Daniela Côrtes Maduro
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Daniela Côrtes Maduro | |
|---|---|
| Education | Bachelor of Arts |
| Occupation | Researcher |
Portuguese theorist Daniela Côrtes Maduro is a researcher focused on digital and experimental literature. Côrtes Maduro has been a researcher w/Po-ex.net & CELL. She chaired and curated Shapeshifting Texts at the University of Bremen/Universität Bremen) as part of her research into multimodal, experimental storytelling.[1][2]
Côrtes Maduro holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and English languages and literatures. She wrote her master thesis, A creature made of bits: Illusion and Materiality in the Hyperfiction Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson for the University of Coimbra in Portugal for her MA in Anglo-American studies.[2] After this, she was awarded an individual doctoral grant by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, 2011) to complete her PhD in Materialities of Literature (project “Immersion and Interactivity in Digital Fiction”) at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In 2022, she finished her Master in Editorial Studies (University of Aveiro, Portugal). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bremen for electronic literature.
Research and career
Côrtes Maduro has been working with the Center for Portuguese Literature at the University of Coimbra, first as a PhD-fellow, and then as a postdoctoral researcher. She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellow at the University of Bremen.[3]
Her research interests lie in the study of science fiction; storytelling; experimental and electronic literature; narratology; literary analysis; editorial studies; subversive children's literature; digital fiction; archive, preservation and curation of literature. She is an associate researcher of the Consortium on Electronic Literature and worked at the University of Bremen, where her project, "Shapeshifting Texts: keeping track of electronic literature," was developed with the support of the university and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellowship Programme. In 2020, she worked on the project: No Problem HAs a Solution: A digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet in the Center for Portuguese Literature in the University of Coimbra.[4]
She currently[when?] works at the Centre for Portuguese Literature (group Digital Mediation and Materialities of Literature) hosted by the University of Coimbra. Together with Manuel Portela, Alex Saum-Pascual and Rui Torres, she is the co-chair of the Electronic Literature Organization's Electronic Literature Conference and Media Festival 2023 - Overcoming Divides-Electronic Literature and Social Change (Coimbra, Portugal).