Inês Guedes Vaz (F518-9942-76CF)

Curriculum Vitae

Inês Guedes Vaz

Inês Vaz is a PhD student, recipient of a PhD research grant provided by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), and integrated researcher at CHAM (Centre for Humanities). Pursuing a degree in Modern Literatures and Cultures at NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, the focus of her research is fantasy fiction, namely, representations of monstrous creatures in contemporary animation works. Holding a MA degree in English and North-American Studies from the same institution, her master's dissertation looked at female renditions of the monomyth in children's fantasy literature. Other published works explore many of the same themes, and others, within fantasy contexts.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Inês Guedes Vaz

Citation names

Vaz, Inês
Vaz, Inês Guedes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: F518-9942-76CF
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1592-6319

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Literatures

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Portuguese gestual language	Elementary (A2)			Elementary (A2)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
German	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023/09 - 2027/09 Ongoing	Literaturas e Culturas Modernas (Doutoramento) Major in Literatura Comparada Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/09 - 2022/01 Concluded	Literaturas e Culturas Modernas (Mestrado integrado) Major in Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal "“The Heroine’s Journey: Female Rendition of the Monomyth in The Clockwork Crow Series”" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	19
2015/09 - 2018/06 Concluded	Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas (Licenciatura) Major in Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	16

Affiliation

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/09 - Current	Integrated Researcher	CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/09 - Current	PhD Thesis 2023.00682.BD	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Inês Vaz. "“The clock is grey with dust in the land where time is lost”; time as a narrative dimension in The Clockwork Crow series". 2023. 10.1201/9781003260554-55
Journal article	Vaz, Inês. "Navigating the Stars: Thinking the Present and Projecting the Future by Looking at the Past". Messengers From The Stars 5 (2020): 109-125. https://messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt/journal/archives/article/navigating-the-stars-thinking-the-present-and-projecting-the-future-by-looking-at-the-past. Open access • Published
Thesis / Dissertation	"The Heroine´s Journey: Female Rendition of the Monomyth in Catherine Fisher´s The Clockwork Crow Series". Master, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/136216.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/06/27	"Remember who the enemy is:" Gamemakers and the Makings of War in Suzanne Collins' The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes	44th Conference APEAA \| Transitions: Freedom & Conflicts School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/05/16	Monster Girls Turning Darkness to Light: Subversive Uses of Monstrosity in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and Nimona	GIFCon 2024: Conjuring Creatures and Worlds University of Glasgow
2023/08/06	(Re)Visiting Hades: Depictions of the Underworld in Virgil's and Rick Riordan's Work	Online Midsummer Seminar Mythopoetic Society
2022/10/06	The clock is grey with dust in the land where time is lost: Time as a narrative dimension in The Clockwork Crow series	8th International and Multidisciplinary Congress PHI 2022 – “Time and Space” CHAM (Porto, Portugal)