Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Paul Melo e Castro

Lecturer in Portuguese

0113-343-0701

Publications

Single-Authored Books

Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photography. London: MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 2011

Book Chapters

'The Eye of the Photographer and the Foot of the Flâneur', in The Photobook. Patrizia di Bello, Colette Wilson and Shamoon Zamir (eds.), London: I.B. Tauris, 2012, pp.196-209 

'Aspects of the Representation of Lisbon on Screen' in The Cultural Identity of European Cities. Katia Pizzi and Godela Weiss-Sussex (eds.), Bern: Peter Lang, 2011, pp.185-204.

'Four Cases from 130 years of Portuguese Detective Fiction' in Iberian Crime Fiction. Nancy Vosberg (ed.) Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011, pp.116-144.

'Ainda bem que chegaste: Life, death and friendship in the detective novels of Francisco Jose Viegas' in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction: Essays on the Genero Negro Tradition. Renée W. Craig-Odders, Jacky Collins and Glen S. Close (eds.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2006, pp.123-140.

Journal Articles

'Malícias Orientais de José da Silva Coelho: Entre o Discurso e o Desejo Coloniais', Via Atlântica, 19 (2011), pp.87-102

'Eduardo Gageiro's Happy-Sad City: Humanist Street Photography and Lisboa no Cais da Memória:. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 88.4 (2011), pp.481-494.

(With Helder Garmes) 'Lirismo e Conservadorismo na Arena Política: o conto "Shivá, brincando..." da escritora goesa Maria Elsa da Rocha'. Revista Abril, 4.6 (2011), pp.77-87

'"E eu, que não conhecia nada": The Representation of Today's Goa in Catarina Mourão's A Dama de Chandor (1998)'. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 19 (2010), pp.165-180.

'Circling the City in Fernando Lopes's Belarmino (1964)'. Studies in European Cinema , 6:2&3 (2010), pp.179-189.

'José Cardoso Pires's Balada da Praia dos Cães, Historiographic Metafiction and the Detective Novel'. Romance Studies, 28.2 (2010) pp.130-140.

'Reading, Writing and Remembering the City: José Cardoso Pires's Lisboa, Livro de Bordo'. Journal of Romance Studies, 9.2 (2009) pp.101-115.

'Vimala Devi's Monção: The Last Snapshots of Colonial Goa'. Portuguese Studies 25:1 (2009) pp.46-64.

'Lisbon close up, seen from afar: The Representation of the City in Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas's Foreign Land (1996)", eSharp, Special Issue: New Waves and New Cinemas (2009), pp.22-40, www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_128007_en.pdf

'Umas Casas Portuguesas: Housing the Estado Novo in Cardoso Pires's Balada da Praia dos Cães', Textos e Pretextos 6 (2005) pp.32-45.

'Flânerie and Writing the City in Iain Sinclair's Lights out for the Territory, Edmund White's The Flâneur and José Cardoso Pires's Lisboa: Livro de Bordo'. Darwin College Research Reports 003; available online.

Translations

'Job's Children by Vimala Devi', The AALITRA Review, 3 (2011 ), pp.20-35; available online.

'Nâttak' by Vimala Devi. Metamorphoses, 18:1(2010), pp.44-58.

'The Cure' by Vimala Devi. Sojourn, 22(2009), pp.44-48.

Invited Lectures

2011 'Departures and Arrivals: "The Portuguese Soldier's Return" by Lambert Mascarenhas and "Um Português em Baga" by Epitácio Pais', Goa 1961 and Beyond, University of Goa, India

2010 'Three Fleeting Voices of Indo-Portuguese Literature', Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Alto Porvorim, India.

2009 'Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking World', European Identities Past and Present Public Lecture Series, University of Leeds.

2009 'The Intermittent Voices of Indo-Portuguese Short Fiction'. Invited Lecture. Centro do Insituto Camões, University of Leeds.

2008 'A Catalogue of Catastrophes: Non, Ou a Vã Glória de Mandar by Manoel de Oliveira (1992)'. Invited Lecture. Centro do Instituto Camões, University of Leeds.

2008 'The City and the Country: Oporto and Portugal in the films of Manoel de Oliveira'. Invited Lecture. Centro do Instituto Camões, University of Newcastle.

2007 'A Dama de Chandor (1998): Documenting the Last of Portuguese India', Invited Lectures at Centro de Instituto Camões at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and at Cambridge Hispanic Research Seminar, University of Cambridge.

2006 'Lisbon on Screen'. Invited Lecture. Cultural Identity of European Cities Series, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.

Other Research Activity 

Archive of Goan Writing in Portuguese

Research and Teaching Home Page 

Major Research Projects and Grants

2 year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

3 Year AHRC (PhD)

Newton Trust Award

Teaching

SPPO2410/1 Culture and Society in the Portuguese-Speaking World

SPPO2420/1 Introduction to Writing in Portuguese

SPPO3560 Postcolonial Narratives in Portuguese

Research Interests and Potential Postgraduate Supervision Topics

* Twentieth Century Portuguese Prose Fiction

* Lusophone Postcolonial Studies

* Cinema and Photography related to the Lusophone World

* Representations of Urban Space

* Short story

* Detective Fiction

School Responsibilities/Affiliations

World Cinemas Executive Committee

Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Exams Officer (Portuguese)