University of Aveiro

Post-Doc, Languages and Cultures

Post-doctoral researcher

Departamento de Línguas e Culturas

Thesis Title: Dialogical Readings of the Grotesque: Texts of Contemporary Excess

Advisors: Maria Aline Ferreira
David Callahan

About

Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia took her doctoral degree in English Studies at the University of Aveiro in 2005. Her dissertation was on the grotesque strategies and themes primarily in women’s fiction and postcolonial literature. Dialogical Readings of the Grotesque: Texts of Contemporary Excess focused on the fiction of Gabriel García Márquez, Githa Hariharan, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Robert Coover and Angela Carter so as to show the wide geographical scope of the grotesque and its connection with related literary modes, both in the fiction of female and male writers.
At the moment she is coordinating the project Dicionário Terminológico de Crítica Literária Pós-Colonial. The purpose of this dictionary is to standardize postcolonial terms in Portuguese which have been translated from the English with no terminological validation and to establish English equivalents to those terms which are specific to the Portuguese context. This is a joint project involving the research group on Translation and Terminology of the University of Aveiro and the Cultural Encounters Group of the University of Roskilde, Denmark. For more information see http://poscolonial.dlc.ua.pt

Contact Information

Address: Universidade de Aveiro
Dept. de Línguas e Culturas
Campus de Santiago
3810-193
Aveiro
Portugal

Telephone: +351 234 370 358