Maria Manuel Lisboa

Professor Maria Manuel (Manucha) Lisboa holds the Professorship of Portuguese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and St John’s College.

• Research spans Portuguese, Brazilian, and Mozambican literature (19th century–present), visual arts, and interdisciplinary themes like gender, religion, and national identity
• Key focus areas: Paula Rego’s art, feminist theory, apocalypse studies, and new historicist approaches
• Current projects:
  • Book Doing it Exceptionally Well: Dying as Art in António Francisco Lisboa, Victor Willing, Paula Rego and Ana Maria Pacheco
  • Articles on Clarice Lispector, Camilo Castelo Branco, Paula Rego, and Ana Palma

Scientific Recognition:

• 2008 Prémio do Grémio Literário (Portugal) for scholarship on Eça de Queirós
• 2012 Prêmio Itamaraty de Literatura Brasileira for essay on Lygia Fagundes Telles

Academic Leadership:

• Director of Studies in Portuguese at St John’s College
• Mentored students now holding professorships at Oxford, Manchester, Glasgow, and Brazilian universities