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Currently enrolled in a PhD in Modern Literatures and Cultures (English and North-American Studies) at Nova University of Lisbon. Obtained Master's degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (English and North-American Studies) in 2018/01/09 from the Nova University of Lisbon. Bachelor's degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (English and Portuguese Studies) from Nova University of Lisbon, concluded in 2015/06/15. Co-organized nine events. In his CV, the most frequent terms in the context of his scientific production are: Robert Jordan; Taxonomy of Fantasy; Portal-Quest Fantasy; Fantasy Literature.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rui Miguel Martins Mateus

Citation names

  • Mateus, Rui
  • Mateus, Rui Miguel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F51D-8026-7DCE
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2048-0561
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=XydR9zEAAAAJ

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/01/01
Ongoing
 Modern Literatures and Cultures (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2015/09 - 2018/01/09
Concluded
 Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Mestrado)
Major in English and North-America Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Through the Portal and into the Quest: Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time and China Miéville's Un Lun Dun" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2012/09 - 2015/06/15
Concluded
 Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Licenciatura)
Major in English and Portuguese Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 16
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/03/13 - Current CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and AngloPortuguese Studies
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Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Mateus, Rui. "Breaking the Borders of Fantasy Travelling through the Stillness in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy". Via Panoramica: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos 10 2 (2021): 45-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/2182-9934/via10_2a3.
    10.21747/2182-9934/via10_2a3
  2. Mateus, Rui M.. "Resisting in New Crobuzon: Recolonizing Spaces in a Failing Empire". Op. Cit: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies 2nd series No. 9 (2020): 83-97.
    Open access • Published
  3. Mateus, Rui Miguel Martins. "Uma Controvérsia Luso-Britânica: o Caso do Cacau de São Tomé". Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses 27 (2018): 199-228.
    Published
  4. Mateus, Rui Miguel. "Bards and Gleeman: From the Middle Ages to Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time". Anglo Saxónica III 15 (2018): 117-135.
    Open access • Published
  5. Mateus, Rui. "O Nascimento de um Herói: análise da segunda cena do acto primeiro da ópera Ulisses em Lisboa de Francisco José Freire". Boletín Galego de Literatura 47 (2015): 135-143. http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/bgl.47.2716.
    Published • 10.15304/bgl.47.2716
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Mateus, Rui Miguel Martins. "Through the portal and into the quest: Robert Jordan´s the wheel of time and China Miéville´s Un Lun Dun". Master, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/31475.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/10 Navigating the Seas of Bas-Lag: Travelling through Dangerous Currents in China Miéville's The Scar International Conference 'Touring Travel Writing III: Between Fact and Fiction
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH
2023/10/20 Reimagining Twentieth Century America with Mary Robinette Kowal's Science Fiction Novel The Calculating Stars International Symposium American Dreams, American Crises
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH
2023/10/06 The Dynamics of Space and Identity in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of TIme RAAS - Fulbright Conference, Mapping Space and (the) US
Ovidius University, Constanta
2023/06/02 Fantastic Chosen Ones: One Hero or Many? 43rd APEAA Conference Cultures of the Self
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
2023/05/08 Edgar Rice Burroughs nas revistas pulp Jane e Tarzan 100
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
2022/10/08 Between Two Worlds: the Ambivalence of Colonization in C. L. Clarke’s The Unbroken The Global Fantastic
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2022/09/09 From Randland to New Crobuzon: travelling the maps of the fantasy genre International Conference 'Touring Travel Writing II: Between Fact and Fiction
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH
2022/08/31 Imaginary Geographies: The Symbiosis of Space and Identity in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction ESSE Doctoral Symposium
University of Mainz (Germany)
2022/04/08 Towards a Revitalization of the Wasteland in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy Wastelands: 34th European Association for American Studies Conference
European Association for American Studies (Madrid, Spain)
2022/04/01 Ecological Catastrophe and Social Injustice in Mary Robinette Kowal’s A Lady Astronaut Series
Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/02/18 From Film to Videogame: A Journey through Middle-earth in The Third Age The Impact of Video Games on Culture and Education
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Portugal)
2021/11/26 Dark Lords and Nature: Destroying Landscapes in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time Series International Conference Messengers from the Stars: Episode VI - On Science Fiction and Fantasy
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/11/25 Differentiating between Fantasy and Science-Fiction through Representations of the Moon in Literature Over the Moon: Representations of the Moon in Literature, Science and the Arts
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/05/21 Resisting in New Crobuzon: Recolonizing Spaces in a Failing Empire 41st APEAA Meeting
2020/10/22 UN LUN DUN, China Miéville's War Cry for the Environment International Symposium (Re)Thinking Earth: From Representations of Nature to Climate Change Fiction
CETAPS - NOVA FCSH (Portugal)
2019/12/07 New Modes of Traveling: Disrupting the Map in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time Touring Travel Writing: Between Fact and Fiction
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/06/07 "Travelling Through Secondary Worlds: The Nature of Portals in Modern Fantasy" 40th APEAA Meeting
(Porto, Portugal)
2018/11/29 The Role of Technology in the World of The Wheel of Time and its Effects on Fantasy International Conference Messengers from the Stars: Episode V - On Science Fiction and Fantasy
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/11/24 "What Future for Orogenes: Building a Brighter World for African-Americans in N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy" International Conference Dikes of Courage: Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Movement and the Aesthetics of Protest
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/04/27 Defying Categorization in China Miéville's Un Lun Dun 39th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
(Évora, Portugal)
2017/04/27 Bards and Gleemen in Contemporary Fiction: From the Middle Ages to Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time¿ 38th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
(Braga, Portugal)
2016/11/18 Journeying with a Fantasy Hero Through the Westlands in Robert Jordan¿s The Eye of the World Science Fiction & Fantasy International Conference, Messengers From the Stars
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/03/21 "New Spring e Robinson Crusoe: relações ambivalentes" 37º Encontro da APEAA
(Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/12/11 - 2023/12/12 Co-organisation and member of the scientific committee of the NOVA Winter Doctoral Symposium (2023/12/11 - 2023/12/12)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/10/20 - 2023/10/21 International Symposium American Dreams, American Crises (2023/10/20 - 2023/10/21)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/11/04 - 2022/11/04 (Brave) New Worlds Graduate Symposium (2022/11/04 - 2022/11/04)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/12/14 - 2018/12/14 "I write for the same reason I breathe": O Legado Literário de Isaac Asimov (2018/12/14 - 2018/12/14)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/12/05 - 2018/12/05 Paraísos Perdidos: As Distopias no Cinema - Children of Men (2018/12/05 - 2018/12/05)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/11/09 - 2018/11/09 Paraísos Perdidos: As Distopias no Cinema - Fahrenheit 451 (2018/11/09 - 2018/11/09)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/11/07 - 2018/11/07 "Only in Silence the Word": o legado fantástico de Ursula K. Le Guin" (2018/11/07 - 2018/11/07)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/05/18 - 2018/05/18 Ciclo de Conversas - Literatura e Arte (2018/05/18 - 2018/05/18)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/04/20 - 2018/04/20 Ciclo de Conversas - Literatura e Medicina (2018/04/20 - 2018/04/20)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/04/11 - 2018/04/11 Ciclo de Cinema JRAAS: From Stage to Screen - Fences (2018/04/11 - 2018/04/11)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/03/07 - 2018/03/07 Ciclo de Conversas - Literatura e Identidade (2018/03/07 - 2018/03/07)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2018/02/28 - 2018/02/28 Ciclo de Cinema JRAAS: From Stage to Screen - Coriolanus (2018/02/28 - 2018/02/28)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/09/22 - Current International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2019/03 - Current American Intersections (CETAPS) Member
2017 - Current Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies (JRAAS) Junior Researcher
2016 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/11/15 - 2023/11/27 Aesthetics of Dissensus in English and North-American Fiction Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, var. de Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/10/10 - 2023/10/24 Temáticas Contemporâneas da Ficção Inglesa e Norte-americana (Master) Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Brazil
Distinctions

Other distinction

2020 (RE)Thinking Earth: From Representations of Nature to Climate Change Fiction Writing Competition
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal