Ana Margarida Dias Martins
Address: School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, Humanities Lime Grove Building, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL UK
email: margaana@gmail.com
PhD title: "The 'post-colonial exotic' in the work of Paulina Chiziane and Lídia Jorge"
Supervisor: Professor Hilary Owen
Main Discipline areas: Mozambican and Portuguese literatures
Research specialism:
Portuguese and Mozambican women's writing, gender studies, postcolonial theory, Lusophone cultural and literary studies.
The research project that I am currently engaged in aims to identify and theorise what I call the "postcolonial exotic" in Paulina Chiziane's and Lídia Jorge's work. I intend to further comparative views of Mozambique and Portugal to question notions of gendered identity and constructions of nationhood in these two countries. This research project is fully funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia FCT
Publications:
- Articles/chapters in books and collections
"At the Heart of Violence: Gender, Exoticism and War in Paulina Chizianes Ventos do Apocalipse and Lídia Jorge's A Costa dos Murmúrios" in Making Waves Anniversary Volume: Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies ; ed. Ann Davies, Parvathi Kumaraswami and Claire Williams (ISBN 9781847184641).Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 203-220.
- Academic Journal Articles
"The whip of love: Decolonising the imposition of authority in Paulina Chiziane's Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia" in The Journal of Pan-African Studies , Vol.1, No. 3, March 2006
- Other publications:
Interview with Paulina Chiziane
Conference Presentations:
"A mulher que vivia no espelho: O valor transgressivo da escultura do 'eu' em "Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia", de Paulina Chiziane
II Encontro de Professores de Literaturas Africanas: Pensando África: Crítica, Ensino e Pesquisa; UFRJ, Brasil (21-24 Novembro 2008)
Feitiçaria, exotismo e deslocalização em O Sétimo Juramento, de Paulina Chiziane" - Fifth International Conference - APSA - American Portuguese Studies Association (U. Minneapolis , USA, 06 October 2006)
"Os locais das merendas: Transferências entre o local e the local em O Cais das Merendas de Lídia Jorge" Inaugural Conference - ABIL - Association Of British and Irish Lusitanists (U. Nottingham, 16 Setember 2006)
Conference Organisation:
Re/siting the 'luso' and the 'tropical': theories and practices of Portuguese postcolonialism 15/16/17th March 2007. Venue: University of Manchester
Membership of Professional Organisations
Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network - M&DCSN
Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies - WISPS
American Portuguese Studies Association - APSA
Association of British and Irish Lusitanists - ABIL
Teaching Areas:
Translation course, University of Manchester
Portuguese language course, University of Manchester
Professional biography:
2005 - M.A. (distinction)in Postcolonial Literature in the Portuguese-speaking world, from The University of Manchester
2002 - B.A. (hons) in Portuguese and English Languages and Literatures [educational branch]), from Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal .
Other teaching:
2003/04 - English language course (all levels) School of English Pombalíngua , Pombal, Portugal
2002/03 - Portuguese and English Language and Literature courses (secondary level) Jaime Cortesão school, Coimbra, Portugal