DANIELA CÔRTES MADURO
ABOUT
Daniela Côrtes Maduro is a postdoctoral researcher in Literature at the Center for Portuguese Literature (Digital Mediation and Materialities of Literature research group), University of Coimbra. Her research interests lie at the intersection between literary theory, narratology, activist literature, science fiction (particularly works that depict human-machine coexistence), dystopian literature, multimodality, experimental literature, folktales and storytelling, digital literature, archival and curatorial work.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Postdoctoral project – “Shapeshifting Texts: keeping track of electronic literature” (2015-2017). Faculty 10: Linguistics and Literary Studies ( FB 10), Universität Bremen, Germany.
PhD – Doctoral Program Materialities of Literature. Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (thesis defence on the 7th January 2015). Thesis title: Imersão e Interactividade na Ficção Digital [Immersion and Interactivity in Digital Fiction]. Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
MA – Master’s Degree in Anglo-American Studies (thesis defence on the 13th January 2010). Thesis title: Uma Criatura Feita de Bits: Ilusão e Materialidade na Hiperficção Patchwork Girl de Shelley Jackson [A creature made of bits: Illusion and Materiality in the Hyperfiction Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson]. Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
BA – Bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, German and English Studies. Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
Erasmus scholarship – Modern Languages and Literatures, German and English Studies. Faculty of Humanities, Universität Hamburg, Germany.
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GRANTS
2015 – 2017: BremenTRAC-Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions Research Fellowship Programme. Universität Bremen, Germany.
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April 2016 – July 2017: M8 Postdoc-Initiative PLUS funding program – Excellence Initiative, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Universität Bremen, Germany.
2011 – 2014: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – Individual Doctoral Grant, project “Immersion and interactivity in digital fiction” (SFRH/BD/79458/2011). Call for PhD Studentships 2011 (national call). Centre for Portuguese Literature (CLP). Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
PROJECTS
Sept. 2015 – Postdoctoral fellow – Postdoctoral project “Shapeshifting Texts: keeping track of Electronic Literature” (2015-2017), Universität Bremen, Germany.Portugal.
Sept. 2015 – Researcher (collaborator) – “Narrativa e Criação Audiovisual” [Narrative and Audiovisual Creation], CITAR (Research Centre in Science and Technology of the Arts), Universidade Católica do Porto, Portugal.
Jan. 2015 – Researcher – Figuras da Ficção [Figures of Fiction], Centre for Portuguese Literature (CLP), University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Dec. 2014 – Research Associate – Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL).
Since 2014 – Researcher (collaborator) – Po-ex.net – Arquivo Digital da Literatura Experimental Portuguesa.
Since 2013 – Researcher – “No Problem Has a Solution” (PTDC/CLE-LLI/118713/2010), a project which resulted in the creation of the Digital Archive of Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet (2017-). Centre for Portuguese Literature (CLP), University of Coimbra,
TEXTS
Selection of texts written between 2015 and 2020
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Articles
Torres, Rui e Daniela Côrtes Maduro (2021). “Wreadings: Digital Poetry and Collaborative Practice”, in The Community and the Algorithm: A Digital Interactive Poetics, edited by Andrew Klobukar. Wilmington: Vernon Press. Double-blind peer review.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2020). “Circunvoluções: José Saramago e ficção científica”, in José Saramago: 20 Anos com o Prémio Nobel, edited by Carlos Reis. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, pp. 159-173. Print. Proceedings.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2019). “Entre literatura e revolução: a poesia experimental portuguesa” [Between Literature and Revolution: the Portuguese Experimental Literature], in Colóquio/Letras, 202. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, p. 160-170.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2016). “Por entre frisos verbais: um percurso ao longo dos Homeóstatos de José-Alberto Marques” [Through verbal strands: a journey along José-Alberto Marques’ Homeóstatos”], in Texto Digital Journal, 12, 1. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Available at: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/textodigital/article/view/1807-9288.2016v12n1p27.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2015). “Histórias por um fio: narração mediada em tempo real” [Stories hanging by a thread – real-time mediated narration], in Revista Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, 46, 2. Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil. Available at: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S2316-40182016000100141&script=sci_abstract&tlng=pt.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2015). “Ser a página de um livro – Bernardo Soares como personagem e livro” [“As a page of a book” – Bernardo Soares as a character and a book], in Revista de Estudos Literários. Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
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Translation
Translation into Portuguese of an anthology of essays written by Marie-Laure Ryan, edited by Carlos Reis, Ana Teresa Peixinho and Daniela Côrtes Maduro (forthcoming) .
