ANA MARIA MÃO DE FERRO MARTINHO GALE
DEGREES: Agregação (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) (2006); PhD (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) (1998); Mestrado (Universidade de Lisboa) (1987); Licenciatura (Universidade de Lisboa) (1980); Bacharelato (Universidade de Lisboa) (1978)
LANGUAGES: Portuguese (Native); English (Reading: Excellent; Speaking: Very Good; Writing: Very Good); French (Reading: Excellent; Speaking: Very Good; Writing: Very Good); Spanish (Reading: Excellent; Speaking: Basic); Italian (Reading: Excellent; Speaking: Basic); Cape Verdean Creole (Reading: Very Good; Speaking: Basic); Kimbundu (Reading: Basic)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, (1989 – present). Full-time faculty member. On special leave of absence to UC Berkeley 2007-2010. Sabbatical in 2011 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA. Visiting Associate Professor (August – December 2001). January 2007- January 2010 (Full-time faculty member of the Spanish and Portuguese Department) Universidade Agostinho Neto, Lubango, Angola, (1991 - 2003), guest lecturer. (2004 – present), member of the non-permanent faculty Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal (1994-1996), Guest/Senior lecturer Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (1987-1989), Assistant Professor Escola Superior de Educação de Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal (1985-1987), Assistant Professor
SPECIAL TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS/VISITING SCHOLARSHIPS (1998-present)
London University, SOAS, Africa Department. Research. Presentation of two lectures: "Educational Challenges in Guiné-Bissau. Presentation and Discussion of a Project on Portuguese SL/FL"; “Ethnography and Fiction in Angola and Moçambique”. UK
UC Berkeley, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Courses on ”Luso-African Fiction: Is History Rewriting Fiction?” and “Literary History through Poetry”. USA
CUNY – The Graduate Center. Graduate Seminar on “Lusophone Cultures and Literatures - From Colonial History to Nationalism(s)”. USA
Intensive course in the Department of African Studies of Mainz Universität, about contemporary authors in Lusophone Africa. Taught in English. Germany
Intensive course about Portuguese writers (Modernist and «Neo-realistas»), in the Department of Portuguese and Spanish Studies at Université de Lille. Taught in Portuguese and French. France
Intensive course on topics about Lusophone Africa in the Departments of African Studies and Portuguese & Spanish of Helsinky University. Taught in English and Portuguese. Finland
Seminars in Universidade Central da Venezuela, on “Language and Literature Teaching”; “Language, Culture and Alterity(ies)”. Venezuela
Graduate Seminar on “Formação das literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa”, Pontifícia Universidade de Minas Gerais. Brasil
Universidade Agostinho Neto. Graduate seminar on Lusophone Literatures. Angola Universidade Pedagógica. Graduate seminar on Estudos Literários em Português. Moçambique
RESEARCH AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
1999-2001 Authorship and production of radio programs about Portuguese Language for RDP International and Instituto Camões Authorship and development of a certification system for the Teaching of Portuguese FL and SL, under appointment of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Instituto Camões
1999-2004 Coordination of exchange agreements under Socrates EU Program with the Universities of London, Naples, Mainz, Berlin, Hamburg, Helsinki, Bari Academic exchange conducted outside of Europe: Angola, Cape Verde, Moçambique, Guiné-Bissau, Venezuela, EUA, Timor-Leste, etc.
