St John's College St John's Street 海角社区 CB2 1TP
Maria Manuel Lisboa works on Portuguese and Brazilian Literature from the nineteenth century to the present as well as some aspects of the visual arts, focusing on gender, religion and national identity.
She has published approximately sixty articles in all these areas as well as seven books (monographs): one on Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Brazil), two on Jos茅 Maria E莽a de Queir贸s (Portugal), two on Paula Rego (Portugal/UK), one on themes of heresy and heterodoxy in literature (Portugal) and a comparative one on the theme of apocalypse in literature, film and art. She has also written articles on Mozambican literature and one on a French author. Her monograph,听, focused on the theme of global extinction in English, American, Portuguese and Brazilian literature, film and art,听and featured in a听University News听article:听.
Her work has won two international prizes: her second monograph on E莽a de Queir贸s was the winner of the听Pr茅mio do Gr茅mio Liter谩rio听in Portugal in 2008, a prize awarded for any book-length piece of scholarship on any work in any medium focusing on nineteenth-century Portuguese culture. She was also one of the winners of the IV International Essay Competition in Brazil (Pr锚mio Itamaraty de Literatura Brasileira 2012听for an essay on the work of Lygia Fagundes Telles.
She has recently published a volume on the work of the artist Paula Rego:听听(2019)听and contributed an essay to the volume published by Tate Britain on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition in honour of the artist鈥檚 work (14 June 鈥� 24 October 2021), as well as to media programmes on the occasion of the retrospective in the UK and in Portugal.
She is now working on several new projects. These include articles on Clarice Lispector, Camilo Castelo Branco, Paula Rego and Ana Palma.听She is also in the early stages of research towards a book with the provisional title Doing it Exceptionally Well: Dying as Art in Ant贸nio Francisco Lisboa, Victor Willing, Paula Rego and Ana Maria Pacheco.听A number of her translations of poems and short stories from Brazil, Portugal and Mozambique and one short story are available on her academia.edu page:听.
Professor Lisboa听welcomes enquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students听with research interests relevant to her own, as listed above.
Terezinha V芒nia Zimbr茫o da Silva: Thesis on Machado de Assis (Brazil). Now full Professor, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Claire Williams: Thesis on Clarice Lispector (Brazil).听Now Associate Professor, University of Oxford.
Phillip Rothwell: Thesis on Mia Couto (Mozambique).听Now full Professor, University of Oxford.
Karl Posso: Thesis on Silviano Santiago, Caio Fernando Abreu, homosexuality听 and exile (Brazil).听Now full Professor, University of Manchester.
Paul de Melo e Castro: Thesis on Jos茅 Cardoso Pires, cinema and photography听(Portugal).听Now Lecturer, University of Glasgow.听
Concei莽茫o Lopes Gordon: Thesis on Florbela Espanca (Portugal).听听Formerly at Universidade do Algarve and now at Instituto Superior de听 L铆nguas e Administra莽茫o, Lisbon.
Helen Lima de Sousa: Thesis on Brazilian Nineteenth-Century Romanticism (Brazil).听
David Bailey: Thesis on kinship and degeneracy in fin-de-si猫cle听Portugal and Brazil (Brazil and Portugal).听Now Associate Professor,听University of Manchester.
General interests- Portuguese and Brazilian Literature from the nineteenth century to the present.
- Some Mozambican authors.
- Paula Rego.
- Nationality and Gender.
- Portuguese and Brazilian Literature from the nineteenth century to the present
- The work of Paula Rego
- Gender and Sexuality
- National identity. Feminist Theory and New Historicism
- Paula Rego: Singing All Alone.鈥� Contribution to commemorative volume of Tate Britain鈥檚 Paula Rego Retrospective (14 June - 24 October 2021).
- Essays on Paula Rego: Smile When You Think About Hell. 海角社区: Open Book. 海角社区: Open Book (2019).
- A Heaven of Their Own: Heresy and Heterodoxy in Portuguese Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Oxford: Peter Lang (2018).
