Cristiana Maria Santos GraÇa De Vasconc
Assistant Professor
Humanities
Universidade Aberta
Portugal
Biography
She was born in Lisbon in 1968, she has been a lecturer in the Department of Humanities at Universidade Aberta since 1998. She has a degree in Modern Languages ​​and Literature, a variant of English and German (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1990), has been researching in the field of Comparative Literary Studies , with greater incidence in the German and Portuguese cultural field. He presented his Master's dissertation on Comparative Literary Studies with the title Modes of Melancholy. For an aesthetic of death in António Patrício and Hugo von Hofmannsthal (New University of Lisbon, 1997) and the Doctorate in Literary Studies - Comparative Literature, with the title The Attrition of the World. Espinosa and Hölderlin by the hand of Llansol (Faculty of Letters of Lisbon, 2006). She is a founding member and is part of the board of directors of the Espaço Llansol Association, which hosts the literary collection of Maria Gabriela Llansol (1931-2008) and has organized the same since 2008, with the intention of making it available to the scientific community. She has been working regularly on the work of Maria Gabriela Llansol, focusing in particular on issues related to aesthetics and affections / emotions, the writing of the mystics and the Llansolian text, the fragment form, among other aspects of theory and contemporary literary aesthetics, with special emphasis on the Llansolian text and on some names of German literature and culture that relate to it. He is a member of the Center for Comparative Studies (CEC) of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. During her teaching career at UAb, she was involved in some projects related to teaching / learning in international seminars, computer-mediated (CEFES, 1998-2000, CEFES 2000). She also collaborated in the activities of the Distance Education Laboratory (LEAD). of the Open University, from its genesis in 2007 until January 2009.
Research Interest
Comparitive Studies and Comparitives Literature,Portuguese and German Studies
Publications
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"A Model for Online Courses in Humanities", co-authored with Simon Rae (Open University, England), in Wilton the Ivory Tower. Linking Universities Across Europe , organized by the European Association for Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), Paris, 2000.
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"Death: a" knowledge without knowledge "? For a joint reflection on melancholy and death" (in co-authorship with Emilia Leitão, MDT medical psychiatrist), in Discourses , series VI: Anglo-American Studies - Dialogue of Literature with the Sciences and the Arts, nº 1, Dec. 2005, pp.135-145.
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"The One Thousand and One Faces of Bertolt Brecht," in Acts of the Conference on Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) , org. of Gerald Bär, Cristiana Vasconcelos Rodrigues, and Elke Ferreira da Silva, in support of DVD, Registration No. 6864 / 20109E (DL: 300795/09), Open University, 2009.
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"The testimony of these years and this book", in « Nothing has yet changed the world » Actuality of Llansol, org. by João Barrento, Lisboa: Mariposa Azual, 2010, pp.123-126.
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"Spinoza and Llansol: the exchange of thought and affection", in Sobreimpressões. Maria Gabriela Llansol and the folds of History, org. of João Barrento, Lisbon, AssÃrio & Alvim.
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"The power of the common - about the sense of community in the first trilogy of MG Llansol", article to be published in the magazine Pensar Diverso (UMa);
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"The rose of the inflorescence, the metamorphosis of the affections in Amigo and Amiga, of MG Llansol", article to be published in the proceedings of the Colloquium "The Aesthetics of Emotions" [Out. 2009] (accepted in September 2010).