2000-2002 Participation in a Project for the development of Studies in African languages and cultures coordinated by the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Istituto Universitario Orientale – Napoli Coordination of international research group (Portugal, Finland, Czech Republic, Italy, Belgium) on Continuing Adult Education sponsored by the European Commission. Policy and content definition. Coordination of the agenda and meetings. Assessment of the outcomes. Delivery of results. Report presentation at the European Commission Headquarters in Brussels
2002-2003 Participation in the Interdisciplinary Research Program of Institut Erasme (MSH), Université de Lille 3, "Frontières de la fiction". Topics discussed: “Passer de la triade "fiction/ Histoire/ histoire" au rapport fictions/"vérité", la (les) fiction(s) et les "discours de vérité" (la science/le droit …), les niveaux fictionnels. My contribution: “Modernisme en Afrique Lusophone et Déconstructions du Vraisemblable (considérations sur les particularités des transitions vers le Modernisme en Afrique lusophone: les modernismes, le postcolonial et le post-moderne)”
2004-2006 Co-authorship of a Masters Course for the EU Erasmus Mundus Program, in the field of Portuguese FL and SL
2006-2009 Coordination of Projects on Language Teaching and Teachers’ Training in Africa for Instituto Camões Scientific coordination and consultancy in the Project for the constitution of “Pólos de Língua Portuguesa” in Guiné-Bissau, in partnership with Instituto Camões, the World Bank and the Government of Guiné-Bissau Consultancy for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Portugal for Course Development in Africa
2011-2012 Participation in Interdisciplinary Project at Lille University on Poétique de la guerre : la mémoire du tuer, voir tuer et mourir
2014 - Director of Research Group “Cultura e Literatura – Contextos Globais e Locais”, CHAM, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
EXHIBITIONS - Content Coordinator of the Exhibition Novas Textualidades/New Textualities, commissioned by Instituto Camões. Showed in African, Asian, European, and American Universities.
THESES/DISSERTATIONS - Currently supervising 2 postdoctoral projects, 6 PhD Theses (4 concluded), and 8 Masters Dissertations (35 concluded).
PUBLICATIONS 1. Books
Contos de África Escritos por Mulheres. Évora: Pendor, 1994a, 167pp. João de Deus: a Tradição “a pesar” do Cânone. Évora: Pendor, 1994b, 49pp.
A Língua Portuguesa em África: Educação, Ensino, Formação. Évora: Pendor, 1995, 101pp. Cânones Literários e Educação: os Casos Angolano e Moçambicano. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/ Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, 2001, 545pp.
The Protean Web: Literature and Ethnography in Lusophone Africa. Lisboa: Colibri, 2011, 164pp.
Culture, Media and Politics in CPLP (forthcoming), 200pp.
Material Culture and Literature in Sub-Saharan Africa (forthcoming), 185pp. 2. Book Chapters
Educação, Empresas e Desenvolvimento em Moçambique. (co-authorship), Editorial Pendor, Évora, 1997a, p. 105-122.
“Reflexões em torno dos contributos literários na Mensagem da CEI”, Associação Casa dos Estudantes do Império. Lisboa, 1997b, p. 51-61.
“Literatura e Confluências Culturais”, Portugal Intercultural: Razão e Projecto. Centro de Estudos dos Povos e Culturas de Expressão Portuguesa da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (CEP-CEP) & Alto Comissariado para a Integração e Diálogo Intercultural (ACIDI), 2009, p. 226-252.
“Índicos Indícios – Condições do Olhar e Retórica do Discurso Histórico”, in Visitas a João Paulo Borges Coelho. Leituras, Diálogos, Futuros, Ed. Colibri (forthcoming), 14p.
3. Papers in International Journals (Peer Reviewed and Other)
“Literatura feminina na África Lusófona”, Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies III: 1996. 1999, p. 263-273.
“La escritora ecuatoriana Sonia Manzano”, Narradoras ecuatorianas de hoy. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mujeres de Palabra 3, 2000, p. 289-304.
“A Língua Portuguesa e as línguas africanas, bantu e crioulo, na África de Língua Oficial Portuguesa”, A Língua Portuguesa em Viagem. Frankfurt: TFM, Zurich Universität, 2003, p. 201-212.
“História literária em Angola e Moçambique e fixação do cânone da crítica”, Reevaluating Mozambique, Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 10. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2004, p. 201-214.
“Revisitação do Orientalismo através da Literatura Angolana”, Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 11. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2005, p. 175-182.
“Diáspora, Exílio e Permanência: Leitura Comparada de Textos Africanos Escritos por Mulheres”, in Invitación al viaje. Gabinete de Iniciativas Transfronteiriças da Junta da Extremadura, 2006.
