Orientalism and Anglo-Portuguese (Post-)Colonial Relations

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Anglophone Cultures and History

The Anglophone Cultures and History Research Area is devoted to the study of British and American Cultures and is divided into two complementary strands: Research Strand A) Culture, Science and ...

Anglo-Portuguese Studies

Anglo-Portuguese Studies is one of CETAPS’s founding research areas. It was launched in 1981 under the coordination of Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa. As made clear by its title, the research ...

Mapping Utopianisms

The team was created in 2004 after the 5th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe held in Porto. This event brought together a concentration of Portuguese academics ...

Relational Forms: Medial and Textual Transits in Ireland and Britain

This research group is defined by a commitment to forms of textual transit, cultural transfer, and intermediality. Temporally, it focuses on modern and contemporary literatures and cultures, ...

Shakespeare and The English Canon: History, Criticism, Translation

This research group is located at the University of Porto and belongs to CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies), a centre committed to the study of the cultures ...

Translation, Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies

This research area works within teacher education (covering primary/basic, secondary and tertiary education in Portugal) and provides “add-on value” to CETAPS in terms of research in the field ...

Research Strands

Culture, Science and the Media

Due, in part, to the growing interest in projects involving the relationships between Life Sciences and Social Sciences, the activities of this strand address and foster the examination of the ...

American Intersections

This research strand aims to advance the understanding of cultural realities in the United States from a broad thematic and interdisciplinary perspective, examining how questions of place, ...

Intercultural studies in second language education

The rationale for our focus highlights the imperative of researching the intercultural dimension in language education and the concepts that underpin it. As greater diversity and rapid ...

Teacher education and curriculum studies in second language education

Teacher education and curriculum studies is a research strand that focuses on teacher education in second/foreign language education and curriculum studies in Portugal. It encompasses research ...

Translationality

Translation is poised to become the metaphor of our times. Things change, metamorphose, become other. But the dynamic is not random; the new is always modelled on the old, reformed in accordance ...

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

Working CLIL – a research strand of the area Translation, Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies – TEALS, at CETAPS – brings together practitioners, researchers and teacher educators to ...