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Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (in Portuguese) CV (in Portuguese)
Biodata: Aurora Maria Soares Neiva holds a PhD. in English from NIU. She is tenured Professor at the Department of Anglo-Germanic Languages at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where she teaches courses in the undergraduate English language program (especially Phonetics and Phonology) as well as in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics. She coordinates a research project on oral language production and comprehension, ORALLE. Her research interests also include translation and specific features of oral discourse, such as phonetics and phonology.
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Round table: "Formando professores como agentes e sujeitos de pesquisa empírica"
Abstract: Nesta mesa redonda iremos discutir o papel da pesquisa empírica na formação de professores sob dois prismas principais. Um deles corresponde à visão do professor em formação como agente de processos reflexivos e analíticos do seu próprio fazer docente e seu engajamento em diferentes formas de pesquisa. A outra perspectiva é a da formação do professor como objeto de análise e pesquisas em prol de uma formação mais adequada e mais coerente com as demandas sociais da atualidade. Serão levantadas questões como política linguística e educacional relevantes para o contexto da formação do professor (em especial, o de línguas), desenvolvimento da autonomia do profissional na condução de sua educação contínua, perfil desafiador e atitude pro-ativa do acadêmico / pesquisador / professor universitário nas práticas pedagógicas que afetarão a formação docente.
Biodata: Brian Boyd is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, University of Auckland. His multi-award-winning work, on American, English, Greek, Irish, New Zealand and Russian fiction, drama, verse and translation, from epics to comics, has appeared in twelve languages. He is best known for his books on and editions of work by Nabokov, including the biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton, 1990, 1991). Books in press include On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Belknap/Harvard, May 2009); Evolutionary Approaches to Literature: A Reader in Art and Science (co-edited with Joseph Carroll and Jonathan Gottschall, Columbia, fall 2009). He is currently researching a biography of philosopher of science Karl Popper and will edit the remaining twelve volumes of Nabokov’s uncollected or unpublished work.
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Lecture: "Literary evolutionism and/or literary empiricism?"
Abstract: Evolution offers the single unifying principle for life on earth. That means all of biology, but it also means all of society, which exists only among living things, and it means all of culture, which exists only among social animals. Evolutionary thinking has therefore begun to permeate many human fields, from anthropology, economics, psychology, sociology and medicine to politics, history, religion and the arts. What is, or what should be, the relationship between empirical and evolutionary studies of literature? Some colleagues in literary evolutionism think their position entails only or primarily empirical studies; others think evolutionism in no way entails empirical studies. Some evolutionists and perhaps some empiricists think literary criticism a woefully unempirical, unfruitful, hopelessly subjective activity; others think literary criticism can be empirical and that without the subjective element literary studies would be objective at the price of sterility. All evolutionists agree with Darwin’s maxim that “All observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service,” and some suspect that literary empiricists sometimes gather data without a theory in mind that forms part of a consistent view of literature. What can evolutionary and empirical approaches to literature offer one another?
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (in Portuguese)
Biodata: Ph.D. in Literary Theory from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Post-Doctoral research at the University of Bremen, Germany. Professor of Literary Theory of the Post-Graduate Program of Literary Studies at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. CNPq researcher. Coordinator of the Contemporary Theories of Literature research group. Author and co-author of several articles on literary studies and the following books: Ciência da literatura empírica (1989), Histórias de literatura: as novas teorias alemãs (1996), Novas epistemologias: desafios para a universidade do futuro (1999), Literatura e mídia (2002), Literatura e cultura (2003), Literatura e imagem (2004), Literatura e memória (2006) e Literatura e crítica (forthcoming).
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Lecture: "Ler com todos os sentidos"
Abstract: A emergência de configurações inaugurais em produções literárias atuais, marcadas pela coexistência de múltiplas formas midiáticas e interficcionais (SIMANOWSKI, 2002; 2008), não só demanda a construção de repertórios teóricos adequados à sua compreensão e descrição, mas igualmente uma ação científica capaz de elaborar métodos que possam orientar a sua investigação empírica. A contribuição proposta lança um olhar exploratório sobre o caráter material e performativo de novos processos de comunicação literária fundados sobre uma gama de experiências sensoriais que suscitam novas sensibilidades e intensidades, permitindo uma fruição estética que mobiliza novas maneiras de ver, ouvir e sentir. Nesse âmbito, será avaliado o potencial teórico e metodológico de uma ciência empírica da literatura.
Federal University of Bahia (in Portuguese)
Biodata: Marcia Paraquett is Professor of Spanish at the Institute of Letters at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Formerly, she was Professor of Spanish at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) for 30 years. She has a Masters in Portuguese from UFF, a Doctorate in Spanish Literature from São Paulo University (USP) and a Post-Doc in Applied Linguistics from Campinas University (UNICAMP). She has written three textbooks (Lectura y Cultura Española, Lectura y Cultura Hispanoamericana, and Sintaxe). She has also co-edited two books (Formas & Linguagens: Tecendo o Hispanismo no Brasil, 2004; and Fronteiras do Literário II, 2002). She has published several articles in national and international books and journals.
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Round table: "Formando professores como agentes e sujeitos de pesquisa empírica"
Abstract: Nesta mesa redonda iremos discutir o papel da pesquisa empírica na formação de professores sob dois prismas principais. Um deles corresponde à visão do professor em formação como agente de processos reflexivos e analíticos do seu próprio fazer docente e seu engajamento em diferentes formas de pesquisa. A outra perspectiva é a da formação do professor como objeto de análise e pesquisas em prol de uma formação mais adequada e mais coerente com as demandas sociais da atualidade. Serão levantadas questões como política linguística e educacional relevantes para o contexto da formação do professor (em especial, o de línguas), desenvolvimento da autonomia do profissional na condução de sua educação contínua, perfil desafiador e atitude pro-ativa do acadêmico / pesquisador / professor universitário nas práticas pedagógicas que afetarão a formação docente.
