Apresentação Pessoal

Jorge Bastos da Silva teaches in the Department of Anglo-American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto. His main fields of research are English Literature and Culture, Intellectual History, Utopian Studies and Translation Studies. He is the author and editor of several works, among which:

 
. Em Torno de Walter Scott. Problemáticas de Identidade, 2021;

. Anglolusofilias. Alguns Trânsitos Literários, 2018;
. English Literature and the Disciplines of Knowledge, Early Modern to Eighteenth Century: A Trade for Light (2017);
. Tradução e Cultura Literária. Ensaios sobre a Presença de Autores Estrangeiros em Portugal (2014);
. The Epistemology of Utopia: Rhetoric, Theory and Imagination (2013);

. Vasco José de Aguiar, Utopista Português do Século XIX (2010);

. A Instituição da Literatura. Horizonte Teórico e Filosófico da Cultura Literária no Limiar da Modernidade (2010);

. Shakespeare no Romantismo Português. Factos, Problemas, Interpretações (2005);

. Utopias de Cordel e Textos Afins. Uma Antologia (2004);

. O Véu do Templo. Contributo para uma Topologia Romântica (1999).

As a translator, he has published an annotated version of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria (2012), as well as other works.

He is the current editor of Op. Cit.: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies, https://sites.google.com/site/opcitapeaa/home.

He is the President of APEAA -- the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies.

For further information, see https://sites.google.com/site/jorgebastosdasilva/.