Cyana Leahy

CYANA LEAHY-DIOS, PhD

www.cyanaleahy.com

Contacts:

Telephone: (55 21) 9354 2494

E-mail: cyana@cyanaleahy.com

Homepage: www.cyanaleahy.com

Education

PhD in Literature Education (earned in August 1996), London University Institute of Education, department Culture, Language and Communication, supervised by Gunther Kress. The dissertation – Literature Education as a Social Metaphor – dealt with the main western paradigms of literature education. It was sponsored by federal Brazilian agent CAPES. I was also the recipient of the Overseas Research Award (ORS, CVCP) from 1993 to 1996.

MA in Education (August 1989), Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal Fluminense, supervised by Celia Lucia Monteiro de Castro. The dissertation – The Dynamization of Reading in the School Library – analysed and described a reading enhancing project carried out in the library of a primary school in Niterói. Won a one-year grant from Brazilian federal agency CNPq (1988-9).

BA and teacher-training in anglo-lusophone languages and literatures (Lettres), Instituto de Letras da Universidade Federal Fluminense (graduated in July 1973), spending the final year of studies as a monitor to Professor Yedda Alvarez, in the area of English teacher-training.

Basic training in piano playing, Escola de Música da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1956 - 1969).

Doctoral studies on Brazilian literature, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), supervised by Nadia Battella Gotlib (1992-3).

Membership of professional and learned societies

BRASA (Brazilian Studies Association) – a member since 1994, presenting papers and coordinating workshops and panels. Since 2001, International Coordinator of the Education thematic group *congresses 2002 (Atlanta) and 2004 (Rio de Janeiro)

AIL (Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas) – a member since 1996, participated as speaker in the Oxford Conference (1996)

REBRA (Rede de Escritoras Brasileiras) – membership nº 18; joined the association in 2000, by invitation

ADUFF(Associação de Docentes da Universidade Federal Fluminense) – a member since 1990

ANE (Associação Niteroiense de Escritores) – a member since 1988

ANPOLL (Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Lingüística): research groups (GT) A Mulher na Literatura (since 1992) and Dramaturgia e Teatro (since 2003)

ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas) – a member since 1995, participating in congresses as paper presenter and panel organiser and mediator (Utrecht, 1996; Haifa, 1998; Pamplona, 2004)

COLE (Congressos de Leitura), UNICAMP – a member since 1988, participating as paper presenter and panel organiser, and contributing with articles for the Leitura: Teoria e Prática journal

AIA (Associação Internacional de Americanistas) – since 2000, presenting a paper in the Warsaw International Conference (July 2000)

ABRALIC (Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada) – since

AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) – a member since 1997

Teaching experience

• Professor of language and literature teaching methodology (Didática e Prática de Ensino de Língua e Literatura Nacionais) at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil, from 1990 to 2003, BA students of Lettres

  
  

• Professor of literature education, MA and PhD programmes

  
  
  
  

  • Instituto de Letras, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), from 1996 to 2003 (MA in applied linguistics, PhD in discourse and interaction)

    
    

  • Medical School, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), from 1996 to 2002 (MA in Pathology)

    
    

  • Medical School, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), from 1996 to 2002 (MA in Infectology)

    
    
  
  

• Professor of theatre textual analysis, Institute of Arts and Social Communication (IACS), Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), from 2001 to 2003 (MA in Arts Science)

  
  

• Professor of research methodology, MA programme in Arts Science, Institute of Arts and Social Communication (2001 – 2003)

  
  

• Teacher of English as a foreign language (advanced levels) at Sociedade Brasileira de Cultura Inglesa (SBCI), affiliated to Cambridge University (England), from 1984 to 1991

  
  

Research experience

• on literature education

  
  
  
  

  • generating the PhD dissertation Literature Education as a Social Metaphor (1996, London University Institute of Education), published in Brazil by Editora da UFF (2000, 1^st ed) and by Editora Martins Fontes (2004, forthcoming 2^nd edition)

    
    

  • generating the book Língua e Literatura: uma questão de Educação?, published by Editora Papirus (2001), with the collaboration of Claudia Lage (a former BA student of Lettres)

    
    

  • research findings were presented in international congresses in Brazil and abroad

    
    

  • developed with the supervised collaboration of BA scholarship holders (Lettres, UFF), sponsored by the Coordenação Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (CNPq) through the Programa de Iniciação Científica – PIBIC

    
    
  
  

• on gender studies

  
  
  
  

  • generating articles and reviews published in Brazil and abroad and the presentation of findings in international congresses and conferences

    
    

  • generating my participation in MA examining boards, publishing committees, and ad hoc counseling for Fundação Carlos Chagas, Fundação Ford etc.

    
    

  • developed through dissertations and theses supervision of Lettres MA and PhD students at UFF, and also counted with the collaboration of BA scholarship holders sponsored by CNPq through PIBIC

    
    
  
  

• on women’s autobiographic narratives

  
  
  
  

  • reviews, articles and conference papers generated, as well as the coordination of panels and workshops in international congresses, and supervision of dissertations and participation in examination committees, as described below:

    
    

  • phD supervision of Solange Mello do Amaral, with dissertations titled ‘O discurso memorialista de Nair de Teffé’ – from February 2000 to July 2004

    
    

  • coordination of thematic panel on Women’s Autobiographic Narratives, in Section Education, Gender and Sociology Studies (8th International Congress of the ISSEI, Wales University, UK, July 2002)

    
    

  • paper presentation: ‘Womens’ diaries: a brief theoretical reflection’, at the 5^th International Congress of BRASA (Atlanta, USA, 4^th April 2002)

    
    

  • member of the examining board of Viviane V. Freitas’ MA dissertation, titled ‘Life histories of teaching women: sexuality and gender in education’, at NUTES/UFRJ (Rio, 18^th March 2002)

    
    

  • publication of article entitled ‘A brief theoretical reflection on literature, culture and a/b narratives’ in the Section Gênero e representação: teoria, história e crítica, Coleção Mulher e Literatura, vol. 1 (organized by Constancia L. Duarte et al), Belo Horizonte, UFMG, 2002 (pp. 74-80)

    
    

  • organizer of thematic issue named ‘Novos Olhares: diálogos interdisciplinares e narrativas a/b’, a collection of seven articles by Humanities researchers, published in Letras de Hoje, by Editora da PUC-RS, December 2002

    
    
  
  

Other activities

• as a translator

  
  

(Portuguese-English):

• English version of bilingual edition of A Cultura do Papel/ The Culture of Paper, Organised by Marcio Doctors, with texts by José Mindlin, Fayga Ostrower, Helio Jaguaribe et al. Casa da Palavra/ Fundação Eva Klabin Rapaport, 1999. ISBN 85-87220-01-2

  
  

• English version of Nelson Rodrigues’s site (www.falecomnelson.com.br), by order of his daughter and heir Sonia Rodrigues Mota, Rio de Janeiro, 2001

  
  

• English version of Amadeu Perez’s Coleção do Autor/Author’s Collection, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fraiha, 1999

  
  

• English version of História dos Grandes Personagens do Cinema Brasileiro/ History of Great Personages of Brazilian Cinema, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fraiha/Casa da Palavra, 1999

  
  

• English version of Guia dos Bares do Rio/Guide to Rio’s Bars. Rio de Janeiro: Casa da Palavra/ Prefeitura do Rio, 1999

  
  

• English translation of poems by Fabricio Carpinejar (www.carpinejar.com.br)

  
  

(English-Portuguese)

• selection, organisation, translation of LYONS, Martyn and Cyana LEAHY’s A palavra impressa. Rio de Janeiro: Casa da Palavra, 1999. ISBN 85-87220-03-9

  
  

• translation of article ‘Cartas de amor - a escrita íntima no século 19’, written by Martyn Lyons, published in Locus, Juiz de For a: Editora da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 1999

  
  

• translation of Martyn Lyons’s article ‘Fogos da expiação’, for Leitura: Teoria e Prática, n. 32. Campinas: ALB/Mercado Aberto. 1999. ISBN/ISSN: 0102387X

  
  

• live translation of Martyn Lyons’s opening lecture at the 12th Reading Conference (COLE), Faculdade de Educação, UNICAMP (July 1999), named ‘The History of Reading from Gutenberg to Bill Gates’.

  
  

• live translation of Martyn Lyons’s lecture for professors and historians at the History Department, UFF, on ‘The new readers of the 21^st Century’ (August 1999)

  
  

• lecture and live translation (of Martyn Lyons’ lecture) on Reading and Writing in the 19c, at Livaria Marcabru, Rio de Janeiro, on 10 August 1999

  
  

• Portuguese version of Rosamund Pilcher’s Winter Solstice/ Solstício de Inverno, published by Editora Bertrand, Rio de Janeiro, 2001

  
  

• Portuguese version of Shere Hite’s Sex and Business/ Sexo e Negócios, published by Editora Bertrand, Rio de Janeiro, 2001

  
  

• Portuguese version of Annie Proulx’s Close Range/Queima Roupa, published by Editora Bertrand, Rio de Janeiro (2004)

  
  

• Portuguese version of Edna O’Brien’s Wild Decembers/ Dezembros Selvagens, published by Editora Bertrand, Rio de Janeiro, 2003

  
  

• Portuguese version of Ana Mae Barbosa’s article ‘Art in Brazil: several minorities/Arte no Brasil: várias minorias’, in Revista Gênero, ed. João Bosco Hora Góis, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Bertrand, Rio de Janeiro, 2003

  
  

• Portuguese version of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘O fantasma e o consertador de ossos’ (1838), for Companhia das Letras (Rio de Janeiro, forthcoming)

  
  

• Portuguese version of Peter Haining’s (ed.) Great Irish Stories of Childhood (Souvenir Press, 1999) for Editora Bertrand (forthcoming)

  
  

• administrative and management experience

  
  

  • consultant of ‘licenciaturas’ coordination (general teacher-training) with the Pró-Reitoria de Assuntos Acadêmicos (PROAC – UFF)

    
    

  • publisher (C.L. Edições) of four titles: Seminovos em Bom Estado, selected poems by Cyana Leahy; Poemas dos Tempos – Duetos (2^nd edition), poems by Fred Schneiter and Cyana Leahy; Csekö by Fred, a monographic essay by Fred Schneiter; and Todos os Sentidos – erotic short stories by women, by 10 awarded writers, including Olga Savary, Elvira Vigna and others

    
    

  • member of the Consulting Board for Revista Madraga, MA Programme at Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (2000-02)

    
    

  • member of the editorial board for Revista Linha de Pesquisa, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Rio de Janeiro (2000 – 2002)

    
    

  • ad hoc consultant for Fundação Carlos Chagas, São Paulo, at 2^nd Selection of Researchers, Ford Foundation (2002)

    
    

  • ad hoc publishing consultant for Editora da Universidade Estadual de São Paulo (UNESP) (2004)

    
    

Publication

Main articles published in literary and academic journals

• ‘Poemas’ in Antologia da nova poesia brasileira (org. Olga Savary). Rio de Janeiro: Hipocampo/Rioarte, 1992. ISBN/ISSN: CDU869.08

  
  

• ‘Reading and pedagogical control: the case of Contos Infantis’, in Annals from the V Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), 1996. CD-ROM, ISBN 90-73022-11-8, 1998 (MIT Press Journals, Cambridge MA, USA)

  
  

• ‘Literature education in Brazil: reflections upon a theme’, in Macalester Internacional, Minnesota: Macalester College, pp. 93 – 122, 1998

  
  

• ‘Ercília Nogueira Cobra – coragem e preço de um desafio’ in Siglo XIX, Valladolid: Universitas Castelae, 1999 (org. Joanna Courteau)

  
  

• ‘Mulheres na literatura: a invisibilidade oficial’ in Leitura: Teoria e Prática. Campinas: Associação Brasileira de Leitura, UNICAMP/ Editora Mercado Aberto, v. 33, 1999

