Stennett, Tom

Academic background

Tom is a Lecturer in Portuguese at St Anne’s. His doctoral research focuses on António Quadros and His Alter Egos.

Teaching

Finals Honour School 

Paper XI Modern Prescribed Authors:

• Eça de Queirós
• Fernando Pessoa 
• Mia Couto

Translation from Portuguese into English 

Prelims 

Paper III (O Desejo de Kianda (1995), Pepetela)  

Translation from Portuguese into English

Recent Publications

‘The Polyhedral Victim and the Patchwork Abuser: A Comparative Study of Names and Naming in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa’s Myra (2008)’, Portuguese Studies, 35.2 (2020), 228-243

‘A Navegação Estratégica entre o(s) Centro(s) e a Semiperiferia na Obra de Eça de Queirós ’, in De Oriente a Ocidente: Estudos da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas, edited by Cláudia Pazos Alonso, Vincenzo Russo, Roberto Vecchi and Carlos Ascenso André, 5 vols (Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2019), II, 427-442

‘Drinking in the Dark, Imitating under Bright Lights: a Comparative Study of Herberto Helder’s O Bebedor Nocturno and Robert Lowell’s Imitations’, Comparative Critical Studies, 16.1 (2019), 57-79

‘Ana Luísa Amaral and the Portuguese Canon’, STAAR [St. Anne’s Academic Review], 7 (2017), 23-31 http://st-annes-mcr.org.uk/staar/publications/staar-7-2017/stennett-2017-ana-luisa-amaral-and-the-portuguese-canon/

‘Writing on Behalf of Those Women ‘Que Não [?] Têm Escrita’: Gendered Boundaries Inside and Outside the Fiction of Mia Couto’, Portuguese Studies, 33.1 (2017), 85-104