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Alexandra Lopes is Associate Professor at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies. She is currently vice-dean at the School of Human Sciences. She has published a number of essays on culture and translation studies in Portuguese and international volumes, as well as a handful of translations of literature (works by Salman Rushdie, William Boyd, Herta Müller and Peter Handke). She co-edited The Age of Translation. Early 20th-century Concepts and Debates (2017) and Mediations of Disruption in Post-conflict Cinema (2016). In the course of 2020, she is editing a volume of essays on Translation, Resistance & Cosmpolitanism, as well as co-editing two other volumes: Mudam-se os Tempos, Mudam-se as Traduções? Reflexões sobre os Vínculos entre (R)evolução e Tradução (co-edited with Maria Lin Moniz) and Translation and Exoticism. Inventing the Other in Literature (co-edited with Marie-Hélène Torres). Areas of interest: Translation History; Literary Translation; Cultural Theory; Autobiography.
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Projects
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Lugares de O'Neill
Meirim, J. (PI), Quadrio, M.-P. (Researcher) & Lopes, A. (Researcher)
4/12/18 → 3/12/19
Project: Research
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A place of their own: intellectuals, exiles & the production of knowledge through translation
Maia, R. B. & Lopes, A., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Target.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A educação cosmopolita. Imagens do outro na literatura infantojuvenil traduzida em Portugal (1940-1974)
Lopes, A., 2022, Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as traduções? Reflexões sobre os vínculos entre (r)evolução e tradução. Lopes, A. & Moniz, M. L. (eds.). Lisboa: Universidade Católica Editora, p. 152-173 22 p. (Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Introdução: elogio de babel como espaço de dispersão
Lopes, A. & Moniz, M. L., 2022, Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as traduções? Reflexões sobre os vínculos entre (r)evolução e tradução. Lopes, A. & Moniz, M. L. (eds.). Lisboa: Universidade Católica Editora, p. 6-13 8 p. (Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
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Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as traduções? Reflexões sobre os vínculos entre (r)evolução e tradução
Lopes, A. (Editor) & Moniz, M. L. (Editor), 2022, Lisboa: Universidade Católica Editora. 284 p. (Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura)Translated title of the contribution :Changing times change translations? Reflections on the links between (r)evolution and translation Research output: Book/Report › Edited book › peer-review
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Who’s afraid of Jane Eyre? translating as reframing in the Portugal of the 1940s and 1950s
Lopes, A., 1 Jan 2022, Reframing translators, translators as reframers. Faria, D., Pinto, M. P. & Moura, J. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Taylor and Francis AS, p. 257-279 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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43rd APEAA Meeting – Cultures of the Self. Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
Faria, R. (Organiser), Faria, R. (Member of programme committee), Lopes, A. (Member of programme committee), Gonçalves, D. (Member of programme committee) & Martins, A. (Member of programme committee)
1 Jun 2023 → 3 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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XIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Future/Futures
Faria, R. (Organiser), Gil, I. C. (Organiser), Martins, A. (Organiser), Gonçalves, D. (Organiser), Pinto, P. C. (Organiser), Lopes, A. (Organiser), Abrantes, A. M. (Member of programme committee), Hanenberg, P. (Member of programme committee), Moura, J. (Member of programme committee), Maia, R. B. (Member of programme committee), Pinto, S. (Member of programme committee), Lindemann Lino, V. (Member of programme committee) & Santos, L. (Chair)
3 Jul 2023 → 8 Jul 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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I Lisbon Spring School in Translation Studies: translation is a many-splendored thing
Lopes, A. (Organiser) & Castanheira, M. Z. (Organiser)
13 Mar 2023 → 18 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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InterCECCtions
Boal, S. (Speaker), Lopes, A. (Speaker), Burnay, C. D. (Speaker) & Gonçalves, D. (Speaker)
23 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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UCP Editora (Publisher)
Anzini, P. (Editor), Meirim, J. (Editor) & Lopes, A. (Editor)
2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work