Isabel Capeloa Gil
Isabel Capeloa Gil is Full Professor of Culture Studies at the School of Human Sciences and the 6th Rector of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP).[1] She studied in Lisbon (University of Lisbon), Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University) and Chicago and holds a PhD in German Studies from UCP. Previously, she was Vice-Rector for Research and Internationalization (2012–2016) and the Dean of the School of Human Sciences (2005–2012),[2]
Biography
Having grown up in Asia (Macao), Isabel Gil has a special interest in researching issues of diversity and conflict and has structured her work around the exploration of the disciplinary boundaries between literature, the arts and other disciplines. She is furthermore a passionate advocate of international education and has worked consistently to develop international research networks, exploring the different ways in which the practice of the arts and humanities is pivotal to advance a more sustainable and intellectually robust global education agenda.[3]
She was a founding member and is a senior researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), where she coordinated the research group Culture, Art and Citizenship (CULTCIT). Isabel Gil is furthermore Honorary Fellow at the IGRS, School of Advanced Studies, University of London and holds a position as Invited Professor at USJ (Macao). An advocate of strengthening doctoral education, she has been involved with the Council for Doctoral Education at the European University Association. Isabel Gil has held several visiting professorships in Germany (Saarbrücken, Munich, Hamburg), Ireland (National University of Ireland), Italy (Univ. Ca Foscari, Venice), Brazil (PUC-Rio de Janeiro) and in the US.
As an evaluator, she has worked for the Portuguese National Accreditation Agency, the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, the Research Council for the Humanities of the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, FAPESP in Brazil, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft as well as the Fulbright Commission.
She believes firmly that global engagement in higher education is key to advance stronger values for a more equitable world.
Works (selected)
Her research has been published in Portuguese, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. She is the author of over 140 publications, bridging cultural theory, interarts studies, visual culture and culture and conflict and her work has been published in New German Critique, Dedalus or Colloquia Germanica, amongst many others journals.
Books
- (2007). Mitografias. Figurações de Antígona, Cassandra e Medeia no Drama de Expressão Alemã do Século XX, Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda.
- (2008). Fleeting, Floating, Flowing: Water Writing and Modernity, Würzburg
- (2011). Literacia Visual. Estudos sobre a Inquietude das Imagens, Lisboa.
- (2014). The Cultural Life of Money, De Gruyter
- (2015). Hazardous Future, De Gruyter
- (2016). Humanidade(s), Considerações Radicalmente Contemporâneas, Coleção Argumento, Lisboa.
Edited books
- (2001). (with Teresa Seruya, Mónica Dias), Contradições Electivas. Actas do Colóquio Comemorativo dos 250 Anos do Nascimento de J.W.Goethe, Lisboa.
- (2003). (with Richard Trewinnard, Mª Laura Pires), Landscapes of Memory. Envisaging the Past/Remembering the Future , Lisboa.
- (2007). Poéticas da Navegação, Lisboa.
- (2008). Fleeting, Floating, Flowing. Water Writing and Modernity , Würzburg.
- (2009). Identidade Europeia. Identidades na Europa , Lisboa.
- (2010). (with Peter Hanenberg, Fernando Clara, Filomena Guarda), Kulturbau. Aufräumen, Einräumen, Ausräumen , Zurich.
- (2010). (with Peter Hanenberg, Fernando Clara, Filomena Guarda), Rahmenwechsel Kulturwissenschaften , Würzburg
- (2010). (with Manuel Cândido Pimentel), Simone de Beauvoir. Olhares Sobre a Mulher e o Feminino, Lisboa.
- (2012). (with Adriana Martins), Plots of War. Modern Narratives of Conflict, Series Culture and Conflict, Berlim, New York.
- (2013). (with Peter Hanenberg), Der literarische Europa-Diskurs , Würzburg.
- (2015). (with Helena Gonçalves Silva), The Cultural Life of Money, Series Culture and Conflict , Berlin, New York.
