Dr Paul Castro
- Lecturer (Hispanic Studies)
telephone:
0141-330-5224
email:
Paul.Castro@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3711-7726Research interests
My research revolves around contemporary literature, film and photography from across the Portuguese-speaking world. I have particular interests in the representation of urban space and everyday life, postcolonial cultural production from Asia and Africa in comparative perspective, and genres such as the photobook and the short story.
Publications
2024
Melo e Castro, P. (2024) Escaping a sinking ship? The translation of Epitácio Pais’s short story ‘Os Ratos/The Rats’, Goan writing in Portuguese and world literature. In: Desilva, S. and Halikowski-Smith, S. (eds.) Global Portuguese. Brill: Leiden. (In Press)
Silva Coelho, J. d. and Melo e Castro, P. (2024) How to get by in life with a pair of boots | José da Silva Coelho. Indian Review,
2023
Melo e Castro, P. (2023) Smugglers by Epitácio Pais. Out of Print, 50,
Melo e Castro, P. M. (2023) Half-Chewed Counsellors and Statesmen. Contemporary Literary Review India, 10(3), pp. 127-131.
Pais, E. and Castro, P. (2023) ‘‘A Woman’s Fate’ by Epitácio Pais. Translated by Paul Melo e Castro. Bombay Review, 42(March), 2023.
da Silva Coelho, J. and Castro, P. (2023) Dr Pancrácio’s Liver by José da Silva Coelho. Translated from Portuguese by Paul Melo e Castro. Out of Print, 48(March), 2023.
Castro, P. (2023) Everyone Eats or There’ll Be Trouble by José da Silva Coelho. KITAAB,
Melo e Castro, P. and Rocha, M. E. d. (2023) Life Stories: The Collected Stories of Maria Elsa da Rocha. Goa, 1556: Saligão, Goa, India. ISBN 9788195632916
2022
Melo e Castro, P. (2022) Circling the end of the line in Vimala Devi’s Monção: glints of significance across Vimala Devi's short story cycle. Kritika Kultura, 38, pp. 566-596.
Castro, P. (2022) Blood on the Sand by Epitácio Pais. Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, 36(2), pp. 214-220. (doi: 10.5744/delos.2021.2010)
Castro, P. and Pais, E. (2022) Daughter of the Soil. Lunch Ticket, 20,
Castro, P. (2022) Melodies and harmonies. Parmal, 75, pp. 165-175.
2021
Castro, P. (2021) The Rats by Epitácio Pais. Shanghai Literary Review, 2020(6), pp. 102-104.
Castro, P. (2021) Raw Muscle by Rubem Fonseca. Metamorphoses, 28(1), pp. 134-149.
Melo e Castro, P. (2021) Between an empty camera and bare white feet: Racial complexity in the photographic archive of Ricardo Rangel. Hispanic Research Journal, 22(5), pp. 517-541. (doi: 10.1080/14682737.2022.2061794)
2020
Melo e Castro, P. (2020) Mais-Valias em Trier. e-metropolis, 11(43), pp. 72-78.
Vilela, L. and Melo e Castro, P. (2020) No more Indians. Sic. A Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation, 11(1), LT.2. (doi: 10.15291/sic/1.11.lt.2)
Vilela, L. and Castro, P. (2020) ‘Black Bean Stew' by Luiz Vilela, translated by Paul Melo e Castro. Latin American Literature Today, 1(16),
Melo e Castro, P. (2020) Dom Teotónio by Maria Elsa da Rocha. Out of Print, 38,
Castro, P. (2020) Monsoon [by Vimala Devi, translated by Paul Castro]. Seagull: Calcutta. ISBN 9780857426956
Castro, P. (2020) Expressive perspectives on the printed page: the photography of Ricardo Rangel. In: Serra, F., Andre, P. and Martins, S. (eds.) Projectos Editoriais: Imagens e Contra-Imagens no Estado Novo. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais: Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 275-302.
de Mascarenhas, T. (2020) Fragmentos de Uma Sinfonia Goesa. [Scholarly Editions]
Sar Dessai, A. R. (2020) Teoria do Riso: Contos, Poemas e Peças Radiofónicas do Médico Hindu Ananta Rau Sar Dessai. [Scholarly Editions]
2019
Castro, P. M. e. (2019) The dregs populating the village of Santana: Rural Goa in three stories by Epitacio Pais. In: Castro, P. (ed.) Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9781786833907
Garmes, H. and Castro, P. M. e. (2019) The story of Goan literature in Portuguese: A question of terminology. In: Castro, P. (ed.) Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9781786833907
Melo e Castro, P. (2019) The cartography of Goan literature: one language in a multilingual social landscape. In: Melo e Castro, P. (ed.) Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781786833907
Miranda, E. and Castro, P. M. e. (2019) Science over superstition? The representation of the social world of the Novas Conquistas in Bodki by Agostinho Fernandes. In: Castro, P. (ed.) Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9781786833907
Castro, P. (2019) Atitudes que o Vento Levou: The stories of Eduardo de Sousa and the post-1961 vision of a Goan elite in decline. In: Almeida, R. (ed.) Goa: A Post-Colonial Society Between Cultures. Goa 1556: Margao, India. ISBN 9788193423684
Melo e Castro, P. M. (Ed.) (2019) Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff. ISBN 9781786833907
Castro e Melo, P. (2019) Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil: Memories, Politics and Identities, ed. by Sara Brandellero and Lúcia Villares (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017). Portuguese Studies, 35(1), pp. 106-107. (doi: 10.5699/portstudies.35.1.0106)[Book Review]
Castro e Melo, P. (2019) 'Three fleeting voices: The Goan subaltern in the stories of Vimala Devi, Maria Elsa da Rocha and Epitácio Pais'. In: Abreu, S., da Silva, A. and d'Souza, R. (eds.) Public History of Goa: Evolving Politics, Culture and Identity. Series: XCHR studies series (14). Cinnamon Teal: Goa, pp. 128-135. ISBN 9789387676350
Melo e Castro, P. (2019) Em torno do fim: Goa tardo-colonial no ciclo de contos Monção (1963) de Vimala Devi = Around the end: late-colonial Goa in Vimala Devi’s short-story cycle Monção. Via Atlântica, 36, pp. 16-41. (doi: 10.11606/va.v0i36.162015)
Melo e Castro, P. (2019) The Image of St Thomas by Maria Elsa da Rocha. Parmal, 8, pp. 27-33.
