Contact
Biography
I have worked on the importance of language, language planning and language corpus for the constitution of modern national identities in the Iberian Peninsula, particularly in relation to Spanish Galiza (AKA Galicia), and have drawn as well on that background in sociolinguistics and glossopolitics but, especially, on political history, political science, cultural studies, critical theory and philosophy to foreground my studies on the interfaces between writing (literary but not only), art, history and politics in contemporary Iberian societies. I am a member of one of the Academies of the Lusophone world, the Academia Galega da Língua Portuguesa, where I sit in the International Relations Committee and act as a member of the Scientific Editorial Board of the journal Boletim da Academica Galega da Língua Portuguesa.
Teaching Summary
At undergraduate level I teach modern and contemporary Lusophone and Hispanic literatures, contemporary politics and translation between English and Portuguese/Spanish.
At postgraduate level I have supervised and am supervising MA and PhD projects on sociolinguistics, contemporary politics, literary theory and cultural studies in particular relation with the Hispanic or the Lusophone worlds.
Research Summary
In February 2019 I published the monograph A Galiza (não) é longe daqui...? Lendo(-se) em imagens, mirando(-se) em textos, a study of ('literary' and 'artistic') representation(s) of national… read more
Current Research
In February 2019 I published the monograph A Galiza (não) é longe daqui...? Lendo(-se) em imagens, mirando(-se) em textos, a study of ('literary' and 'artistic') representation(s) of national identity/identities in Galicia (Spain). I am currently involved in a study of how different generations of authors have represented/dealt with key socio-political issues and events in the Republic of Portugal and the Kingdom of Spain after their differently originated but comparably articulated 20th-century post-dictatorship processes. I intend to focus mainly on writing (including literary, essay and song-writing) but will be paying attention to other manifestations of (popular) culture (art, TV and film).
Past Research
Sociolinguistics (especially sociology of language and glossopolitics) was my first area of research/intervention, focusing particularly on the history and situation of, and the forms it has taken, the conflictive contact between Portuguese and Spanish in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.