Maria Pacheco de Amorim

Maria Pacheco de Amorim is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) of the Catholic University of Portugal. She teaches contemporary Anglo-American narrative across literature, cinema, and television at Colégio de São Tomás in Lisbon. Her academic background includes a PhD in Theory of Literature from the University of Lisbon.

• Education:
  • Graduate in Portuguese and English Literature with cinema minor
  • Master and PhD in Theory of Literature, University of Lisbon

Her research focuses on:

• Philosophy of language, mind, and action (Wittgenstein, Anscombe, Davidson)
• Virtue ethics (Alasdair MacIntyre)
• Narrative theory and personal identity
• Interdisciplinary analysis of Generation X artists

Recent publications explore:

• Monstrous redemption in TV series
• Normative frameworks in artistic practice
• Temporal symbolism in cinema (e.g., Ozu's spring motif)
• Stylistic analysis of postmodern narratives