Areas of interest: Iberian Studies – Portuguese Studies – Comparative Literature – Literary Theory.
Ângela Fernandes is an Associate Professor (Professora Associada) in the Department of Romance Literatures at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.In 2009, she received her PhD in Literary Theory from the Universidade de Lisboa. In addition to lecturing at the university, she coordinates the research project “DIIA – Iberian and Iberian Dialogues”, which analyzes the relations between Iberian and Iberian American cultures and literatures.
Her main research areas include Literary Theory, Comparative literature, Literature and Science, Contemporary Spanish literature, and Iberian Studies.Additionally, she has published numerous articles that have advanced the field of Iberian Studies, specifically in the literary relationships between Spain and Portugal: “Calderón en dos apologías portuguesas del teatro español (1739, 1839)” (2002), “La importancia de la creencia: una lectura del cuento «D.Quixote contra Herodes», de Aquilino Ribeiro” (2010), “Imágenes literarias de Portugal y de España en el siglo XX” (2012), “A vida é sonho. Traduzir o pensamento e a poesia do teatro de Calderón de la Barca” (2012), “Imágenes de una identidad portuguesa y la recepción en Portugal del teatro de Lope de Vega” (2013), “Retratos de Portugal na narrativa de Ramón Gómez de la Serna” (2014), etc.
She is also the co-editor of Looking at Iberia. A Comparative European Perspective (2013) with Santiago Pérez Isasi, and of the special issue Iberian Studies: New Spaces of Inquiry (International Journal of Iberian Studies, 32, 1-2, 2019). She has co-edited, with Esther Gimeno and Marta Pacheco Pinto, the collective volume Iberian and Translation Studies: Redefining Contact Zones (Liverpool University Press, 2021)
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Ângela Fernandes’s publications in the IStReS database:
Fernandes, Ângela. 2002. ‘Calderón en dos apologías portuguesas del teatro español (1739, 1839)’. In Calderón 2000 : homenaje a Kurt Reichenberger en su 80 cumpleaños : actas del Congreso Internacional, IV centenario del nacimiento de Calderón, Universidad de Navarra, septiembre 2000, edited by Ignacio Arellano Ayuso, 1:487–96. Kassel: Reichenberger.
———. 2010a. ‘As relações portuguesas de Ramón Gómez de la Serna’. In Interacciones entre las literaturas ibéricas, edited by Francisco Lafarga, Luis Pegenaute, and Enric Gallén, 195–204. Relaciones literarias en el Ambito Hispanico 3. Bern: Peter Lang.
———. 2010b. ‘La importancia de la creencia: una lectura del cuento «D. Quixote contra Herodes», de Aquilino Ribeiro’. In Actas del XVI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, edited by Pierre Civil and Françoise Crémoux, 2 [CD-ROM]:154. Madrid / Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana – Vervuert. http://cvc.cervantes.es/Literatura/aih/pdf/16/aih_16_2_155.pdf.
———. 2011. ‘A cultura portuguesa no universo ibérico: fronteiras e fascínios’. In Perspectivas actuais na Lusitanística: Literatura, Cultura, Cinema, Língua, edited by Kathrin Sartingen and Esther Gimeno Ugalde, 213–22. Munich: Meidenbauer.
———. 2012a. ‘“A vida é sonho”. Traduzir o pensamento e a poesia do teatro de Calderón de la Barca’. In Depois do Labirinto. Teatro e Tradução, edited by Manuela Carvalho and Daniela di Pasquale, 145–68. Lisbon: Nova Vega.
———. 2012b. ‘Imágenes literarias de Portugal y de España en el siglo XX’. In Rumbos del hispanismo en el umbral del Cincuentenario de la AIH, edited by Laura Silvestri, Loretta Frattale, and Matteo Lefèvre, V-Moderna y Contemporánea:264–69. Roma: Bagatto Libri.
———. 2013a. ‘Iberian and Romance Identities: Literary Representations of the Centre and the Margins’. In Looking at Iberia: A Comparative European Perspective, edited by Santiago Pérez Isasi and Ângela Fernandes, 219–31. Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas 56. Oxford / New York: Peter Lang.
———. 2013b. ‘Imágenes de una identidad portuguesa y la recepción en Portugal del teatro de Lope de Vega’. Revista de Filología Románica 30 (1): 125–35.
———. 2014a. ‘El desencanto en el teatro ibérico de mediados del siglo XX: José Régio y Antonio Buero Vallejo’. Edited by Santiago Pérez Isasi. 1616-Anuario de Literatura Comparada, special issue ‘Relaciones culturales ibéricas’, no. 4: 47–57.
———. 2014b. ‘Retratos de Portugal na narrativa de Ramón Gómez de la Serna’. -Revista de Estudios Portugueses y de la Lusofonía, no. 8: 37–49.
———. 2019. ‘Comparative Studies in Portugal: The Iberian and the Atlantic Perspectives’. In Comparative Literature in Europe. Challenges and Perspectives, edited by Nikol Dziub and Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre, 41–50. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
———. 2021. ‘Iberian Theatre Translated into Portuguese in the Twenty-First Century’. In Iberian and Translation Studies. Literary Contact Zones, edited by Esther Gimeno Ugalde, Marta Pacheco Pinto, and Ângela Fernandes, 23:339–54. Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Fernandes, Ângela, Santiago Pérez Isasi, and Robert Patrick Newcomb. 2019a. ‘Iberian Studies: New Spaces of Inquiry’. Edited by Ângela Fernandes, Santiago Pérez Isasi, and Robert Patrick Newcomb. International Journal of Iberian Studies – Special Issue ‘Iberian Studies: New Spaces of Inquiry’ 32 (1): 9–11.
———, eds. 2019b. Special Issue ‘Iberian Studies: New Spaces of Inquiry’, International Journal of Iberian Studies 32:1. Vol. 32 (1).
Fernandes, Ângela, Fátima Fernandes da Silva, José Pedro Sousa, Isabel Araújo Branco, Isabel Dâmaso Santos, Margarida Borges, Rita Bueno Maia, and Sara Rodrigues de Sousa, eds. 2010. Diálogos Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos: Actas del VI Congreso Internacional de ALEPH. Lisbon: ALEPH – Asociación de Jóvenes Investigadores de la Literatura Hispánica & Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. http://www.asociacionaleph.com/files/actas/ActasVICongreso.pdf.
Fernandes, Ângela, and José Pedro Sousa. 2015. ‘Ecos de la historia peninsular en el teatro barroco. Dos comedias de Tirso de Molina y de António Henriques Gomes’. Edited by Juan Miguel Ribera Llopis, Óscar Fernández Poza, Diego Muñoz Carrobles, and Rocío Peñalta Catalán. Revista de Filología Románica Anejo IX: Literaturas ibéricas. Teoría, historia y crítica comparativas: 103–13.
Gimeno Ugalde, Esther, Marta Pacheco Pinto, and Ângela Fernandes, eds. 2021a. Iberian and Translation Studies. Literary Contact Zones. Vol. 23. Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/55064/.
———. 2021b. ‘Introducing Iberian Translation Studies as a Literary Contact Zone’. In Iberian and Translation Studies. Literary Contact Zones, edited by Esther Gimeno Ugalde, Marta Pacheco Pinto, and Ângela Fernandes, 23:1–20. Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Pérez Isasi, Santiago, and Ângela Fernandes, eds. 2013. Looking at Iberia: A Comparative European Perspective. Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas 56. Oxford / New York: Peter Lang.
———. 2020. ‘Los Estudios Ibéricos: una perspectiva portuguesa’. Edited by Jon Kortazar. Insula – Revista de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, no. 883-4 (Harri eta berri: nuevos horizontes de la literatura vasca): 26–29.