Translation of Scriptpoemas (2005) de Antero de Alda (forthcoming). Original version available at: https://www.anterodealda.com/scriptpoemas.htm.
Translation of texts published in SONAR, a digital work about the Carnation Revolution. Available at: https://sonar.dei.uc.pt/.
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Dictionary/ encyclopaedia entries
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2018). “Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric [1989]”, in Electronic Literature Directory. Available at: https://directory.eliterature.org/individual-work/5002.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2014-). Entries about the works O motor textual: livro infinito (2001); Signagens (1985-1989); Electrografia 1 (1990); Amor de Clarice (2005); Scriptpoemas (2005-); Escatologia (2003), in Po.Ex. (Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature): https://po-ex.net/taxonomia/transtextualidades/metatextualidades-autografas/daniela-cortes-maduro-biografia. Also available in English at: http://directory.eliterature.org/.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2016-). Entries published in the Dictionary of the Portuguese Figures of Fiction. Available at: http://dp.uc.pt/apresentacao/colaboradores/item/9-daniela-maduro.
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Reviews
Maduro, Daniela (2018). “Tinkering with media and fiction”. Review of The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction, in Electronic Book Review. Available at: http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/tinkering-with-media-and-fiction/.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2013). “Jogo dos Paradigmas: o Semblante da Literatura” [Game of paradigms: the semblant of literature]. Review on the book Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory by Markku Eskelinen, in Revista MatLit, vol. 1, 1. Available at: http://iduc.uc.pt/index.php/matlit/article/view/1615. Coimbra: Advanced Studies in the Materialities of Literature, 208-212.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2013). “Recensão sobre a edição brasileira do livro de N. Katherine Hayles Literatura Eletrônica: Novos Horizontes para o Literário (2009)” [Review on the Brazilian edition of N. Katherine Hayles’ book, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (2009)], in Revista de Estudos Literários, Literatura no séc. XXI, vol. 2. Coimbra: Centre for Portuguese Literature, 208-212.
PRESENTATIONS
Some of the presentations given between 2014 and 2018
9th October 2018 – “Circunvoluções: José Saramago e ficção científica,” José Saramago: Vinte Anos com o Prémio Nobel, Centro de Literatura Portuguesa, Coimbra, Portugal.
5th July 2018 – “Teaching and preserving electronic literature: the ‘Shapeshifting Texts’ exhibition,” Besides the Screen: Vaults, Archives, Clouds and Platforms. Archiving and Preserving in the 21st Century, ISMAI, Maia, Portugal and King’s College London, UK.
20th July 2017 – Roundtable – “Exposé!! The Global Practice of Curating E-Lit Exhibits”, ELO Conference 2017, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal.
21st November 2016 – “Resistance and Frustration in shapeshifting texts”, International Colloquium “Glitchy Textures”, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris) and Université Paris 8, Paris, France.
13th – October 2016 – “Before our very eyes: digital texts as shapeshifting surfaces”, panel “Multimodality and Materiality: Empirical Interactions and Recursive Interplays”, Transmediations Conference, Linaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.
11th June 2016 – “Exploring Potentiality”, ELO Conference 2016, Next Horizons, University of Victoria, Canada.
18th April 2015 – Imaginative effort: reassessing immersion and interactivity in digital fiction. International Symposium “Textual Machines”. The University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
21st June 2014 – Shapeshifting texts: following the traces of narrative in digital fiction. “Hold the light” – Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2014. Electronic Literature Organization, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), Milwaukee, USA.
TEACHING
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Selected activities
3rd May 2019
Doutoramento em Ciências da Comunicação. Estudos Narrativos Mediáticos (seminar taught by Professor Carlos Reis), University of Coimbra, Portugal. Themes addressed: digital narrative.
