Professor and Head of Department

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

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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 Postimperial Europe.

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 welcome 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
• Co-edited Volumes:
• 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

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.
• Portuguese StudiesLink opens in a new window (co-editor). An MHRA Journal. ISSN 0267-5315 (print); 2222-4270 (online).
• 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.
• Fernando Pessoa and Translation. Co-edited with Jerónimo Pizarro. Special Issue of The Translator, 26.4 (2020).
• Via Atlântica 40 : A Literatura-Mundial e o Sistema-Mundial ModernoLink opens in a new window(with Mário Lugarinho and Emanuelle Santos. (2021). eISSN: 2317-8086.

Articles and Essays

• "Saramago and World-Literature". In 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. 35 - 52.
• "Introduction: Saramago After the Nobel" (with José N. Ornelas). In 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. 1 - 8.
• "Ilhas, ilhas, ilhas". Luso-Brazilian Review 59.1 (2022): 5-21.
• “Insidious invisibilities: World literature, ‘race’ and resistance”. Khan, Sheila, Can Nazir Ahmed, and Machado, Helena (eds.). Racism and Surveillance: Modernity Matters. Oxford: Routledge, 2022. 132- 149. DOI: 10.4324/9781003014300-8.
• "Dialética da Periferia: Formas de Resistência na Literatura-Mundial"Link opens in a new window (Dialectic of the Periphery: Forms of Resistance in World-Literature). Via Atlântica 40 (2021): 215-260. DOI: 10.11606/va.i40.190016.
• "Afro-política, (pós-)memória, pertença: Apontamentos para uma outra Europa". In A Cena da Pós-Memória: O presente do passado na Europa pós-colonial. Ed. António Sousa Ribeiro. Porto: Edições Afrontamento, 2021. 133-144.
• “Memory’s Ransom: Silences, Postmemory, Cinema.” ABRIL (UFF, Niterói) 13.27 (2021): 45-60. doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v13i27.51241.
• 'Introduction: Situating Lusophone African Cinema' (with Livia Apa). Medeiros, Paulo de, and Livia Apa (eds.). Contemporary Lusophone African Film: Transnational Communities and Alternative ModernitiesLink opens in a new window. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 9780367134976. 1-14.
• 'Lusophone African cinema as world cinema'. Medeiros, Paulo de and Livia Apa (eds.). Contemporary Lusophone African Film: Transnational Communities and Alternative ModernitiesLink opens in a new window. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 9780367134976. 15-32.
• 'Introduction: Fernando Pessoa and translation'. With Jerónimo Pizarro. Fernando Pessoa and Translation. Special Issue of The Translator, 26.4 (2020). pp. 317-323.
• 'Mia Couto and the Antinomies of World-Literature'. The Worlds of Mia Couto. Kristian Van Haesendonck (ed.). Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020. 11-31.
• 'Da ausência: Apontamentos para uma leitura materialista de Pessoa'. Vecchi, Roberto, and Russo, Vincenzo, (eds.). A Teoria Gentil. Lisboa: Glaciar, 2020, 95-108.
• 'Herança de sombras: Memória, Pós-Memória e Responsabilidade em Os Memoráveis de Lídia Jorge'. Colóquio-Letras 205. 2020. pp. 79-97.
• 'Transnational Pessoa'. In: Transnational Portuguese Studies. Owen, Hilary and Williams, Claire, (eds.). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. pp. 299-316. ISBN 9781789621396.
• 'Caring for the Sacred Heart : Eliete, memory, and (im)possible returns, or a politics of banality.' Portuguese Studies, 36.1 (2020): pp. 32-48. doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.1.0032
• 'Détection, damage and resistance : on Sara Gran's Claire DeWitt's novels'. In: Sampaio, Maria de Lurdes and Villas-Boas, Gonçalo, (eds.) Cherchez les femmes: estudos de literatura policial. Porto: Afrontamento, 2020, pp. 279-296. ISBN 9789723618150.
• 'Fernando Pessoa, Singularity, and World Literature', in A Companion to World Literature, Ed. Ken Seigneurie, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0263.
• 'The drowning of time : ecological catastrophe, dialectics, and allegorical realism in João Paulo Borges Coelho's Ponta Gea and Água: uma novela rural'. In: Brugioni, Elena, Grossegesse, Orlando, and de Medeiros, Paulo, (eds.) A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho. Rewriting the (Post)Colonial Remains. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020, pp. 219-247.
• 'Beauty, power, and desire: Notes on Ana Luísa Amaral’s poetics' Journal of Romance Studies 19.3 (2019): 469-485. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2019.29.
• 'Poetry, Resistance, World-Literature: Adília Lopes and Marie Buck. e-Lyra 14. December 2019, 119-140.
  ISSN 2182-8954. https://elyra.org/index.php/elyra/article/view/309.
• '11 1/2 Teses sobre o conceito de Literatura-Mundial' ('11 1/2 Thesis on the Concept of World-Literature'). Via Atlântica 35 (2019): 307-331. https://www.revistas.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/153796.
• 'Lusophone Cinemas in Transnational Perspective' In: Leite, Ana Mafalda and Owen, Hilary and Sapega, Ellen W and Secco, Tindó, (eds.) Postcolonial Nation and Narrative III: Literature & Cinema. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019, pp. 21-34. ISBN 978-1-78707-581-8.

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
• MHRA

Qualifications

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