Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Anglo-American Studies
E-mail: mvieira@letras.up.pt
Phone: +351 22 6073261
Postal address: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Via Panorâmica, s/n, 4150-564 Porto, Portugal
Publications: Full bibliography
Fátima Vieira is Associate Professor (with “Agregação”) at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, where she has taught since 1986. She was the Chairperson of the Utopian Studies Society /Europe from 2006 to 2016. In 2013, the American and Canadian Society for Utopian Studies selected her as a recipient of the Larry E. Hough Distinguished Service Award. She currently coordinates the Porto branch of CETAPS – the Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies – where she directs 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). She also supervises a group of doctoral students active in the field of the Digital Humanities. At ILCML – Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa – she coordinated three editions of the project “Literary Utopias and Utopian Thought: The Portuguese Culture and the Western Literary Tradition” (2001-2010) and currently coordinates the multidisciplinary project ALIMENTOPIA/Utopian Foodways. Fátima Vieira is also the director of the series “Nova Biblioteca das Utopias” (Afrontamento), and Book Review Editor for the Journal Utopian Studies (Penn State).
Fátima Vieira’s research interests include Utopian Studies, Food Studies, Sustainability and Wellbeing Studies, Shakespeare Studies, Literary Translation Studies and the Digital Humanities.
Fátima Vieira will co-supervise one MOVES research project: “Intermediation, Intercommunication: Go-Betweens and Translators”.