Ellen W. Sapega

Fall 2024

On Leave

Biography

Ellen W. Sapega’s publications include articles and book chapters on Portuguese modernism, memory, visual culture and commemoration since the late 19^th century, Cape Verdean literature, and the contemporary Portuguese novel. She is currently working on a book on visual and literary representations of Lisbon, Portugal, during the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries.

Education

PhD, Vanderbilt University

Selected Publications

“Mining Memory’s Archive: Two Recent Portuguese Documentaries about the Second World War.” Transnational Portuguese Studies. Eds. Hilary Owen and Claire Williams. Liverpool: U Liverpool Press. (in press)

“Almada en la ciudad: ¿encargo u obra?” Dearq. Revista de arquitectura, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. 21 (2017). 32-43.

“World War I and the Arts: The ‘Geração de Orpheu’ and the Emergence of a Cosmopolitan Avant-Garde.” E-journal of Portuguese History, 15.1 (2017). 15-34.

“Camões e Pessoa: Dois prémios pós-imperiais?” O Poder das Narrativas, as Narrativas do Poder. Orgs. Ana Gabriela Macedo, Elena Brugioni and Joana Passos. Porto: Edições Afrontamento, 2016. 25-30.

“‘Não posso viver sem sol’: O regresso de Amadeo de Sousa Cardoso à Pátria. 1915. O ano de “Orpheu.” Ed. Steffen Dix. Lisboa: Tinta da China, 2015. 421-430.

“Portugal.”  The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism.  Ed. Pericles Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011.  139-150.

“Remembering Empire / Forgetting the Colonies: Accretions of Memory and the Limits of Commemoration in a Lisbon Neighborhood.” History and Memory, 20.2 (Fall/Winter 2008) 18-38.

Consensus and Debate in Salazar’s Portugal: Visual and Literary Negotiations of the National Text, 1933-1948. University Park: Penn State UP, 2008.