- (2015). (with Christoph Wulf), Hazardous Future: Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk , New York.
Scientific articles
- (1994). Caos e Metamorfose: Uma Leitura da Dança na Obra de Hugo von Hofmannsthal]", Runa nº20, 2/93, pp.151–160 .[4]
- (1995). "Antigonae – Antigone. Uma leitura de Hölderlin e Claus Bremer", Runa, nº22,2/1994, pp. 99–114.[5]
- (2000). "Tot sein und atmen... O complexo de Antígona no romance Malina de Ingeborg Bachmann", Runa, nº23–24, 1995, pp. 309–325.[6]
- (2000). „Poiesis, Tanz und Repräsen-Tanz. Zu Hugo von Hofmannsthals Ariadne auf Naxos", Colloquia Germanica, Bd. 33, 2/2000, pp. 149–162.
- (2000). "Antigone and Cassandra: Gender and Nationalism in German Literature", Orbis Litterarum. International Review of Literary Studies, Vol.55, 2/2000,pp. 118–134.[7]
- (2003). „Komm mit, o Schöne, Komm mit mir zum Tanze’ Die Geschlechtspolitik und die Ort des Tanzes in Texten J.W.Goethes", Runa, 28/1999-2000, pp. 131–148.
- (2006). „Schweig und tanze!” Textos no Limite da (Re)Presentação. A Palavra e o Gesto no Drama de Franz Werfel, Eberhard Pannwitz e Hugo von Hofmannsthal", Dedalus, nº 9, 2004, pp. 91–117.
- (2009). "O que significa Estudos de Cultura? Um diagnóstico cosmopolita sobre o caso da Cultura Alemã", Revista de Comunicação e Cultura, nº6, 2009, pp. 137–166.[8]
- (2010). "The Visuality of Catastrophe in Ernst Jünger’s Der gefährliche Augenblick and Die veränderte Welt", Kulturpoetik, 10,1, 2010, pp.62–84.
- (2011). (with João Ferreira Duarte), Fluid Cartographies – New Modernities Special Monographic Issue, Journal of Romance Studies, Vol.11, Issue 1, Spring 2011.
- (2011). "Savages and Neurotics. Freud at the Colonial School", Journal of Romance Studies, Vol.11.3, 2011, pp. 27–42.[9]
- (2011). "A Question of Scale? Lázló László Almásy's Desert Mapping and Its Postcolonial Rewriting" Journal of Romance Studies, Vol.11.1.[10]
- (2011). "Fuss-Karrieren: Der Schuh von Baudelaire bis Warhol", Paragrana. Zeitschrift für historische Anthropologie 21.2, 2011, pp. 1–23.
- (2013). "Fragile Matters. Literature and the Scene of Torture" in New German Critique, 127, Feb. 2016, pp. 119–140.[11]
Chapters in books
- (2002). "Bodies Beyond the Fall. The Allure of Dolls from Rilke to Salman Rushdie", in Ana Gabriela Macedo, Orlando Grossegesse (eds.), Re-Presentações do Corpo Re-Presenting the Body, Braga: Universidade do Minho, Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, pp. 47–66
- (2005). "Nemesi's City. Urban Casualties and the Modernist Novel", in Manfred Schmeling, Monika Schmitz-Emans (eds.), Modernist Landscapes, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 215–232.
- (2006). "Jede Frau ist eine Tänzerin ... The Gender of Dance in Weimar Culture" in Christiane Schönfeld, Carmel Finnan (eds.), Practicing Modernity. Female Creativity and Weimar Germany, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 218–241.
- (2007). "Die Schwere. Ein Versuch über Macht und Tanz" in Christoph Wulf, Gabriele Brandstetter (eds.), Tanz als Anthropologie, Munique: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, pp. 64–84.
