Mariana holds a law degree from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She practiced law between 2007 and 2014. She holds a master's degree in translation from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She wrote a dissertation on theater translation based on the staging of Tennessee Williams’ play The Night of the Iguana by the director Jorge Silva Melo. She was a researcher at CETAPS (FCSH) until 2018. She regularly translates plays for the collection Livrinhos de Teatro (Artistas Unidos/Snob). She is currently preparing a PhD dissertation about the unpublished letters of the pianist Maria da Graça Amado da Cunha (1919-2001). She is a member of the team of the research project "Textualidades" and is currently preparing her PhD thesis in Portuguese Studies.
Areas of research
20th century literature
Letters
Letter writing
Women writers
Theater
Translation
Selected publications
Maurício, Mariana. “Ilse Losa e Maria da Graça Amado da Cunha: ligadas pelo comboio que leva as cartas e os boatos”. Diacrítica, 36(3), 53-54, https://doi.org/10.21814/diacritica.5095
Maurício, Mariana. “Uma autobiografia escrita à máquina. As cartas da pianista Maria da Graça Amado da Cunha (1919-2001)”. Revista Colóquio/Letras, n.º 209, Jan. 2022, p. 137-161.
Pirandello, Luigi. Melo, Jorge Silva e Mariana Maurício (eds.). Máscaras Nuas – uma seleção. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 2021.
Maurício, Mariana. “[recensão crítica de] A Mesa está Posta, de Jorge Silva Melo,”. Revista Colóquio/Letras, n.º 202, Set. 2019, p. 263-267.
