ANA MARTINS
I am a Portuguese scholar (she/her) in the Humanities with 20 years of experience in the British Higher Education system. I hold an MA and a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Manchester, as well as a BA (first class) in Portuguese and English Literary Studies from the University of Coimbra. I have worked for the University of Cambridge, King's College London, and University of Exeter, where I was a tenured faculty member until August 2024. The majority of my research interests lie in critical theory, gender and sexuality, race, feminism, and women's writing in Portuguese. I was born in 1979 in Castelo Branco, Portugal. I have two children and I cultivate a passion for writing.
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Book
Magic Stones and Flying Snakes
This book is the first to identify an important theoretical overlap between Anglo-Saxon and Lusophone postcolonial theories: the systematic neglect of gender and sexual variables in the analysis of the marketing of cultural difference in the post colonial era. Drawing on the theoretical work of Graham Huggan and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the author of this study discusses the political significance of this neglect by focusing on the asymmetrical positions occupied by two widely acclaimed Lusophone women writers, Paulina Chiziane of Mozambique andLídia Jorge of Portugal. The book asks how these two contemporary writers deal with master narratives such as Lusofonia, exoticism, capitalism and post colonialism in their novels, and examines the implications of placing gender and sexual difference at the heart of the ‘postcolonial exotic’.
Teaching
As a lecturer, I particularly enjoy small group teaching. I inspire my students to think for themselves and to find their individual voices as consumers and producers of culture. I aim to strike a balance between technical competency, ethics, and care, training students to reflect not only on how and what they know, but also on how they care for the Self, the Other and the Planet. I particularly enjoy small group coaching and blended learning.
Creative Writing
I am an emerging creative writer with a few short stories to share.
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