“Utopian Eyes and Dystopian Writing in Angolan Literature”, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 38 – N. 1 Spring 2007. Indiana University Press, 2007, p. 46-53.
“Memória e Experiência Etnográfica – Literatura, Cultura, Representações”, Textures 21. Langues et Cultures Européenes, Université de Lyon, 2008, p. 19-30.
“Revisitação do Orientalismo através da Literatura Angolana”, Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 15/16. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2010, p. 175- 182.
4. Editions
Os Direitos Humanos na Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa, Comissão para a Promoção da Igualdade e Direitos Humanos em Educação, 1991. Co-edited.
A Língua Portuguesa em África. Santarém, Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém, 1993, 165pp.
Situação da Mulher Escritora em África e na América Latina. Évora, Num, 1999a, 206p. África: Investigações Multidisciplinares. Évora, Num, 1999b, 169pp.
“Nota biobibliográfica de Machado de Assis e estudo crítico sobre Dom Casmurro”. Lisboa, Dom Quixote, 2003a. Co-edited.
“Nota biobibliográfica de António Vieira e estudo crítico sobre os Sermões (Pelo Bom Sucesso das Armas de Portugal contra as da Holanda; Do Mandato; De Sto. António aos Peixes; Da Sexagésima)”. Lisboa, Dom Quixote/Leya, 2003b. Co-edited.
Idiomático, Online Journal, Instituto Camões, 2005-2008 http://www.instituto-
camoes.pt/CVC/idiomatico/06/index.html;http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/idiomatico/04/05.html
Do Conserto do Mundo - Contos. Lisboa, INCM/AECPES, 2010, 154pp.
5. Translations English Translation of A Casa Velha das Margens, from Angolan writer Arnaldo Santos, 2014.
Lendas e Contos Tradicionais do Sul de Angola, Lígia Guterres, Lisboa, Universitária Editora, 1998.
À luz alfabetizada das palavras, Domingos Florentino, Luanda, Nzila, 2001.
A Boneca de Quilengues, (as estórias proibidas), Arnaldo Santos, Luanda, UEA, 2004/2009. 7. Articles in Encyclopedias
“Agostinho Neto”, Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia, Lisboa, Texto Editora, 2005.
“Orientalism in the Lusophone World”, ‘A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires’, Edinburgh University Press, 2008. 8. Book Reviews + Miscellaneous (Addressed to the general public): 33
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Editorial Board of Ellipsis, Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association Member of panel for Instituto Português do Livro e da Leitura, Ministry of Culture. Consultant and Member of panel of NGO Instituto Marquês de Valle-Flor.
Scientific Board of Limite, Journal of Universidad de Extremadura Editorial Board of Cultura, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS UC Berkeley (2007-2009)
Conference on Literature and Ethnography. Paper presented: “Ethnography and Literature in Africa”
Pedro Costa (Portuguese Director), Regent’s Lecturer, appointed upon proposal of Professor Julio Ramos. Spanish and Portuguese Department, UC Berkeley. Co- organization of the event, welcome remarks and introduction to the academic community http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/news/ artists_in_residence.html#pedro_costa Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, (Angola), Visiting Writer. Co-organization, welcome, and introduction to the academic community
http://spanish-
portuguese.berkeley.edu/news/artists_in_residence.html#duarte_de_carvalho Universidade Nova de Lisboa – FCSH (1991-present)
"Questões de Nacionalidade Literária", Manuel Ferreira (Universidade de Lisboa) "A Lusofonia", Russell Hamilton (Vanderbilt University)
"A Cultura e a Literatura Cabo-verdianas", Capverdean Writer Manuel Lopes Seminar with Angolan writer Pepetela. Open Q&A
“Lusofonia e Teoria Pós-colonial”, Russell Hamilton (Vanderbilt University) Seminar with Angolan writer Arlindo Barbeitos. Open Q&A
Congress about Situação da Mulher Escritora em África e na América Latina, Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Intensive course on Swahili Language, Ridder Samson (Berlin Universität- Humboldt) Intensive course on Swahili Culture, Sauda Barwani (Hamburg Universität)
Intensive course on Swahili Literature, Ridder Samson (Berlin Universität- Humboldt) Seminars on Bantu Linguistics with Maddalena Toscano (Università di Napoli), and Matthias Brenzinger, (Köln Universität)
Seminar with Martin Lienhard, (Zürich Universität), about Padrões da Cosmologia Congo Meeting with experts in African Linguistics and Cultures, financed by the UE under the Programs Cameel and Eqquall
Intensive Course on Swahili Language, Eugeniusz Rzewuski (Warsaw University) Seminar with Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa. Open Q&A
Seminar with Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane. Open Q&A
International Congress on História e Situação da Educação em África e Timor
Conference on “Cooperação e Desenvolvimento” by João Belo (IPAD – Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento)
Graduate students of FCSH conference – “Imagens e Ressonâncias” Conference by Phillip Rothwell on Mia Couto (Rutgers University) Conference by Angolan writer Arlindo Barbeitos. Open Q&A
Conference by Marta Lança, editor of BUALA, site on Contemporary Africa. Open Q&A Tribute to Portuguese writer Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
Conference promoted with the FCSH African students association on Palops, democracia e transição democratica.
SELECTED INVITED SEMINARS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (1998-present) International Meeting on African Studies, Università di Napoli. Presentation of a report on the Portuguese situation in this scientific field. Italy
“A Viagem sob o Olhar Feminino em África”, Seminar on A Viagem nos Textos Africanos, Universidade de Lisboa. Portugal
Intensive Seminar on African Literature in Lusophone Countries, Mainz Universität. Germany
Seminar for Argentinean teachers about Literaturas Africanas, in the Universidade de Buenos Aires. Argentina
International Meeting on African Studies, Berlin-Humbolt Universität. Presentation of a report. Germany
International Meeting on African Studies (International MA on African Linguistics), Leipzig Universität. Presentation of a report. Germany
International Meeting on Ensino do Português em África, University of Brasília. Brasil Women Writers in Africa, Participation in Day Conference, University of London, King’s College, School of Advanced Studies. UK
Co-organization and participation as a panel coordinator in the Simpósio Internacional A Língua Portuguesa: inovação e diversidade, under invitation of the Instituto Camões. Portugal
Conferences on “Modernism and Modernity”; “Women writers in Africa”; “Postcolonial Theory and Lusophone Literature”. UC Berkeley, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. USA
“Women writers from Angola, Brasil and Portugal: a comparative approach”. University of Vanderbilt, Nashville. USA
Participation in a Program of Rádio Renascença, as a guest speaker, about “Educação em África”. Coordinated by the Lusophone Churches and the Evangelização e Culturas Foundation. Portugal
Participation in Meetings of European specialists for the evaluation of Projects under the Socrates, Comenius and Grundviq Programs for the EU. Portugal and Belgium
“Literaturas dos Países Lusófonos – um Percurso de Educação para a Cidadania”. Conference about the Mozambican writer Mia Couto promoted by Areal Editores. Portugal “O Português como Língua Segunda - Factores para o Sucesso ou Insucesso da Aprendizagem de Línguas”, Escola Secundária Paulo da Gama. Portugal
“Educational Challenges in newly independent states: memory and change”, UC Berkeley. USA
“Feminism and Postcolonial Theory in Portuguese Speaking Africa”, IV Wisps Conference, University of Liverpool. UK
“Ensino das Literaturas Africanas em Portugal”. Meeting promoted by the Angolan Embassy in Lisbon. Portugal
“História e ficção. Emergência de vozes autorais femininas”, public debates about Mozambican Literature at the Arte Café Perve. Portugal
“Língua, Cultura e Desenvolvimento”, Expo-Língua 2003. Portugal
“Escritoras Africanas: Diáspora e Exílio”. Universidade da Extremadura. Faculdade de Filosofia e Letras. Colóquio “Lusofonia e Viagem”. Spain
Participation, as a scientific coordinator and as a speaker, in the 1º Encontro Nacional de Professores de Português in the Cabo Verde; paper presented: “Bases para a Construção de um Quadro Teórico em Ensino de Português Língua Segunda”. Cabo Verde
“Evolution des modèles littéraires lusophones: les différentes faces du Modernisme”, Summer University in Lille3, about Migrations, Cultures de la Mobilité. France
“Utopian Eyes and Dystopian Writing in Angola”. Conference The force of language: the impact of European languages in former colonial territories, UC Berkeley. USA
“Orientalism and Angolan Literature”, Conference for the Portuguese Studies Program UC Berkeley. USA
