Gabriela Gândara Terenas
Gabriela Gândara Terenas is an Associate Professor with Aggregation in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (special area Studies of Culture and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she has coordinated the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures since September 2021. She has taught several first-degree courses, postgraduate, masters and PhD seminars, in a number of areas, including Anglo-Portuguese Cultural and Literary Studies, Cultural Theory, Translation Studies, History of England, English Literature and Culture and North-American Literature and Culture. She has supervised several masters and doctoral theses in Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Translation and English and North-American Studies, and has evaluated international PhD projects.
Her special area of interest and specialisation is Anglo-Portuguese Studies, a field in which she achieved her PhD with a thesis entitled Speculative Diagnoses: Images of Britain in the Portuguese Press in the Second Half of the 19th century (1865-1890), 3 volumes (2004). She is the Director of the Journal of Anglo-Portuguese Studies, a specialised periodical, indexed to SCOPUS, and published annually both on paper and electronically.
She is a member of the Board of the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) and of a number of international academic associations. She is the leader of the Anglophone Cultures and History Area and the convenor of the research strand Science and Culture, which studies the relationship between Science and Culture in the Anglophone world. Within the scope of this strand, she has organised several series of public lectures and colloquia, a volume entitled Science and Culture. Fictionalisations of Science in Britain (19th and 20th centuries) (2012) and published a considerable number of articles on the subject. She has recently launched the Project “Bridges between Fictional Narratives and Science (21st century)” (BFS21).
Gabriela Gândara Terenas has coordinated and collaborated (as principal researcher) in several other national and international research projects, amongst which the following are worthy of mention: Proyecto Nacional I+D+i Ref.FFI2011-23532 “Poesia y Trienio: Textos Poéticos Ingleses, Alemanes, Italianos, Portugueses y Franceses sobre la Revolución Liberal Española (1820-1823); she is co-author of “Contadles a los Españoles”: Poesía Portuguesa del Trienio Liberal. Estudio Crítico y Corpus Bilingüe Anotado (Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad, 2019); and Proyecto Nacional de Investigación I+D+i FFI2011-23532 “Otras lenguas, otras armas: Poesía proespañola inglesa, portuguesa, francesa y alemana de la guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814). Edición, traducción y estudios” (Proyecto OLE’11); she is co-author of “El Noble Ejemplo de España”: Poesía de la Guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814). Estudio Crítico y Corpus Bilingüe Anotado (Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa/Gobierno de España, 2015).
She has taken part in many Conferences both at home and abroad, including several in Spain, Britain, France, Germany and Brazil, in which she presented papers in the areas of Comparative Studies, Imagology, Cultural Journalism, Translation Studies, the links between Literature, History and the Visual Arts and, most particularly, Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was keynote speaker at the International Conference: Intercultural Poetics: Representations of ‘The Foreign Other’ (Braga, Instituto de Letras e Ciências Sociais da Universidade do Minho, 2015) with the following paper: “‘From Britannic Heroes to the Glorious Alliance’: (Re)Configurations of the British in Portuguese Peninsular War Poetry (1808-1814)”.
She has published more than thirty studies in the field of nineteenth and twentieth-century Anglo-Portuguese relations, amongst which the following books, chapters of books and articles are worthy of mention: Entre a História e a Ficção: as Invasões Francesas em Narrativas Portuguesas e Britânicas (Lisboa: Editora Caleidoscópio, 2012); O Portugal da Guerra Peninsular. A Visão dos Militares Britânicos (1808-1812) (Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2000/2nd edition: 2010); “Da Alteridade e da Identidade: o Caso dos Estudos Anglo-Portugueses”. Revista FronteiraZ. São Paulo: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP), nº21, Dezembro de 2018. https://doi.org/10.23925/1983-4373.2018i21p38-53 (doi: 10.23925/1983-4373.2018i21p38-53). ISSN: 1983-4373; “Évocations poétiques de l’Espagne dans la presse et autres imprimés portugais pendant la Guerre d’Indépendance (1808-1814)”. La poésie, vecteur de l’information au temps de la Guerre d’Espagne (1808-1814). Dir. Elisabel Larriba et Agustín Coletes Blanco. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence/Aix-Marseille Université [Setembro de] 2017. 135-158. ISBN 979-10-320-00XX-X/ ISSN 1761-4481; “Subversive Notes: a Politically Oriented Version of Moby Dick produced during the Salazar Regime”. Translation, the Canon and its Discontents: Version and Subversion. Ed. Miguel Ramalhete. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, August 2017. 77-92. ISBN-13:978-1-4438-9562-0http://www.cambridgescholars.com/translation-the-canon-and-its-discontents; “El Cerco y la Caída de Almeida en las Narrativas Portuguesas y Britânicas de la Guerra Peninsular: el Mutilado de Ruivães y Richard Sharpe”. La Guerra de la Independencia en el Valle del Duero: los asedios de Ciudad Rodrigo y Almeida. Coord. Cristina Borreguero Beltrán. (E-Book. ISBN: 978-84-92572-38-0 Depósito legal: DL-VA 736-2013, 2013, pp. 429-452.http://www.fundacionsiglo.es/web/jcyl/FundacionSiglo/es/Plantilla100Detalle/1284289877341/_/1284289696569/Redaccion); “Harriet Martineau’s Journeys of Observation in the U.S.” New Directions in Travel Writing and Travel Studies. Ed. Carmen Andras (Aachen, Germany: Shaker Verlag, 2010, pp. 212-224);“Images de la France au Temps de Napoléon dans les Romans Historiques Portugais de la Guerre Péninsulaire”. Rives Méditerranéennes. Le Portugal et Napoléon. Mémoires Croisées (Aix-en-Provence: L’UMR TELEMME,Numéro 36, 2010, pp.71-87); “French Mediation, the Construction of British Images and the Portuguese Press”. Beyond Binarisms. Crossing and Contaminations: Studies in Comparative Literature. Ed. Pina Coco and Eduardo F. Coutinho (Rio de Janeiro: Aeroplano Editora, 2009, pp.161-170);
In 2014, she won the Professor Veríssimo Serrão Research Centre Prize with the paper “ ‘Quem Fala Verdade ao Poder?’ Os Intelectuais Anglófonos e a Política Colonial Portuguesa”.
Recent publications include:
Terenas, Gabriela Gândara, 2017, “Évocations poétiques de l’Espagne dans la presse et autres imprimés portugais pendant la Guerre d’Indépendance (1808-1814)”. La poésie, vecteur de l’information au temps de la Guerre d’Espagne (1808-1814). Dir. Elisabel Larriba et Agustín Coletes Blanco. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence/Aix-Marseille Université. 135-158. ISBN 979-10-320-00XX-X/ ISSN 1761-4481
Terenas, Gabriela Gândara, 2017, “Subversive Notes: a Politically Oriented Version of Moby Dick produced during the Salazar Regime”. Translation, the Canon and its Discontents: Version and Subversion. Ed. Miguel Ramalhete. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. 77-92. ISBN-13:978-1-4438-9562-0http://www.cambridgescholars.com/translation-the-canon-and-its-discontents
Terenas, Gabriela Gândara, 2016, “ ‘Portugal and the Allies’: os Britânicos e a Participação de Portugal na Primeira Grande Guerra”. Revista Mátria Digital, nº4, Novembro 2016-Outubro 2017. 173-190. http://matriadigital.cm-santarem.pt .
Terenas, Gabriela Gândara, 2015, “El Noble Ejemplo de España”: Poesía de la Guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814). Estudio Crítico y Corpus Bilingüe Anotado. Madrid, Ministerio de Defensa/Gobierno de España. Obra resultante do Proyecto Nacional de Investigación I+D+i FFI2011-23532 “Otras lenguas, otras armas: Poesía proespañola inglesa, portuguesa, francesa y alemana de la guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814). Edición, traducción y estudios” (Proyecto OLE’11). http://publicaciones.defensa.gob.es/inicio/libros/libro/el-noble-ejemplo-de-españa-poesía-portuguesa-de-la-guerra-de-la-independencia-(1808-1814).
Terenas, Gabriela Gândara, 2015, “Os Intelectuais Anglófonos e a Política Colonial do Estado Novo”. Mátria XXI. Revista do Centro de Investigação Professor Doutor Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão. Santarém, Centro de Investigação Professor Doutor Veríssimo Serrão/Câmara Municipal de Santarém, nº4, Maio de 2015.285-313. ISBN: 2182-6544
Terenas, Gabriela Gândara, 2014, “Jane Marcet and the Popularisation of Science in Britan”. Via Panorâmica: Revista Electrónica de Estudos Anglo-Americanos / An Anglo-American Studies Journal. Série 3, Número Especial, . 58-74. ISSN: 1646-4728. Web: http://ler.letras.up.pt/.
Terenas, Gabriela Gândara, 2014, “No Cruzamento da História com a Literatura: o Caso dos Romances da Guerra Peninsular”. Mátria XXI. Revista do Centro de Investigação Professor Doutor Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão. Santarém, Centro de Investigação Professor Doutor Veríssimo Serrão/Câmara Municipal de Santarém, nº3. 191-217. ISBN: 2182-6544
Terenas, Gabriela Gândara, 2013, “El Cerco y la Caída de Almeida en las Narrativas Portuguesas y Britânicas de la Guerra Peninsular: el Mutilado de Ruivães y Richard Sharpe” in Cristina Borreguero Beltrán (coord.), La Guerra de la Independencia en el Valle del Duero: los asedios de Ciudad Rodrigo y Almeida. E-Book. ISBN: 978-84-92572-38-0 Depósito legal: DL-VA 736-2013, 429-452.
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Terenas, Gabriela Gândara Terenas, 2013, “William Carr Beresford, Marechal do Exército Português: (Re)Configurações Portuguesas e Britânicas”. Actas do XXI Colóquio de História Militar: Nos 250 Anos da Chegada do Conde de Lippe a Portugal: Necessidade, Reformas e Consequências da Presença de Militares Estrangeiros no Exército Português. Lisboa, Comissão Portuguesa de História Militar/Rainho e Neves – Artes Gráficas.713-725. ISBN: 978-989-8593-02-3
Terenas, Gabriela Gândara, 2013, “Intrigue, Deception and Treachery: Anglo-Portuguese Political and Military Relations as Portrayed in a Peninsular War Novel”. “A Scholar for all Seasons”. Homenagem a João de Almeida Flor. Org, Teresa Cid, Luísa Flacão, J. Carlos Viana Ferreira, Marília Martins Gil, Teresa de Ataíde Malafaia, Hanna Pieta, Alexandra Assis Rosa, Adelaide Meira Serras e Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa. Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa/Departamento de Estudos Anglísticos da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa. 261-273. ISBN: 978-972-8886-21-9
