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Manuel Sousa Oliveira is a PhD candidate at the University of Porto, and a Doctoral Research Fellow at the “Mapping Utopianisms” research area of the Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) with funding by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (ref. UI/BD/151368/2021). For the 2022 Fall semester, he will be a visiting scholar at the University of Ferrara, Italy. His doctoral project is on ethics and utopianism in the contemporary period. Recently, he earned his MA degree in Anglo-American Studies from the same institution with a dissertation on Paul Auster. In 2018, he collaborated with the ALIMENTOPIA – Utopian Foodways research project as a trainee. He is currently the international spokesperson for the Emerging Scholars’ Forum (NWF) of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS), and the coordinator of the new International Network of Emerging Scholars in Canadian Studies. He received two research grants from Porto’s Portuguese British Association (ALBdoP), both in 2019, and two Margaret Atwood Society Awards, most recently in 2021. His additional research interests include feminism, queer theory, ecocriticism, the digital humanities, poetry, and Irish studies.

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