Daniel Serravalle de Sá
Address: The University of Manchester, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures Samuel Alexander Building (room W2.12), Oxford Road, M13 9PL
Email: dserravalle@gmail.com
PhD title: Brazilian Gothic: Zé do Caixão in the Horror cinema of José Mojica Marins
Supervisors: Lúcia Sá and Núria Triana-Toríbio
Main Discipline areas: Film Studies, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Research specialisms:
Eighteenth-century Gothic novels and nineteenth-century Brazilian novels; Sci-Fi, and Horror Films; theories of the Sublime and Cyberculture.
Publications:
Daniel Serravalle de Sá and Emilene Lubianco de Sá (Org.). The Guarany: a Brazilian Romance. Florianópolis: Biblioteca Digital de Literatura - NUPILL, 2006.
Daniel Serravalle de Sá. 'Gárgulas Gritam Gótico na Noite de Gotham City'. IN: Letras, Ética e Política Educacional no Brasil. vol. 1. Florianópolis: Edufsc, 1999.
Daniel Serravalle de Sá. O Castelo de Otranto, 2006. (Book translation yet to be published).
Daniel Serravalle de Sá. Häxan, bruxaria através dos tempos. Florianópolis, 2006. (Film subtitling).
Conference Presentations:
Tropical Terror . JISLAC (Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin America & the Caribbean): Brazil in the Northwest. 2007.
Teaching Areas:
Undergradute:
English as a Foreign Language (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2000, 2001 and 2007)
English as a foreign Language (Universidade de São Paulo 2003 and 2004)
Portuguese Language and Brazilian Culture (University of Manchester, 2007)
Postgraduate:
Session on the thought of Gilberto Freyre entitled Open-mindedness and Luso-Tropicalism. Critical Theory II: Race and Nation (University of Manchester, 2008)
Professional biography:Licentiate degree (Lic) in English Language and Literature (Universidade de Santa Catarina, 2001)
MA in Studies in Fiction (University of East Anglia, 2005). Thesis: Tropical Gothic: the supernatural and the demoniac in a 19th century Brazilian novel
Mestre em Estudos Lingüísticos e Literários em Inglês (Universidade de São Paulo, 2006). Thesis: Gótico tropical: o sublime e o demoníaco em O Guarani
PhD in Latin American Studies (University of Manchester, 2009)