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 ...
Orientalism and Anglo-Portuguese (Post-)Colonial Relations
Macao was the first Western colony in China since around 1577 until the founding of Hong Kong in 1841-42. Especially after the arrival of the East India Company in China in 1700, ...