Dr. Alexandra Cheira is a researcher at CEAUL/ ULICES at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a PhD in English Literature and Culture, with a dissertation focussing on A. S. Byatt’s fiction and critical work. Her current areas of research include contemporary women’s writing, gender and women’s studies, and wonder tales. She has published articles and book chapters on A. S. Byatt’s fiction, The One Thousand and One Nights, the conteuses, Victorian women writers and contemporary gendered sexual politics. She is the editor of (Re)Presenting Magic, (Un)Doing Evil: Of Human Inner Light and Darkness (2012), Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt (2023), and Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Fiction (2023). She translated A. S. Byatt’s “Cold” into Portuguese and wrote an introduction to the tale for Contar um Conto/ Storytelling (2014), an anthology of short fiction by contemporary British and Irish authors in translation.
Yan Dr. Alexandra Cheira
Presentation Title: Gender, Exclusion, Transphobia, Murder, Memory, Change: Remembering Gisberta Salce Eighteen Years Later
ULICES, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Past Speaker