Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

Spanish Program (with Portuguese and Catalan)

Dr Isabel Moutinho

Lecturer Room: Humanities 3 113 Tel: (61 3) 9479 1117 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1453 Email: I.Moutinho@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: LicLetras Lisbon, MA Melb, PhD La Trobe

Teaching: Intermediate and avanced Spanish language. Latin American culture. Spanish and Latin American literature. Portuguese language, literature and culture. Postcolonial identities in the Spanish and Portuguese context. Contemporary European culture.

Research Interests: Contemporary Portuguese fiction. Cultural memory and identity. Postcolonial literatures. African fiction from the Portuguese-speaking countries. Latin American (especially Colombian) literature.

>>Research Projects

Tracing the presence of black characters in the contemporary Portuguese (and European) novel. Globalisation and literature.

>>Research Publications

The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction. Tamesis, 2008
'Exile at the edges of empire.' Creativity in Exile, ed. Michael Hanne. 2004
‘Globalisation uncovered: what are the hallmarks in literature.’ International Journal of the Humanities, 1 (2003): 1513-1523
'Images of Africa in contemporary narrative in Portuguese.' The Paths of Multiculturalism, ed. M.A. Seixo et al. 2000
'A Crónica segundo José Saramago', Colóquio/Letras, 151/152 (1999) - Special Issue to commemorate the awarding of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature to José Saramago, pp. 81-92
Volume co-edited: The Paths of Multiculturalism, edited by Maria-Alzira Seixo, John Noyes, Graça Abreu, and Isabel Moutinho. Lisboa: Cosmos, 2000

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