Patrícia Lourenço holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon. She also holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (Lisbon) and a BA in Applied Psychology from the same institution. Her doctoral research focused on the representation of memory in perpetrator fiction regarding the Holocaust. She was the Editor-in-chief of estrema. Interdisciplinary Review for the Humanities from 2015 to 2018. She is part of the Aesthetics of Memory and Emotions subgroup.
Areas of research
Perpetrator studies
Aesthetic of emotions
Memory studies
Holocaust literature
Selected publications
2024. (Co-autoria com Bruno Henriques, Jacopo Masi e Rui Carlos Fonseca [Eds.]). In, out, and through: Literary and comparative perspectives on Thresholds. Éditions Honoré Champion. No prelo.
2018. (Co-autoria com Fernanda Mota Alves e Gerd Hammer [Eds.]). Identidades em Movimento: Memória (Trans)Cultural e Discursos Contemporâneos. Lisboa: Húmus.
2017 (Co-autoria com Bruno Henriques, Fernanda Mota Alves e Luísa Afonso Soares[Eds.]). Dedalus: Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, 21. Special Issue on Aesthetics of Emotional Restraint. APLC - Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada.
2016. Lourenço, Patrícia. “(De)Formar e (trans)formar a tradição: A recepção da Oresteia em Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell”. Théâtre: esthétique et pouvoir. Tome 2: XX et XXI siècles, Bruno M. Henriques, José Camões et Maria João Almeida (Eds.), 417-434. Paris: Éditions Le Manuscrit.
