Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy
No. 6 – 2022
Editorial Board |Adelaide Serras || Ana Daniela Coelho || Ana Rita Martins || Angélica Varandas || Diana Marques || João Félix || José Duarte
Advisory Board |Adam Roberts (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK) || David Roas (Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain) || Flávio García (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) || Henrique Leitão (Fac. de Ciências, Univ. de Lisboa, Portugal) || Jonathan Gayles (Georgia State University, USA) || Katherine Fowkes (High Point University, USA) || Ljubica Matek (Univ. of Osijek, Croatia) || Mª Cristina Batalha (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) || Martin Simonson (Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain) || Susana Oliveira (Fac. de Arquitectura, Univ. de Lisboa, Portugal) || Teresa Lopez-Pellisa (Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Copy Editors | Ana Rita Martins || André Francisco || David Klein Martins || Diana Marques || João Félix || José Duarte
Photography | Elisa Azevedo
Site |https://messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt/journal/
Contact | mfts.journal@gmail.com
ISSN | 2183-7465
Editor | Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa | University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. Alameda da Universidade – Faculdade de Letras. 1600-214 Lisboa – Portugal
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CONTRIBUTORS
GUEST EDITOR
Ana Daniela Coelho | Ana Daniela Coelho is an independent scholar with a PhD in adaptation studies, titled “Adapting Jane Austen’s Emma: From Literary Text to Digital Afterlife” (University of Lisbon). Besides adaptation and Jane Austen, her research interests include fantasy fiction (literature, film, comics and other media), zombies and other undead fictional creatures, and past/present dichotomies in postmodernity.
Email Address | anaalcobiacoelho@gmail.com
CONTRIBUTORS
Inês Vaz | Inês Vaz is a PhD student at NOVA FCSH and an integrated researcher at CHAM. Pursuing a degree in Modern Literatures and Cultures, the focus of her research is fantasy fiction. Some of her research interests include: children’s and young adult fantasy, literature and other media, adaptation, animation, fairy tales, and many others.
Email Address | inesguedesvaz@gmail.com
Ricardo Sobreiro | Ricardo Sobreira holds a PhD in Literary Theory and serves as an Associate Professor of English and North American Literatures in the Faculty of Humanities at the Federal University UFVJM in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil, where he has been a faculty member for the past fourteen years. His areas of specialization include English and American literature, as well as Adaptation Studies. He has made contributions to the field through book chapters, and has published papers and articles in journals such as Veredas: Revista da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas, Anglo Saxonica, Revista da Associação Nacional de Pós-graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Linguística, Rua-L: Revista da Universidade de Aveiro, Journal of Anglo-American Studies, and Luso-Brazilian Review.
Email Address | ricardosobreira@gmail.com
Duncan Hubber | Duncan Hubber is an academic at the University of Queensland whose research areas include horror films, trauma studies, and fantasy literature. His first book, POV Horror: The Trauma Aesthetic of the Found Footage Subgenre, was adapted from his PhD thesis and published in 2023. Duncan has published essays in Frames Cinema Journal and Tower of the Hand, as well as the anthology Horror Comes Home. Duncan is one of the hosts of the Vassals of Kingsgrave, a podcast for fans of fantasy fiction and geek culture. He also hosts The Movie Passport, a podcast about world cinema. His second book, Notes from the Citadel: The Philosophy and Psychology of A Song of Ice and Fire, was published in 2024.
Email Address | d.hubber@uq.edu.au
Carlos Carneiro | Carlos Carneiro has a PhD in Languages, Literatures and Cultures and is a researcher from ULICES. His research interests are concerned with early Irish literature and its influence in European medieval culture, which led him to write two books on the subject. He is also focused on the interdisciplinary study of Celtic culture in general, including the study of Celtic roots in the Iberian Peninsula and their cultural relationship with the British Isles. The connection of these topics with the study of myth and folklore have also compelled him to analyse the influence of the latter in popular culture.
Email Address | carlosmfcarneiro84@gmail.com
Alexis F. Viegas | Alexis F. Viegas holds an MA in Comparative Studies (University of Lisbon) with the following thesis: “Analepsis and The Theatrics of Empathy in The Last of Us: Part II”. He holds a BA in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures from the same institution. He co-organized the conference “Nosferatu: 100 Anos de Terror”, and co-edited the resulting, homonymous anthology (2023). Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Team atestrema (CEComp-FLUL) and is preparing his PhD project.
Email Address | afviegas@edu.ulisboa.pt
Mareike Huber | Mareike Huber is a postgraduate student pursuing a PhD in English and American Literary and Cultural Studies at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (University of Freiburg) in Germany. Her research primarily focuses on invented languages (“conlangs”) in fantasy and science fiction with emphasis on their functions and effects across different types of media. Here, she is especially interested in adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s texts about Arda. These range from audiobooks to movies, TV shows, and many kinds of games like videogames and boardgames.
Email Address | huber-mareike@gmx.de
Elisa Azevedo | Elisa Azevedo (b. 1996, Porto, Portugal) lives and works between Lausanne, Switzerland, and Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a degree in Multimedia Art – Photography from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon (2018) and a Postgraduate degree in Contemporary Photographic Discourses (2019) from the same institution. Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s in Photography at ÉCAL (2023-2025).
Her work is rooted in a sensitive approach to reality, without an immediate attachment to time, space, or the subject she portrays. In her photography, she explores themes such as the body, identity, gender, sexuality, and transitivity.
She has been exhibiting since 2017, with notable solo exhibitions including Corpo, Dentro (UMA LULIK_, Lisbon, 2023), Rivva (Saco Azul, Porto, 2022; Award, Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennale, 2021), and Body to Body (Lisbon Municipal Photographic Archive, 2017), as well as group exhibitions such as Mutaciones: Conexiones Excepcionales (Casa Museo Lope de Vega, Madrid, 2024), Dez de Pentáculos (Appleton, Lisbon, 2022), Just Believe (UMA LULIK_, Lisbon, 2022), Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada (Porto Municipal Gallery, 2021), and Em Plena Luz (Fotofestiwal, Poland, 2021; Porto Photography Biennale, 2021).
Email Address | info@elisaazevedo.com
Website | www.elisaazevedo.com