José Luís Pimenta Lopes

Penteada University Campus , Floor 1, Office 1.106

https://www.cienciavitae.pt//en/1818-4576-90D7

jose.lopes@staff.uma.pt

Biographical Notes

Luís Pimenta Lopes: Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities University of Madeira. PhD in Comparative Modernities: Literatures, Arts and Cultures with the thesis "The Reception of the Holocaust in Portugal: mediation and intellectual debate from post-war years until 1968" (University of Minho, Portugal, 2022). MA in German as a Foreign Language: Comparative Studies of German Language, Literature and Culture (joint degree University of Leipzig, Germany / University of Salamanca, Spain, 2011). Teaching Degree in English and German (University of Minho, Portugal, 2008). Full member of the Centre for Humanistic Studies at University of Minho. Research interests: Language and Culture Didactics, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, especially the connections between Literature, intellectual world and Holocaust memory.

Publications

Revisiting the Margins of Postwar Holocaust Memory: Differential Memorability in Anna Seghers's "Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen" (1946), Luís Pimenta Lopes, International Conference "Peripheries in Times of Crises: Representations, Narrative, Discourses", 2025

Cartografia e paródia como memória cultural em 'Der Hals der Giraffe' (Judith Schalansky) e 'Os mamíferos, as aves e os peixes' (Manuel Bivar), Luís Pimenta Lopes, Espaços e Rotas - Abordagens Interdisciplinares entre Literatura e Cartografia, 2024

Imagens do Holocausto no Meio Intelectual Português dos Anos 50: Entre a Censura e a Instrumentalização Política, Luís Pimenta Lopes, 978-84-10432-05-5, Editorial Universidad de Alcalá, 2024

The Holocaust in the Portuguese Cultural and Literary Press in the Aftermath of WWII., Luís Pimenta Lopes, The Press and the Holocaust, 2024

Job nas memórias de um sobrevivente de Buchenwald: sobre a epígrafe de "A Morte Lenta" de Emile Henry (1945), Luís Pimenta Lopes, Congresso Internacional "Job. Justiça e Sofrimento", 2023

Ser terceira de si: Arquivo e Pós-Memória em "O que os cegos estão sonhando?" (Noemi Jaffe, 2012), Entre Restos e Rastos: Ficções do Arquivo, Arquivos na ficção, 2023

Memory, fiction, death: a suicide by Ilse Losa and Agustina Bessa-Luís, Luís Pimenta Lopes, 978-989-755-841-2, Humus, 2022

"Deus criou o mundo, o Homem criou Auschwitz": a imagética religiosa em Primo Levi e Imre Kertész, 978-989-755-423-0, No princípio era a palavra - O lugar das humanidades / XIX Colóquio de Outono, 2019, 13

Os que sucumbem e os que se salvam: Aproximações ao Holocausto em Alves Redol, 1647-927X, Forma Breve (16), 2019, 17

'Um camarote para a CRIL': Suburban Spaces and Transculturality in Pedro Vieira's Última Paragem Massamá, Peter Lang, 2018

Academic Qualifications

PhD in Modernidades Comparadas: Literaturas, Artes e Culturas, 2022, Universidade do Minho

Master Degree in Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Estudios Contrastivos de Lengua, Literatura y Cultura Alemanas, 2011, Universität Leipzig

Undergraduate Degree in Inglês e Alemão (Ensino de), 2008, Universidade do Minho

Current Duties

Membro of the Assembly of the Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades

Membro of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures