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. I teach on the literatures, cinemas and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world.

Responsibilities

Year Abroad Officer for Latin America.
Staff Facilitator for the SSC

Office hours: Tuesday 2:00pm-3:00pm ; Thursdays 11am:00-1:00pm (or any other time/date by appointment).

Research Interests:

My research focusses on modern and contemporary literatures and cinemas of the Portuguese-speaking world. I am particularly interested in: modernisms and modernity; race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Lusophone literatures; visual cultures; Lusophone cinemas and the environment.

Current Work:

I am currently completing a monograph that examines the pervasive intertwining of cosmopolitanism and sexual politics that shaped Portuguese modernism. 

Recently I have started a new research project entitled Marginal Ecologies, which focusses on the relationship between the avant-garde and the environment in Lusophone cultural production (from the 1960s onwards). This research project is particularly sensitive to questions of race, gender, and sexuality as well.

Postgraduate Supervision:

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

I am module leader of

POR2001 Cultures and Societies of the Portuguese-Speaking World

POR4003 Identidades & Mobilidade no Cinema e na Literatura Luso-Afro-Brasileira Contemporânea

I contribute to

LAS2028 Diversidad Cultural en América Latina

LAS2033 Envisioning Identities in Latin American Film

SPA2025 Representations of Revolution, Dictatorship and Democracy in Spain and Latin America

• 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. 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. Pessoa e a pulsão de morte: Decadência, heteronímia e modernismo. Estranhar Pessoa 2019, 6(1), 63-78.
• 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, Park S, ed. Mário de Sá-Carneiro, a Cosmopolitan Modernist. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017.
• 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. 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. "Orpheu cosmopolita: Políticas culturais e heterotopia sensacionista em ‘Ode maritima,’ de Álvaro de Campos". Estranhar Pessoa 2015, 2(1), 30-56.
• 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. 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. 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.
• 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.
• 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.