK); Doctor of Philosophy in Victorian Studies in 2008 (Keele University, UK). Is, since 2019, Appointed Researcher (contract) at NOVA FCSH, after 6 years as a Postdoctoral Fellow (IELT, NOVA FCSH). Integrated at CETAPS since 2024. RESEARCH INTERESTS Area of specialization The nineteenth century, especially the interrelations between Victorian literature, science and art; Evolutionary theories of sexuality; Gender studies, in particular masculinity; Human evolution and adaptation; Darwinism; Actual interests Intersections between literature, culture and science; Application of phylogenetic methodologies to cross-cultural data; Utopian studies; Folktale studies; Evolutionary readings of literature; Morality; Emotion; biosignals and experimental approaches to literature. PI of the Portuguese Team in the H2020 project VAST - Values across Time and Space (2020-2023).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Sara Graça da Silva

Citation names

Graça da Silva, Sara

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: C31B-017A-CE5B
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4380-846X

Email addresses

saragsilva@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Addresses

NOVA FCSH, Colégio Almada Negreiros CAN, room 112 Campus de Campolide, , 1070-312, , Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

www.saragsilva.org (Professional)
www.emo-labs.com (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Languages and Literatures

Languages

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

Education

	Degree	Classification
2010 - 2010 Concluded	Advanced Pratical Course on Phylogenetics (Outros) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal	Completed
2010 - 2010 Concluded	Advanced Pratical Course on Phylogeography (Outros) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal	Completed
2004 - 2008 Concluded	Victorian Studies (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science Keele University, United Kingdom "Sexual Plots in Charles Darwin and George Eliot: evolution and manliness in Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss’." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	very minor corrections
2003 - 2004 Concluded	Victorian Literature and Culture (Master) Major in Victorian Literature and Culture Keele University, United Kingdom "Masculinity and Darwin’s Sexual Selection in George Eliot’s Middlemarch" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very good
1998 - 2002 Concluded	Teaching of Portuguese and English (Licenciatura) Major in Teaching of Portuguese and English Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	Teaching Training: 17/ Final: 16
1995 - 1997 Concluded	Humanities Group 4 (Ensino secundário) Major in Humanities Secondary School Nº 1 Aveiro, Portugal	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2013 - 2018	Postdoc (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/02 - Current	Appointed Researcher (contract)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/10/01 - 2018/10/31	Visiting Researcher	City University of New York, United States
	City University of New York, United States
2013 - 2018	Visiting Researcher (1 to 3 months per year, anually)	Durham University Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
	Durham University Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2013 - 2018	Visiting Researcher (1 to 3 months per year, annually)	Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Germany
	Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Germany
2015/05 - 2015/06	Visiting Researcher	Georg August Universität Göttingen CeMIS, Germany
	The Archives for European Folktales, Enzyklopädie des Märchens, Germany
2013/01 - 2013/02	Visiting Researcher	Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
2008 - 2012	Researcher	Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, University of Porto, Faculty of Letters, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2024 - Current	“Science, Literature and the Media” strand https://www.cetaps.com/ Research Fellow Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal	Ongoing
2013 - Current	Morality and Emotion: (Un)conscious Journey to Being - Annual International Colloquium (since 2013 -6 editions so far) - Principal investigator Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/12/01 - 2023/11/30	VAST: Values across Space and Time H2020 101004949 Invited Scientist Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	Horizon 2020 Ongoing
2022 - 2022	(Un)Desirable - Invited Scientist Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Not funded
2013/01/01 - 2018	COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MORAL EXPRESSION PATTERNS IN PORTUGUESE AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN FOLKTALE TRADITION: AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH2%FBPD2%F904332%F2012/PT Post-doc Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2020 - 2020	Bones Digital Footprint: Insights from Scientometrics and Social Media Analysis (ERC Consolidator Proposal) - Consultant Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31	Projecto Estratégico - UI 4097 - 2011-2012 PEst-OE/ELT/UI4097/2011 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2019 - Current	EMOLABS www.emo-labs.com - Principal investigator Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	Ongoing
2019 - Current	Street Emotions - Photography Exhibition about emotions comparing NY/Lisbon (on hold due to the pandemic situation). Principal investigator Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal	Ongoing
2018 - Current	Research Group "Spatialities of literature, arts and culture", at IELT - Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal	Ongoing
2016 - Current	Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition's Editorial Team - Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2016 - Current	Cycle of edited volume editions on the topic of Morality and Emotion (Routledge/Palgrave) - Other Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	Ongoing
