GRAÇA P. CORRÊA
Email: mgcorrea@ualg.pt
Brief CV: GGraça Corrêa completed her PhD in Theatre and Film Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), following a Master’s in Theater Education and Directing at Emerson College in Boston, with a scholarship from the Fulbright Commission and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She has a Degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL), and completed the Theater course at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC). She taught theater (theory, practice, dramaturgy, oratory) at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC-CUNY), at Évora University and at ESTC; she lectured at Master’s and PhD seminars at the Universities of Algarve and Lisbon. She collaborated as a director and playwright in companies and independent professional theater productions.
Research Interests: She is currently completing six years of post-doctoral research funded by FCT at CIAC – Centre for Research in Arts and Communication of the University of Algarve, in partnership with the CFCUL – Center for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She directed the post-doctoral research project “Transdisciplinary Landscapes of the Gothic”, aiming at a theoretical and sensorial-aesthetic study of the Gothic-Romantic legacy in different media: dramatic literature, theater, performance, fine arts, architecture and cinematographic fiction. Following the research and implementation of a transversal and transmedia literacy in Artistic Studies, she is the co-Researcher in charge of the scientific project HUM+DRAMATECH, which interrelates the Theory of Affection in Dramatic and Post-dramatic theater with Contemporary Philosophies on Otherness, as well as with innovative applications of the New Technologies in Performance.
Latest Publications:
Corrêa, Graça (2017). Ethical Challenges in Adaptation: Gothic Eurico from Novel to Performance, in Ethics of Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgies, ed. Emer O’Toole, Andrea Pelegri, and Stuart Young. Leiden NL: Brill, 2017. ISBN: 978-9-004-34633-8. http://www.brill.com/products/book/ethical-exchanges-translation-adaptation-and-dramaturgy
Corrêa, Graça (2017). Towards an Ecophilosophical Reading of Space and Landscape in Theatre, Drama and Performance, in Debates da Filosofia da Ciência Contemporânea, ed. Olga Pombo e Paulo Castro. Lisboa: Centro de Filosofia da Ciência, 2017, 343-362. ISBN: 978-989-8247-75-9. http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/publicacoes/livros/
Corrêa, Graça (2016). Landscapes of Dictatorship in Film: Three Aesthetic and Emotional Modes, in Ditaduras Revisitadas, ed. Denize Araujo, Eduardo Morettin e Vitor Reia-Baptista. Faro: CIAC-Universidade do Algarve, 2016. ISBN: 978-989-8859-01-3. https://ciac.pt/noticias/denize-ditaduras/542
Corrêa, Graça (2015). Dramaturg as Context Manager: A Phenomenological and Political Practice, The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, ed. Magda Romanska. New York: Routledge, 2014, 308-12. ISBN:978-0-415-65849-2. http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203075944