Biodata: Marisa Bortolussi holds a PhD in Spanish from Laval University, Quebec, and an MA in Comparative Literature from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Earlier in her career she produced two books on children’s literature, both published in Madrid (Teoría del Cuento Infantil, and El Cuento Infantil Cubano), as well as a number of articles on Spanish and Latin American literature. Approximately 15 years ago she moved into the area of empirical approaches to literature, and has since co-authored numerous articles and a book, Psychonarratology (Cambridge University Press, 2003), with her collaborator, Dr. Peter Dixon. Other publications include an edited journal issue on the theory of Magic Realism, and a co-edited book in honor of Willie Van Peer, titled Directions in Empirical Literary Studies (John Benjamins, 2008). Currently she is serving as the President of IGEL (International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media).
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Lecture: "Empirical studies of narrative: a retrospective, and a prospective view"
Abstract: Since Schmidt (1982) defended the need for an empirical science of literature nearly three decades ago, an ever increasing number of scholars from varied fields such as psychology, sociology, linguistics, literary studies, and education have jumped on the empirical bandwagon. Yet in spite of the research methods developed, the many experiments conducted, and all the knowledge and insights gained, some literary scholars argue that empirical approaches have failed to produce a coherent theory of literature. How valid is this claim, and how reasonable is the expectation of a ‘coherent theory of narrative’? In this paper, I will attempt to answer these questions through a three-fold approach. Firstly, I provide a brief, general overview of studies in the four areas of the literary system posited by Schmidt (1982): production, mediation, historical reception, and readers’ processing of texts. Secondly, I elaborate on the last of these areas, providing an overview of the numerous issues studied by empirical researchers. Thirdly, I focus on one of these issues, namely memory for literary narrative, to demonstrate the ideal relationship between theory and empirical inquiry. I then provide some concluding remarks regarding the state of empirical studies of narrative, and possible future directions.
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (in Portuguese)
Biodata: Sílvia Becher holds a Doctor’s degree from the Business School at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IAG/PUC-Rio). She is a tenured Professor at both the Federal University (UFRJ) and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). She teaches courses in applied linguistics, language teaching methodology and oral discourse. She is also part of the teaching staff of the Translation and Conference Interpreting Programs at the Extension Division of PUC-Rio. Her research interests comprise the intersection of two fields – business and language studies. In studying language use in work environments, her main focuses are identifying and developing professional competencies, issues of identity, face and status in social interactions at work.
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Round table: "Formando professores como agentes e sujeitos de pesquisa empírica"
Abstract: Nesta mesa redonda iremos discutir o papel da pesquisa empírica na formação de professores sob dois prismas principais. Um deles corresponde à visão do professor em formação como agente de processos reflexivos e analíticos do seu próprio fazer docente e seu engajamento em diferentes formas de pesquisa. A outra perspectiva é a da formação do professor como objeto de análise e pesquisas em prol de uma formação mais adequada e mais coerente com as demandas sociais da atualidade. Serão levantadas questões como política linguística e educacional relevantes para o contexto da formação do professor (em especial, o de línguas), desenvolvimento da autonomia do profissional na condução de sua educação contínua, perfil desafiador e atitude pro-ativa do acadêmico / pesquisador / professor universitário nas práticas pedagógicas que afetarão a formação docente.
Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (in German) CV (in German)
Biodata: Willie van Peer holds a Ph.D. from Lancaster University, and is Professor of Literary Studies and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the University of Munich, former President of IGEL (International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature) and former President of PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association). He has been Visiting Scholar in the Departments of Comparative Literature at Stanford and at Princeton University, and in the Department of (Cognitive) Psychology at the University of Memphis. He is also a Fellow of Clare Hall of Cambridge University. He is the author of several books and many articles on poetics and the epistemological foundations of literary studies, including Stylistics and Psychology: Investigations of Foregrounding (Croom Helm, 1986). He edited The Taming of the Text: Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture (Routledge, 1988); together with Seymour Chatman, New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective (Suny Press, 2001); and together with Max Louwerse, Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies (Benjamins, 2002). Together with Jemeljan Hakemulder (Utrecht University) and Sonia Zyngier (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), he published Muses and Measures: Empirical Research Methods for the Humanities with Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2007. With Jan Auracher, he edited New Beginnings in the Study of Literature. (Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2008). He also recently edited The Quality of Literature: Linguistic Studies in the Evaluation of Literary Texts (John Benjamins, 2008).
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Lecture: "The end of art: in remembrance of Colin Martindale"
Abstract: In his Lectures on Aesthetics, published posthumously by his students (who actually used their notes for it), the German philosopher Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) prophesied the end of art. Recently, in an article offered to the international journal Empirical Studies of the Arts, the American psychologist Colin Martindale (1943-2008) took up Hegel’s claim and boldly asserted that the predicted end is nigh, supporting his claim with good empirical evidence. The editors of the journal found the article so stimulating that they invited a number of people to react to it, so that these reactions could be published along with Martindale’s paper (and his subsequent reaction to them). In this talk, I will briefly outline Hegel’s views, the claims and evidence provided by Martindale, and my own response to them. Colin Martindale recently died, so that I will present my paper as a tribute to someone I consider a great scholar and a fine human being.
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