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Departmental homepageProfessor Lisboa was born in Mozambique. She is Portuguese by birth and has lived in Mozambique, South Africa, Sweden and briefly in Portugal. She moved to the UK aged 15 and has lived here since then. She came to Cambridge from a previous academic position at the University of Newcastle. She has been a Fellow of St John's College since her university appointment in 1993.
She has taught Portuguese literature from the 16th century to the present, Brazilian Portuguese literature from the 19th century to the present, Mozambican and Angolan literature from the 20th century to the present, feminist theory and new historicism. She lectures and supervises at undergraduate and graduate level (BA, MPhil and PhD).
Her main research interests lie in Portuguese and Brazilian literature from the 19th century to the present, some Mozambican literature, the visual arts (Paula Rego and Ana Palma) and themes relating to gender, nationality and religion.
Essays on Paula Rego: Smile When You Think About Hell. Cambridge: Open Book (2019). 492pp (Visual Arts) Monograph.
A Heaven of Their Own: Heresy and Heterodoxy in Portuguese Literature from the 18th Century to the Present. Oxford: Peter Lang (2018). (Portuguese Literature) Monograph.
The End of the World: Apocalypse and its Aftermath in Western Culture. Cambridge: Open Book (2011). 194pp (Comparative Literature and Film) Monograph.
Uma Mãe Desconhecida: Amor e Perdição em Eça de Queirós. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (2008), 219pp. *Winner of the Prémio do Grémio Literário (2008). (Portuguese Literature) Monograph.
