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- Manuela Mourao
- Associate Professor
- English
- 413 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-4043
- mmourao@odu.edu
- Web Page
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Education
- University of Illinois,
1990
- Major: Comparative Literature
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Eastern Illinois University,
1985
- Major: English
- Degree: M.A.
- University of Porto,,
1984
- Degree: Licenciatura in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and German)
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Research Interests
- Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Critical Theory
Cultural Studies
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Expertise
- Literature
- Victorian Literature and Culture; 19thC British and World Literature; Critical Theory; Comparative Literature.
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Books
- Mourao, M. Mapping Race: the Personal as/is Historical.
- Mourao, M., and Jacobs, E. H. (2011). The Newgate Novel. In Blackwell Companion to Sensation Fiction.
- Mourao, M., and Jacobs, E. (2007). Jack Sheppard, by William Harrison Ainsworth. Edited, with a critical introduction and explanatory notes, by Edward Jacobs
and Manuela Mourão. Broadview Press.
- Mourao, M. (2002). Altered Habits: Reconsidering the Nun in Fiction. Gainesville: UP of Florida.
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Book Chapters
- Mourao, M. (2003). Comparative Literature in the United States. (pp. 131-141). Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies/ Purdue UP.
- Mourao, M. (1999). Comparative Literature Past and Present. In Comparative Literature Today: Theories and Practice/ La Littérature comparée d'aujourd'hui.
Théories et réalisations.. (pp. 165-172). Paris: Honoré Champion.
- Mourao, M. (1995). Intertextuality and Feminist Intervention in New Portuguese Letters. In New Readings of Spiritual Narrative from the Fifteenth
to the Twentieth Century: Secular Force and Self-Disclosure.. (pp. 93-121). Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press.
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Articles
- Mourao, M. `Remembrance of Things Past’: Literary Annuals’ Self-Historicization. Victorian Studies
- Mourao, M. (2011). Whitewash: Nationhood, Empire, and the Formation of Portuguese Racial Identity. Journal of Early-Modern Cultural Studies, 11 (1),
- Mourao, M. (2009). Early-Modern Portuguese Maps: Metaphors of Space, Spaces of Metaphor. Art and Cartography/Springer (pp. William Wright).
- Mourao, M. (2001). The Compromise of Enlightened Rationalism in Diderot's La Religieuse. Romance Quarterly, 48 (4), (pp. pp. 223-238).
- Mourao, M. (2001). Negotiating Victorian Feminism: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Short Fiction. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 20 (1), (pp. pp. 57-75.).
- Mourao, M. (2000). Comparative Literature in the United States. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: a WWW Journal, 2 (4),
- Mourao, M. (2000). Interrogating the Female Bildungsroman: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Marriage Fictions. Nineteenth-Century Feminisms (3), (pp. pp. 73-87).
- Mourao, M. (1999). The Representation of Female Desire in Early Modern Pornographic Texts: 1660-1745. Signs: a Journal of Women and Culture, 24 (3), (pp. pp. 573-602).
- Mourao, M. (1997). Delicate Balances: Gender and Power in Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Nonfiction. Women's Writing, 4 (1), (pp. 73-89).
- Mourao, M. (1992). Les Lettres Portugaises: Passion, Writing and Transgression. Anais UTAD, 4 (1),
- Mourao, M. (1991). The Abbess of Crewe: Surveillance, Deception, and the Convent. Actas do XII Encontro da APEAA
- Mourao, M. (1991). Nuns in British Fiction: Study of a Stereotype. Revista da Associacão Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, 1 (1),
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Presentations
- Remembrance of Things Past: Literary Annuals’Self-Historicization
- Conference Name: Virginia Commonwealth University
- Sponsoring Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University
- Location: Richmond, VA
- Date: September, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Remembrance of Things Past: Literary Annuals’Self-Historicization
- Conference Name: Purdue University
- Sponsoring Organization: Purdue University
- Location: West-Lafayette, IN
- Date: September, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Ainsworth’s Jack Sheppard: Playing in the Streets
- Conference Name: University of Iowa
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Iowa
- Date: April, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
Jacobs, E.
- Consuming Jack Sheppard
- Conference Name:
- Location: Orlando, FL
- Date: November, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
Jacobs, E.
- Romanticism, Historicism, and the Case for Literary Annuals
- Conference Name: University of Wales
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Wales
- Date: June, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Anne Thackeray Ritchie and the Periodical Press: the Case of the Cornhill Magazine
- Conference Name:
- Date: November 14, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Anne Thackeray Ritchie and/in the Periodical Press
- Conference Name: Special International Conference at the University of Glasgow
- Sponsoring Organization: Special International Conference at the University of Glasgow
- Date: July 30, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- As If There Were No More Secret Bower’: the Liminal Space of the Convent in the Early-Modern Era
- Conference Name:
- Location: Philadelphia; Norfolk
- Date: November, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Evil Abbesses and Naïve Victims: the Perverse Aesthetic of the Nun in the Romantic Period
- Conference Name:
- Location: New Orleans
- Date: November 19, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- A Difficult Art to Learn': Women and Sex in the Early Modern Era
- Conference Name:
- Location: Miami, FL
- Date: October, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Representing Female Desire: The Case of Chorier's Dialogues
- Conference Name:
- Location: Dublin
- Date: July 31, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- The Construction of Gender in Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Critical Discourse
- Conference Name:
- Location: Davis, Ca
- Date: March 29, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- The Compromise of Enlightened Rationalism In Diderot's La Réligieuse
- Conference Name:
- Location: Savannah, GA
- Date: November 10, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Delicate Balances: Gender and Power in Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Nonfiction
- Conference Name:
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Date: December 30, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- The Convent as Site of Resistance in the Early-Modern Era
- Conference Name:
- Location: Dallas, TX
- Date: October 8, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Anne Thackeray's Feminist Essays: Literary and Social
- Conference Name: Old Dominion University
- Sponsoring Organization: Old Dominion University
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: April 4, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Negotiating Radicalism: the Rhetorical Function of George Sand's Prefaces
- Conference Name:
- Location: San Diego, CA
- Date: December 30, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Writing For Revolution: The Three Marias' Postmodern Discourse in Fascist Portugal
- Conference Name:
- Location: Baltimore, MA
- Date: November 13, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Remapping the Discipline, Renewing the Field: What Future for Comparatists?
- Conference Name:
- Location: Raleigh, NC
- Date: October 1, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Postmodernism and Cross-Cultural Relations: Toward a Comparative Approach
- Conference Name:
- Location: Edmonton, Canada
- Date: August, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Authorial Ambivalence in Anne Thackeray's Nonfiction
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: May, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- The Forms of Pornography and Social Criticism: a Cross-Cultural Reading
- Conference Name:
- Location: Birmingham, AL
- Date: March, 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- The Politics of Representation: Feminist Issues from Literary Perspectives
- Conference Name: Old Dominion University
- Sponsoring Organization: Old Dominion University
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: October, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Pornography: The Stalled Debate
- Conference Name: Old Dominion University
- Sponsoring Organization: Old Dominion University
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: October, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- The Abbess of Crewe: Surveillance, Deception and the Convent
- Conference Name: Universidade do Minho
- Sponsoring Organization: Universidade do Minho
- Location: Braga, Portugal
- Date: April, 1991
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Les Lettres Portugaises: Passion, Writing and Transgression
- Conference Name: Universidade de Tras-os-Montes
- Sponsoring Organization: Universidade de Tras-os-Montes
- Location: Vila Real, Portugal
- Date: March, 1991
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- Theme Studies in Historical Contexts: `Don Juan' from Tirso de Molina to Byron
- Conference Name: University of Iowa
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Iowa
- Location: IA
- Date: October 13, 1989
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
- The Erotics of Fascism: A Reading of Michel Tournier's Le roi des aulnes
- Conference Name:
- Location: Cincinnati, OH
- Date: May 5, 1989
- Authors/Presenters:
Mourao, M.
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Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits
- Selections from Whitewash and Erosion
- Type: Art - Exhibition, One-Person
- Sponsor: Sandler Center for the Performing Arts
- Location: Virginia Beach, VA
- Cross-References
- Type: Other
- Name of Performing Group: Manuela Mourao and May Britton
- Sponsor: Lorrie Saunders Art Gallery
- Location: Norfolk, VA, USA
- zoomandscale
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Academy of Fine Arts
- Location: Vienna
- Whitewash
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Selden Gallery
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- The New World Exhibit
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Charles H. Taylor Art Center
- Location: Hampton, VA
- By Our Heirs Forever: New Waves 2007
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
- Location: Virginia Beach, VA
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research