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Iolanda Ramos is an Associate Professor at the FCSH-NOVA University of Lisbon, where she has been teaching since 1985, a researcher at the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) on the projects “Alimentopia: Utopian Foodways” and “Mapping Utopianisms”, and a collaborator at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES). She is coordinator of the Masters in Trends in English and North-American Studies (2022- ) and the Masters in Modern Languages and Cultures (2017-2024), and she coordinated the Masters in Translation (2009-11), the English and North-American Section, Dept. of Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures (2007-08) and the Erasmus Programme (2000-07). She is a member of international and national research associations and networks (ARUS, USS, BAVS, Guild of St George, APEAA). She has published extensively within the framework of Cultural Studies, Utopian Studies, Victorian Studies and Neo-Victorianism, Ruskin Studies, Intercultural Studies, Translation Studies and Food Studies. Her publications include "Steamfunk: Remembering Black Futures in Nisi Shawls Everfair" (co-author, Brill, 2022), “Alternate World Building: Retrofuturism and Retrophilia in Steampunk and Dieselpunk Narratives” (Anglo Saxonica, No. 17, 2020), “R. F. Burton Revisited: Alternate History, Steampunk and the Neo-Victorian Imagination” (Open Cultural Studies, Vol. 1. Special issue Victorians Like Us—Domesticity and Worldliness, 2017), Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging (co-edited, Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2013) and Matrizes Culturais: Notas para um Estudo da Era Vitoriana (Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2014). Her doctoral thesis on John Ruskin’s social and political thought was published by the Gulbenkian Foundation in 2002. Her research interests cover 19th to 21st century culture and include speculative fiction, retrofuturism, identity, gender, visual and cross-cultural issues.