7th April to 7th July 2017
Spring semester: “Human-Machine: the process of meaning-making in digital texts”. English-Speaking Cultures, B.A. Fachbereich 10, Universität Bremen.
4th and 6th May 2015
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Introduction to the New Media class (Artistic Studies BA), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Themes addressed: “The digital subject according to Sherry Turkle” and “Technology as remediation of the subject: relocation of the subject and of the social space” (seminar taught by Professor Manuel Portela).
2004-2005
Teaching Internship (public high school, English and German languages), Pedagogical Science Seminar, University of Coimbra.
CURATION
July 2017 - Exhibition Affiliations (co-curator). ELO Conference 2017, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto. More information here: https://conference.eliterature.org/2017/exhibits.
November 2016 – Exhibition “Shapeshifting Texts” (curator). Universität Bremen, Germany. Online gallery: https://exhibitionshapeshiftingtexts.wordpress.com/.
May 2015 - Language and the Interface (co-curator), Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. Online gallery: http://languageandtheinterface.uc.pt/.
EVENTS
Selection of events organized between 2016 and 2020
April 2020 – Organizing Committee of the International Colloquium Figures of Fiction 6, Centro de Literatura Portuguesa, Universidade de Coimbra.
May 2017 – Artist Talk by Ian Hatcher “Forging patterns with machinic performances”. Universität Bremen, Germany.
November 2016 – International Conference on Digital Media and Textuality, 3rd to 5th of November. Universität Bremen, Germany. Conference Chair. Conference webpage: https://digmediatextuality.wordpress.com/.
EDITORIAL WORK
Selected activities
Since June 2018
Part of the editorial team of the Dictionary of Portuguese Figures of Fiction. Coordinated by Carlos Reis. Centre for Portuguese Literature, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
2017
Editor of the anthology Digital Media and Textuality: from Creation to Archiving (2017), [transcript] Verlag, Germany.
2016-2019
Associate editor, Electronic Literature Directory.
2015
Review and editorial work Volume 4, 2ª Série, Op. Cit.: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Portugal.
Since July 2015
Associate editor, Electronic Book Review.
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Edition of “What [in the World] Was Postmodernism?” Special Issue (co-edited with David Ciccoricco).
Since January 2015
Reviewer. Revista MatLit, Doctoral Program Materialities of Literature, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
2010-2015
Production assistant. The European English Messenger (now exclusively online). The European Society for the Study of English. Final text revision, printing and delivery process.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES/ REVIEWER
Selection of activities
Scientific Committee
Journals
2019 – Cibertextualidades journal. Porto, Edições Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal.
Conference
2019 – The 21st International Consciousness Reframed Conference. “Sentient States: Bio-mind and Techno-nature. Porto, Portugal, 6-8 June 2019.
2017 – ELO’17 – Electronic Literature > Affiliations, Communities, Translations. Porto, Portugal, 18-22 July 2017.
2016 – ELO Conference 2016 – Next Horizons. University of Victoria, Canada, 10-12 June 2016.
Reviewer
Conference
2018 – Congresso Internacional José Saramago: 20 Anos com o Prémio Nobel. Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, 8-10 October 2018.
2018 – ELO 2018 – Mind the Gap. Montréal, Québec, Canada, 13-17 August 2018.
2017 – Variações sobre António: um colóquio em torno de Variações. Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, 7-8 December 2017.
2016 – Jury member – The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature. Electronic Literature Organization, USA.
Journal
Since January 2014 – Reviewer and member of the editorial committee – Revista MatLit, Doctoral Program Materialities of Literature. Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
RESEARCH STAYS
Selected activities
2017
Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Host Professor – Prof. Dr. Rui Torres
Visiting Scholar, Porto, Portugal.
2016
Washington State University Vancouver
Host Professor – Prof. Dr. Dene Grigar
Visiting Scholar, Vancouver, Washington, USA.
2016
University of Illinois at Chicago
Host Professor – Prof. Dr. Joseph Tabbi
Visiting Scholar, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2016
Univeristetet i Bergen
Host Professor – Prof. Dr. Scott Rettberg
Visiting Scholar, Bergen, Norway.