  
  

• ‘Os sete poetas são homens’, in Anais do Seminário Nacional Mulher e Literatura (GT ANPOLL). Niterói: Editora da UFF, 1999

  
  

• ‘Reflexão sobre a literatura como prática cultural’ in Revista Letras de Hoje, v. 35, n. 122, junho 2000. Porto Alegre: Centro de Estudos da Língua Portuguesa, PUC – RS. Editora da PUCRS, 2000

  
  

• Revendo os limites e as possibilidades do modelo brasileiro de educação literária’ in Linha de Pesquisa: Revista de Letras Da Universidade Veiga de Almeida, ano 1, nº1, outubro 2000. Rio de Janeiro. ISSN 1518-8159

  
  

• ‘Revendo os limites e as possibilidades do modelo brasileiro de educação literária’ in Literatura e Cultura: Revista da UFRJ, ano 1, nº1, 2001 (www.letras.ufrj.br/litcult)

  
  

• ‘Cultura, gênero e literatura’ in Mulher, Gênero e Sociedade (org. Rose Marie Muraro et al). Rio de Janeiro: FAPERJ/Relume-Dumará, 2001

  
  

• ‘Breve reflexão teórica sobre literatura, cultura e narrativas autobiográficas’ in Gênero e representação: teoria, história e crítica. Coleção Mulher e Literatura (org. Constância de Lima Duarte et al), vol.1. Belo Horizonte: Faculdade de Letras da UFMG, 2002

  
  

• ‘Narrativas autobiográficas e o cânone literário: o paradigma da transformação’in Novos Olhares: diálogos interdisciplinares e narrativas autobiográficas (org. Cyana Leahy), a collection of articles on autobiographic narratives by 7 researchers in the Humanities. Published by Editora da PUC-RS in Letras de Hoje, December 2002

  
  

• ‘Simone de Beauvoir’ (verbete) in Dictionary of Literary Influences: the twentieth century 1914 – 2000 (org. John Powell). Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003

  
  

• ‘Martinho da Vila’, ‘Martins Fontes’, ‘José Kleber’ (verbetes) in Antologia de Escritores Brasileiros afrodescendentes (org. Eduardo Assis Duarte). Belo Horizonte (forthcoming)

  
  

• ‘A educação literária de jovens leitores: motives e desmotivos’, in Questões de Ltierratura para jovens, Miguel Rettenmaier and T. Rösing (orgs.). Editora Universidade de Passo fundo, 2005

  
  

Books published

• Biombo (poetry). Niterói: Editora Cromos, 1989 (B869.15 L437b)

  
  

• Íntima Paisagem (poetry). Rio de Janeiro: Editora Sette Letras, 1997 ISBN 85-7388-O29-5

  
  

• A palavra Impressa: leitura e escrita no século XIX (essays), w/ Martyn Lyons. Rio de Janeiro: Casa da Palavra, 1999. ISBN 85-87220-03-9

  
  

• Livro das Horas do Meio (poetry). Rio de Janeiro: Editora Sette Letras, 1999 . ISBN 85-7388-I56-9

  
  

• Educação Literária como metáfora social (PhD thesis). Niterói: Editora da UFF, 2000

  
  

• Língua e Literatura: uma questão de Educação?, w/ Claudia Lage. Campinas: Editora Papirus, 2001

  
  

• Poemas dos tempos – duetos, w/ Fred Schneiter. Rio de Janeiro: C. L. Edições, 2001. ISBN 85-902228-1-0

  
  

• Seminovos em Bom Estado (poetry collection) Niterói: C.L. Edições, 2003 ISBN 85-

  
  

Chapters published

• ‘Penúltima Confissão’ in Erótica (pp. 191-193). Bebéti Gurgel (ed.). São Paulo: Ed. Brasiliense, 1993 ISBN 85-11-18207-1

  
  

• ‘Leitura no final do século XIX: um caso de controle pedagógico’ and ‘Livros Proibidos: as virgindades de Ercília’, in A Palavra Impressa. Rio de Janeiro: Casa da Palavra, 1999 (pp 89 – 128) ISBN 85-87220-03-9

  
  

• ‘Conto em duas vozes’ in Todos os Sentidos: contos eróticos por mulheres (org. Cyana Leahy). Rio de Janeiro: C.L. Edições/ ZIT Editora, 2003. ISBN: 85-902228-4-5

  
  

Literary and academic reviews published

• A review of Na América, by Susan Sontag, published in Caderno Idéias/Jornal do Brasil , October 2001

  
  

• ‘De solidão e outros mistérios’, a review of Traição e outros desejos, by Sonia Peçanha (Ed. Objetiva, 2001), published in Caderno Idéias/Jornal do Brasil, 19/01/2002, p. 6

  
  

• ‘O lote clandestino é o melhor do poeta’, a review of O Lote clandestino, by Adriano Espínola (Topbooks, 2002), published in Caderno Idéias/Jornal do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 01/02/03, p. 4

  
  

• ‘Poemas muito doidos de Caicó’, a review of 69 poemas de Chico Doido de Caicó, org. Moacy Cirne e Nei Leandro de Castro (Sebo Vermelho, 2002), published in Caderno Idéias/Jornal do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 04/01/03, p. 6

  
  

• ‘A poesia de Fabrício Carpinejar’, a review of Caixa de Sapatos (poems), by Fabrício Carpi Nejar, published in Caderno Idéias/Jornal do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 30 July 2003

  
  

Reviews for The European Legacy, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA:

• To live Together: Shaping New Attitudes to Peace Through education (Daniel S. Halperin), published in, v.3:5, 10/08/1999. ISSN/ISBN: 10848770

  
  

• The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England, v.3:5, 10/08/1999. ISSN/ISBN: 10848770

  
  

• Women and literature in Britain 1150 – 1500, 1999. ISSN 1084-8770 (vol. 5, nº2)

  
  

• Anita Garibaldi, a biography, by Anthony Valerio (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000), published in ELEG 10:2 (2002)

  
  

• The Marginalizationof Poetry (Bob Perelman), vol 6 nº 1

  
  

• Egodocuments and History: autobiographical writing in its social context since the middle ages, ed. Rudolf Dekker (Hilversum: Verloren, 2002) (ISBN 90-6550-439-7/ ISSN 0929-9823), 2004 (vol. 9, number 6)

  
  

• Barthes: a very short introduction by Jonathan Culler (Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-19-280159-7), published in 2004,vol. 10, nº1

  
  

• The Practice of Cultural Analysis – exposing interdisciplinary interpretation, ed Mieke BAL for Cultural Memory in the Present Series (California: Stanford University Press, 1999. 392 pages), (2003)

  
  

  - Simone de Beauvoir: Gender and Testimony, by Ursula Tidd, published in ELEG 6:2

  
  

Reviews and articles on Cyana Leahy

• online debate on Leahy’s poetry in the literary site http://www.sescsp.org.br/sesc/convivencia/oficina/frabalaio.htm, org. by João Silvério Trevisan, 23 May 2002 and 11 April 2002

  
  

• ‘Os mais vendidos’, by Flavio Moura, Revista VEJA, on Leahy’s translation of Rosamunde Pilcher’s Solstício de Inverno (Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Bertrand, 2001) – 13 June 2001

  
  

• ‘Amor e indagação existencial’, by Fernando PY, published on Coluna Tribuna Literária, Tribuna de Petrópolis Journal, on Leahy’s Livro das Horas do Meio (Rio: ed. Sette Letras, 1999) – 12 August 2001

  
  

• ‘Ensinando a ensinar’, by Regina Zilberman, on Leahy’s Língua e Literatura: uma questão de Educação? (Campinas: Ed. Papirus, 2001), published in Caderno Idéias/Jornal do Brasil - 30 March 2002

  
  

• ‘Educação Literária’, by Norma de Abreu Telles, on Leahy’s Educação Literária como Metáfora Social (Niterói: EdUFF, 2000), published in Caderno Idéias/Jornal do Brasil – December 2001