2018
Castro, P. (2018) Xilunguine. Afterimage, 45(5),
Castro e Melo, P. (2018) Celsa Pinto, Anatomy of a Colonial Capital: Panjim (Saligão, India: Goa 1556, 2016), Print. Celsa Pinto, Colonial Panjim: Its Governance, its People (Saligão, India: Goa 1556, 2016),. Portuguese Studies, 34(1), pp. 123-125. (doi: 10.5699/portstudies.34.1.0123)[Book Review]
Castro e Melo, P. (2018) Portuguese language Goan literature: Whence, whither and wherefore. In: Carvalho, S. (ed.) The Brave New World of Goan Writing. Bombaykala Books: Mumbai, pp. 203-212. ISBN 9788193947500
da Rocha, L. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Lulu dies alone. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 587-594.
da Rocha, M. E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) The factory whistle. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 581-585.
da Rocha, M. E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Not by bread alone. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 573-579.
do Rosário Rodrigues, A. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Deaf to the world. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 595-599.
do Rosário Rodrigues, A. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Serafina. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 601-604.
Fernandes, A. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Shadows. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 521-525.
Festino, C. G., Garmes, H., Melo e Castro, P. and Newman, R. (2018) Special Issue: Goans on the Move [Guest Editors]. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7,
Festino, C. G., Garmes, H., Melo e Castro, P. and Newman, R. (2018) Introduction: Goans on the move. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 9-15.
Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Costa, Suneeta Peres da. Saudade. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 363-366. [Book Review]
Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Darlene Sadlier. The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora: Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 367-372. [Book Review]
Pais, E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) A Christmas tale. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 567-568.
Pais, E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Room 54. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 569-571.
2017
Melo e Castro, P. (2017) The heart of the metropole: urban space and interracial relationships in ‘Fidelidade’ by Vimala Devi, ‘Um encontro imprevisto’ by Henrique de Senna Fernandes and ‘Nina’ by Orlanda Amarílis. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 53(4), pp. 405-429. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqx038)
Melo e Castro, P. (2017) Clean break, tangled lives: December 1961 in the Goan short stories "Rucmá, a mulherzinha de Salém" by Maria Elsa da Rocha and "Guerra" by Sheela Kolambkar. Luso-Brazilian Review, 54(1), pp. 78-101.
Melo e Castro, P. and Festino, C. G. (Eds.) (2017) A House of Many Mansions: Goan Literature in Portuguese. Under the Peepal Tree: Margão. ISBN 9789386301628
Castro e Melo, P. (2017) Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Guitá-Rahasya ou Ciência do Activismo Para o BemEstar Universal, trans. by Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar (Alto Porvorim, India: Pradnya Darshan Prakashan, 2016). Portuguese Studies, 33(2), pp. 245-248. (doi: 10.5699/portstudies.33.2.0245)[Book Review]
do Rosário Rodrigues, A. and Melo e Castro, P. (2017) Dr Pepino. Indian Literature, 60(4), pp. 141-147.
Melo e Castro, P. (2017) "E eu que não conhecia nada". In: Alós, A. P., de Felippe, R. F. and Souto, A. d. R. (eds.) Figurações do Imaginário Cinematográfico na Contemporaneidade. Universidade Federal de Santa Maria UP: Santa Maria, pp. 201-215. ISBN 9788593513015
Melo e Castro, P. (2017) Leafing through Lisbon: Eduardo Gageiro’s urban photobook Lisboa no Cais da Memória (2003). Comunicação pública, 12(23), (doi: 10.4000/cp.1971)
2016
Barreto, S., Melo e Castro, P. and Braga, D. D. (2016) O africanista. Via Atlântica, 30, pp. 331-334.
Melo e Castro, P. , Braga, D. D. and Garmes, H. (2016) Introdução à Antologia de Contos Goeses. Via Atlântica, 30, pp. 313-321.
Shetty, M., Melo e Castro, P. and Braga, D. D. (2016) Senhor Segundamão. Via Atlântica, 30, pp. 343-348.
Fernandes, A. R. L., Baubeta, P. A. O. d., Melo e Castro, P. and Flor, J. A. (Eds.) (2016) Storytelling: Memory, Love and Loss in Portuguese Short Fiction. Series: Textos Chimaera. University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies: Lisbon. ISBN 9789728886288
Braga, D. D., Melo e Castro, P. and Garmes, H. (2016) Special Issue: Goa: Literatura e Cultura 2. Via Atlântica, 30,
Castro, P. (2016) Lengthening Shadows: An Anthology of Goan Short Stories Translated from the Portuguese, [by Paul Melo e Castro] Vol. 1. Goa 1556: Saligão. ISBN 9789380739755
Castro, P. (2016) Lengthening Shadows: An Anthology of Goan Short Stories Translated from the Portuguese, [by Paul Melo e Castro] Vol. 2. Goa 1556: Saligão. ISBN 9789380739762
da Rocha, M. E. and Castro, P. (2016) Dom Teotónio. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 34-42.
da Silva Coelho, J. and Castro, P. (2016) The brave Valentim Negrão and his theory of communicating vessels. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 26-29.
da Silva Coelho, J. and Castro, P. (2016) Placentino's views of politicians and fishwives. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 30-33.
Devi, V. and Castro, P. (2016) The house husband. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 12-21.
Devi, V. and Castro, P. (2016) The subsidy. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 22-25.
do Rosário Rodrigues, A. and Castro, P. (2016) The heir of the Alvuras. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 43-47.
