Mónica Ganhão

Mónica Ganhão is currently a PhD scholarship student in Portuguese and Romance Studies at the School of Letters of the University of Lisbon, and is developing a dissertation project titled “Women among men: gender dynamics in nineteenth-century Portuguese literature”, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), where she aims to analyse the representation of women in the works of female nineteenth-century authors and compare it to that of contemporary male authors. Her interests include female authorship, the literary representation of women (especially in Portuguese literature), and the relationship between female and male writing before our time. In her Masters dissertation she studied the representation of women and marriage in the works of Eça de Queiroz, one of the most famous nineteenth-century writers in Portugal.

Aside from this, she takes special interest in lusophone African literature and has written about the work of Mia Couto and João Paulo Borges Coelho, namely in an article soon to be published titled “Role-playing and masks in As Visitas do Dr. Valdez by João Paulo Borges Coelho”.