  
  

• ‘Uma demanda inadiável’, by Maria Helena Martins, on Leahy’s Educação Literária como metáfora social (Niterói: EdUFF, 2000), book’s jacket

  
  

• ‘Uma paisagem íntima’, by Marco Lucchesi, on Leahy’s Íntima Paisagem (Rio: Ed. Sette Letras, 1997), book’s jacket

  
  

• ‘Cyana Leahy’ – entry by Kátia da Costa Bezerra in Antologia de Escritores Brasileiros Afrodescendentes, org. Eduardo Assis Duarte (forthcoming)

  
  

• reviews on sites www.tracaonline.com.br (by Bia Cruz and Claudia Nina); www.almadepoeta.com (by Luiz Proa); www.igmulher.ig.com.br (Leahy interviewed by Carlos Augusto Horta Gomes), among others.

  
  

Further academic production

• Member of examining committees analyzing MA and PhD dissertations (NUTES, Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ, 18 March 2002; Applied Linguistics, Letras/ UFF. Niterói, 25 April 2002; Applied Linguistics, Letras/UFF. NIterói, 20 February 2003; Applied Linguistics, Letras/ UFF. Niterói, 04 August 1999; Applied Linguistics, Letras/UFF. NIterói, 21 February 2003; Applied Linguistics, Letras/UFF. Niterói, 24 February 2003; Applied Linguistics, Letras/UFF. NIterói, 26 February 2003; Arts Science – Theatre Theories (IACS/UFF). Niterói, 25 July 2003; Arts Science – Theatre Theories (IACS/UFF). Niterói, 8 August 2003; Applied Linguistics (Letras/UFF). Niterói, 21 January 2002; Applied Linguistics (Letras/UFF). Niterói, 18 January 2002; Discourse Interaction (Letras/UFF), Niterói, 16 December 2005, among many others)

  
  

• Member of examining committees selecting Associate Professors of Language and Literature Teaching Practice (at UFF and at UERJ)

  
  

• Consultant for the selecting board of ANPEd, Ação Educativa, and the Ford Foundation (São Paulo), June 1999 (www.acaoeducativa.org)

  
  

• Member of publishing committees (Revista Leitura: Teoria e Prática. ALB, Campinas: UNICAMP, 1990-91; Revista Plures, Centro Universitário Moura Lacerda/ M. Ed. – Ribeiro Preto, SP, 2003; Revista Madraga, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, 2001/2002 - www.madraga.uerj.br)

  
  

as MA and PhD research supervisor

Mauro Nilson Figueiredo, Cinderelas Caretas e Moderninhas, MA in Applied Linguistics, Letras/UFF (1999 – 2001); Marcelo Marconsin Bargiela, Lendo o Brasil em Inglês, MA in Applied Linguistics, Letras/UFF (1999 – 2001); Nilza Pinho, Vivendo a Poesia em sala de aula de língua estrangeira: realidade ou utopia?, MA in Applied Linguistics, Letras/UFF (2002 - 2003); Maria da Conceição Vinciprova Fonseca, O Texto Literário: aprofundamentos de leitura e transformações na aula de língua inglesa, MA in Applied Linguistics, Letras/UFF (2002 - 2003); Mônica da Costa Porto Parreiras, Leituras Literárias em língua inglesa (encontro marcado), MA in Applied Linguistics, Letras/UFF (2002 - 2003); Renato Saudino, A Dramaturgia de Jorge de Andrade, MA in Arts Science, IACS-UFF (2002); Luciane M. S. Conrado, Didascália e construção cênica: uma questão de leitura?, MA in Arts Science, IACS-UFF (2002 - 2003); Raquel Vivian Nicoletti, Teatro Plural: a multiplicidade de linguagens no teatro contemporâneo, MA in Arts Science, IACS-UFF,2002 – 2003; Solange Mello do Amaral, Narrativas autobiográficas e memória: o caso Nair de Teffé, Instituto de Letras, UFF, 2000 – 2005

academic coordination (conferences and courses)

• Coordinator of advanced courses on language and literature teachers’ continuing education, Faculdade de Educação/UFF. Niterói, May - October 2002

  
  

• 2000 – 2002 Coordinator of Education Thematic Group for the V International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Atlanta, USA, April 2002

  
  

• Coordinator of Panel 31 at the 2002 International Congress of the Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC), Belo Horizonte: UFMG. July 2002

  
  

• Coordinator of Workshop on Literary Reading at the 10th Annual Seminar

  
  

• PROLER sponsored by Fundação Biblioteca Nacional/ Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, at Vitória da Conquista and Itapetinga, Bahia, 23- 30 October 2002

  
  

• Coordinator of Panel 38 on Gender and Education at the 9th National Seminar Mulher & Literatura. Belo Horizonte, UFMG, August 2001

  
  

main lectures and recent academic papers

• ‘An experience with children’s literature’, 2nd International congress of the Brazilian Studies Association. Minneapolis, USA,1995

  
  

• ‘Sexual revolution and feminist pedagogy in Ercília Nogueira Cobra’, 3^rd International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). Cambridge, UK, 1996

  
  

• ‘Atuais perspectivas em educação literária no Brasil’, 5th International Conference of Lusophone Studies (AIL), Oxford, UK,1996

  
  

• ‘Reading and pedagogical control: the case of Contos Infantis’, V Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), 1996.

  
  

• ‘Cultures of silence’, 4th International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). Washington, USA, 1997

  
  

• ‘Os “sete poetas hoje” são todos homens’, 7th National Seminar Mulher e Literatura. Instituto de Letras/ UFF. Niterói, 1997

  
  

• ‘Education in/for the 21st century’, workshop Redesigning the Curriculum, Revitalizing the Classroom, Part II: ‘Changes beyond the departmental level’. 4th International Congress of BRASA. Washington DC, July 1997.

  
  

• ‘A Break in Science - Doctors Reading Literature’, in the panel The History of the Book and of Reading Practices, 6th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas – ISSEI. Haifa, Israel, August 1998

  
  

• ‘Livros proibidos: as Virgindades de Ercília’, 1st Congress of History of Reading and Books in Brazil, at the Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, UNICAMP, Campinas, October 1998

  
  

• ‘Life and Poetry in the Junk Room - a Transreading Experience’, 32nd Annual Congress of Comparative Literature, Texas Tech University. Lubbock, Texas, 4 – 6 February 1999

  
  

• ‘A literariedade de Carolina Maria de Jesus’, International Conference on Contemporary Lusophone Women Writers, Portuguese Departament, Utrecht University. Utrecht, Holland, May 1999

  
  

• ‘Para re-aprender e ensinar literatura’, Literature Seminar Abrindo para Balanço: a literatura brasileira no Século XIX, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Curitiba, November 1999

  
  

• ‘Reflexão sobre a literatura como prática cultural’, Symposium 500 anos de Descobertas Literárias, Universidade de Brasília (UNB), 30 March 2000

  
  

• ‘Narrativas autobiográficas e o cânone literário: o paradigma da transformação’, 5th International Congress of BRASA. Recife, Pernambuco, 18 – 21 June 2000

  
  

• ‘A metáfora como evidência ético-estética dos gêneros literários de menor prestigio’, 25th International Congress of Americanists. Warsaw, Polland, July 2000

  
  

• Conference on Carolina Maria de Jesus, named ‘A Cinderela Negra: arte literária ou evidência antropológica?’, at the Centro de Estudos Brasileiros, Brazilian Embassy in Rome, July 2000

  
  

• ‘Carolina Maria de Jesus’s Child of the Dark: a private diary or a public document?’, 2nd International Conference Education for Better Futures, Institute of Education, London University. July 2000

  
  

• ‘Revendo os limites e possibilidades da educação literária na escola’, guest speaker at the National Conference on Language and Literature (CELLIP). Curitiba, Universidade Federal do Paraná, October 2001

  
  

