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Literary Studies, American Literature, Comparative Literature, Environmental Humanities, Nature Writing, Ecocriticism

Biography

Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves is assistant professor of Anglo-American Studies at the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. For the past few years, her research has focused on the intersections between literature and the environment. Her current research interests include nature writing, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities.

Activities

Employment (1)

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro: Vila Real, PT

1987-11 to present | Professor Auxiliar (Letras, Arte e Comunicação)
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Education and qualifications (1)

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro: Vila Real, PT

2000-07-24 to present | Ph.D/Doutoramento
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Professional activities (4)

European Association for the study of Literature, Culture and Environment: Bonn, DE

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment: Keene, NH, US

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Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos: Lisboa, PT

2023-06-01 to present | President of APEAA
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Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro: Vila Real, Vila Real, PT

2017-05-05 to 2021-05-14 | Pró-reitora para a Área da Qualidade
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Voice of a Region, Matter of the World: The Ecological Landscape in A. M. Pires Cabral's Poetry

Ibero-American Ecocriticism. Cultural and Social Explorations
2024 | Book chapter
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Contributors: Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes
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“They settle down on us / they dwell within”: A. M. Pires Cabral’s Attunement with Birds

Theory Now. Journal of Literature, Critique, and Thought
2024-07-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves
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Dwelling in a Junkyard: Longing for Home and Self in Janisse Ray’s Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Swiat i Slowo
2023 | Journal article
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Contributors: Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves
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“Questions to Tourists Stopped by Walden Pond: Waterscapes, Words and Literary Tourism”.

LIT&TOUR: International Journal of Literature and Tourism Research (IJLTR)
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Isabel Alves
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Insurreição e feminismo em O Cavalo de Sol e A Casa da Cabeça de Cavalo

Revista de Letras UTAD
2023-10-28 | Journal article
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Contributors: Galvão, Naiana Siqueira; Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes
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‘According to the Rhythms of the Arid Lands’: Mary Austin’s The Land of Journeys’ Ending

Anglo Saxonica
2023-08-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Isabel M. Fernandes Alves
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«Xisto, meteorologia, Vitis vinifera, talento e mãos»: a representação da paisagem duriense em Douro: Pizzicato e Chula, de A. M. Pires Cabral"

PAISAGENS CULTURAIS DA VINHA IDENTIDADES, DESAFIOS E OPORTUNIDADES
2023-06 | Book chapter
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Linhas e Vozes da Montanha

Flauta de Luz
2023-05-31 | Journal article
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Contributors: Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes
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Revisitar The Grapes of Wrath

Revista de Letras UTAD
2023-05-31 | Journal article
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Contributors: Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes
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"Revisitar The Grapes of Wrath"

Revista de Letras UTAD/ Estudos Literários
2023-05-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Isabel Alves
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Questions to tourists stopped by Walden pond: waterscapes, words and literary tourism

LIT & Tour -– International Journal of Literature and Tourism Research (IJLTR), (Special Is)
2023-01-18 | Journal article
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Contributors: Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes
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"Hours for the Soul": Some thoughts on Walt Whitman's and Mary Oliver's seascapes

2022 | Book chapter
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Contributors: Alves, I.M.F.
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– “Com as árvores acesas no pensamento: inscrição da experiência poética em ‘Cores de Outono’ de H. D. Thoreau e ‘Ronda das Árvores’ de A. M. Pires Cabral”

O Conhecimento das Árvores / Árvores do Conhecimento
2022 | Book chapter
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“’Hours for the Soul’: Some Thoughts on Walt Whitman’s and Mary Oliver’s Seascapes”.

American Studies Over_Seas 1: Narrating Multiple America(s). In Honor of Teresa F. A. Alves and Teresa Cid.
2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Isabel Alves
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'A Place Grown Intense and Holy': Dwelling in the Enchanted World of Words

Dwellings of Enchantment. Writing and Reenchanting the Earth
2021 | Book chapter
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Contributors: Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes
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castanheiros: bons gigantes a povoarem as encostas da serra

2021 | Interactive resource
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Isabel Alves

Xisto, meteorologia, Vitis vinifera, talento e mãos: a representação da paisagem duriense em Douro: Pizzicato e Chula de A.M. Pires Cabral

Paisagens Culturais da Vinha: Identidades, Desafios e Oportunidades.
2021-12-10 | Conference paper
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Contributors: Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes
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Com as árvores acesas no pensamento : inscrição daexperiência poética em 'Cores de Outono' de Henry David Thoreau e 'Ronda das árvores de A. M. Pires Cabral

Colóquio Interdisciplinar O conhecimento das Árvores / Árvores do Conhecimento
2021-11 | Conference paper
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"'How Do We Have Hope?' Sandra Steingraber's Search for Ecological Roots of Cancer in Living Downstream"

IV Encontro REPORT(H)A - Sapiens, Saúde e Meio Ambiente: Fronteiras Naturais e Artificiais
2021-10 | Conference paper
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At home on this Earth: Willa Cather's 'Before Breakfast' and Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder

International Symposium: (Re)Thinking Earth: from Representations of Nature to Climate Change Fiction
2021-10 | Conference paper
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IMPROVING TEACHERS´ PEDAGOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS: PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHERS ABOUT A FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