Essays on Paula Rego: Smile When You Think About Hell. 海角社区: Open Book. 海角社区: Open Book (2019). 492pp (Visual Arts)听
A Heaven of Their Own: Heresy and Heterodoxy in Portuguese Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Oxford: Peter Lang (2018). (Portuguese Literature)
The End of the World: Apocalypse and its Aftermath in Western Culture. 海角社区: Open Book (2011). 194pp (Comparative Literature and Film)听
Uma M茫e Desconhecida: Amor e Perdi莽茫o em E莽a de Queir贸s. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (2008), 219pp. *Winner of the Pr茅mio do Gr茅mio Liter谩rio (2008). (Portuguese Literature)
Paula Rego鈥檚 Map of Memory: National and Sexual Politics. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, USA: Ashgate (2003), 218pp (Portuguese Visual Arts)
Teu Amor Fez de Mim um Lago Triste: Ensaios Sobre os Maias. Porto: Campo das Letras (2000), 410pp (Portuguese Literature)听2nd revised edition: London: SPLASH (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies in the Humanities (2021), 282pp
Machado de Assis and Feminism: Re-reading the Heart of the Companion. Lewiston, NY and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press (1996), 284pp (Brazilian Literature)
Fiction鈥楢 procura da cara-metade鈥� (imagined sequel to Os Maias; sequela imaginada a Os Maias) available
Articles on Brazil'A Muted Palette or the Importance of Not Being Black: Jos茅 de Alencar and Bernardo Guimar茫es鈥� in Journal Of Romance Studies. to Journal of Romance Studies, Volume 23.3, 269-99.
鈥楧e Onde Menos se Espera: A Disciplina do Terror em Lygia Fagundes Telles鈥� in Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 30/31 (2018), 225-274. *This essay was one of the winners of the Brazilian Itamaraty Prize (2012).
鈥楿m belo dia em Ipiranga: A Busca do Eu e de N贸s em Machado de Assis鈥� in Metamorfoses: Revista da C谩tedra Jorge de Sena, N煤mero 8. Brazil: Editorial Caminho (2007).
鈥楳achado e E莽a ou a M茫o e a Luva: T贸tem e N茫o Tabu鈥� in Via Atl芒ntica, 2 (1999), 150-59.
鈥楽ei de Uma Criatura Antiga e Formid谩vel: Maternidade, Origem e Fim nas Mem贸rias P贸stumas de Br谩s Cubas鈥� in Espelho, 3 (1997), 45-65.
鈥楢 Mother is a Boy's Best Friend: Birth and Kinslaying in the Brazilian Foundation Novel鈥� in Portuguese Studies, 13 (1997), 95-107.
鈥榃hatever Happened to Baby Boys? Motherhood and Death in Lygia Fagundes Telles.鈥� Hers Ancient and Modern: Women's Writing in Spain and Brazil: Special Issue of Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Studies, 6 (1997), 111-29. *A longer version of this article appears in Revista Brasil de Literatura, Internet Website http://members.tripod.com/~lfilipe (7705 words) (1997).
Four essays in Verity Smith (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Latin American Literature (on Machado de Assis, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Clarice Lispector and Bernardo Guimar茫es). London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (1995).
鈥楥larice Lispector鈥� in Sarah M. Hall (ed.) Reference Guide to World Literature. London: Gale Research International Ltd. and St. James Press (1995).
Two essays in Ray Keenoy (ed.) Babel Guide to the Fiction of Portugal, Brazil and Africa in English Translation (on Machado de Assis and Lygia FagundesTelles). London: Boulevard Books (September 1995).
鈥楥asar cedo e cedo morrer: Amor e casamento no Dom Casmurro de Machado de Assis鈥� in Letras e Letras, 67 (March 1992), 12-14.
鈥楳anuel Bandeira: Sexualidade e subvers茫o,鈥� in Col贸quio Letras (May-August 1990), 115-16,听 73-88.
Chapters in Books on Brazil鈥楺uerida Leitora: Machado de Assis e as Cumplicidades do Texto鈥� in Juracy
Assmann Saraiva (ed.) Nos labirintos de Dom Casmurro. Ensaios cr铆ticos. Portoalegre, RS, Brazil: Cole莽茫o Literatura Brasileira. S茅rie Grandes Obras (2006), 171-192.
鈥楧arkness Visible: Alternative Theology in Lygia Fagundes Telles鈥� in Solange听Ribeiro de Oliveira and Judith Still (eds.), Brazilian Feminisms. Nottingham: The听University of Nottingham Monographs in the Humanities, Vol. X11 (1999), 133-154.
鈥楳achado de Assis and the Beloved Reader: The Squatters in the Text鈥� in Naomi听Segal and Nicholas White (eds.) Scarlet Letters: Fictions of Adultery from Antiquity to听the 1990's. Basingstoke: Macmillan (1997), 160-73.
鈥楬ere Be Dragons: She-Devils and Little Boys: The Annihilation of the Male in Lygia听Fagundes Telles,鈥� (chapter in book) in Georgiana Colville (ed.), Other Women's听Voices/Other Americas. Lewiston, NY and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press (January 1996), 119-144.
Articles and chapters in books on Mozambique鈥楥olonial Crosswords: (In)voicing the Gap in Mia Couto鈥� in Robin Fiddian (ed.) Postcolonial Perspectives on Latin America and Lusophone Cultures. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press (2000), 191-212.
鈥楯os茅 Craveirinha: Trajecto para o indiz铆vel鈥� in Nova Renascen莽a, 56-57 (Winter 1995), 35-44.
鈥楪rabato Dias e o eterno adiamento do significado,鈥� in Letras e Letras, n.15 (March 1989), 17-18.
Articles on Portugal (for more, see )鈥楳onstruosa/Menstruosa: Sangue, menstrua莽茫o e higiene 铆ntima na arte de Ana Palma e Paula Rego,鈥� Faces de Eva, n. 52 (2024)
'Paula Rego: A Rock Through a Window Never Comes With a Kiss.'
'Paula Rego: Singing All Alone.鈥� London: Elena Crippa, Commemorative volume to Tate Britain Paula Rego Retrospective, London: Tate (2021), pp. 40-45.
'At茅 sempre, Paula: 鈥業n Paradise, How You Will Enchant the Angels!鈥�' Faces de Eva. Estudos sobre a Mulher, n.48 (December 2022), pp. 48-78.
鈥�: Antiquity鈥檚 women in H茅lia Correia鈥� in Journal of Romance Studies, Volume 19, Issue 3 (2019), 415-442.
鈥楾he end of civilization in 脕lvaro do Carvalhal: Eating Children is Wrong.鈥� Special Issue of Journal of Institute of Romance Studies, Volume 11, Number 3, Winter 2011,听 109-119.
鈥楳other/land: Complexities of Love and Loyalty in Alexandre Herculano, E莽a de Queir贸s and H茅lia Correia. Luso-Brazilian Review, 47:1 (2010), 168-189.
鈥楳enino na M茫o das Bruxas: O Conquistador de Almeida Faria.鈥� Col贸quio/Letras. May/August (2010), 83-95.
听鈥樷�淎t茅 ao Fim do Mundo:鈥� Amor, Rancor e Guerra em H茅lia Correia鈥� in a special issue of Revista Cr铆tica de Ci锚ncias Sociais, n. 68 (April 2004), 65-83.
听鈥楯煤lio Dinis and History Revisited: What Good is a Dead Mother?鈥� in Portuguese Studies, vol. 19 (2003),听 38-50.
鈥楢n Interesting Condition: The Abortion Pastels of Paula Rego,鈥� in Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 39, n. 2 (2002), 125-149.
鈥�'Num Bi Nada': O Incesto e a Oportunidade Perdida n'Os Maias鈥� in Veredas: Revista da Associa莽茫o Internacional de Lusitanistas, 2 (1999) [2001], 127-56.
听鈥楧ying as an Art in Maria Judite de Carvalho: Doing It Exceptionally Well鈥� in Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, vol. 6 (1998) [2000],听 277-288.
鈥楳eninos da Sua M茫e: Abjec莽茫o e Incesto em E莽a de Queir贸s鈥� in Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, III (1996), 9-85.
鈥楶aula Rego: Casos H谩 para que a Lei n茫o D谩鈥� in P煤blico, 14 May 1999.
鈥楾eu Amor Fez de Mim um Lago Triste: (D)enunciar a M茫e em E莽a de Queir贸s,鈥� 鈥楥ol贸quio-Letras, n. 147-148 (January-June 1998), 51-66.
听鈥楳odernismo, Niilismo, Caeirismo: Hist贸rias de Idiotas, (N茫o) Significando Nada?鈥� Escritor (December 1997), 140-51.
鈥楤enilde ou o Deus-Pai: Dilemas de Deus e do Diabo鈥� in Boletim do Centro de Estudos Regianos, 1 (December 1997), 51-57.
鈥楴o Mother's Daughter or the Importance of Being Ernesto: Identity and Separation in Maria Judite de Carvalho.鈥� Portuguese Studies, 12 (1996), 106-132.
鈥楿ma caixa de f贸sforos ou como o mundo acaba: A risada vingativa de E莽a de Queiroz鈥� in Revista Arca (October 1995), 35-54.
听鈥業n锚s de Castro: A morte na p谩gina em branco,鈥� in the Proceedings of the Conference of the Associa莽茫o Internacional de Lusitanistas, Hamburg (1995), 641-650.
鈥楥orpo presente: Trabalho (d)e parto em Miguel Torga,鈥� (article) in Aqui, Neste Lugar e Nesta Hora: Actas do Primeiro Congresso Internacional sobre Miguel Torga (Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Miguel Torga, Porto). Porto: Edi莽玫es Universidade Fernando Pessoa (1994),听 219-33.
鈥楩eminism and Cannibalism or the Edible Man: One Hundred and One Ways to Cook the Male,鈥� in Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, 2 (1993),听 429-43.
鈥楥ad谩veres adiados: A loucura na heroina torguiana,鈥� in Col贸quio Letras (July-December 1992), 139-50.
鈥楳adwomen, Whores and Torga: Desecrating the Canon?鈥� in Portuguese Studies, 7 (October 1991), 170-83.
鈥楯os茅 R茅gio: Um feminista avant la lettre,鈥� in Jornal de Letras, 369 (February1990), 12-13.
Chapters in Books on Portugal鈥楺ue tipo de Pessoas somos n贸s? Search me鈥� in Francesca Pasciolla e Rui Gon莽alves Miranda (eds.), Fernando Pessoa. Abordagens. London:听 Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies in the Humanities (SPLASH Editions (2021), 134-53.
鈥楨lephants All the Way Down: Utopia and Dystopia in H茅lia Correia鈥檚 Ins芒nia and Jos茅 Saramago鈥檚 As Intermit锚ncias da morte鈥� in Bethencourt, Francisco (ed.), Utopia in Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone African Countries. Oxford: Peter Lang (2015), 141-166.
鈥楢 Realidade do Irreal em E莽a: Fantasia, ou a Verdade Nua e Crua?鈥� in Petar Petrov and Marcelo G. Oliveira (eds.) A Primazia do Texto: Ensaios em 海角社区nagem a Maria Lucia Lepecki. Lisbon: A Espera do Caos (2011).
鈥楳illennial Endings and Old Beginnings in Jos茅 Saramago, H.G. Wells and John Wyndham鈥� in Kathy Bacon and Niamh Thornton (eds), The Noughties in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Newcastle: 海角社区 ScholarsPublishing (2012),听 189-202.
鈥楶aula Rego and the Madonna: Who鈥檚 That Girl?鈥� in Ann Davies, Parvathi Kumaraswami and Claire Williams eds., Making Waves Anniversary Volume: Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, 海角社区 Scholars Publishing (2008), 185-201.
鈥楢mor, Rancor e Guerra em H茅lia Correia: 鈥楢t茅 Ao Fim Do Mundo鈥� in Maria de F谩tima Sousa e Silva (ed.) Furor. EnsaiosSobre a Obra Dram谩tica de H茅lia Correia. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra (2006), 129-54.
鈥楳apa da mem贸ria de Paula Rego: pol铆tica nacional e sexual鈥� in Ruth Rosengarten(ed.), Compreender Paula Rego. Porto, Portugal: Colec莽茫o de arte contempor芒nea P煤blico/Serralves (2004), 105-114.
鈥樷�淓sperai: aqui n茫o morre ningu茅m sem mim!鈥� Trag茅dias relativas em Almeida Garrett, ou quem chora que nem uma Madalena?鈥� in Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, Teresa Cristina Cerdeira, Juliet Perkins and Phillip Rothwell (eds.), A Primavera toda para ti: 海角社区nagem a Helder Macedo/A Tribute to Helder Macedo. Lisbon: Presen莽a (2004), 160-165.
鈥楨m Tempo de Guerra n茫o se Limpam Armas: O Instinto de Nacionalidade em Paula Rego鈥� in Ana Paula Ferreira and Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (eds.), Fantasias e Fantasmas Imperiais no Imagin谩rio Portugu锚s Contempor芒neo. Porto: Campo das Letras (2003), 91-113.
鈥楢dmir谩vel Mundo Novo? A Primeira Missa no Brasil de Paula Rego鈥� in Jo茫o C茅zar de Castro Rocha (ed.), Nenhum Brasil existe: pequena enciclop茅dia. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks Editora, 2003, 73-91.
鈥楿ma Chuva Molha-Tontos: Insurrei莽茫o na Colmeia em Carlos de Oliveira,鈥� in Pedro Serra (org.), Uma Abelha na Chuva: Uma Revis茫o. Coimbra: Angelus Novus (2003), 59-74.
鈥楶or(Torga)lidade or Torga and the Motherland: Still Angry After All These Years鈥� in Charles M. Kelley (ed.), Fiction in the Portuguese-Speaking World. Cardiff: University of Wales Press (2000), 22-45.
鈥楴arcisismo, Incesto, Amor e P谩tria鈥� in Alfredo Campos Matos (ed.), Suplemento ao Dicion谩rio de E莽a de Queiroz. Lisbon: Caminho (2000), 398-411.
鈥楯煤lio Dinis: Hist贸ria e P谩tria Revisitadas.鈥� Booklet published as part of the MEMO Colection series. A publication of the Centro Brasileiro de Estudos da Am茅rica Latina. S. Paulo: Memo (1998), 3- 45.
鈥楴o Mother's Daughter or the Importance of Being Ernesto: Identity and Separation in Maria Judite de Carvalho鈥� in Cl谩udia Pazos Alonso and Maria da Gl贸ria Fernandes (eds.), Women Literature and Culture in the Portuguese-speaking World. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press (1996), 65-83. *Shortened version of article item 15 above.
鈥極 Tema da dissid锚ncia na obra de Jos茅 R茅gio: Re-leituras e tresleituras das Hist贸rias de Mulheres鈥� in Lu铆s Amaro (ed.) Ensaios Cr铆ticos sobre Jos茅 R茅gio. Porto: Editora Asa (1995), 231-55.
鈥榊ou Can't Go 海角社区 Again鈥� in T.F. Earle and Nigel Griffin (eds.) Portuguese, Brazilian and African Studies. Warminster: Aris and Phillips (1995), 345-57.
鈥楾he Maid is not Dead but Sleepeth: Death and Revival in Writing by Women鈥� in Jon Davies (ed.) Ritual and Remembrance: Responses to Death in Human Societies. Sheffield: Sheffield University Press (1994), 260-76.
鈥楻茅gio e as mulheres: H谩 mais mundos鈥� (introductory essay) in Jos茅 R茅gio, Hist贸rias de Mulheres. Edi莽茫o do C铆rculo de Leitores (1993),听 i-xiii.
Article on French Literature鈥楾his World is Not the Case: Apocalypse in J-H Rosny Ain茅鈥� in Alex Stuart and Leona Archer (eds.) Visions of Apocalypse. Oxford: Peter Lang (2013)
TranslationsTranslation of two chapters in Bernard McGuirk (ed.), Three Persons on One: A Centenary Tribute to Fernando Pessoa. Nottingham University Press (1989), pp. 27- 35 and 65-79.
Translation (with Bernard McGuirk) of Fernando Pessoa's selected prose writings in E. Lisboa and L.C. Taylor (eds.), A Centenary Pessoa. London: Carcanet (1995), pp. 197-294.
Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep. Collaboration with Michael Brick and Kip Gresham. For production of boxed set of 12 print works and 12 poems, edition of 30 and exhibition at Broadent Gallery, London (2006, unpaginated) and Portuguese Embassy, London. These sets are now lodged at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 海角社区 and Hatton Gallery, Newcastle.
Media and Impact26 June 2021: Interview with Mara Alves, 鈥楶aula Rego and her Contemporaries 鈥� an exhibition of Portuguese artists in the UK.鈥� On the occasion of an exhibition being held in collaboration with the 12 Star Gallery to celebrate Portugal's Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2021 with the support of Cam玫es I.P.
to coincide with Portugal's Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2021 and with a major retrospective of her work at Tate Britain, London (7 July 鈥� 27 October).
Participated in the 海角社区 Festival听of Ideas in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