2015 - Current	Interdisciplinary Reading Group "Evolution Across Disciplines" - Principal investigator Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal	Ongoing
2017 - 2017	Participation in the project "Folktales: Stories without Time" for the MA Course in Science Communication - Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	Concluded
2008 - 2012	Mapping Dreams: British and North-American Utopianism - Research Fellow Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Graça da Silva, Sara; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Neves, Márcia Seabra; Ana Paiva Morais. Returning to Animality. Lisbon, Portugal: IELT. 2024. Published • Editor
Book chapter	Graça da Silva, Sara. ""You stink! Smell and moralization of the other" - published". In The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves, edited by C31B-017A-CE5B; Ana Falcato, 147-163. United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021. Accepted Graça da Silva, Sara. "Morality and Emotion or why this is a very complicated case. You know, a lot of ins, a lot of outs, a lot of what-have-you’s". In New Interdisciplinary Landscapes in morality and emotion, edited by Graça da Silva, Sara. London and New York, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018. Published Graça da Silva, Sara. "Morality and Emotion or well, that's another fine mess you got me into". In Morality and Emotion, edited by Graça Da Silva, Sara. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2016. Published Graça da Silva, Sara. "The Law of Sexual Selection in Edward Bulwer Lytton's The Coming Race (1871): Gendering Utopia¿,". In (Dis)entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on the Man and his Legacy,, edited by Graça Da Silva, Sara; Fátima Vieira. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publising, 2012. Published Graça da Silva, Sara. "Altos e Baixos da Ciência Experimental no Século XIX: Frenologia, Género e Moralização do Carácter em George Eliot". In Ciência e cultura : ficcionalizações da ciência na Grã-Bretanha (séculos XIX e XX), edited by Filipe Furtado; Gabriela gÂNDARA tERENAS. Lisboa, Portugal: Caleidoscópio, 2012. Published Graça da Silva, Sara; Vieira, Fátima; Silva, Jorge Bastos da. "Introduction: Darwin our Contemporary". In (Dis)Entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on the Man and his Legacy, edited by Graça da Silva, Sara; Vieira, Fátima; Silva, Jorge Bastos da, 1-10. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars, 2012. Published
Dictionary entry	Graça da Silva, Sara. "Chatto and Windus; Frederick and Hall; Robert Chambers; ‘John Murray". London: Academia Press and British Library,, 2009. Graça da Silva, Sara. "Darwin". edited by Alex Warwick; Martin Wilils. Continuum, 2008. Published
Edited book	Graça da Silva, Sara. The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves - published. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. Published • Editor Graça da Silva, Sara. New Interdisciplinary Landscapes in Morality and Emotion. London: Routledge. 2018. Published • Editor Graça Da Silva, Sara. Morality and Emotion. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2016. 10.4324/9781315651040 Graça da Silva, Sara. (Dis)entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on the Man and his Legacy,. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2012. Published • Editor
Exhibition catalog	Graça da Silva, Sara. "Real Brushstrokes of imagination", in Oliveira, Leonor C. S. R. e. A.; Alfaro, Catarina. eds. Paula Rego: Contos tradicionais e contos de fadas ed. 1. Cascais: Fundação D. Luís I, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, 2018.
Journal article	M.Besher Massri; Inna Novalija; Dunja Mladenic; Janez Brank; Sara Graça da Silva; Natasza Marrouch; Carla Murteira; Ali Hürriyetoglu; Beno Šircelj. "Harvesting Context and Mining Emotions Related to Olfactory Cultural Heritage". Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/6/7/57. 10.3390/mti6070057 Bortolini E; Pagani L; Crema ER; Sarno S; Barbieri C; Boattini A; Sazzini M; et al. "Inferring patterns of folktale diffusion using genomic data.". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28784786. 10.1073/pnas.1614395114 Graça da Silva, S.; Tehrani, J.J.. "Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales". Royal Society Open Science 3 1 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84958073598&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1098/rsos.150645 Graça da Silva, Sara. "Utopia e Espiritualidade". Utopian Studies Journal, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press 21 2 (2010): 381-385. Published Graça da Silva, Sara. "A Árvore de Darwin, Evolução Cultural e o Predicamento Humano: Novas Tendências em Antropologia". Colecção Ciências, Tecnologias e Imaginários, Estudos de História – séculos XVIII-XX, (2010): 21-27. Published
Newspaper article	Graça da Silva, Sara. "A investigação tem de ser indisciplinada /Research has to be undisciplined",", Público, 2019, https://www.publico.pt/2019/02/06/ciencia/opiniao/investigacao-indisciplinada-1860848.
Online resource	Graça da Silva, Sara. Vast Annotation Methodology - Narratives. 2024. https://www.vast-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/VAST-annotation-methodology-text.pdf.
Thesis / Dissertation	Graça da Silva, Sara. "Sexual Plots in Charles Darwin and George Eliot: Evolution and Manliness in Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss'". PhD, Keele University, 2008.
Working paper	Graça da Silva, Sara. 2025. "Frog Kings and Other more Ordinary Frogs: why there is nothing heartless about being cold-blooded". Graça da Silva, Sara; Jesse Prinz. 2025. "Pull Yourself Together: Identity, Emotions, and Enhancement" (working paper)".

