Ângela Fernandes (PhD in Literary Theory, University of Lisbon, 2009) is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Romance Literatures at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, where she teaches courses in Spanish Literature and Culture, Literary Theory, and Comparative Literature.
She has been a visiting professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University – Bloomington (USA), and has taught through Erasmus mobility at the universities of Bologna (Italy), Goettingen (Germany), Groningen (Netherlands), Paris 7 – Diderot (France), and Salzburg (Austria). She served as director of the FCT International Doctoral Programme in Comparative Studies (2016–2023), vice-director of the Centre for Comparative Studies (2011–2013), and deputy director of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, responsible for research (2014–2016).
At the Centre for Comparative Studies of FLUL, she coordinates the research subgroup DIIA – Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues, which focuses on the study of Iberian and Ibero-American literary and cultural relations. She has collaborated on the research project LAIDA – Literature and Identity, funded by the University of the Basque Country – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.
Areas of research
Hispanic Literatures (19th-21st centuries)
Iberian Comparative Studies
Literary Theory and the relations between Literature and Science
Selected publications
Fernandes, Ângela (2013). A Ideia de Humanidade na Literatura do Início do Século XX. Huxley, Malraux, Gómez de la Serna. Lisboa: Edições Tinta-da-china.
Fernandes, Ângela (2004). Os Efeitos da Literatura. Algumas Questões de Arte e de Moral, Lisboa: Edições Colibri.
Gimeno Ugalde, Esther, Marta Pacheco Pinto & Ângela Fernandes, eds (2021). Iberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN978-1-800-85690-5 / DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800856905.001.0001
López, Magdalena, Ângela Fernandes et al., orgs. (2014). ACT29. Literaturas e Culturas em Portugal e na América Hispânica. Novas perspectivas em diálogo. V.N. Famalicão: Húmus.
Pérez Isasi, Santiago & Ângela Fernandes, eds (2013). Looking at Iberia. A Comparative European Perspective, Oxford: Peter Lang.
Fernandes, Ângela; Donata Meneghelli & Jan Baetens (2024). Themed Issue: Literature and Comparative Studies: Theories, Paradigms, Models, Compendium. Journal of Comparative Studies. N.º 6, December 2024.
https://doi.org/10.51427/com.jcs.2024.6
Fernandes, Ângela (2024). “Between the Moon and Rural Spain in 1969: Antonio Muñoz Molina’s El viento de la Luna” in Terenas, Gabriela Gândara, ed. Representations of the Moon in Literature and Art, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66104-4_3
Fernandes, Ângela (2023). “Variations on “Maquinismo”: Looking beyond the Human in Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s Writings” in Godioli, Alberto & Carmen van den Berg (eds.), Modernism beyond the Human. Transnational Perspectives. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 92-110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004549685_006
Fernandes, Ângela (2023). “‘Neither erudite nor didactic’: José Bento’s translation of Spanish literature into Portuguese”. Rassegna iberistica, 46(120), 311-324. e-ISSN 2037-6588. DOI https://doi.org/10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2023/21/009
Fernandes, Ângela (2023). “Contar a partir del fin. Una lectura de Feliz final, de Isaac Rosa”, in Somolinos Molina, Cristina (coord.). Narrar la grieta. Isaac Rosa y los imaginarios emancipadores en la España actual. Madrid – Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana – Vervuert, 225-235.
Fernandes, Ângela (2021). “Tradução e publicação de teatro espanhol em Portugal: os casos de Tirso de Molina e Juan Mayorga”. Revista de Estudos Literários, Volume 11, Estudos Ibéricos: Diálogos Plurais, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra,101-125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-847X_11_4
Pérez Isasi, Santiago & Ângela Fernandes (2020). “Los Estudios Ibéricos: Una perspectiva portuguesa”, Ínsula – Revista de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, n.º 883-884, julio-agosto 2020, 26-29
Fernandes, Ângela (2020). “The International Dimension of the Portuguese ‘Politics of the Spirit’. António Ferro, Júlio Dantas, Fidelino de Figueiredo”, in Roig-Sanz, Diana and Jaume Subirana (eds), Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America, New York and London: Routledge, 232-246. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429299407
