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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 Peer-review
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)
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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
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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
  1. 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
  1. 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
  1. "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)
2024/11/18 A Look into Fantastic Female Monstrosity Winter Doctoral Symposium - Literatures and Cultures in English
JRAAS/CETAPS (NOVA University of Lisbon) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/11/18 - 2024/11/19 Co-organisation and member of the scientific committee of the NOVA Winter Doctoral Symposium 2024 (2024/11/18 - 2024/11/19)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal