Ana Maria Mão-de-Ferro Martinho
Ana Maria Martinho Gale teaches at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is a Visiting Professor in foreign Universities (USA, Europe, Africa). Her main fields of research are Portuguese Studies, African Studies (Literatures and Cultures from Portuguese Speaking Countries), and Portuguese SL/FL. She is an active member of the research center Centro de História da Cultura, and of the International Advisory Board and Editorial Board of Ellipsis.
She has been chairing PhD and Master Theses in national and international universities and currently participates in academic projects in Portugal, the UK, France, and Angola.
Some of her publications are Cânones Literários e Educação – Os Casos Angolano e Moçambicano (2001); Culture, Media and Politics in CPLP (forthcoming); “Utopian Eyes and Dystopian Writing in Angolan Literature” (2007); “Literatura e Confluências Culturais” (2009); “Memória, Representações e Experiência Etnográfica” (2010), “Índicos Indícios – Condições do Olhar e Retórica do Discurso Histórico em J.P. Borges Coelho” and “Gender and Cultural Representations in Suleiman Cassamo’s Short Stories” (forthcoming). She translated into English the book of Angolan writer Arnaldo Santos, A Casa Velha das Margens (2010).
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