Department of Modern Languages and Cultures

 

Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

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Álvaro J Vidal Bouzon

Assistant Professor of Lusophone and Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

I have worked on the importance of language, language planning and language corpus for the constitution of modern national identities in the Iberian Peninsula, particularly in relation to Spanish Galiza (AKA Galicia), and have drawn as well on that background in sociolinguistics and glossopolitics but, especially, on political history, political science, cultural studies, critical theory and philosophy to foreground my studies on the interfaces between writing (literary but not only), art, history and politics in contemporary Iberian societies. I am a member of one of the Academies of the Lusophone world, the Academia Galega da Língua Portuguesa, where I sit in the International Relations Committee and act as a member of the Scientific Editorial Board of the journal Boletim da Academica Galega da Língua Portuguesa.

Teaching Summary

At undergraduate level I teach modern and contemporary Lusophone and Hispanic literatures, contemporary politics and translation between English and Portuguese/Spanish.

At postgraduate level I have supervised and am supervising MA and PhD projects on sociolinguistics, contemporary politics, literary theory and cultural studies in particular relation with the Hispanic or the Lusophone worlds.

Research Summary

In February 2019 I published the monograph A Galiza (não) é longe daqui...? Lendo(-se) em imagens, mirando(-se) em textos, a study of ('literary' and 'artistic') representation(s) of national… read more

Recent Publications

  • VIDAL BOUZON, Á.J., 2019. A Galiza (não) é longe daqui...?: Lendo(-se) em imagens, mirando(-se) em textos Santiago de Compostela: Fundação Academia Galega da Língua Portuguesa.
  • 2016. E a Galiza...? Lusofonias transversais Boletim da Academica Galega da Língua Portuguesa. 63-76
  • VIDAL BOUZON, A.J., 2013. The tragedy of constitutions: map, territory, land and Spain 1978. In: ROBERTS, S.G.H. and SHARMAN, A., eds., 1812 echoes: the Cadiz Constitution in Hispanic history, culture and politics Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 366-393
  • VIDAL BOUZON, A.J., 2013. Winter Palaces in April... always?: an "Iberian" approach to the theological echoes of Revolution. In: GONÇALVES MIRANDA, R. and ZULLO, F., eds., Post-conflict reconstructions: re-mappings and reconciliations Critical, Cultural and Communications Press. 138-151

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