Dr. Manuela Mourão, Associate Professor, Literature
Teaching
19th Century British Literature
World Novel
Women Writers
Literary Theory
Research
Gender in/and Fiction
Victorian Literature
Critical Theory
Comparative Literature
Recent Publications
Jack Sheppard by William Harrison Ainsworth, ed with an Introduction and notes by Edward Jacobs and Manuela Mourão. Broadview Press, Forthcoming.
Altered Habits: Reconsidering the Nun in Fiction.University Press of Florida, 2002.
"Negotiating Victorian Feminism: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Short Fiction." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 20.1 (Spring 2001): 57-75.
"The Compromise of Enlightened Rationalism in Diderot's La Religieuse." Romance Quarterly vol. 48, no. 4 (Fall 2001), 223-238.
"Interrogating the Bildungsroman: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Marriage Fictions" Nineteenth-Century Feminisms 3 (Fall-Winter 2000), 73-87.
"Comparative Literature Past and Present: An Update." In CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb journal, 2.4 (December 2000).
"Comparative Literature Past and Present" in Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and Milan V. Dimic, eds. Comparative Literature Today: Theories and Practice/ La Literature comparee d'aujourd'hui. Theories et realisations. Paris: Honore Champion, 1999, 165-172.
"The Representation of Female Desire in Early-Modern Pornographic Texts: 1660-1745" Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 24, nr. 3, Spring 1999.
"Religious Communities" Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, 2nd edition. Volume I: Lesbian Histories and Cultures. Bonnie Zimmerman, ed. New York: Garland, 2000.
"Delicate Balances: Gender and Power in Anne Thackery Ritchie's Nonfiction," Women's Writing, vol. 4, nr. 1 (1997): 73-89