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/07/21	Grotesque elegance in Paula Rego’s fairy-tales.	International Society for Folk Narrative Research Conference 2022 University of Arts, London (London, United Kingdom)
2022/05/26	Invited to give the opening talk at the conference "Da Letra às Letras" ( May 26, 27 and 28), to expand on the role of traditional tales in society.	Da letra às letras
2019	‘Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore'	Morality and Emotion: (Un)conscious Journey to Being VI NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/06/09	Mulheres malvadas e violência familiar no conto tradicional, FCSH-NOVA, Portugal.	Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017	Morality and Emotion or why “this is a very complicated case. You know, a lot of ins, a lot of outs, a lot of what-have-you’s”	Morality and Emotion Nova University (Lisbon)
2016/04/18	"Curiously parallel”: storytelling and phylogenetics https://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt//outreach/press&events/ver.php?id=593	Darwin’s Legacy Tea Party Faculdade de Ciências Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/10/13	Comparative phylogenetic methods reveal an ancient origin for traditional Indo-European folktales	THEO MURPHY INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING Royal Society “Evolutionary Analysis beyond the Gene". (Chicheley Hall, United Kingdom)
2013/06/07	Once upon a time, and a space: Building interdisciplinary and international research collaborations across the humanities, social sciences and sciences	Keele University, Uk (Keele, United Kingdom)
2013	"Phylogenetic Study of Folktales	Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. (Berlim, Germany)
2013	The evolution of Foltakes	Durham University Anthropology Department (Durham, United Kingdom)
2013	"Seeing is Believing: The power of image in 19th century Science"	Artes e Ciências em Diálogo Universidade do Algarve (Algarve, Portugal)
2013	Alfred Russel Wallace: a homage	Ficcionalizações da Ciência na Grã-Bretanha III NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012	Frog Kings and Other more Ordinary Frogs: why there is nothing heartless about being cold-blooded	The Grimm Brothers Today Kinder- und Hausmärchen and Its Legacy, 200 Years Afte NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012	Highs and Lows of Experimental Science in the 19th Century: phrenology, gender and character moralisation in George Eliot.	Science FictionalizationS in Great Britain II NOVA university (Lisbon, Portugal)
2010	Phylogenetic Analyses and New trends in Cultural and Evolutionary Anthropology	“Life sciences, technologies and Imaginaries” University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2010	Charles Darwin and the Expression of Emotions	IEC IEC Mamarrosa (Aveiro, Portugal)
2009	The Law of Sexual Selection in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1871): Gendering Utopia	University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2009	Undermining the Masculine Self in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss: Tom Tulliver and the Darwinian Inheritance”	APEAA 30th Annual Conference “Self, Memory and Expression" Porto University (Porto, Portugal)
2009	Darwin and Cultural Evolution	Darwin, the Engineer INESC, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, University of Porto, (Porto, Portugal)
2008	Performing Emotion: Masculine Subjectivity in Charles Darwin and George Eliot”,	forming Emotion: Masculine Subjectivity in Charles Darwin and George Eliot”, The British Association for Victorian Studies Ninth Annual Conference: “Victorian Feeling: Touch, Bodies, Emotions” Leicester University (Leicester, United Kingdom)
2007	Male Fatigue as the End of Fiction in George Eliot’s Novels	Victorian Masculinities Conference Birmingham and Keele Universities (Birmingham and Keele, United Kingdom)
2007	Human and Animal Emotion in George Eliot and Charles Darwin: Implications for the Construction of Masculine (Im)balance	Keele University (Keele, United Kingdom)
2007	Charles Darwin’s Sexual Selection and Dual Plots in Daniel Deronda: Masculine and Feminine (Un)conscious Performance	Bristol University (Bristol, United Kingdom)
2006	Phrenology and Sexual Selection	Electrifying Experimentation: Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain Sheffield University (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
2004	Charles Darwin and George Eliot on the Monstrous	Keele University (Keele, United Kingdom)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/12/01 - 2023/11/30	Since December 2020, I¿m the PI of the Portuguese team of the H2020 project VAST Values across time and space, supervising 4 postdocs, 2 master students and one doctoral student. Our team employs an interdisciplinary approach to the study of European Folktales, crossing literary studies with experimental psychology and digital humanities. Supervisor

