Leonardo Cascão
Biography
Leonardo Cascão is currently a Research Fellow (FCT: 2023.03317.BD) 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, and during 2025-26, at the University of Manchester. 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.
ORCIDLatest Publications
Book Chapter
Cascão, Leonardo (2026), "(In)Hospitable hosts: Close reading depictions of hospitality and hospitals in HIV/AIDS narratives", in Susana Araújo, Catarina Nunes de Almeida e Santiago Pérez Isasi (org.), Hosts, Hospitals and Hospitalities: Narratives of (in)hospitality in literature, culture and the arts. London: University College of London Press
Read moreArticle in Scientific journal
Cascao, Leonardo (2024), ""We will be citizens": Affect and Citizenship in Representations of the AIDS Crisis", REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, 6, 1, 4-21
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