“Ensino de Línguas, Cultura e Alteridades”, Universidade Central da Venezuela, Caracas. Venezuela
Conferences at the Universities of Johannesburg and Cape Town about “Postcolonial Theory” and “Lusophone African Literature”. South Africa
Course Teaching and Counseling for Portuguese Lecturers on Literary Theory & Literature Teaching and on African Studies, Portuguese Foreign Affairs – Instituto Camões. Portugal Lectures on “Portuguese Language & Multilingualism” and “Teachers’ training activities” in Guiné-Bissau (Invited by the Portuguese Foreign Affairs – Instituto Camões, the Portuguese Ambassador in Bissau, and the Guinean Ministry of Education). Guiné-Bissau
“State, Nation and Territory in Saramago and Ruy Duarte”, Georgetown University, Washington; Rutgers University. USA
“Gender and the Nation - Discussing Subject and Legitimacy in Luso-African Texts”, Portuguese Studies Program, UC Berkeley. USA
Participation in discussion panel at the Graduate Colloquium “Changing generations: word, space and image”, Spanish & Portuguese Department-UC Berkeley. USA
“Ethnography and Autography in Luso-African Texts”, York University, Toronto. Canada “Educação e Multilinguismo”, Lubango, Universidade Agostinho Neto. Angola
“Teoria Pós-colonial e Literatura Angolana”, Lubango, Universidade Agostinho Neto. Angola
“Política e Cultura Literária na África Lusófona”, Humboldt University, Berlin. Germany “Nation and Gender in Mozambican Literature”, Humboldt University, Berlin. Germany Address to the Berkeley Model of the United Nations, UC Berkeley. USA
“Beyond Good and Evil: Narrating the Atlantic in the late XVIth Century”, Rutgers University. USA
“Ethnographies from the Atlantic”, Rethinking Lusofonia in the 21st Century, Georgetown University. USA
“Português: Língua Global”, Rethinking Lusofonia in the 21st Century, Georgetown University (on behalf of Instituto Camões’ President). USA
“Ethnographies from the Atlantic”, APSA Congress, Yale University. USA
Participation in a Seminar on the work of Angolan writer Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, sponsored by the Portuguese Cultural Center in Luanda and the Ministry of Culture of Angola. Luanda. Angola
Conferences about “New Textualities”; “Postcolonial Theory” and “Ethnography and Literature” in the Cultural Center of the Portuguese Embassy, and in the University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo. Mozambique
“Postcolonial Theory”; “Ethnographic Fiction in Angola and Mozambique”. University of Botswana. Botswana
"Educational Challenges in Guiné-Bissau. Presentation and Discussion of a Project on Portuguese SL/FL”. University of London, SOAS. UK
“Ethnography and Fiction in Angola and Mozambique”. University of London, SOAS. UK “Material Culture and Literature in Sub-Saharan Africa-Women’s Voices”, WISPS XIIth Conference, University of London. UK
“Retour sur la mort du roman : exaltation du collage et impossibilités du postcolonial”. Poétique de la guerre : la mémoire du tuer, voir tuer et mourir. Université de Lille. France “Discussão de problemas teóricos e metodológicos no Ensino de Língua não Materna“ - I Workshop Internacional Sobre o Ensino da Lingua Portuguesa, Matemática e Disciplinas Afins. Praia. Cabo Verde
AFFILIATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS
CHAM (Portuguese Centre for Global History) APSA (American Portuguese Studies Association) ASA (African Studies Association)
MLA (Modern Language Association) RAS (Royal African Society)
