Ana Isabel Pereira Teixeira Vasconcelos
Assistant Professor
Humanities
Universidade Aberta
Portugal
Biography
Ana Isabel Vasconcelos, born in Leiria in 1956, has been a lecturer at the Open University since 1989, having previously been a secondary school teacher. In 1978, he completed his degree in German Philology, at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. He is a Master in Comparative Literary Studies, by the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, with the dissertation Pedro the Cru: the real and the symbolic. In 2000, he obtained his PhD in Portuguese Studies, in the specialty of Portuguese Literature, by Universidade Aberta, with the thesis titled The Portuguese Historical Drama of the 19th Century or Fictions of the Historical Representation in the Time of Almeida Garrett, published in 2003 by FCT / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. As a researcher, has been especially dedicated to theatrical studies related to the first half of the 19th century, being an effective member of the Center for Theater Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. He is a member of the Portuguese Association of Theater Critics.
Research Interest
History of Portuguese Theater, Biblioteconomia
Publications
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Critical review of the show "Os Maias no Trindade", published in Signs of Scene 11 , Magazine of the Portuguese Association of Theater Critics, Porto, Campo das Letras, June. The recension is entitled "In the hall of the Trinity".
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Repertory Theater in the Lisbon Eighteenth (1835-1846) , Lisbon, National Press-House of the Currency. Co-authors with Ana Clara Santos.
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"The treatment of history in the Portuguese romantic drama", in Revista Limite, 2 , History in Literature in Portuguese Language , Cáceres, University of Extremadura.
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"The Lyrical Farce in the Romantic Theater or the minimal form of the desired new Portuguese opera", in Short Form 5. Teatro MÃnimo , Aveiro, University of Aveiro, pp. 139-150.
