This lecture will address the way different contexts, historical and contemporary, shape how we interpret the rabbit/duck perspective of Henry V. More specifically, this will be done with two particular […]

This open seminar will address both the challenges and new research methods involved in creating what is known collectively as the MIT Global Shakespeare Project (https://shakespeareproject.mit.edu/). Since 1992, MIT’s Literature […]

On Tuesday 12th November please feel free to join us for the “Looking at Canada from Portugal “Symposium.  The symposium will count with literary scholar, Eva Darias-Beautell, political scientist, Guy […]

This open class, by Prof. J. Carlos Teixeira, will focus on medieval German poetry, providing an analysis of several poems of the Minnesänger, as well as an overview of the […]

The goal of this workshop is to empower your reading, building on your reactions, instincts and reflections. While AI can find you fancy vocabulary, it cannot replace the power of […]

Nobody can deny the power of the city to change and reorder all of life. Inglis, 2000 For many years leaving the countryside to move to urban areas was in […]

ABSTRACT: For historic and geographic reasons, Ohio is a liminal space sharing qualities with the regions that it borders. This geography attracted black citizens to Ohio as part of the […]

ABSTRACT: The colonial empire ended in 1974, leaving a widespread sense of orphanhood that resonated deeply in Portuguese literature. Margarida Calafate Ribeiro and António Sousa Ribeiro (2018) observe that, through […]

CFP: Representations of old age and ageing in literary and cultural narra4ves. Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities Editors Joaquim Pinheiro (Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades da Universidade da Madeira; CECH-UC) […]

Philip Roth once said that O’Brien was one great part of the World, “brilliant, wild, soaring and indomitable”. (O’Hagan, 2024) She dwelled in her imagination from which she attempted to […]

Date: from February 11 to May 27, 2025 Schedule: Tuesdays from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., with the exception of the class on Wednesday, March 12 Method: with or without […]