Catarina Nunes de Almeida (PhD, NOVA University of Lisbon, 2012) is an Assistant Researcher at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, where she also teaches in graduate and postgraduate courses. Full member of the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp), she is the PI of the cluster «ORION - Portuguese Orientalism» since 2019. At the CEComp she also develops an individual research project on «A Viagem ao Oriente na Literatura Portuguesa Contemporânea (1990-2020)» [The Voyage to the East in Contemporary Portuguese Literature (1990-2020)]. Before starting her PhD in Portugal, she had a contract as a Portuguese Language Lecturer at the University of Pisa (Italy) for two academic years (2007/2008-2008/2009). Her work is mainly focused on Portuguese Orientalism, Travel Writing and Contemporary Portuguese Literature. She has published books, book chapters and articles on these subjects in scholarly anthologies and peer-reviewed journals. She is also the author of six poetry books.
Areas of research
Portuguese Orientalism
Travel Writing
Contemporary Portuguese Literature
Representations of Asia in Portuguese art and literature
East-West literary and cultural dialogues
The poetics of Haiku
Selected publications
Almeida, Catarina Nunes de. 2022. Pars Orientalis – Estudos sobre escrita e viagem. Lisboa: Documenta. ISBN: 978-989-568-064-1.
Almeida, Catarina Nunes de. 2022. “Luso-Arabic poetry: reviewing the concept”. In Ricci, Cristián (ed.). 21st Century Arab and African diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. New York: Routledge, pp. 150-162. DOI: 10.4324/9781003245117.
Almeida, Catarina Nunes de. 2021. “Viaggi, tempi e mondi: l’Oriente nell’opera di Mário Cláudio”. In Casetti, Lapo, García, Salomé Vuelta e Graziani, Michela (eds.). Nel Segno di Magellano tra terra e cielo. Il viaggio nelle arti umanistiche e scientifiche di lingua portoghese e di altre culture europee. Firenze: Firenze University Press, pp. 343-352. DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-467-0.26.
Almeida, Catarina Nunes de. 2021. “‘No pictures, please'. José Luís Peixoto’s journey in North Korea: the photograph as a certificate of presence”. Diacrítica, n. 35 (3): 74-89. http://diacritica.ilch.uminho.pt/index.php/dia/article/view/668/251 ISSN: 2183-9174
Almeida, Catarina Nunes de. 2020. “Deux voyageuses ibériques en Asie centrale: pour une lecture du féminin dans le récit de voyage de notre temps”. Lincoln Humanities Journal, vol. 8: 34-48. https://www.lincoln.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/cahss/Lincoln-Humanities-Journal-Vol-8-2020.pdf.
Almeida, Catarina Nunes de (ed.). 2020. Clepsydra, 1920-2020. Estudos e Revisões. Lisboa: Documenta. ISBN: 978-989-9006-60-7.
Almeida, Catarina Nunes de e Pinto, Marta Pacheco (eds.). 2017. O Oriente em Tradução: Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas Asiáticas no Espaço Luso. Lisboa: Húmus. ISBN: 978-989-755-299-1.
Almeida, Catarina Nunes de. 2016. Migração Silenciosa – Marcas do Pensamento Estético do Extremo Oriente na Poesia Portuguesa Contemporânea. Vila Nova de Famalicão: Húmus. ISBN: 978-989-755-244-1.
Almeida, Catarina Nunes de e Braga, Duarte Drumond (eds.). 2013. NAU-SOMBRA: Os Orientes da Poesia Portuguesa do Século XX. Lisboa: Nova Vega. ISBN: 978-989-750-008-4.