Melo e Castro, P. and Garmes, H. (2016) Entre o mainstream e a contracultura na Goa da década de 1970. In: Pais, E. (ed.) Preia-Mar. Goa 1556: Saligão, pp. 281-308.
Pais, E. (2016) Preia-Mar. [Scholarly Editions]
Pais, E. and Castro, P. (2016) Daughter of the soil. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 5-11.
Pais, E. and Castro, P. (2016) Smugglers. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 1-4.
Sar Dessai, A. R. and Castro, P. (2016) Ferramicina. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 66-72.
Varela Gomes, P. and Castro, P. (2016) My name is Casimiro Monteiro. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 61-65.
2015
Amarílis, O. and Melo e Castro, P. (2015) Nina, by Orlanda Amarílis, translated from the Portuguese by Paul Melo e Castro. Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation(Fall),
De Rocha, M. E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2015) The bangle seller. Metamorphoses, 23(2), pp. 178-184.
Silva Coelho, J. d. and Melo e Castro, P. (2015) The hesitations of Damião and his first love by José da Silva Coelho, translated by Paul Castro e Melo. Indian Review,
2014
Castro, P. (2014) Ananta Rau Sar Dessai’s radio days. In: Menezes, V. and Britto, N. (eds.) Mundo Goa. Sinbal’s Book House: Panjim, pp. 202-208.
Castro, P. and Garmes, H. (2014) A história da literatura goesa de língua portuguesa: uma questão de designação. In: Abdala Junior, B. (ed.) Estudos Comparados: Teoria, Crítica e Metodologia. Ateliê Editorial: Cotia, pp. 211-242. ISBN 9788574806778
da Silva Coelho, J. and Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Dr Olhada’s prescription for obesity. Indian Literature, 58(5), pp. 109-113.
de Senna Fernandes, H. and Melo e Castro, P. (2014) An unexpected Encounter, by Henrique de Senna Fernandes. Translated by Paul Castro e Melo. AALITRA Review, 9, pp. 81-94.
Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Atitudes que o vento levou: Eduardo de Sousa and the post-1961 vision of an elite in decline. In: Machado, E. V. (ed.) ACT 27: Goa Portuguesa e Pós-Colonial: Literatura, Cultura e Sociedade. Húmus: Lisbon, pp. 273-294. ISBN 9789897550690
Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Henrique de Senna Fernandes: By Train and by Tram to the South China Seas. AALITRA Review, 9, pp. 79-94. [Book Review]
Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Out into uncertainty: the lonely voices of Epitacio Pais's Goan short stories. Luso-Brazilian Review, 51(2), pp. 105-125. (doi: 10.1353/lbr.2014.0032)
Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Shameful things in the city: writing and re-righting colonial urban space in José Luandino Vieira’s Luuanda. Journal of Romance Studies, 14(3), pp. 37-53. (doi: 10.3828/jrs.14.3.37)
Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Viagem ao príncipio do mundo / Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997). In: Haenni, S., Barrow, S. and White, J. (eds.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Films. Routledge: London, pp. 571-574. ISBN 9781317682615
Sar Dessai, A. R. and Melo e Castro, P. (2014) My sister is a rich man. In: Menezes, V. and Britto, N. (eds.) Mundo Goa. Sinbal’s Book House: Panjim, pp. 216-223.
Sar Dessai, A. R. and Melo e Castro, P. (2014) A very pleasant gentleman. In: Menezes, V. and Britto, N. (eds.) Mundo Goa. Sinbal’s Book House: Panjim, pp. 209-215.
2013
Castro, P. (2013) José da Silva Coelho's stories in the context of Portuguese-language Goan literature. Muse India, 50,
da Rocha, M. E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2013) Êtê Êtê Morhà. Contemporary Literary Review India,
da Silva Coelho, J. and Melo e Castro, P. (2013) To love is to suffer. Muse India, 50,
Melo e Castro, P. (2013) Dictatorship, liberation, transition in the short fiction of three Portuguese-language Goan writers: Alberto de Menezes Rodrigues, Ananta Rau Sar Dessai and Telo de Mascarenhas. Journal of Romance Studies, 13(2), pp. 1-18. (doi: 10.3828/jrs.13.2.1)
Melo e Castro, P. (2013) Postcolonial subjects in the Goan short stories “A Portuguese Soldier’s Story” by Lambert Mascarenhas and “Um Português em Baga” by Epitácio Pais. Ellipsis, 11, pp. 87-110. (doi: 10.21471/jls.v11i0.77)
Pais, E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2013) On the train by Epitácio Pais, translated by Paul Melo e Castro. India Review, 12,
2012
Castro, P. (2012) The eye of the photographer and the foot of the flâneur. In: di Bello, P., Wilson, C. and Zamir, S. (eds.) The Photobook. I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 196-211. ISBN 9780857721419
Castro, P. (2012) Of prison walls and barroom brawls: postcolonial categories in Mia Couto’s “De como se vazou a vida de ascolino do perpétuo socorro” and Laxmanrao Sardessai’s “O barco de África/The Africa Boat”. In: Pereira Khan, S., Dias Martins, A. M., Owen, H. and Ramos Villar, C. (eds.) The Lusotropical Tempest: Postcolonial Debates in Portuguese. HiPLA: Bristol, pp. 127-150. ISBN 9780955392283
Melo e Castro, P. (2012) Small bursts of sharp laughter: the form and content of satire in Jacob e Dulce. Portuguese Studies, 28(1), pp. 32-49. (doi: 10.5699/portstudies.28.1.0032)
Pais, E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2012) The mask. Adirondack Review, 13(2),
Pais, E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2012) Munu. Metamorphoses, 20(2), pp. 134-146.
2011
Castro, P. (2011) Aspects of the representation of Lisbon on screen. In: Pizzi, K. and Weiss-Sussex, G. (eds.) The Cultural Identity of European Cities. Peter Lang: Bern, pp. 185-204. ISBN 9783035300604
Castro, P. (2011) Four cases from 130 years of Portuguese detective fiction. In: Vosberg, N. (ed.) Iberian Crime Fiction. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, pp. 116-144. ISBN 9780708323335
Coelho, J. D. S., Martinho, S., Melo e Castro, P. and Pinto, A. (2011) Malícias Orientais (Pequenas Histórias Garotas, Alegres e Tristes de Costumes das Novas Conquistas), Índia Portuguesa 1923. Via Atlântica, 19, pp. 179-194. (doi: 10.11606/va.v0i19.50776)
Devi, V. and Melo e Castro, P. (2011) Job's Children ("Os Filhos de Job") by Vimala Devi. Translated by Paul Melo e Castro. AALITRA Review, 3, pp. 20-35.
Garmes, H. and Melo e Castro, P. (2011) Lirismo e conservadorismo na arena política: o conto “Shivá, brincando…” da escritora goesa Maria Elsa da Rocha. Abril, 4(6), pp. 77-87.
Melo e Castro, P. (2011) Eduardo Gageiro's happy-sad city: humanist street photography and Lisboa no Cais da Memória. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 88(4), pp. 481-494. (doi: 10.3828/bhs.2011.21)
Melo e Castro, P. (2011) Malícias Orientais de José da Silva Coelho: entre o discurso e o desejo coloniais. Via Atlântica, 19, pp. 87-102. (doi: 10.11606/va.v0i19.50769)
Melo e Castro, P. (2011) Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photobook. Series: Texts and dissertations (Modern Humanities Research Association) (77). Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association: London. ISBN 9781906540678
2010
Devi, V. and Melo e Castro, P. (2010) Nâttak. Metamorphoses, 18(1), pp. 44-58.
Melo e Castro, P. (2010) Esther Gabara, Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil, Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 87(7), pp. 894-895. (doi: 10.3828/bhs.2010.36)[Book Review]
Melo e Castro, P. (2010) José Cardoso Pires's Balada da Praia dos Cães, historiographic metafiction, and the detective novel. Romance Studies, 28(2), pp. 130-140. (doi: 10.1179/026399010X12645114972378)
Melo e Castro, P. (2010) Monção: a literary representation of Goa. Nethra Review, 11(2), pp. 54-55. [Book Review]
2009
Devi, V. and Melo e Castro, P. (2009) The cure. Sojourn, 22, pp. 44-48.
Melo e Castro, P. (2009) Circling the city in Fernando Lopes' Belarmino (1964). Studies in European Cinema, 6(2-3), pp. 179-189. (doi: 10.1386/seci.6.2-3.179/1)
Melo e Castro, P. (2009) Lisbon close up, seen from afar: the representation of the city in Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas’s Foreign Land (1996). eSharp, 2009, pp. 22-40.
Melo e Castro, P. (2009) Reading, writing and remembering the city: José Cardoso Pires’s Lisboa, livro de bordo. Journal of Romance Studies, 9(2), pp. 101-115. (doi: 10.3828/jrs.9.2.101)
Melo e Castro, P. (2009) Vimala Devi’s Monção: the last snapshots of colonial Goa. Portuguese Studies, 25(1), pp. 46-64.
2008
Atkin, R., Melo e Castro, P. and Ribeiro, R. (2008) Literature, 1928 to the present day. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 70, pp. 412-422.
Melo e Castro, P. (2008) Brazilian National Cinema, Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison (2007). New Cinemas, 6(2), pp. 155-157. (doi: 10.1386/ncin.6.2.153_5)[Book Review]
2007
Atkin, R., Melo e Castro, P. and Ribeiro, R. (2007) Literature, 1928 to the present day. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 69, pp. 373-382.
2006
Castro, P. (2006) Ainda bem que chegaste: life, death and friendship in the detective novels of Francisco Jose Viegas. In: Craig-Odders, R. W., Collins, J. and Close, G. S. (eds.) Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction: Essays on the Genero Negro Tradition. McFarland Press: Jefferson, NC, pp. 123-140. ISBN 9780786424269
2005
Castro, P. (2005) Umas casas portuguesas: housing the Estado Novo in Cardoso Pires’s Balada da Praia dos Cães. Textos e Pretextos, 6, pp. 32-45.
2003
Castro, P. (2003) Flanerie and Writing the City in Iain Sinclair's Lights Out for the Territory, Edmund White's The Flaneur, and Jose Cardoso Pires's Lisboa: Livro de Bordo. Other. Darwin College, Cambridge.
2002
Melo e Castro, P. (2002) Lewis Carroll, As Aventuras de Alice no Pais das Maravilhas e Alice do Outro Lado do Espelho, translated by Margarida Vale do Gato, Lisbon: Relógio d’Água, 2000. Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, 10, pp. 89-97. [Book Review]
Articles
Silva Coelho, J. d. and Melo e Castro, P. (2024) How to get by in life with a pair of boots | José da Silva Coelho. Indian Review,
Melo e Castro, P. (2023) Smugglers by Epitácio Pais. Out of Print, 50,
Melo e Castro, P. M. (2023) Half-Chewed Counsellors and Statesmen. Contemporary Literary Review India, 10(3), pp. 127-131.
Pais, E. and Castro, P. (2023) ‘‘A Woman’s Fate’ by Epitácio Pais. Translated by Paul Melo e Castro. Bombay Review, 42(March), 2023.
da Silva Coelho, J. and Castro, P. (2023) Dr Pancrácio’s Liver by José da Silva Coelho. Translated from Portuguese by Paul Melo e Castro. Out of Print, 48(March), 2023.
Castro, P. (2023) Everyone Eats or There’ll Be Trouble by José da Silva Coelho. KITAAB,
Melo e Castro, P. (2022) Circling the end of the line in Vimala Devi’s Monção: glints of significance across Vimala Devi's short story cycle. Kritika Kultura, 38, pp. 566-596.