- (2008). "Sentimental Physics: Gottfried Benn, Heisenberg, & Co." in Monika Schmitz-Emans, Manfred Schmeling (eds.), Literature and Science, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 177–192.
- (2008). "Stemming the Tide ... Carl Schmitt and Ernst Jünger’s Reactionary Modernism" in António Sousa Ribeiro, Maria Irene Ramalho (eds.), Translocal Modernisms, Zurich: Peter Lang, pp. 185–212.
- (2009). "Le voyeur dans la nuit. L’esthétique nocturne d’Egar Allan Poe" in Alain Montandon (ed.), Promenades Nocturnes, Paris : L’Harmattan, pp. 61–84.
- (2011). "Monks, Managers and Celebrities. Refiguring the European University" in Barbie Zelizer (ed.), Making the University Matter, Londres: Routledge, pp. 73–83.
- (2012). "The Visual Literacy of Disaster in Ernst Jünger’s Photo Books" in Carsten Meiner, Kristin Veel (eds), The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises, Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, pp. 147–176.
- (2012). "This is (Not) It! Rate, Rattle and Roll in the Struggle for Financial Narratives" in Ansgar Nünning, Kai Sicks (eds.), Turning Points. Concepts and Narratives of Change in Literature and Other Media, Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 191–212.
- (2013). "The Risk Doctrine. On Money, Uncertainty and Literature" in Monika Schmitz-Emans, (ed), Literatur als Wagnis/Literature as Risk. DFG Symposium 2011, Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 239–263.
- (2014). "Visual recall in the present. Critical nostalgia and the memory of empire in Portuguese culture" in Naomi Segal, Daniela Koleva (eds.), Cultural Literacy in Europe, London: Palgrave, 2014, pp. 25–52.
- (2015). "Smuggling Lust. On the Cultural Re-Turn of Luxury" in Anders Michelsen, Frederik Tygstrup (eds.): Socioaesthetics:Ambiance – Imaginary, Amsterdam: Brill Publishers, pp. 202–220.
- (2016). "Seeing Voice. On the Cinematic Politics of Representation" in Alexandra Lopes, Adriana Martins (eds.), Mediations of Disruption in Postconflict Cinema, London: Palgrave, pp. 154–168
References
- ↑ "Isabel Capeloa Gil é a sexta Reitora da Universidade Católica". Entrevista à RTP – a partir do minuto 20. 29 October 2016.
- ↑ "Católica reafirma rumo e anuncia modernização digital". O Jornal Económico. 4 November 2016.
- ↑ "Curriculum Vitae Isabel Capeloa Gil" (PDF). Web page Universidade Católica Portuguesa. October 2016.
- ↑ "Caos e Metamorfose: Uma Leitura da Dança na Obra de Hugo von Hofmannsthal". Books Google.
- ↑ "Antigonae – Antigone. Uma leitura de Hölderlin e Claus Bremer". Web page Centro de Estudos Comparatistas.
- ↑ "Tot sein und atmen... O complexo de Antígona no romance Malina de Ingeborg Bachmann= Web page Biblioteca Universitária João Paulo II".
- ↑ "Antigone and Cassandra: Gender and Nationalism in German Literature". Orbis Litterarum. 55: 118–134. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0730.2000.d01-8.x.
- ↑ "O que significa Estudos de Cultura? Um diagnóstico cosmopolita sobre o caso da Cultura Alemã". Revista de Comunicação e Cultura, nº6, 2009, pp.
- ↑ "Savages and Neurotics. Freud at the Colonial School", Journal of Romance Studies". Liverpool University Press Online.
- ↑ "A Question of Scale? Lázló László Almásy's Desert Mapping and Its Postcolonial Rewriting". Conference Report on "After Writing Back: Present and Future Perspectives in Postcolonial Studies"- Giessen University.
- ↑ "Fragile Matters. Literature and the Scene of Torture" in New German Critique, 127, Feb. 2016, pp. 119–140". Duke University press.