Apresentação Pessoal

Fátima Vieira is Vice-Rector of the Universidade do Porto (Culture, Museums, U.Porto Edições [publishing house]).

She is Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, where she started teaching in 1986. From 2012 to 2014, she held a seat at the General Board of the University of Porto, and has belonged to several Academic Boards since she has got her PhD, in 1998. She was the Director of the Department of Anglo-American Studies from 2008 to 2010 and the Chair of the Utopian Studies Society /Europe from 2006 to 2016. She is currently the Coordinator of the Porto branch of CETAPS – the Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology).

At CETAPS, she coordinates the research project “Mapping Utopianisms, and has contributed to “Shakespeare and the English Canon: A research and translation project” with annotated translations of The Tempest (2001) and As you like it (2007) for the publishing house “Campo das Letras” (she is now preparing a translation of Julius Caesar for the publishing house Relógio d’Água). 

At ILCML – Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, she was the Coordinator for the three editions of the research project “Literary Utopias and Utopian Thought: Portuguese Culture and the Western Literary Tradition” (2001-2010) funded by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) and is now the Coordinator of the multidisciplinary research project (also funded by the FCT) “Utopia, Food and the Future: Utopian Thinking and the Construction of Inclusive Societies – A Contribution from the Humanities”.

Fátima Vieira is also the director of the collection “Nova Biblioteca das Utopias”, of the Portuguese publishing house “Afrontamento”, and Book Review Editor for the North-American Journal Utopian Studies (edited by Penn State) since 2006.

From 2008 to 2010, Fátima Vieira coordinated the outreach project “Eurotopia 2100: An Interactive Project” (http://web2.letras.up.pt/eurotopia/), which involved more than 4,000 students of all ages who were invited to imagine what will the future be like. She is now the coordinator of “PAN-Utopia 2100: An Interactive Project “(http://panutopia.oxys.pt/), which is focused on fighting food waste, and also of “Utopia 500”, which started to be a multi-event programme for the commemoration of the 500^th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia in 2016, and hosts now three main projects: Ecotopia, Great Utopians – People with Ideas that have changed the world, and The Guest Book Project. She is also the coordinator of the project “Valongo, a utopian city”.

In 2008, the project STEPS-UP: Support for Teaching English in Primary Schools – University of Porto (pedagogical coordination: Maria Ellison:  administrative coordination: Fátima Vieira), won the European Language Label; in 2012, it was nominated by the European Commission as the “Best Language Portuguese Project for the Ten Past Years”.

In 2013, the American and Canadian Society for Utopian Studies selected Fátima Vieira as a recipient of the Larry E. Hough Distinguished Service Award.

Fátima Vieira has given many lectures in Portugal and abroad, has organized several international conferences, and has edited and contributed to several volumes in her main fields of study. She has taught in many universities across Europe within the framework of the Erasmus Mobility Exchange Programme, and also in Brazil. She has taught in several European programmes, including TEEME – Text and Event in Early Modern Europe, an international doctorate programme. She will also be part of the staff of the new joint doctorate programme MOVES – Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges, which will involve four more European universities: (Univerzita Karlova Praze, Université Montpellier III Paul Valéry, Freie Universität Berlin e University of Kent). She is also a member of the teaching staff of the European Intensive Programme New Faces.

Fátima Vieira has supervised over 30 MA and PhD theses.

For a full list of Fátima Vieira’s publications please see ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2733-1243

Media

Portuguese National TV


RTP1 / RTP3 - Bom dia Portugal - An interview on Migration, Culture and Education, 21 oct. 2018, available at: 
21 de outubro, available at (see minute 15 onwards)
https://www.rtp.pt/play/p4221/e370473/bom-dia-portugal-fim-de-semana/696349

RTP2 – Visita Guiada – “Vista Alegre”, 10 oct. 2016, available at https://www.rtp.pt/play/p2366/e253943/visita-guiada

RTP2 – Literatura Aqui – The translations of Thomas More’s Utopia into Portuguese – 19 april 2016, available at https://www.rtp.pt/play/p1990/e232458/literatura-aqui

RTP2 – Câmara Clara – “Utopia”, episode no. 25 (VII), 2012, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orz5nhqGz4U

TVU


Reportagem Conferência Marques da Silva 2018 (25 de outubro)
https://tv.up.pt/videos/_gmmvy14


Reportagem Jornadas Europeias do Património  (28 de setembro de 2018)
https://tv.up.pt/videos/pd8w7zsi


Reportagem a U.Porto na Feira do Livro (18 de setembro de 2018)
https://tv.up.pt/videos/hfbplvxf


Radio

BBC World Service – “The Forum” – special programme on Utopia, by Thomas More – dec. 2016, available at em http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04kj49d

Rádio Nova – interview about the French writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, 4 nov. 2016.

Parte I: http://www.radionova.fm/media/podcasts/12148

Parte II: http://www.radionova.fm/media/podcasts/12149

 

Podcasts

Programme Utopian Horizons, “An Introduction to Utopia”, march 2017, available https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/utopian-horizons/id1217015759