2021-07 | Conference paper
Contributors: Tatiana Ferreira; Daniela Pedrosa; José Paulo Cravino; Isabel Alves
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’according to the rhythms of the arid lands’: Mary Austin’s The Land of Journeys’Ending

41st Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
2021-05 | Conference paper
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Isabel Alves

'A place grown intense and holy': Dwelling in the Enchanted World of Words

Dwellings of Enchantment. Writing and Reenchanting the Earth
2020 | Book chapter
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Isabel Alves

A alegria das aves

2020 | Interactive resource
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Improving Teachers ´ Pedagogical and Technological Skills: Perceptions of Teachers about a Faculty Professional Development Program

EDULearn21 Conference
2020 | Conference paper
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Contributors: Ferreira T., Pedrosa, D., Cravino, J. P., Alves, I
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Monitorização e Acompanhamento de Estudantes na Transição para o Ensino Superior na UTAD

2020 | Conference paper
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Contributors: Jose´ Cravino, Tatiana Ferreira, Daniela Pedrosa & IsabelAlv
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Voz de uma região, matéria do mundo: a expressão da paisagem em A. M. Pires Cabral

Imagens do (ir)real: figurações do espaço transmontano e duriense na literatura portuguesa,
2020-03 | Conference paper
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Civil Resistance|Inaccord with Nature - On the Bicentennial of H. D. Thoreau

Anglo Saxonica , vol 17, no 1
2020-01-29 | Journal article
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'Fazê-los reparar em qualquer coisa do Douro': uma viagem pela poesia de A. M. Pires Cabral e suas margens

Geia, nº 6
2019 | Journal article
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Civil Resistance/In Accord with Nature: On the Bicentennial of H. D. Thoreau [Special Section]

2019 | Journal article
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Civil Resistance|In Accord with Nature – On the Bicentennial of H. D. Thoreau

Anglo Saxonica
2019 | Journal article
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Contributors: da Silva, Edgardo Medeiros; Alves, Isabel; de Gato, Margarida Vale
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Cuando la literatura encuentra la ecología

2019 | Interactive resource
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Habitats as places of meaning: Revisiting The Grapes of Wrath

40th APEAA Meeting
2019-06 | Conference paper
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My First Summer in the Sierra e The Living Mountain: As Linhas e as Vozes da Montanha. A demanda de uma geopóetica da esperança

Colóquio Internacional: As linhas da Terra. Percursos geofilosóficos e geopoéticos no Antropoceno.
2019-05 | Conference paper
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Tettigoniidae: escutar a diversidade do mundo ou outra forma de falar de ciência

1º Congresso Internacional de História da Ciência no Ensino, UTAD
2019-05 | Conference paper
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'linhas de luz para que a luz se faça': uma aproximação à poesia de Eduardo Guerra Carneiro

Tellus, 68
2018 | Journal article
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Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge: From woundedness to wholeness through writing body and bird

EBAAS Conference – Environment, Place & Protest
2018-04 | Conference paper
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“A Home Built by Words: Linda Hogan’s Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”

Anglo Saxonica Série iii n. 14, 71- 84.
2017 | Journal article
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'Eu sou um caminho e levo a algum lugar': uma cartografia da paisagem e da alma em Gaveta do Fundo de A. M. Pires Cabral

Revista Portuguesa de Humanidades / Estudos Literários
2017 | Journal article
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A Home Built by Words: Linda Hogan’s Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

2017 | Journal article
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Por amor à árvore: algumas reflexões em torno da escrita não ficcional de João de Araújo Correia

Geia, nº 5
2017 | Journal article
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Resistência civil - acordo com a natureza. Bicentenário de H.D. Thoreau

Thoreau em Portugal - Resistência Civil. Acordo com natureza
2017 | Journal article
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Contributors: Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes; António Cãndido Franco; Margarida Vale de Gato
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“Celebrating the landscape: John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra”.

International Seminar on Art and Landscape.
2017 | Journal article
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“Entre o encantamento e a erosão: a representação da paisagem em Gaveta do Fundo de A. M. Pires Cabral”

Livro Comemorativo dos 10 Anos dos Cursos de Atualização de Professores do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico.
2017 | Journal article
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“Resistência civil — acordo com a natureza. Bicentenário de H. D. Thoreau”.

Biblioteca Nacional; Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da UL
2017 | Working paper
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“The wild breath of the forest, fragrant with bark and berry”: Signs of Nature’s History in Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Rural Hours

2017 | Book chapter
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“’The wild breath of the forest, fragrant with bark and berry’: signs of nature’s history in Susan Fennimore Cooper’s Rural Hours”

Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s: Converging Realms.
2017 | Book chapter
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“’to preserve what technology makes us forget’: Nature and wonder in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia”.

In the Country of Lost Borders: New Critical Essays on My Ántonia.
2017 | Book chapter
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Contributors: Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes
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“’to preserve what technology makes us forget’: Nature and wonder in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia”.

In the Country of Lost Borders: New Critical Essays on My Ántonia.
2017 | Book chapter
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"Do you know? Did you ever imagine? Do you think it matters?: stories as tools in the process of restoring losses and reinventing better relationships between humans and nature

III Colóquio Internacional INSULA. Para Além de Natureza/Artifício
2017-11 | Conference paper
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Review activity for Anglo saxónica. (1)