Leonardo Cascão
Biography
Leonardo Cascão is currently a Research Fellow and PhD candidate in Anglo-American Studies (Literatures and Cultures) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. During the academic year 2023-24, he was a visiting Ph.D. researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. His main research interests include English and American literature, film, and drama studies. His current focus is on studies of affect and intimacy in close relation to experiences of citizenship, particularly through the representation of these themes in contemporary English and American life writings of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Leonardo also works as a literary translator.
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Book Chapter
Cascão, Leonardo; Araújo, Susana (2024), Critical Language Awareness, Multilingualism and Language Policies in Migration Narratives: Rocha de Sousa's Listen as a Teaching and Learning Resource in Higher Education, in Freiderikos Valetopoulos, Nicoleta Laura Popa (org.), Linguistic and Intercultural Landscapes in the European Higher Education. Peter Lang
Article in Scientific journal
Cascão, Leonardo (2023), "From Harlem with Love: An Album of Life in The Sweet Flypaper of Life", JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy, 8, 73-86
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Cascão, Leonardo (2023), ""There are Parts I Won't Tell You": Biography, Trauma and Violence in Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project", Anglo Saxonica, 21, 1, 1-11
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