Inocência Mata
INOCÊNCIA MATA has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures – English/Portuguese variant from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, where she completed a Master’s degree in Brazilian and African Literatures in Portuguese. She holds a PhD in Literature (specialization in African Literatures in Portuguese, ULisboa) and a Post-doctorate in Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Studies, Identity, Ethnicity, and Globalization, University of California Berkeley – Department of Africa American Studies/ Center for African Studies). She is a professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) in the area of Literature, Arts and Cultures (LAC) and a member of the Center for Comparative Studies (CEC/FLUL). From 2014 to 2018, she was a professor at the University of Macau (UM), where she was deputy head of the Department of Portuguese, director of Master's (MA in Literature and Cultural Studies) and Doctoral (PhD Literary Studies - Portuguese) programs, and director of the Center for Luso-Asian Studies at UM. She is a member of specialist associations such as the Portuguese Association of Comparative Literature, the Association pour L'Étude des Literatures Africaines (APELA, France), the International Association of African Studies (AFROLIC, Brazil) and the International Association of Social Sciences and Humanities in the Portuguese Language (AILP_CSH), founding member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of São Tomé and Príncipe (UNEAS), honorary member of the Association of Angolan Writers (UEA), Corresponding Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences – Class of Letters, Corresponding Academic of the Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language and Corresponding Member of the Angolan Academy of Letters. A visiting professor at many national and foreign universities, she has collaborated extensively in specialized newspapers and magazines, and is the author of books of essays in the area of literature in Portuguese and cultural and postcolonial studies, including: African Memorialist Discourses and the Construction of History (2018), African Literature and Postcolonial Criticism (2013), Queen Nzinga Mbandi: History, Memory and Myth (2012), Fiction and History in Angolan Literature (2010), Francisco José Tenreiro: the Multiple Faces of an Intellectual (2011), Island Polyphonies: Culture and Literature of São Tomé and Príncipe (2010), (2013) – while her latest co-authored works are: Post-Colonial and Post-Colonialism: Properties and Appropriations of Meaning, 2016 (with Flávio García, UERJ); World Literature: Perspectives in Portuguese. Worlds in Portuguese (2 vols.),2017 (with Helena Carvalhão Buescu); Cultural and Literary Trajectories of the Islands of Ecuador: Studies on São Tomé and Príncipe, 2018 (with Agnaldo Rodrigues da Silva, UNEMAT). Having won several awards, including the 2015 FEMINA PRIZE, she was honored in May 2019 by the Regional Government of Príncipe with the “Diploma of Merit in recognition of her services in promoting the island of Príncipe in the world” (Island of Príncipe, May 2019), by AFROLIC - International Association of African Cultural and Literary Studies (Natal, RS, July 2019) and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Cypress International Institute University of Texas (Lilongwe, Malawi) in August 2019. On October 19, 2019, she was awarded the LUSOFONIA PRIZE - Education. INOCÊNCIA MATA has a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Lisbon and post-doctoral studies in Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Studies, Identity, Ethnicity, and Globalization, University of California, Berkeley). She is a professor at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon in the area of Literature, Arts and Culture (LAC). She is a senior researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies. University of Lisbon. She has widely published in the area of Postcolonial Studies, African Studies (Literatures and Cultures).She is a senior researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies. University of Lisbon. She has widely published in the area of Postcolonial Studies, African Studies (Literatures and Cultures).She is a senior researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies. University of Lisbon. She has widely published in the area of Postcolonial Studies, African Studies (Literatures and Cultures).