Staff Profile

Introduction

I joined the School of Modern Languages in September 2018. I hold a B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Coimbra and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Porto. In 2015, I completed a PhD in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Before coming to Newcastle, I worked at the University of New Hampshire (USA). I teach on the cultures, literatures, and cinemas of the Portuguese-speaking world.

Responsibilities

Degree Programme Director for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

SML Decolonial Champion

Year Abroad Officer for Latin America.

Consultation hours: Wednesdays 10:00am-12:00pm ; Fridays 10am:00-11:00am (or any other time/date by appointment).

Research Interests:

My research focusses on modern and contemporary literatures and cinemas of the Portuguese-speaking world, with an emphasis on Portuguese-speaking Africa and Portugal. I am particularly interested in: modernism(s); race, gender, and sexuality in Portuguese and Portuguese-speaking African literatures and film; migration/mobility and transnational imaginaries; Lusophone literatures and the environmental humanities.

Current Work:

I am currently working on a new research project tentatively entitled Lisbon's Black Modernism. This project explores the Black presence in Lisbon in the interwar period in relation to the literary and artistic worlds. In the 1920s Lisbon was the permanent or temporary home of intellectuals, writers, artists, students, and workers of African descent with links to Portugal's overseas empire. The contribution of this generation to modernism (literature, theatre and the visual arts), as well as the role of the anti-colonial and anti-racist affective communities they established remain yet to be fully explored. The project Lisbon's Black Modernism addresses aspects including anti-colonialism and anti-racism, cosmopolitan politics, race, sexuality and identity. It explores Lisbon's black modernism in a transnational, Atlantic, and European contexts. 

I am also completing a monograph that examines Fernando Pessoa's transnational and cosmopolitan imaginaries through the lens of gender, sexuality, race, and postcolonial theory.

Postgraduate Supervision:

I welcome research proposals in modern and contemporary cultures, literatures, and cinemas of the Portuguese-speaking world. 

I am module leader of

POR2001 Cultures and Societies of the Portuguese-Speaking World

POR4003 Identidades Pós-Coloniais no Cinema e na Literatura Luso-Afro-Brasileira Contemporânea

I contribute to

LAS2033 Envisioning Identities in Latin American Film (module leader in semester 2, 2022-2023)

FMS8360 Researching Film: Skills and Methods

• Articles

  • Beleza F. Mário Domingues, Race, and the Black Modernist Novel in Portugal (O preto do Charleston [1929]). 2024. Submitted.
  • Beleza F. AntropoSines: Petrocultura, violência lenta e pensamento ecológico em Al Berto. Anthropocenica 2022, 3, 135-155.
  • Beleza F. Sustainability at the Margins: Avant-Garde Cinema and the Environment in Rogério Sganzerla’s cinema do lixo. A Contracorriente 2020, 17(2), 182-198.
  • Beleza F. Pessoa e a pulsão de morte: Decadência, heteronímia e modernismo. Estranhar Pessoa 2019, 6(1), 63-78.
  • Beleza F. Mobilidade transnacional, dissidência sexual e hibridismo em A confissão de Lúcio, de Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1914). Journal of Lusophone Studies 2019, 4(1), 64-86.
  • Beleza F. "Orpheu cosmopolita: Políticas culturais e heterotopia sensacionista em ‘Ode maritima,’ de Álvaro de Campos". Estranhar Pessoa 2015, 2(1), 30-56.
  • Beleza F. Das margens do império: Raça, género e sexualidade em Recordações d’uma colonial (memórias da Preta Fernanda). ellipsis: Journal of Lusophone Studies 2014, 12(1), 215-241.
  • Beleza F. (Re)imagining Masculinities and the Nation in Almeida Garrett’s Travels in My Homeland. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 2012, 21/22(1), 199-218.

• Book Chapters

  • Beleza F. Sexologia, desejo e transgressão em A confissão de Lúcio, de Mário de Sá-Carneiro. In: Curopos F, Silva A, ed. Paris, Mário de Sá-Carneiro et les Autres. Paris: Editions Hispaniques, 2017, pp.37-54.
  • Beleza F. “Peripheral Desires, Modernist Fantasies: Mario de Sá-Carneiro’s Queer Cosmopolitanism”. In: Beleza F, Park S, ed. Mário de Sá-Carneiro, a Cosmopolitan Modernist. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, 2017, pp.111-136.
  • Beleza F. Linguagem, representação e o Real n’A relíquia de Eça de Queirós. In: Lourenço A, Santana H, Simões M J, ed. O século do romance. Realismo e Naturalismo na ficção oitocentista. Coimbra: Almedina, 2012, pp.479-490.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Beleza Fernando. As heterotopias de Pessoa. In: Congresso Internacional Fernando Pessoa. 2021, Lisbon: Casa Fernando Pessoa.

• Edited Book

  • Beleza F, Park S, ed. Mário de Sá-Carneiro, a Cosmopolitan Modernist. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017.

• Reviews

  • Beleza F. Vasconcelos R, Pizarro J, eds. Em alma e ouro: A correspondência com Fernando Pessoa. Journal of Lusophone Studies 2016, 1(2), 309-311.
  • Beleza F. Cousineau T. An Unwritten Novel. Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet. ellipsis: Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association 2014, 12(1), 293-296.
  • Beleza F. Anibal Frias. Fernando Pessoa et le quint-empire de l’amour. Quête du désir et alter-sexualité. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 2013, 23/24(1), 441-443.