M. Francisca B. B. de Alvarenga is a Member in Training at the Centre for Comparative Studies and a scholarship holder at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (FLUL). She is a PhD student in Comparative Studies at FLUL. Her thesis focuses on the representation of the female ghost from the Victorian period until contemporaneity in their neo-Victorian forms (in literature and film), with a special focus on their Queer, feminist, and memorial potential. She was awarded her Master’s Degree in Intercultural Studies from Aarhus University, Denmark, with a thesis on the performance and reception of bisexual identity in the film Call Me By Your Name. Previously, she completed her BA in Arts and Humanities with a Major in English Studies at FLUL. Her main research interests cover Literature Studies, Cinema Studies, Queer Studies, LGBTQIA+ Studies, Gender Studies, and Memory Studies.
Areas of research
Victorian and neo-Victorian Studies
Queer Studies; Memory Studies
Victorian Literature
Cinema
Horror Studies
Selected publications
Alvarenga, Francisca B. B. de. “Volunteerism in Fandom.” Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 36, 2021, https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.2143.
Alvarenga, Maria Francisca Bacelar Begonha de. ‘Is It Better to Speak or to Die?’: Labelling and Performance of Bisexuality on Call Me by Your Name and Media. Aarhus University, 2019, https://soeg.kb.dk/permalink/45KBDK_KGL/1pioq0f/alma99122255767305763.
Alvarenga, M. Francisca B. B. de. “Queering The Vampire and Illness: A Brief Introduction To Queer Studies And The Vampire.” Nosferatu. 100 Anos de Terror, edited by Alexis F. Viegas and Patrícia Sá, Húmus, 2022, pp. 45-54.
