Isabel Capeloa Gil

Isabel Capeloa Gil (Mira, Mira, 22 de julho de 1965) is the 6th Rector of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP)[1] and President of the International Federation of Catholic Universities.[2] She is a Full Professor of Culture Studies at the School of Human Sciences.[3] She studied in Lisbon (University of Lisbon), Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University) and University of Chicago and holds a PhD in German Studies from UCP. Previously, she was Vice-Rector for Research and Internationalization (2012–2016) and the Dean of the School of Human Sciences (2005–2012), of the Catholic University of Portugal.[4]

Isabel Capeloa Gil as the 6th Rector of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP)

Biography

Having grown up in China (Macao), Isabel Gil has a special interest in researching issues of diversity and conflict and has structured her work around the exploration of the disciplinary boundaries between literature, the arts and other disciplines. She is furthermore a passionate advocate of international education and has worked consistently to develop international research networks, exploring the different ways in which the practice of the arts and humanities is pivotal to advance a more sustainable and intellectually robust global education agenda.[5]

She was a founding member and is a senior researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), where she coordinates the research group Culture, Art and Conflict (CAC). As an international scholar, Prof. Gil has held numerous visiting professorships at prestigious universities such as LMU University, Munich, Hamburg University, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, the Houston School of Film at the National University of Ireland, PUC Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and USJ (Macao). She was a Visiting Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin) and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (U. Stanford). Amongst her honours are a Fulbright Fellowship, and DAAD, FLAD and Gulbenkian Scholarships.

Isabel Capeloa Gil has been a regular consultant for research foundations such as the Danish Research Council, FAPESP (Brazil), the FCT and FLAD in Portugal as well as the Luso-American Commission (Fulbright). She was an evaluator of the prestigious Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Government and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and is Chair of the Humanities panel at the Danish Research Council. Furthermore, is the Honorary Fellow at the IGRS, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. In 2018, she became Chair of the Research Leadership Forum of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils.

She believes firmly that global engagement in higher education is key to advance stronger values for a more equitable world.

Other activities

Works (selected)

Her research is currently published in Portuguese, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. She is the author of over 182 publications, bridging cultural theory, interarts studies, visual culture and culture and conflict.

Books

Edited books

Scientific articles
  • (1994). Caos e Metamorfose: Uma Leitura da Dança na Obra de Hugo von Hofmannsthal]", Runa nº20, 2/93, pp.151–160 .[7]
  • (1995). "Antigonae – Antigone. Uma leitura de Hölderlin e Claus Bremer", Runa, nº22,2/1994, pp. 99–114.[8]
  • (2000). "Tot sein und atmen... O complexo de Antígona no romance Malina de Ingeborg Bachmann", Runa, nº23–24, 1995, pp. 309–325.[9]
  • (2000). „Poiesis, Tanz und Repräsen-Tanz. Zu Hugo von Hofmannsthals Ariadne auf Naxos", Colloquia Germanica, Bd. 33, 2/2000, pp. 149–162.
  • (2000). "Antigone and Cassandra: Gender and Nationalism in German Literature", Orbis Litterarum. International Review of Literary Studies, Vol.55, 2/2000,pp. 118–134.[10]
  • (2003). „Komm mit, o Schöne, Komm mit mir zum Tanze’ Die Geschlechtspolitik und die Ort des Tanzes in Texten J.W.Goethes", Runa, 28/1999-2000, pp. 131–148.
  • (2006). „Schweig und tanze!” Textos no Limite da (Re)Presentação. A Palavra e o Gesto no Drama de Franz Werfel, Eberhard Pannwitz e Hugo von Hofmannsthal", Dedalus, nº 9, 2004, pp. 91–117.
  • (2009). "O que significa Estudos de Cultura? Um diagnóstico cosmopolita sobre o caso da Cultura Alemã", Revista de Comunicação e Cultura, nº6, 2009, pp. 137–166.[11]
  • (2010). "The Visuality of Catastrophe in Ernst Jünger’s Der gefährliche Augenblick and Die veränderte Welt", Kulturpoetik, 10,1, 2010, pp.62–84.
  • (2011). (with João Ferreira Duarte), Fluid Cartographies – New Modernities Special Monographic Issue, Journal of Romance Studies, Vol.11, Issue 1, Spring 2011.
  • (2011). "Savages and Neurotics. Freud at the Colonial School", Journal of Romance Studies, Vol.11.3, 2011, pp. 27–42.[12]
  • (2011). "A Question of Scale? Lázló László Almásy's Desert Mapping and Its Postcolonial Rewriting" Journal of Romance Studies, Vol.11.1.[13]
  • (2011). "Fuss-Karrieren: Der Schuh von Baudelaire bis Warhol", Paragrana. Zeitschrift für historische Anthropologie 21.2, 2011, pp. 1–23.
  • (2013). "Fragile Matters. Literature and the Scene of Torture" in New German Critique, 127, Feb. 2016, pp. 119–140.[14]

Chapters in books
  • (2002). "Bodies Beyond the Fall. The Allure of Dolls from Rilke to Salman Rushdie", in Ana Gabriela Macedo, Orlando Grossegesse (eds.), Re-Presentações do Corpo Re-Presenting the Body, Braga: Universidade do Minho, Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, pp. 47–66
  • (2005). "Nemesi's City. Urban Casualties and the Modernist Novel", in Manfred Schmeling, Monika Schmitz-Emans (eds.), Modernist Landscapes, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 215–232.
  • (2006). "Jede Frau ist eine Tänzerin ... The Gender of Dance in Weimar Culture" in Christiane Schönfeld, Carmel Finnan (eds.), Practicing Modernity. Female Creativity and Weimar Germany, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 218–241.
  • (2007). "Die Schwere. Ein Versuch über Macht und Tanz" in Christoph Wulf, Gabriele Brandstetter (eds.), Tanz als Anthropologie, Munique: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, pp. 64–84.
  • (2008). "Sentimental Physics: Gottfried Benn, Heisenberg, & Co." in Monika Schmitz-Emans, Manfred Schmeling (eds.), Literature and Science, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 177–192.
  • (2008). "Stemming the Tide ... Carl Schmitt and Ernst Jünger’s Reactionary Modernism" in António Sousa Ribeiro, Maria Irene Ramalho (eds.), Translocal Modernisms, Zurich: Peter Lang, pp. 185–212.
  • (2009). "Le voyeur dans la nuit. L’esthétique nocturne d’Egar Allan Poe" in Alain Montandon (ed.), Promenades Nocturnes, Paris : L’Harmattan, pp. 61–84.
  • (2011). "Monks, Managers and Celebrities. Refiguring the European University" in Barbie Zelizer (ed.), Making the University Matter, Londres: Routledge, pp. 73–83.
  • (2012). "The Visual Literacy of Disaster in Ernst Jünger’s Photo Books" in Carsten Meiner, Kristin Veel (eds), The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises, Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, pp. 147–176.
  • (2012). "This is (Not) It! Rate, Rattle and Roll in the Struggle for Financial Narratives" in Ansgar Nünning, Kai Sicks (eds.), Turning Points. Concepts and Narratives of Change in Literature and Other Media, Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 191–212.
  • (2013). "The Risk Doctrine. On Money, Uncertainty and Literature" in Monika Schmitz-Emans, (ed), Literatur als Wagnis/Literature as Risk. DFG Symposium 2011, Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 239–263.
  • (2014). "Visual recall in the present. Critical nostalgia and the memory of empire in Portuguese culture" in Naomi Segal, Daniela Koleva (eds.), Cultural Literacy in Europe, London: Palgrave, 2014, pp. 25–52.
  • (2015). "Smuggling Lust. On the Cultural Re-Turn of Luxury" in Anders Michelsen, Frederik Tygstrup (eds.): Socioaesthetics:Ambiance – Imaginary, Amsterdam: Brill Publishers, pp. 202–220.
  • (2016). "Seeing Voice. On the Cinematic Politics of Representation" in Alexandra Lopes, Adriana Martins (eds.), Mediations of Disruption in Postconflict Cinema, London: Palgrave, pp. 154–168
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References
  1. "Isabel Capeloa Gil é a sexta Reitora da Universidade Católica". Entrevista à RTP – a partir do minuto 20. 29 October 2016.
  2. "The Rector of UCP elected President of the International Federation of Catholic Universities". July 2018.
  3. "PhDnet in Literary and Cultural Studies". March 2019.
  4. "Católica reafirma rumo e anuncia modernização digital". O Jornal Económico. 4 November 2016.
  5. "Curriculum Vitae Isabel Capeloa Gil" (PDF). Web page Universidade Católica Portuguesa. October 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-16. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  6. Members of the Council European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
  7. Caos e Metamorfose: Uma Leitura da Dança na Obra de Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Books Google. 2016-06-10. ISBN 9781137575203.
  8. "Antigonae – Antigone. Uma leitura de Hölderlin e Claus Bremer". Web page Centro de Estudos Comparatistas.
  9. "Tot sein und atmen... O complexo de Antígona no romance Malina de Ingeborg Bachmann= Web page Biblioteca Universitária João Paulo II".
  10. Gil, Isabel Capeloa (2000). "Antigone and Cassandra: Gender and Nationalism in German Literature". Orbis Litterarum. 55 (2): 118–134. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0730.2000.d01-8.x.
  11. "O que significa Estudos de Cultura? Um diagnóstico cosmopolita sobre o caso da Cultura Alemã". Revista de Comunicação e Cultura, nº6, 2009, pp. Archived from the original on 2016-11-21. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  12. Gil, Isabel Capeloa (2011). "Savages and Neurotics. Freud at the Colonial School", Journal of Romance Studies". Journal of Romance Studies. 11 (3): 27–41. doi:10.3828/jrs.11.3.27.
  13. "A Question of Scale? Lázló László Almásy's Desert Mapping and Its Postcolonial Rewriting". Conference Report on "After Writing Back: Present and Future Perspectives in Postcolonial Studies"- Giessen University. Archived from the original on 2016-11-21. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  14. Gil, Isabel Capeloa (2016). "Fragile Matters. Literature and the Scene of Torture" in New German Critique, 127, Feb. 2016, pp. 119–140". New German Critique. 43: 119–140. doi:10.1215/0094033X-3329223.
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