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Tânia Cerqueira is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. Her thesis, financed by National Funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. (2021.04547.BD), explores the relationship between the Gothic tradition and young adult dystopian fiction. She collaborates at the Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) and is an Executive Board member of the Young Adult Studies Association (YASA). Her main research interests include young adult fiction, dystopian narratives, Gothic literature and culture, and posthumanism.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Tânia Cerqueira

Citation names

  • Cerqueira, Tânia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
CB1E-3FEB-E21F
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1396-0353

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)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/09 - 2024
Ongoing
 Estudos Literários, Culturais e Interartísticos (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016/09 - 2019/10/07
Concluded
 Estudos Anglo-Americanos (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
""Are you afraid of your own shadow?": O Monstro e a Construção da Identidade em Monsters of Verity" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2018/06/18 - 2018/06/30
Concluded
 Intensive Erasmus+ Programme "New Faces, Facing Europe in Crisis: Shakespeare's World and Present Challenges" (Outros)
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France
2011/09 - 2014/06/30
Concluded
 Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas (Licenciatura)
Major in Monodisciplinar Inglês
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/06 - 2018/06 Research Trainee (Research) Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02 - Current Colaboradora Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2020/07 - 2020/10 Apoio Executivo Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
(...)
2019/06/01 - 2020/05/14 Apoio Executivo Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
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Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Cerqueira, Tânia. ""In the woods the Tox is still wild": The EcoGothic in Rory Power’s Wilder Girls". In Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities, edited by Heather Alberro; Emrah Atasoy; Nora Castle; Rhiannon Firth; Conrad Scott. Routledge, 2024.
    In press
  2. Cerqueira, Tânia. ""The school has to be fed somehow": Schoolhouse Gothic in The Scholomance Trilogy". Jadavpur, India: Jadavpur University Press, 2024.
    Submitted
  3. Cerqueira, Tânia. ""O R, R! Wherefore art thou Zombie?": Death, Posthumanism and the Self in Warm Bodies (2013)". In Reading the Past, Understading the Future, 107-128. Kraków, Poland: Jagiellonian University Press, 2021.
    Published
Book review
  1. Cerqueira, Tânia. "Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, ed., The Monster Theory Reader". Review of The Monster Theory Reader 10-11 (2022): 113-117.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Moreira, Luciano; Benison, Liam; Pierazzo, Jaqueline; Cerqueira, Tânia; Gonçalves, Alice; Caetano, Joana; Isabel Relvas. Corresponding author: Moreira, Luciano. "The making of a sustainable digital humanities lab: A values-oriented approach". Paper presented in Arts and Humanities in Digital Transition 2023, Lisboa, 2023.
    Published
  2. Cerqueira, Tânia. "“Off With their Heads”: The Subversion of the Female Role in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland". Paper presented in IJUP'18 - Encontro de Investigação Jovem U.Porto, Porto, 2018.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Cerqueira, Tânia. ""I live in a world where shadows have teeth": Gothic Visions in Young Adult Dystopian Literature". Paper presented in Conferência Europeia das Humanidades, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Cerqueira, Tânia. "“Even’s nightmare was just beginning…”: Lost in Random and the Gothic Tradition". [sic] - a journal of literature, culture and literary translation 13 3 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/sic/3.13.lc.2.
    Open access • Published • 10.15291/sic/3.13.lc.2
  2. Cerqueira, Tânia. "Pandemics in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction: Rethinking the (Post)Human". SFRA Review 51 2 (2021): 191-198. https://sfrareview.org/2021/04/22/pandemics-in-young-adult-dystopian-fiction-rethinking-the-posthuman/.
    Open access • Published
  3. Tânia Cerqueira. "“Scent blood, fangs drop”: Undead Memory na trilogia Darkness Before Dawn de J. A. London". Anglo Saxonica 18 1 (2020): https://doi.org/10.5334/as.30.
    Open access • Published • 10.5334/as.30
  4. Cerqueira, Tânia. ""Are you afraid of your own shadow?": O Monstro e a Construção da Identidade em Monsters of Verity / "Are you afraid of your own shadow?”: The Monster and the Construction of Identity in Monsters of Verity". Op. Cit 8 (2019): 139-140.
    Open access • Published
  5. Cerqueira, Tânia. "Drowned Angels and Watery Graves: Representations of Female Suicide in Victorian Art". Via Panoramica: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos 7 1 (2018): 27-38.
    Open access • Published
Newsletter article
  1. Cerqueira, Tânia. ""Curiouser and Curiouser": Subvertendo Discursos no País das Maravilhas", Work in Progress... Newsletter de Jovens Investigadores em Estudos Anglo-Americanos em Portugal, 2018
Newspaper article
  1. Cerqueira, Tânia. "Young Adult Dystopias and Activism: Life Imitates Art", The official journal of the Transeuropa Festival, 2022, https://euroalter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/journal-transeuropa-2022.pdf.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Cerqueira, Tânia. ""Are you afraid of your own shadow?": O Monstro e a Construção da Identidade em Monsters of Verity". Master, 2019.
Translation
  1. Cerqueira, Tânia. Desce, Rocky!. StoryWeaver. 2021.
    Published
  2. Cerqueira, Tânia. A Rose e o Rocky Tornam-se Ecológicos. StoryWeaver. 2021.
    Published
  3. Cerqueira, Tânia. A Guerra da Rose e do Rocky Contra os Insetos. StoryWeaver. 2021.
    Published
  4. Cerqueira, Tânia. Gato Selvagem! Gato Selvagem!. StoryWeaver. 2020.
    Published
  5. Cerqueira, Tânia. Quem É O Nosso Amigo?. StoryWeaver. 2020.
    Published
  6. Cerqueira, Tânia. Os Óculos da Avó. StoryWeaver. 2020.
    Published
  7. Cerqueira, Tânia. Anda Cá, Gato!. StoryWeaver. 2020.
    Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/06/06 From Fiction to Reality: Igniting Social Change Through The Hunger Games Trilogy Care, Community, and Hope: Hybrid Children’s and YA Literature
Goldsmiths, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2024/05/18 Raparigas em Chamas: Distopias e Literatura para Jovens Adultos Simpósio Tempos de Utopia II: Perspetivas Teóricas
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2024/05/10 "36.28 percent not human": Exploring Posthuman Heroines in YA Dystopian Fiction SFRA 2024 | Transitions
University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia)
2023/10/21 Fragments of the Past: Gothicizing Textual Pieces in Video Games Games and Language Conference
Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen (Debrecen, Hungary)
2023/10/13 Amor Deliria Nervosa: The Erasure of Love in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction Relational Forms VIII: Love and Sex in Literature and the Arts since the 1960s
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/08/19 Disrupting the Disruption: Diverse Young Adult Dystopian Fiction Disruptive Imaginations - SFRA 2023
TU Dresden (Dresden, Germany)
2022/11/30 "When we heal our land, we are healed also": Indigenous Young Adult Dystopias and Interconnectedness Green Utopia Now! A Transdisciplinary Symposium on How to Deal with the Climate Crisis
University of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
2022/11/04 "When we heal our land, we are healed also": Diverse New Worlds in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (Brave) New Worlds Graduate Symposium
NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/10/22 May the Odds Be Ever in Everyone's Favour: Sparking Social Change in The Hunger Games Between Fiction and Society: Imagination and World Building in the Aftermath of a Global Pandemic
Iulm University (Milano, Italy)
2022/09/03 "Even’s nightmare was just beginning…": Lost in Random and the Gothic Tradition Video Games as a Common Ground
University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia)
2022/08/07 "The school has to be fed somehow": Schoolhouse Gothic in The Scholomance Trilogy Narratives of Criminality, Punishment & Social Justice in CYA Literature
Department of English, Jadavpur University & Association for Children's Literature in South Asia (Jadavpur, India)
2022/07/14 "If I let myself hope…": Memory and Hope in Donna Barba Higuera's The Last Cuentista 22nd Conference of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe - Opening Utopia: New Directions in Utopian Studies
University of Brighton (Brighton, United Kingdom)
2022/06/28 "Había una vez": Storytelling in Donna Barba Higuera's The Last Cuentista Futures From the Margins - Science Fiction Research Association 2022 Annual Conference
CoFutures (Oslo, Norway)
2022/04/01 "The woods are bad enough - I'd swear they want us for their own": The EcoGothic in Rory Power's Wilder Girls 42.º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/02/18 "Are you the Sh-shadowman?”: The Gothic Tradition in Lost in Random The Impact of Video Games on Culture and Education
NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities / CETAPS (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/12/11 "It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down": Small Acts of Rebellion and Empowerment in Young Adult Dystopias 21st Conference of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe - Utopian Possibilities: Knowledge, Happiness & Wellbeing
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/11/25 "In the woods the Tox is still wild": The EcoGothic in Rory Power's "Wider Girls" Messengers from the Stars: Episode VI
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/07/23 Rethinking the (Post)Human: Pandemics in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction Dark Economies: Anxious Futures, Fearful Pasts
Falmouth University (Cornwall, United Kingdom)
2021/06/18 ‘Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to show the Capitol they don't own me’: The Body as Commodity in The Hunger Games Trilogy Science Fiction Research Association 2021 Annual Conference
SFRA / Seneca College (Toronto, Canada)
2021/05/20 "I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking": Trauma in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins 41.º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2021/01/15 Pandemics in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction: Rethinking the (Post)Human Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics
Cappadocia University (Cappadocia, Turkey)
2020/11/06 May the body be ever in your favour: The Body as Currency in The Hunger Games Trilogy Relational Forms V: Capital and the Imagination: Literature, the Arts, and Modern Finance
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2020/01/17 “Scent blood, fangs drop”: Undead Memory na trilogia Darkness Before Dawn de J. A. London Jornadas de DELCI
