Vanessa Silva Pereira
Address: SLLC, Samuel Alexander, University of Manchester, Oxford Rd., M13 9PL
email: vanessa.s.pereira@manchester.ac.uk
PhD title: Staging Borders in English and Portuguese theatre: a case-study
Supervisors: Professor Hilary Owen and Professor Vivien Gardner
Main Discipline areas: Theatre Studies/Gender studies
Research specialisms
- Theatre and gender studies
- Portuguese and English Literature
Publications:
'As Mulheres Invisíveis de Luísa Costa Gomes' in Sinais de Cena June 2007
'Forced Entertainment' to be published in Sinais de Cena June 2008
Conference Presentations:
'"O rosto com que fita não é Portugal". O Portugal ausente de Luísa Costa Gomes', in 'Re/siting the 'Luso' and the 'Tropical': Theories and Practices of Portuguese Postcolonialism', Post-colonial Conference, University of Manchester, March 2007.
'Voicing the invisible in Luísa Costa Gomes's Nunca Nada de Ninguém', first ABIL's conference, University of Nottingham, September 2006.
Membership of Professional Organisations
ABIL (Association of Portuguese and Irish Lusitanists)
Teaching Areas: Portuguese Beginners (all areas), Portuguese second year (grammar, essay writing, oral and translation), Portuguese Final year (essay writing, grammar and Oral) and LEAP (non-specialist Portuguese language course for beginners and Intermediate)
Professional biography:
From 2007 Graduate Teaching Assistant (Portuguese), University of Manchester
2003-2007 Leitora do Instituto Camões, University of Manchester
2003-2006 (part-time) M.A. in Women's Writing in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, University of Manchester. Dissertation: 'Voicing the Invisible: Gender, Character and Discourse in Luísa Costa Gomes and Caryl Churchill'.
2001-2002 Teacher training/PGCE equivalent Escola Secundária de Vilela/ Faculty of Arts, University of Oporto, Portugal
1997-2002 BA(Honours)/ 'Licenciatura' in Portuguese and English Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Oporto, Portugal.
1999-2000 Socrates/Erasmus, University of Bristol
Acting Biography
2005 'Transformations' (The People Show), Contact Theatre, Contact Young Actors Company: actor
2005 'Nunca Nada de Ninguém' (Luísa Costa Gomes), Palaver Festival (Festival of language and Theatre), Contact theatre, Portuguese Language students' group: director and actor
2004 'O Terceiro andar'(Jaime Rocha), University of Manchester, Portuguese Language students' group: director
2000 'Hotel' (Caryl Churchill) University of Bristol, Dramasoc: actor.
1999 'Oedipus Rex' (Sophocles), Faculty of Arts University of Oporto (FLUP), FLUP theatre group: actor
1998 'War is War' (Boris Vian), Faculty of Arts University of Oporto (FLUP), FLUP theatre group: actor