Professor and Head of Department

Email: p dot de-Medeiros at warwick dot ac dot uk

FAB 5.33
Faculty of Arts Building
University of Warwick
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About

Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of Modern and Contemporary World Literature, and teaches on the English and Comparative Literary Studies program. He was Associate Professor at Bryant College (USA) and Professor at Utrecht University (Netherlands) before moving to Warwick. In 2011-2012 he was Keeley Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford and in 2013 and 2014 President of the American Portuguese Studies Association. Current projects include a study on 'Challenges for World-Literature'.

Research interests

My research interests include Critical Theory, World Literatures, Modernism and Postcolonial Studies, and Lusophone Literatures and Film.

Teaching and supervision

Currently I am not accepting any new PhD supervisions.

I have taught in and/or convened the following:

EN122 Modes of Reading

EN123 Modern World LiteratureLink opens in a new window

EN2B0/EN3B0 The European Novel

EN320 DissertationLink opens in a new window

PH304 Textual StudiesLink opens in a new window

EN942 Fundamentals of World LiteratureLink opens in a new window

EN9B2 Infinite Modernisms: Pessoa, Kafka, ProustLink opens in a new window

EN 9C7 Critical Theory, Culture, ResistanceLink opens in a new window

PhD supervision in the areas of Critical Theory, European Modernism, Postcolonial Studies, Postimperial Memory, World Literatures.

Recent publications

For more see here Selected PublicationsLink opens in a new window or here CVLink opens in a new window

Books

• Pessoa's Geometry of the Abyss: Modernity and the Book of Disquiet. Oxford: Legenda and Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-909662-07-0
• O Silêncio das sereias (Ensaio sobre o Livro do Desasossego). Lisboa: Tinta da china, 2015. ISBN: 9789896712440

• Postcolonial Theory & Crisis. Co-editor with Sandra Ponzanesi. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2024. 264 pp. ISBN: 978-3-11-100571-3. Open AccessLink opens in a new window

  The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal: Fictional Aesthetics and Memory After Postmodernism. Co-editor with Ana Paula Arnaut. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 272 pp. ISBN: 979-8765100318.

  Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Prefácio a O Desaparecimento. Translation and Commentary, Paulo de Medeiros. PULSAR, Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, and Edições Afrontamento, 2023. 49 pp. ISBN: 978-972-36-2015-3.

• Saramago After the Nobel: Contemporary Readings of José Saramago's Late WorksLink opens in a new window. Co-editor with José N. Ornelas. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-78707-894-9.
• Contemporary Lusophone African Film: Transnational Communities and Alternative ModernitiesLink opens in a new window. Co-editor, with Livia Apa. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 9780367134976
• A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho. Rewriting the (Post)Colonial RemainsLink opens in a new window. Co-editor, with Brugioni, Elena and Grossegesse, Orlando. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020. 263 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78707-986-1.
• Modern Portuguese Poetry: Essays, Poems & TranslationsLink opens in a new window. Co-editor with Rosa Maria Martelo. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2020. 178 pp. ISBN: 978-1-83954-107-0

Articles

• de Medeiros, Paulo. “Lusophone African Cinema.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press, 2016—. Article published August 21, 2024.doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.1480.

Editorial Work

• Culture and ConflictLink opens in a new window. Book series (co-editors Isabel C Gil and Catherine Nesci). Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. ISSN 2194-7104.
• “Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking WorldLink opens in a new window” Book series (with Cláudia Pazos-Alonso). Oxford: Peter Lang. ISSN 22350144.
• Pessoa Plural: A Journal of Fernando Pessoa StudiesLink opens in a new window (Co-Editor with Onésimo Almeida and Jerónimo Pizarro). ISSN 2212-4179.
• E-LyraLink opens in a new window: A Journal of Comparative Poetics (with Rosa Maria Martelo). ISSN 2182-8954.
• Journal of Romance Studies, 24.2 (2024). Special Issue on Memory, Trauma, Politics. Guest Editor, Paulo de Medeiros. Print ISSN: 1473-3536, Online ISSN: 1752-2331.

Professional associations

• Past President of the American Portuguese Studies Association (2015 and 2016); President (2014 and 2013); Vice-President (2012 and 2011)
• BCLA
• International Comparative Literature Association

Qualifications

• BA (Political Science and English); MA (English) Massachusetts at Boston
• MA (Comparative Literature); PhD (Comparative Literature) Massachusetts at Amherst