Castro, P. (2022) Blood on the Sand by Epitácio Pais. Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, 36(2), pp. 214-220. (doi: 10.5744/delos.2021.2010)
Castro, P. and Pais, E. (2022) Daughter of the Soil. Lunch Ticket, 20,
Castro, P. (2022) Melodies and harmonies. Parmal, 75, pp. 165-175.
Castro, P. (2021) The Rats by Epitácio Pais. Shanghai Literary Review, 2020(6), pp. 102-104.
Castro, P. (2021) Raw Muscle by Rubem Fonseca. Metamorphoses, 28(1), pp. 134-149.
Melo e Castro, P. (2021) Between an empty camera and bare white feet: Racial complexity in the photographic archive of Ricardo Rangel. Hispanic Research Journal, 22(5), pp. 517-541. (doi: 10.1080/14682737.2022.2061794)
Melo e Castro, P. (2020) Mais-Valias em Trier. e-metropolis, 11(43), pp. 72-78.
Vilela, L. and Melo e Castro, P. (2020) No more Indians. Sic. A Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation, 11(1), LT.2. (doi: 10.15291/sic/1.11.lt.2)
Vilela, L. and Castro, P. (2020) ‘Black Bean Stew' by Luiz Vilela, translated by Paul Melo e Castro. Latin American Literature Today, 1(16),
Melo e Castro, P. (2020) Dom Teotónio by Maria Elsa da Rocha. Out of Print, 38,
Melo e Castro, P. (2019) Em torno do fim: Goa tardo-colonial no ciclo de contos Monção (1963) de Vimala Devi = Around the end: late-colonial Goa in Vimala Devi’s short-story cycle Monção. Via Atlântica, 36, pp. 16-41. (doi: 10.11606/va.v0i36.162015)
Melo e Castro, P. (2019) The Image of St Thomas by Maria Elsa da Rocha. Parmal, 8, pp. 27-33.
Castro, P. (2018) Xilunguine. Afterimage, 45(5),
da Rocha, L. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Lulu dies alone. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 587-594.
da Rocha, M. E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) The factory whistle. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 581-585.
da Rocha, M. E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Not by bread alone. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 573-579.
do Rosário Rodrigues, A. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Deaf to the world. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 595-599.
do Rosário Rodrigues, A. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Serafina. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 601-604.
Fernandes, A. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Shadows. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 521-525.
Festino, C. G., Garmes, H., Melo e Castro, P. and Newman, R. (2018) Special Issue: Goans on the Move [Guest Editors]. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7,
Festino, C. G., Garmes, H., Melo e Castro, P. and Newman, R. (2018) Introduction: Goans on the move. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 9-15.
Pais, E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) A Christmas tale. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 567-568.
Pais, E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Room 54. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 569-571.
Melo e Castro, P. (2017) The heart of the metropole: urban space and interracial relationships in ‘Fidelidade’ by Vimala Devi, ‘Um encontro imprevisto’ by Henrique de Senna Fernandes and ‘Nina’ by Orlanda Amarílis. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 53(4), pp. 405-429. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqx038)
Melo e Castro, P. (2017) Clean break, tangled lives: December 1961 in the Goan short stories "Rucmá, a mulherzinha de Salém" by Maria Elsa da Rocha and "Guerra" by Sheela Kolambkar. Luso-Brazilian Review, 54(1), pp. 78-101.
do Rosário Rodrigues, A. and Melo e Castro, P. (2017) Dr Pepino. Indian Literature, 60(4), pp. 141-147.
Melo e Castro, P. (2017) Leafing through Lisbon: Eduardo Gageiro’s urban photobook Lisboa no Cais da Memória (2003). Comunicação pública, 12(23), (doi: 10.4000/cp.1971)
Barreto, S., Melo e Castro, P. and Braga, D. D. (2016) O africanista. Via Atlântica, 30, pp. 331-334.
Melo e Castro, P. , Braga, D. D. and Garmes, H. (2016) Introdução à Antologia de Contos Goeses. Via Atlântica, 30, pp. 313-321.
Shetty, M., Melo e Castro, P. and Braga, D. D. (2016) Senhor Segundamão. Via Atlântica, 30, pp. 343-348.
Braga, D. D., Melo e Castro, P. and Garmes, H. (2016) Special Issue: Goa: Literatura e Cultura 2. Via Atlântica, 30,
da Rocha, M. E. and Castro, P. (2016) Dom Teotónio. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 34-42.
da Silva Coelho, J. and Castro, P. (2016) The brave Valentim Negrão and his theory of communicating vessels. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 26-29.
da Silva Coelho, J. and Castro, P. (2016) Placentino's views of politicians and fishwives. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 30-33.
Devi, V. and Castro, P. (2016) The house husband. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 12-21.
Devi, V. and Castro, P. (2016) The subsidy. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 22-25.
do Rosário Rodrigues, A. and Castro, P. (2016) The heir of the Alvuras. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 43-47.
Pais, E. and Castro, P. (2016) Daughter of the soil. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 5-11.
Pais, E. and Castro, P. (2016) Smugglers. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 1-4.
Sar Dessai, A. R. and Castro, P. (2016) Ferramicina. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 66-72.
Varela Gomes, P. and Castro, P. (2016) My name is Casimiro Monteiro. Govapuri, 10(4), pp. 61-65.
Amarílis, O. and Melo e Castro, P. (2015) Nina, by Orlanda Amarílis, translated from the Portuguese by Paul Melo e Castro. Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation(Fall),
De Rocha, M. E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2015) The bangle seller. Metamorphoses, 23(2), pp. 178-184.
Silva Coelho, J. d. and Melo e Castro, P. (2015) The hesitations of Damião and his first love by José da Silva Coelho, translated by Paul Castro e Melo. Indian Review,
da Silva Coelho, J. and Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Dr Olhada’s prescription for obesity. Indian Literature, 58(5), pp. 109-113.
de Senna Fernandes, H. and Melo e Castro, P. (2014) An unexpected Encounter, by Henrique de Senna Fernandes. Translated by Paul Castro e Melo. AALITRA Review, 9, pp. 81-94.
Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Out into uncertainty: the lonely voices of Epitacio Pais's Goan short stories. Luso-Brazilian Review, 51(2), pp. 105-125. (doi: 10.1353/lbr.2014.0032)
Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Shameful things in the city: writing and re-righting colonial urban space in José Luandino Vieira’s Luuanda. Journal of Romance Studies, 14(3), pp. 37-53. (doi: 10.3828/jrs.14.3.37)
Castro, P. (2013) José da Silva Coelho's stories in the context of Portuguese-language Goan literature. Muse India, 50,
da Rocha, M. E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2013) Êtê Êtê Morhà. Contemporary Literary Review India,
da Silva Coelho, J. and Melo e Castro, P. (2013) To love is to suffer. Muse India, 50,
Melo e Castro, P. (2013) Dictatorship, liberation, transition in the short fiction of three Portuguese-language Goan writers: Alberto de Menezes Rodrigues, Ananta Rau Sar Dessai and Telo de Mascarenhas. Journal of Romance Studies, 13(2), pp. 1-18. (doi: 10.3828/jrs.13.2.1)
Melo e Castro, P. (2013) Postcolonial subjects in the Goan short stories “A Portuguese Soldier’s Story” by Lambert Mascarenhas and “Um Português em Baga” by Epitácio Pais. Ellipsis, 11, pp. 87-110. (doi: 10.21471/jls.v11i0.77)
Pais, E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2013) On the train by Epitácio Pais, translated by Paul Melo e Castro. India Review, 12,
Melo e Castro, P. (2012) Small bursts of sharp laughter: the form and content of satire in Jacob e Dulce. Portuguese Studies, 28(1), pp. 32-49. (doi: 10.5699/portstudies.28.1.0032)
Pais, E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2012) The mask. Adirondack Review, 13(2),
Pais, E. and Melo e Castro, P. (2012) Munu. Metamorphoses, 20(2), pp. 134-146.
Coelho, J. D. S., Martinho, S., Melo e Castro, P. and Pinto, A. (2011) Malícias Orientais (Pequenas Histórias Garotas, Alegres e Tristes de Costumes das Novas Conquistas), Índia Portuguesa 1923. Via Atlântica, 19, pp. 179-194. (doi: 10.11606/va.v0i19.50776)
Devi, V. and Melo e Castro, P. (2011) Job's Children ("Os Filhos de Job") by Vimala Devi. Translated by Paul Melo e Castro. AALITRA Review, 3, pp. 20-35.
Garmes, H. and Melo e Castro, P. (2011) Lirismo e conservadorismo na arena política: o conto “Shivá, brincando…” da escritora goesa Maria Elsa da Rocha. Abril, 4(6), pp. 77-87.
Melo e Castro, P. (2011) Eduardo Gageiro's happy-sad city: humanist street photography and Lisboa no Cais da Memória. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 88(4), pp. 481-494. (doi: 10.3828/bhs.2011.21)
Melo e Castro, P. (2011) Malícias Orientais de José da Silva Coelho: entre o discurso e o desejo coloniais. Via Atlântica, 19, pp. 87-102. (doi: 10.11606/va.v0i19.50769)
Devi, V. and Melo e Castro, P. (2010) Nâttak. Metamorphoses, 18(1), pp. 44-58.
Melo e Castro, P. (2010) José Cardoso Pires's Balada da Praia dos Cães, historiographic metafiction, and the detective novel. Romance Studies, 28(2), pp. 130-140. (doi: 10.1179/026399010X12645114972378)
Devi, V. and Melo e Castro, P. (2009) The cure. Sojourn, 22, pp. 44-48.
Melo e Castro, P. (2009) Circling the city in Fernando Lopes' Belarmino (1964). Studies in European Cinema, 6(2-3), pp. 179-189. (doi: 10.1386/seci.6.2-3.179/1)
Melo e Castro, P. (2009) Lisbon close up, seen from afar: the representation of the city in Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas’s Foreign Land (1996). eSharp, 2009, pp. 22-40.
Melo e Castro, P. (2009) Reading, writing and remembering the city: José Cardoso Pires’s Lisboa, livro de bordo. Journal of Romance Studies, 9(2), pp. 101-115. (doi: 10.3828/jrs.9.2.101)
Melo e Castro, P. (2009) Vimala Devi’s Monção: the last snapshots of colonial Goa. Portuguese Studies, 25(1), pp. 46-64.
Atkin, R., Melo e Castro, P. and Ribeiro, R. (2008) Literature, 1928 to the present day. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 70, pp. 412-422.
Atkin, R., Melo e Castro, P. and Ribeiro, R. (2007) Literature, 1928 to the present day. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 69, pp. 373-382.
Castro, P. (2005) Umas casas portuguesas: housing the Estado Novo in Cardoso Pires’s Balada da Praia dos Cães. Textos e Pretextos, 6, pp. 32-45.
Books
Melo e Castro, P. and Rocha, M. E. d. (2023) Life Stories: The Collected Stories of Maria Elsa da Rocha. Goa, 1556: Saligão, Goa, India. ISBN 9788195632916
Castro, P. (2020) Monsoon [by Vimala Devi, translated by Paul Castro]. Seagull: Calcutta. ISBN 9780857426956
Castro, P. (2016) Lengthening Shadows: An Anthology of Goan Short Stories Translated from the Portuguese, [by Paul Melo e Castro] Vol. 1. Goa 1556: Saligão. ISBN 9789380739755
Castro, P. (2016) Lengthening Shadows: An Anthology of Goan Short Stories Translated from the Portuguese, [by Paul Melo e Castro] Vol. 2. Goa 1556: Saligão. ISBN 9789380739762
Melo e Castro, P. (2011) Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photobook. Series: Texts and dissertations (Modern Humanities Research Association) (77). Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association: London. ISBN 9781906540678
Book Sections
Melo e Castro, P. (2024) Escaping a sinking ship? The translation of Epitácio Pais’s short story ‘Os Ratos/The Rats’, Goan writing in Portuguese and world literature. In: Desilva, S. and Halikowski-Smith, S. (eds.) Global Portuguese. Brill: Leiden. (In Press)
Castro, P. (2020) Expressive perspectives on the printed page: the photography of Ricardo Rangel. In: Serra, F., Andre, P. and Martins, S. (eds.) Projectos Editoriais: Imagens e Contra-Imagens no Estado Novo. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais: Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 275-302.
Castro, P. M. e. (2019) The dregs populating the village of Santana: Rural Goa in three stories by Epitacio Pais. In: Castro, P. (ed.) Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9781786833907
Garmes, H. and Castro, P. M. e. (2019) The story of Goan literature in Portuguese: A question of terminology. In: Castro, P. (ed.) Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9781786833907
Melo e Castro, P. (2019) The cartography of Goan literature: one language in a multilingual social landscape. In: Melo e Castro, P. (ed.) Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781786833907
Miranda, E. and Castro, P. M. e. (2019) Science over superstition? The representation of the social world of the Novas Conquistas in Bodki by Agostinho Fernandes. In: Castro, P. (ed.) Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9781786833907
Castro, P. (2019) Atitudes que o Vento Levou: The stories of Eduardo de Sousa and the post-1961 vision of a Goan elite in decline. In: Almeida, R. (ed.) Goa: A Post-Colonial Society Between Cultures. Goa 1556: Margao, India. ISBN 9788193423684
Castro e Melo, P. (2019) 'Three fleeting voices: The Goan subaltern in the stories of Vimala Devi, Maria Elsa da Rocha and Epitácio Pais'. In: Abreu, S., da Silva, A. and d'Souza, R. (eds.) Public History of Goa: Evolving Politics, Culture and Identity. Series: XCHR studies series (14). Cinnamon Teal: Goa, pp. 128-135. ISBN 9789387676350
Castro e Melo, P. (2018) Portuguese language Goan literature: Whence, whither and wherefore. In: Carvalho, S. (ed.) The Brave New World of Goan Writing. Bombaykala Books: Mumbai, pp. 203-212. ISBN 9788193947500
Melo e Castro, P. (2017) "E eu que não conhecia nada". In: Alós, A. P., de Felippe, R. F. and Souto, A. d. R. (eds.) Figurações do Imaginário Cinematográfico na Contemporaneidade. Universidade Federal de Santa Maria UP: Santa Maria, pp. 201-215. ISBN 9788593513015
Melo e Castro, P. and Garmes, H. (2016) Entre o mainstream e a contracultura na Goa da década de 1970. In: Pais, E. (ed.) Preia-Mar. Goa 1556: Saligão, pp. 281-308.
Castro, P. (2014) Ananta Rau Sar Dessai’s radio days. In: Menezes, V. and Britto, N. (eds.) Mundo Goa. Sinbal’s Book House: Panjim, pp. 202-208.
Castro, P. and Garmes, H. (2014) A história da literatura goesa de língua portuguesa: uma questão de designação. In: Abdala Junior, B. (ed.) Estudos Comparados: Teoria, Crítica e Metodologia. Ateliê Editorial: Cotia, pp. 211-242. ISBN 9788574806778
Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Atitudes que o vento levou: Eduardo de Sousa and the post-1961 vision of an elite in decline. In: Machado, E. V. (ed.) ACT 27: Goa Portuguesa e Pós-Colonial: Literatura, Cultura e Sociedade. Húmus: Lisbon, pp. 273-294. ISBN 9789897550690
Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Viagem ao príncipio do mundo / Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997). In: Haenni, S., Barrow, S. and White, J. (eds.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Films. Routledge: London, pp. 571-574. ISBN 9781317682615
Sar Dessai, A. R. and Melo e Castro, P. (2014) My sister is a rich man. In: Menezes, V. and Britto, N. (eds.) Mundo Goa. Sinbal’s Book House: Panjim, pp. 216-223.
Sar Dessai, A. R. and Melo e Castro, P. (2014) A very pleasant gentleman. In: Menezes, V. and Britto, N. (eds.) Mundo Goa. Sinbal’s Book House: Panjim, pp. 209-215.