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2019 - Current	Annual organisation, since 2013, of the international colloquium ‘Morality and Emotion'. It brings together top researchers to discuss interdisciplinary views on emotion and morality. 2013 - https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion/ 2014 - https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion-ii/ 2015 - https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion-iii/ 2016 - https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion-iv/ 2017 - https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion-unconscious-journey-to-being/ 2019- https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/morality-and-emotion-vi (2013) Conference	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
2019 - Current	Street Emotions - Photography Exhibition on emotions comparing NY/Lisbon contexts. I spent October 2018 in NY working n the themes of emotion and morality at CUNY and decided to organise a photo exhibition entitled "Street Emotions". The question I asked people was simple yet deep: "How do you feel?". The replies were telling and addictive. Some prototypes can be access here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/LLMUB2AUFrUuRRbf8 The objective is to give the same attention to image and text. The project is looking for funding for framing and print. (2019) Exhibition	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
2009 - Current	‘(Dis)Entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on the Man and His Legacy‘ (2009) Conference (Co-organisor)	Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2022/10/26 - 2022/10/28	International conference "Return to animality: theoretical perspectives; cultural approaches and artistic manifestations" , NOVA FCSH (organising and scientific committee) (2022/10/26 - 2022/10/28) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2021/11/24 - Current	H2020 VAST Project Advisory Board Meeting Meeting	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/07/20 - 2032/07/23	Presentation of the paper "Grotesque elegance in Paula Rego’s fairy-tales" , exploring Paula Rego’s work and the subversive potential of tales by focusing on the opposing worlds, sensations and representations she pursues are superbly constructs in unsettling, crude portrayals that ultimately reveal the masks of humanity in their fragile, raw and beautiful ugliness. Conference
2024 - 2025	Lecture Series part of the Diploma Program on Fairy Tales from a Jungian Perspective, of the Fundación de Psicología Analítica Junguiana (FPAJ Pers. Jud. 350A/14), Argentina Seminar	Lecture Series on Fairy Tales
2020/12/01 - 2023/11/30	2020 to present: Participation in H2020 VAST Project monthly plenary meetings as well as specific work package meetings, being the representative of NOVA team as the PI of the Portuguese Team. Meeting
2017 - 2017	Participation in the MA in Science Communication at NOVA FCSH. My research was chosen for the students' course project "Folktales: stories without time", and resulted in the creation of a website https://betafcsh.wordpress.com/ Other	Folktales stories without time Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2009 - 2009	Guide to the Darwin Exhibition ‘Evolution and Biodiversity", during the celebrations of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species (1859". Exhibition	Darwin Exhibition ‘Evolution and Biodiversity" Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2021 - Current	English Translator of the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition's biweekly Newsletter	Translator

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2020 - Current	Invited Research member to the H2020 call project submisison DT-TRANSFORMATIONS VAST: Values across Space and Time. Funded project (start date Dec 2020) Member	Institouto Plerophorikes kai Telepikoinonion, Greece
2016 - Current	Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition's Editorial Team. IELT's editorial activity is developed along three lines: a) Individual works of national and foreign researchers on topics within the scope of the project IELT's strategic plan; b) Collective works ; c) Works of dissemination. I am part of the team since its inception (2016). Member	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2014 - Current	We are the Folk	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Facudalde de Ciências sociais e Humanas
2012 - Current	Grimm in Lisbon	NOVA FCSH LISBON

