Jessica Falconi
Jessica Falconi is Vice-President of CEsA (2023-2025 Management). She is a PhD researcher at CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa. She has a PhD in Iberian Studies from the University of Naples (Italy) “L’Orientale”, where she taught in the area of Lusophone literature and the Portuguese language. Between 2010 and 2017 she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal), having carried out her research at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and, later, at CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa . In 2018 she was a visiting professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) where she directed the Portuguese Language Center/Instituto Camões. She has participated in several research projects and has published in national and international journals in the area of Portuguese-language African literature and cinema, with a special focus on Mozambican literature.
Works in the field of the colonial press
(2023). Lobo, Sandra Ataíde; Falconi, Jessica; Dias, Remy; Smith, D.A. (eds). The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions. New York & London: Routledge.
(2023). Falconi, Jessica. "A Casa das Estudantes do Império: discursos e representações de raça e género". In Cabré, Yolanda Aixelà; Rizo, Elisa (eds.) Afro-Iberia (1850-1975): Enfoques teóricos y huellas africanas y magrebíes en la península ibérica. Bellaterra: Bellaterra Edicions, 109-125.
(2022). Falconi, Jessica. "Declinações Coloniais: género, nação e colonialismo na escrita de Irene Gil". In DecliNações: Género e nação nas literaturas e culturas africanas de língua portuguesa. Coimbra: Almedina, Colecção CES-Centro de Estudos Sociais, 185-206.
(2020). Falconi, Jessica. "Lourenço Marques and Lisbon in João Albasini’s chronicles". Portuguese Journal of Social Science 19 1, 27-41.
(2019). Falconi, Jessica; Wieser, Doris. "Entre silêncios e interferências: mulheres na imprensa colonial". ex aequo - Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres 39, 9-22.
Fields of interest
Periodical press in Mozambique; literary magazines; periodical press authored by women.
Key words
Mozambique; Portugal; women; literature; literary criticism.
Works in the field of the colonial press
(2023). Lobo, Sandra Ataíde; Falconi, Jessica; Dias, Remy; Smith, D.A. (eds). The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions. New York & London: Routledge.
(2023). Falconi, Jessica. "A Casa das Estudantes do Império: discursos e representações de raça e género". In Cabré, Yolanda Aixelà; Rizo, Elisa (eds.) Afro-Iberia (1850-1975): Enfoques teóricos y huellas africanas y magrebíes en la península ibérica. Bellaterra: Bellaterra Edicions, 109-125.
(2022). Falconi, Jessica. "Declinações Coloniais: género, nação e colonialismo na escrita de Irene Gil". In DecliNações: Género e nação nas literaturas e culturas africanas de língua portuguesa. Coimbra: Almedina, Colecção CES-Centro de Estudos Sociais, 185-206.
(2020). Falconi, Jessica. "Lourenço Marques and Lisbon in João Albasini’s chronicles". Portuguese Journal of Social Science 19 1, 27-41.
(2019). Falconi, Jessica; Wieser, Doris. "Entre silêncios e interferências: mulheres na imprensa colonial". ex aequo - Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres 39, 9-22.
Fields of interest
Periodical press in Mozambique; literary magazines; periodical press authored by women.
Key words
Mozambique; Portugal; women; literature; literary criticism.