• ‘A reflexividade de sujeitos sociais na educação literária’, Research Post-Graduate Seminar, sponsored by te Instituto de Artes e Comunicação Social/ UFF, at FUNARTE. Rio de Janeiro, 18 September 2001

  
  

• ‘Paulo Freire, Carolina Maria de Jesus: suas vozes, nossas vozes’, research at the Pedagogical Week, Instituto de Educação Professor Ismael Coutinho. Niterói, 17 October 2001

  
  

• ‘Inscrevendo o diário: narrativas autobiográficas de mulheres’, conference at the 6th International Congress of BRASA. Atlanta, USA, 3 - 6 April 2002

  
  

• ‘Limites e possibilidades sócio-políticas da educação literária’, lecture to researchers on Applied Linguistics, PA and PhD Programme. Letras/ UFF, 7th June 2002

  
  

• ‘A educação literária e as políticas oficiais’, Panel 31 at the International Congress of ABRALIC (Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada), Belo Horizonte, UFMG, 25 July 2002

  
  

• ‘Ler para Integrar Saberes’, lecture at 13th Nacional Seminar for Educators in Paulínia (13º ENEP), SP. July 2003

  
  

• ‘Vivendo a Poesia: leitura, análise e (re)interpretação’, lecture and workshop to teachers and students of literature, 13th Nacional Seminar for Educators in Paulínia (13º ENEP). Paulínia, SP, July 2003

  
  

• ‘Reading and literature at all levels’, lecture for school teachers and students, at the Book and Reading Fair, Colégio Santa Rosa de Lima, Rio de Janeiro. 3^rd July 2003

  
  

• ‘Personagens e protagonistas, rubricas e movimentos’, Conference Mulheres Adaptadas: autoras e personagens. 10th National Seminar Mulher e Literatura, GT ANPOLL. Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa. 10 – 12 August 2003

  
  

• ‘Possibilidades teóricas de leitura poética’. Lecture for teacehrs andstudents of literature at Casa da Leitura (PROLER/Biblioteca Nacional). Rio de Janeiro, 5 November 2003

  
  

• ‘Redescobrindo a leitura: perspectivas teóricas’. Round table Socializing Research, 5th Jogos do Livro, CEALE/ Faculdade de Educação, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, 13 November 2003

  
  

Grants obtained

• 1969: scholarship through Youth for Understanding Exchange Program (Coleman High School, Michigan, USA – 1969)

  
  

• 1988: CNPq grant as MA candidate (for research merit)

  
  

• 1992: PIBCT, a grant by CNPQ for professors (Doctorate in Brazilian Literature at Universidade de São Paulo)

  
  

• 1993 – 1996: Overseas Research Award (By the CVCP – Council of Vice Chancellors and Principals of United Kingdom Universities) (for research merit)

  
  

• 1993 – 2003: grants by CNPq, CAPES and FAPERJ to participate in International Conferences, Congresses and Seminars abroad.

  
  

• Ireland Literary Exchange 2005 bursary, for the translated and adapted book Contos tradicionais irlandeses.

  
  

Further artistic activities

• organization and coordination of poetry readings (Espaço Cultural Duerê, Niterói, RJ. 1989 – 1990; Teatro Municipal de Niterói, Niterói, RJ. 3rd October 2001; Espaço Cultural UNIVERSO, São Gonçalo, RJ. 18 December 2001; ‘Ver o Verso Project’, Axé Santé, Rio de Janeiro, 6 August 2002; inauguration of Shopping Center Downtown, Rio de Janeiro, 7 November 2002; opening of National Guitar Contest Hommage to Fred Schneiter, Teatro Municipal de Niterói, 7 August 2002; poetry recital at the closing ceremony of the International Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), at Hotel Rio Othon Palace, Rio, 1^st August 2002; at the 10^th National Seminar Mulher e Literatura (GT ANPOLL), Universidade Federal da Paraíba. João Pessoa, Paraíba, 12 August 2003; Parahyba Café, João Pessoa, Paraíba, 13 August 2003; Poesia Esporte Clube Project, at Espaço Cultural Madame Vidal, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, 19 August 2003)