DELCI / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/06 Cadaver Queens & Dark Descents: Rewritting Frankenstein to Young Adults 40.º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2018/08 Plain Janes & Cadaver Queens: Retelling Classic Gothic Novels to Young Adults Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches (International Gothic Conference)
Manchester Metropolitan University / Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2018/06/08 Apresentação das actividades comemorativas do bicentenário da publicação de Frankenstein Mary Shelley: Para Além do Monstro
CETAPS / University of Porto & Frankenreads (Porto, Portugal)
2018/04 "Where are You Kate?": Trauma in Victoria Schwab's Monsters of Verity 39.º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2018/03/13 Skeletons, Rag Dolls and Burlap Sacks: The Monster in Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas III Colóquio JRAAS - Dissecting the Human Body: Rethinking its Materiality, Sensibility and (Ab)Normality
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2018/02 "Off With their Heads": The Subversion of the Female Role in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland IJUP'18
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2017/11 Drowned Angels and Watery Graves: Representations of Female Suicide in Victorian Art II Colóquio JRAAS - Exploring the Inevitability of Death
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2017/05/23 Jonas, The Pathfinder: Finding Utopia in Forgotten Memories I Encontro de Estudos Anglo-Americanos JRAAS
CETAPS / University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/01/15 - 2024/11/22 Facing the Dream: On the 60th Anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (2024/11/22 - 2024/11/22)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2024/01/19 - 2024/04/26 Imagining Extinction in Video Games: An International Symposium (2024/04/26 - 2024/04/26)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2019/02/14 - 2019/06/08 40.º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (2019/06/06 - 2019/06/08)
Congress (Other)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018 - 2018/06/08 Mary Shelley: Para Além do Monstro (2018/06/08 - 2018/06/08)
Other (Other)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018 - 2018/05/15 II Encontro de Estudos Anglo-Americanos JRAAS (2018/05/14 - 2018/05/15)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018 - 2018/05/15 “A Pedra que os Construtores Rejeitaram, Tornou-se Pedra Angular”: Circunstâncias de um Percurso Intelectual - Mário Avelar (2018/05/15 - 2018/05/15)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018 - 2018/04/19 Expressão Obscura / Clareza da Obscuridade: Edgar Allan Poe em Português - Margarida Vale de Gato (2018/04/19 - 2018/04/19)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018 - 2018/03/13 III Colóquio JRAAS - Dissecting the Human Body: Rethinking its Materiality, Sensibility and (Ab)Normality (2018/03/13 - 2018/03/13)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018 - 2018/02/20 Imagined Cities in Utopia and Social Sciences - Elton Dias Xavier (2018/02/20 - 2018/02/20)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018 - 2018/01/23 Louis MacNeice and the Politics of Museum Culture: Making Sense of the Earth - Rui Carvalho Homem (2018/01/23 - 2018/01/23)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2017 - 2017/12/05 Restless Excitement and a Wealth of Paradoxes: An Exegesis of a 1964 Special Issue of Life Magazine About Japan - David Pinho Barros (2017/12/05 - 2017/12/05)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2017 - 2017/11/21 II Colóquio JRAAS - Exploring the Inevitability of Death (2017/11/21 - 2017/11/21)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2017 - 2017/11/07 “So relatable!”: Empathy and Otherness, Fiction and Ethics - Sofia de Melo Araújo (2017/11/07 - 2017/11/07)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/11/03 - 2022/11/03 Monsters, Monstrosity, and other Scary Topics
Round table
 YA Studies Around the World: The Conference
YA Studies Association, United Kingdom
2021/05/03 - 2021/05/07 Evento sobre as mais diversas representações de sexualidade e género nos estudos "young adult."
Conference
 Let's Talk About Sex in YA
University of Cambridge Homerton College, United Kingdom
2020/11/02 - 2020/11/06 Evento sobre as mais diversas perspetivas investigativas nos estudos "young adult".
Congress
 YA Studies Around the World
YA Studies Association, United Kingdom
2020/10/22 - 2020/10/23 Evento sobre o uso de ferramentas digitais (Humanidade Digitais) para a análise de literatura infantil.
Congress
 Children's Literature and Digital Humanities Conference 2020
Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
2020/10/13 - 2020/10/14 Evento em homenagem aos 75 anos do romance "A Revolução dos Bichos" de George Orwell.
Meeting
 III Encontro de Literatura de Língua Inglesa - Distopia e Outros Bichos
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Câmpus de Assis, Brazil

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/03 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
2021 - Current Science Fiction Research Association
2020/10 - Current YA Studies Association
2018/04 - Current International Gothic Association

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021/03 - Current The International Journal of Young Adult Literature (2634-5277) Fincham Press
2020/02 - Current Anglo Saxonica (2184-6006) Ubiquity Press
Distinctions

Award

2017 Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies Traineeship
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

Associação Luso-Britânica do Porto, Portugal