Renata Soares Junqueira is Bachelor (1987), Master (1992) and Doctor (2000) of Letters, in the area of Literary Theory, by State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Associate Professor (2010) and Full Professor (2018) by São Paulo State University (UNESP), where since 1994 she teaches Portuguese Literature at the College of Letters and Sciences in Araraquara's campus. She conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of Lisbon (2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2006-2007, 2007-2008), at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2010 and 2011) and at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto - ESAP ( 2013-2014). In the last thirteen years she has developed interdisciplinary research involving theater, cinema and literature. She published the books GLAUBER ROCHA AND MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA: epic cinema in Portuguese (São Paulo: Todas as Musas, 2019), THE EPIC CINEMA OF MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA (São Paulo: Perspectiva/FAPESP, 2018), AXEL'S TRANSFIGURATIONS: readings of modern theater in Portugal (São Paulo: UNESP, 2013), FLORBELA ESPANCA: an aesthetics of theatricality (São Paulo: UNESP, 2003). She organized the book MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA: A PRESENCE (São Paulo: Perspectiva/FAPESP, 2010) and co-organized THE THEATER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: PRESENCE OF ANTÔNIO JOSÉ DA SILVA, O JUDEU (São Paulo: Perspectiva/FAPESP, 2008 ); TRUTH, LOVE, REASON, DESERVING: things of the world and of those that in it live (Curitiba: Federal University of Paraná, 2005); PORTUGUESE INTELLECTUALS AND BRAZILIAN CULTURE: testimonials and studies (São Paulo: UNESP, 2002) and IN THE SHIPS OF INITIATION: Portuguese studies of Literatura and History (São Paulo: UNESP, 1998). She most recently co-organized the book THEATER, CINEMA AND LITERATURE: CONFLUENCES (2014), published as an e-book by UNESP Publishing House with the seal Cultura Acadêmica. Coordinated, from 04/24/2011 to 04/23/2013, the Undergraduate Course in Letters of UNESP, in Araraquara. She is the leader of the Research Group on Drama and Film. She created in 2002 and coordinated, from 2002 to 2011, the Week of Theaters Studies at UNESP. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The visit of Dr. Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello at UNESP will take part in the Research Group on Drama and Film with the following objectives: a) to teach a Postgraduate course (35 class hours over 5 working days) conceived in the format of a cycle of debates: "Cinema and its Doubles: Studies of Sources of Manoel de Oliveira"; b) to act as a debater of research projects in progress at the IV…
This project , linked to the Group for Research in Drama and Film (GPDC) of UNESP and integrated into the thematic project (in conjunction) "Drama deadlocks: representation and theatricality in the performing arts and their relationships with other arts", proposes a comparative study between the film director Portuguese Manoel de Oliveira (1908-2015) and the Brazilian Glauber Rocha (1939-…
The lecture/seminar, as proposed by the visiting professor, aims to offer a panorama of the works of Manoel de Oliveira having as an analytic perspective the relations among literature, theater and cinema established within those works. Beyond a comprehensive approach to Oliveira's filmography, which will take into consideration the totality of the cinematographic production of the most i…
As an outcome of an interdisciplinary Scientific Initiation, which focused on the study of literature and painting in the modernism of Brazil and Portugal, this Master's research project proposes to analyze and interpret the book entitled AS MENINAS (2001), in which the Portuguese writer Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922-2019) comments on paintings by Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego (1935-20…
This project aims to interpret and contrast the political dimensions of some of the decisive aesthetic-cultural catalysts in the formation of Brazilian culture, such as: the first era of the Romanticism and the totality of the national Cinema Novo. For this purpose of analysis, this study will rely on the critical-dialectical approach of interpretation, along the lines of critical theoret…
The present text brings the initial conditions of doctoral research on the work of Brazilian playwright Consuelo de Castro (1946-2016), a debut author in the 1960s, prestigious and critically awarded. The first collection of her works published in 1989 and entitled Urgência e ruptura constitutes the corpus of this research. The eight plays in the volume are divided into periods: from 1968…
Gervasio Lobato (1850-1895) was one of the most popular Portuguese dramatists in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Alongside names like Marcelino de Mesquita, D. João da Câmara and Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, contributed to the consolidation of realistic theater on stages. His production could not be more varied: he was novelist, columnist, journalist and drama critic. As playwr…
ABSURD AND CENSORSHIP IN THE PORTUGUESE SCENE: A STUDY OF THE THEATER BY PRISTA MONTEIROThe critics and historians of the Portuguese theatre indicate the decade of 1960 as the most fecund moment of theatrical activity during the dictatorship; however, it was also in this period in which the theatre suffered the most with censorship actions from the dictatorial regime of António de Oliveir…
The comedies of Luso-Brazilian Antônio José da Silva (1705-1739) - known in the history of literature by the nickname Jewish - have a great diversity of literary and scenic resources, whose primary function, besides causing the spontaneous laughter, is the marvel of the senses of the viewer. Several of these resources, such as disguises and duels - as well as puns and other expedients of …
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Gervasio Lobato (1850-1895) was one of the most popular Portuguese dramatists in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Alongside names like Marcelino de Mesquita, D. João da Câmara and Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, contributed to the consolidation of realistic theater on stages. His production could not be more varied: he was novelist, columnist, journalist and drama critic. As playwr…
This project, which is linked to the Grupo de Pesquisas em Dramaturgia (Research Group in Dramaturgy - GPD) from UNESP and integrated to the thematic project (still in preparation) titled "Poetics of Modernity: Theater and Other Arts", intends to study the works of the Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira (b. 1908) focusing the relations they establish with literature and, especially, …
The critics and historians of the Portuguese theatre indicate the decade of 1960 as the most fecund moment of theatrical activity during the dictatorship; however, it was also in this period in which the theatre suffered the most with censorship actions from the dictatorial regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Despite the censorship, there were formal attempts that resembled experimenta…
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