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2020 - 2020	Invited consultant in the ERC Consolidator project proposal submission "Bones Digital Footprint: Insights from Scientometrics and Social Media Analysis" , for participation in the study of emotions in the context of Human Osteology. P.I. Francisca Alves Cardoso (CRIA, NOVA FCSH).	Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/10 - Current	Summer School Proposal "Mirror, Mirror on the Screen»: Retelling Fairy Tales with Biosignals and New Media Arts". Composed of researchers, multimedia artists, psychologists and engineers, this initiative of the Institute on the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT) is part of VAST_Values ¿¿Across Space and Time, a European project combining Literary Studies, Digital Humanities and Experimental Psychology.
2022/03/16 - Current	Optional curricular Unit proposal"Morality and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" . Akin to the submission of the previous year, this course will engage in a multidisciplinary voyage through historical, literary, philosophical, sociological, artistic, anthropological and biological debates concerning this relationship, challenging self-containing disciplinary views on the nature and importance of this symbiosis. Aimed at Master's students.	(Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021 - Current	Invited to teach a session of a summer course "The narrative phenomenon: multidisciplinary views", at NOVA FCSH . My session will be entitled "Curiously parallel: literature, evolution and phylogenetics".	The narrative phenomenon: multidisciplinary views	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021 - Current	Optional curricular Unit proposal"Morality and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" Understanding morality and emotion has occupied scholars since the days of Plato and Aristotle, and this study has become increasingly interdisciplinary over the past few decades. This course will engage in a multidisciplinary voyage through historical, literary, philosophical, sociological, artistic, anthropological and biological debates concerning this relationship, challenging self-containing disciplinary views on the nature and importance of this symbiosis.	(Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2016 - Current	Member of the jury for the Atlas scholarship. https://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/Projetos/atlas-das-paisagens-literarias-de-portugal-continental/ Evaluator	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição
2020 - 2021/02	President of the jury for selection of 4 postdoctoral researchers to work on the Horizon 2020 Project VAST - VALUES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE Other	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	Horizon 2020

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2017	National Geographic Magazine piece on folktake ancestry.	National Geographic Magazine
2017	New York Times. Help with a story about the evolution of myths and folktales.	New York Times
2016	Expresso Newspaper. interview about my article on folktale ancestry published in Royal Society Open Science	EXPRESSO
2016	The Guardian. Interview about the findings of my article on folktale ancestry published in Royal Society Open science.	The Guardian
2016	Globo Newspaper, Brazil. Interview about the findings of my article on folktale ancestry published in Royal Society Open science.	GLOBO, Brazil
2016	The Telegraph. Discussion of the findings on folktale ancestry published in the Royal Society Open Science article.	The Telegraph

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2020/05 - Current	Invited Speaker to the Science Youtube Podcast Programme "The Dissenter".	Human Cultural Evolution; Study of Emotion and Morality
2020 - Current	RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse, Daily science show CQFD	The Evolution of Folktales
2016 - Current	BBC Radio 4. Interview about the findings of my article on folktale ancestry published in Royal Society Open science.	Folktale ancesntry
2014/10/13 - Current	Ciência 2, Antena 2	Morality and Emotion

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2020 - Current	Peer-Reviewer for the journal PLOS-ONE regarding the article "Phylogenetic analysis of homeland and time depth of Sino-Tibetan language family".	PLOS-ONE, United States
2018 - Current	Invited to peer-review the article "Cultural additivity” and how the values and norms of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism co-exist, interact, and influence Vietnamese society: A Bayesian analysis of long-standing folktales, using R and Stan"	Religions Journal, Switzerland
2017 - Current	Peer-Reviewer of the article “Dualities, Crossings and Convergences: Contemporary Art and Popular Cultures"	MEMORIAMEDIA Journal, Portugal
2014 - Current	Peer-Reviewer of the article "Oral Fairy Tale or Literary Fake? Investigating the Origins of Little Red Riding Hood Using Phylogenetic Network Analysis"	The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities , United Kingdom

Distinctions

Award

2014	Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting Travel award Royal Society, United Kingdom
2010	Visiting Travel Award Durham's University Anthropology Department Durham University, United Kingdom
2005	Research Institute Grant by Keele University Humanities Department Keele University, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2018	Visiting Researcher grant to conduct research at the City University of New York Graduate Centre (October 2018) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2013	Postdoctoral Scholarship (6 years) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2002	4 years PhD scholarship by ‘Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia’, FCT. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal