ARUS Network

The ARUS network brings together, from a variety of countries, scholars doing Utopian Studies. The network is organized per country and aims at facilitating the identification of the topics on which its members have been working, having in view the joint submission of international research projects.

Cristina Dodson-Castillón – Spain

  • University of Seville
  • Junior (< 10 years of experience )
  • Dystopian Studies; Utopian Studies; Science Fiction; Popular Culture; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; Feminism; Contemporary Fiction; Fantasy Fiction

 Dr Caroline Edwards – United Kingdom

  • Lecture in Modern & Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Junior (< 10 years of experience )
  • Contemporary literature, critical theory, Ernst Bloch, Herbert Marcuse, Science Fiction

Idit – Israel

  • Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning-Technion
  • Junior (< 10 years of experience )
  • Kibbutz; spatial planing; social order; utopian space

Iolanda Ramos – Portugal

  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa
  • Senior (> 20 years experience)
  • Utopia, Cultural Studies, Translation, Victorian Studies, Neo-Victorianism, English Studies, Ruskin Studies

Kais A. Kadhim – Malásia

  • Assistance Professor
  • Senior (> 20 years experience)
  • translation, culture , discourse studies and linguistics

Lucas Emmanuel Misseri – Argentina

  • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
  • Intermediate (> 10 and < 20 years of experience)
  • Literary Utopias, Renaissance Utopias, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Contemporary Utopianism

Rogério Bianchi de Araújo – Brazil

  • Universidade Federal de Goiás – Campus Catalão
  • Intermediate (> 10 and < 20 years of experience)
  • Utopia, distopia, pensamento complexo, cinema, literatura, antropologia, Ciências Sociais, transdisciplinaridade, imaginário

Join ARUS

If you are a (junior or senior) researcher in the field of Utopian Studies, join in by emailing us in English to arus@letras.up.pt. Please tell us your country, affiliation, seniority, research keywords and languages you are fluent in, as well any additional information you consider relevant.

ARUS Portugal

Publications by Hélio Alves Hélio Alves was the author of many remarkable books and other printed material, those more closely linked with Utopia being ‘Utopia e Jacobinismo na Inglaterra do ...

ARUS Brazil

The annexes below supplement the information provided by Ildney Cavalcanti on research currently conducted in Brazil in the field of Utopian Studies (cf. “Utopian Studies in Brazil: roots and ...

ARUS Spain

This supplements the information on research conducted in Spain in the field of Utopian Studies provided by Elizabeth Russell in the article “Utopian Studies in Spain” (Utopian Studies, Vol. 27, ...

ARUS Italy

This supplements the information on research conducted in Italy in the field of Utopian Studies provided by Vita Fortunati in the article “Italian Research on Utopia and Utopism” (Utopian ...

ARUS USA

This supplements the information on research conducted in the United States on Thomas More’s Utopiaprovided by Annette M. Magid in the article “Thomas More in America” (Utopian Studies, Vol. 27, ...