Isabel Capeloa Gil

Full Professor

Isabel Capeloa Gil

Full Professor

Generic Bio

Full Professor of Culture Studies and the current Rector of UCP – Catholic University of Portugal. She holds a B.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Lisbon (1987), and an M.A. in German Studies from the same university (1992), as well as a PhD in German Language and Culture from UCP (2001). She was Guest Professor in Germany (Saarbruecken, Munich), United Kingdom, Ireland (National University of Ireland), Italy (Univ. Ca Foscari, Venice), in Brasil (PUC-Rio) and in the USA (U. Pennsilvania and U. Stanford). She is furthermore an Honorary Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies of the University of London. From 2005 to 2012 she was the Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the UCP. She has held numerous visiting professorships at universities in the U.S., Germany, Brazil, Italy, Ireland and Wales. She was a founder of The Lisbon Consortium network and leads the International Doctoral Degree Program in Culture Studies. She is also a senior researcher and founder of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture.

Areas of Research:

Culture Studies

Sub-areas of Research:

Literature Studies

Publications

Book Chapter

Memória, Identidade e Direitos Humanos

Isabel Capeloa Gil (with Isabel Maria de Oliveira Capeloa Gil). 2024. Imaginar o passado, projetar o presente, reconstruir o future

Book Chapter

Theory in a Post-Theoretical World. Beyoncé and the Afterlife of Over Her Dead Body

Isabel Capeloa Gil (with Isabel Capeloa Gil). 2023. Figures of Pathos

Professor Nelson Ribeiro integra nova equipa reitoral da UCP

Rita Figueiras: "Trump e a sua caixa de ressonância"

Workshop "Preparing for a job interview"

Isabel Capeloa Gil

Isabel Capeloa Gil

Generic Bio

Memória, Identidade e Direitos Humanos

Theory in a Post-Theoretical World. Beyoncé and the Afterlife of Over Her Dead Body

Womens leadership and catholic universities. A survey of the international federation

Imagens póstumas

The global eye or Foucault rewired: security, control, and scholarship in the twenty-first century

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A verdade no concreto

From Siegfried Kracauer to Busby Berkeley

From Siegfried Kracauer to Busby Berkeley

From Siegfried Kracauer to Busby Berkeley: ornamental bodies in 1930s film

How identity guides international partnerships and positioning. Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Lex fugit: on acts of legibIlity

The Balletts Russes: Modern Times After Diaghilev

Celluloid consensus: a comparative approach to film in Portugal during World War II

Correspondência entre Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht e Isabel Capeloa Gil

Intense and Conflictual. Cultural Work in the 21st century

Intenso e em conflito. O trabalho cultural no século XXI

The Sovereign’s Broken Voice: On the Cinematic Politics of Representation

"(In)Visible Theory. Paul Auster as Cultural Critic"

"Moda, Família e Cultura Visual"

(In)visible theory. Paul Auster and the artist as cultural critic.

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Fragile matters: Literature and the scene of torture

Humanidade(s), Considerações Radicalmente Contemporâneas

Humanidade(s): considerações radicalmente contemporâneas

Infâmia e fama : o mistério dos primeiros retratos fotográficos judiciários em Portugal : 1869-1895

Matters of culture

Riddles... Or Oedipus Lack

The Sovereign’s Broken Voice. On the Cinematic Politics of Representation

"Shooting Stars"

(E)Spectating disaster: A cultural condition

A representação de África através da literatura de viagens europeia e norte-americana de 1958 a 2002

Der literarische Europa-Diskurs: Festschrift für Paul Michael Lützeler zum 70. Geburtstag Hrsg. by Peter Hanenberg und Isabel Capeloa Gil

Die Heimkehr. Visuelle Kultur und Praktiken des Erinnerns im post-revolutionären Portugal

Die Heimkehr.Visuelle Kultur und Praktiken des Erinnerns im post-revolutionären Portugal

Die schwierige Schwere von WG Sebalds Europa

Hazardous future: Disaster, representation and the assessment of risk

Introduction

Introduction-hazardous future: Images and perceptions of disaster and the assessment of risk

Shooting stars

The cultural life of money

Diálogos singulares

O Silêncio de Alcmena

Shaking Ground. On the hermeneutics of trembling

Visual Recall in the Present: Critical Nostalgia and the Memory of Empire in Portuguese Culture

Von der Semiologie zur 'visuellen Literalität'?

'Odeia o teu próximo!’ Considerações sobre o inimigo interno em No Vale de Elah de Paul Haggis

A Visualidade Traumática da memória na cultura portuguesa contemporânea

Excitable Speech - – Performanz und Überschreitung in Arthur Schnitzlers Reigen

Framing war : domesticity and the visuality of conflict

“Framing War. Domesticity and the Visuality of Conflict”,

Amores Aziagos. Sobre Literatura e Ciência

Cosmopolitismo e diálogo religioso

Eine Kultur der Geselligkeit

Monks, managers, and celebrities: Refiguring the European University

Olhando as memórias dos outros

Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict

Szenen der Stille. Ueber die Performativitaet des Ungeschehenen

The Visual Literacy of Disaster in Ernst Jünger's Photo Books

This Is

)“Fuss-Karrieren: Der Schuh von Baudelaire bis Warhol” ,

A Cultura Portuguesa no Divã

A question of scale? Lázló Almásy's desert mapping and its postcolonial rewriting

A Question of Scale? Lázló László Almásy's Desert Mapping and Its Postcolonial Rewriting

Fluid Cartographies-New Modernities Special Issue

Fuss-Karrieren: Der Schuh von Baudelaire bis Warhol

Introduction: modernity's fluid cartographies

Literacia Visual. Estudos sobre a Inquietude das Imagens

Recensão a: Gil, Isabel Capeloa; Pimentel, Manuel Cândido - Simone de Beauvoir: olhares sobre a mulher e o feminino

Savages and neurotics: Freud and the Colonial School

Stars vor dem Erschiessungskommando. Remediationen der Weiblichkeit im Ersten Weltkrieg

Fleeting, Floating, Flowing, Water Writing and Modernity

Kulturbau

Pós-Género

Womens leadership and catholic universities. A survey of the international federation

From Siegfried Kracauer to Busby Berkeley: ornamental bodies in 1930s film

O igual e o diferente: essência, devir e representação de identidades. Leitura da revista Comunicação & Cultura, n.º 1 – A cor dos media, dirigida por Isabel Capeloa Gil (Lisboa, Quimera, 2006)