Personal Presentation

Joana Caetano is a research member of CETAPS-Centre for English and Anglo-Portuguese Studies collaborator of U.Porto Press. She obtained her a PhD in Literary Studies with a thesis entitled Hainish Hospitalities: Ursula K. Le Guin's Constellation of Utopian Care at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, in 2023, with an FCT scholarship [Ref. SFRH/BD/140673/2018]. She also teaches a course on Utopian Studies at the same university.

She is the Executive Editor of Via Panorâmica: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos/ A Journal of Anglo-American Studies. She has published book chapters, reviews and articles in several scientific journals, namely Utopian Studies Journal, Cadernos de Literatura Comparada and BANG! Magazine, in which she has a column dedicated to Ursula K. Le Guin. 

From 2016 to 2019, Joana Caetano was the research assistant of the ALIMENTOPIA /Utopian Foodways Project, a project on Utopia, Food and the Future, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the European Programme Compete 2020 [Ref. POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016680 (PTDC/CPC-ELT/5676/2014)].