Paul Melo e Castro
Paul Melo e Castro lectures in Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. He has research and teaching interests in literature, film and photography with a focus on issues relation to space, everyday life and postcolonial cultural production. His research has touched on the colonial press as a vehicle for the short story and photojournalism in Goa and Mozambique, with a particular interest in the last generation of Portuguese-language Goan short-story writers (such as Maria Elsa da Rocha, Epitácio Pais and Augusto do Rosário Rodrigues) and Mozambican photographers connected to the Tempo newsmagazine (such as Ricardo Rangel and Kok Nam). He is a regular literary translator, having worked on writers from all over the Lusophone world, and has translated many short stories that appeared in Goa’s colonial press. His latest project concerns the Goan journalist and short story writer José da Silva Coelho, who was a prolific writer of short stories, legends, prose poems and sundry journalistic pieces in the 1920s and 1930s.
Works in the field of the colonial press
(2022). Castro, Paul e Melo. "The Life Stories of Maria Elsa da Rocha". In Rocha, Maria Elsa da. Life Stories: the collected stories of Maria Elsa da Rocha (trans. Paul Melo e Castro). 1556: Saligão, 231–270.
(2021). Castro, Paul e Melo. "Between an empty camera and bare white feet: Racial complexity in the photographic archive of Ricardo Rangel". Hispanic Research Journal, 22(5), 2021, 517-541.
(2020). Castro, Paul e Melo. "Expressive perspectives on the printed page: the photography of Ricardo Rangel’". In Serra, Filomena; Andre, Paula; Martins, Susana. Projectos Editoriais: imagens e contra-Imagens no Estado Novo. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais: Lisboa, 275-302.
(2013). Castro, Paul e Melo. "José da Silva Coelho's stories in the context of Portuguese-language Goan literature". Muse India, 50.
(2013). Castro, Paul e Melo. "Dictatorship, liberation, transition in the short fiction of three Portuguese-language Goan writers: Alberto de Menezes Rodrigues, Ananta Rau Sar Dessai and Telo de Mascarenhas". Journal of Romance Studies, 13(2), 1-18.
Fields of interest
Goa; Mozambique.
Key words
Goa; Mozambique; short story; photography.
Works in the field of the colonial press
(2022). Castro, Paul e Melo. "The Life Stories of Maria Elsa da Rocha". In Rocha, Maria Elsa da. Life Stories: the collected stories of Maria Elsa da Rocha (trans. Paul Melo e Castro). 1556: Saligão, 231–270.
(2021). Castro, Paul e Melo. "Between an empty camera and bare white feet: Racial complexity in the photographic archive of Ricardo Rangel". Hispanic Research Journal, 22(5), 2021, 517-541.
(2020). Castro, Paul e Melo. "Expressive perspectives on the printed page: the photography of Ricardo Rangel’". In Serra, Filomena; Andre, Paula; Martins, Susana. Projectos Editoriais: imagens e contra-Imagens no Estado Novo. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais: Lisboa, 275-302.
(2013). Castro, Paul e Melo. "José da Silva Coelho's stories in the context of Portuguese-language Goan literature". Muse India, 50.
(2013). Castro, Paul e Melo. "Dictatorship, liberation, transition in the short fiction of three Portuguese-language Goan writers: Alberto de Menezes Rodrigues, Ananta Rau Sar Dessai and Telo de Mascarenhas". Journal of Romance Studies, 13(2), 1-18.
Fields of interest
Goa; Mozambique.
Key words
Goa; Mozambique; short story; photography.