Castro, P. (2012) The eye of the photographer and the foot of the flâneur. In: di Bello, P., Wilson, C. and Zamir, S. (eds.) The Photobook. I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 196-211. ISBN 9780857721419
Castro, P. (2012) Of prison walls and barroom brawls: postcolonial categories in Mia Couto’s “De como se vazou a vida de ascolino do perpétuo socorro” and Laxmanrao Sardessai’s “O barco de África/The Africa Boat”. In: Pereira Khan, S., Dias Martins, A. M., Owen, H. and Ramos Villar, C. (eds.) The Lusotropical Tempest: Postcolonial Debates in Portuguese. HiPLA: Bristol, pp. 127-150. ISBN 9780955392283
Castro, P. (2011) Aspects of the representation of Lisbon on screen. In: Pizzi, K. and Weiss-Sussex, G. (eds.) The Cultural Identity of European Cities. Peter Lang: Bern, pp. 185-204. ISBN 9783035300604
Castro, P. (2011) Four cases from 130 years of Portuguese detective fiction. In: Vosberg, N. (ed.) Iberian Crime Fiction. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, pp. 116-144. ISBN 9780708323335
Castro, P. (2006) Ainda bem que chegaste: life, death and friendship in the detective novels of Francisco Jose Viegas. In: Craig-Odders, R. W., Collins, J. and Close, G. S. (eds.) Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction: Essays on the Genero Negro Tradition. McFarland Press: Jefferson, NC, pp. 123-140. ISBN 9780786424269
Book Reviews
Castro e Melo, P. (2019) Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil: Memories, Politics and Identities, ed. by Sara Brandellero and Lúcia Villares (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017). Portuguese Studies, 35(1), pp. 106-107. (doi: 10.5699/portstudies.35.1.0106)[Book Review]
Castro e Melo, P. (2018) Celsa Pinto, Anatomy of a Colonial Capital: Panjim (Saligão, India: Goa 1556, 2016), Print. Celsa Pinto, Colonial Panjim: Its Governance, its People (Saligão, India: Goa 1556, 2016),. Portuguese Studies, 34(1), pp. 123-125. (doi: 10.5699/portstudies.34.1.0123)[Book Review]
Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Costa, Suneeta Peres da. Saudade. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 363-366. [Book Review]
Melo e Castro, P. (2018) Darlene Sadlier. The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora: Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp. 367-372. [Book Review]
Castro e Melo, P. (2017) Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Guitá-Rahasya ou Ciência do Activismo Para o BemEstar Universal, trans. by Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar (Alto Porvorim, India: Pradnya Darshan Prakashan, 2016). Portuguese Studies, 33(2), pp. 245-248. (doi: 10.5699/portstudies.33.2.0245)[Book Review]
Melo e Castro, P. (2014) Henrique de Senna Fernandes: By Train and by Tram to the South China Seas. AALITRA Review, 9, pp. 79-94. [Book Review]
Melo e Castro, P. (2010) Esther Gabara, Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil, Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 87(7), pp. 894-895. (doi: 10.3828/bhs.2010.36)[Book Review]
Melo e Castro, P. (2010) Monção: a literary representation of Goa. Nethra Review, 11(2), pp. 54-55. [Book Review]
Melo e Castro, P. (2008) Brazilian National Cinema, Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison (2007). New Cinemas, 6(2), pp. 155-157. (doi: 10.1386/ncin.6.2.153_5)[Book Review]
Melo e Castro, P. (2002) Lewis Carroll, As Aventuras de Alice no Pais das Maravilhas e Alice do Outro Lado do Espelho, translated by Margarida Vale do Gato, Lisbon: Relógio d’Água, 2000. Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, 10, pp. 89-97. [Book Review]
Edited Books
Melo e Castro, P. M. (Ed.) (2019) Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff. ISBN 9781786833907
Melo e Castro, P. and Festino, C. G. (Eds.) (2017) A House of Many Mansions: Goan Literature in Portuguese. Under the Peepal Tree: Margão. ISBN 9789386301628
Fernandes, A. R. L., Baubeta, P. A. O. d., Melo e Castro, P. and Flor, J. A. (Eds.) (2016) Storytelling: Memory, Love and Loss in Portuguese Short Fiction. Series: Textos Chimaera. University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies: Lisbon. ISBN 9789728886288
Scholarly Editions
de Mascarenhas, T. (2020) Fragmentos de Uma Sinfonia Goesa. [Scholarly Editions]
Sar Dessai, A. R. (2020) Teoria do Riso: Contos, Poemas e Peças Radiofónicas do Médico Hindu Ananta Rau Sar Dessai. [Scholarly Editions]
Pais, E. (2016) Preia-Mar. [Scholarly Editions]
Research Reports or Papers
Castro, P. (2003) Flanerie and Writing the City in Iain Sinclair's Lights Out for the Territory, Edmund White's The Flaneur, and Jose Cardoso Pires's Lisboa: Livro de Bordo. Other. Darwin College, Cambridge.
Grants
2017-2018 BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (on "Late Colonial Mozambique in the Photographic Archive of Ricardo Rangel")
2014 British Council Researcher Links Travel Grant (to collaborate with São Paulo Research Foundation funded Pensando Goa project)
2009-2011 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (on "The Portuguese-Language Goan Short Story")
Supervision
I welcome proposals at postgraduate and postdoctoral level on any aspect of literature, film or photography from the Portuguese-speaking world.
PhD Supervision
- “Translating Between Chinese and Portuguese: The Macanese Literature of Henrique de Senna Fernandes“ (Tenglong Wan)
- “Masculinities and Social Change in the Literary Lisbon(s) of Livro do Desassossego, Um Homem não Chora and História do Cerco de Lisboa” (Rhian Atkin)
MRes Supervision
- “Regional Identity in Chinese- and Portuguese-Language Literature from Macau” (Ruaíri Garvey)
Teaching
I teach on both the Portuguese and Comparative Literature programmes:
Portuguese
- HISP2014 Portuguese Culture 2
- HISP2015 Portuguese Language 2
- HISP4081 Portuguese Junior Honours
- HISP4082/HISP4085 Portuguese Senior Honours
Comparative Literature
- COMPLIT2002 Crossing Borders (Frontiers)
- COMPLIT2010 Displacement and Migration on Film
- COMPLIT4003 Theories of Reading
- COMPLIT4030 The Everyday in Film, Photography and Literature
SMLC
- MODLANG4005 Text/Image Cultures: Theory and Practice
- MLITT Postcolonial Literature, Theory and Visual Culture
Additional information
International Research Projects
I am currently involved in the following research projects:
Printed Photography: Image and Propaganda in Portugal (1934-1974)
International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire
The Moving Pavement
My research and teaching on photography is practice-led. Some of the relevant materials can be found at The Moving Pavement
Photo-essays made as part of my research can be found here:
Mais-Valias em Trier, E-metropolis 43, 2020, pp.72-78
Sínicas, Revista Torquato 2, April-June 2020, pp.17, 23, 29, 32.
Regional Tales, PRIVATE: Photo Review, 27th August 2019
Group Exhibition, 1, 2, 3, 4 F-Stop Magazine, June-July 2019
Dream Space, Elsewhere: A Journal of Place, 21st May 2019
Walking the Big Worm, Slag Glass City, 5, May 2019
Dancing on One Leg, The Journal of Urban Photography, 2019
Xilunguine, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 45 No. 5, September/October 2018; (p.36)