School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS)

Profile

Qualifications 
BA Hons (Portsmouth) Latin American Studies, M.Phil (Cantab) Latin American Studies. PhD (Liverpool) Brazilian Studies

Teaching Areas 
Portuguese Language; Language Awareness (Teaching and Learning Strategies); British Cultural Studies I & II; Technology for Language Teaching; Creativity in Modern Languages Teaching and Learning; Translation Studies: Special Language Project, Specialised Translation Workshops I and II, Translating History. I won the Multimedia Digital Language Lab Teaching Award 2008/2009 (Centre of Excellence in Multimedia Learning and Teaching, University of Ulster) for the project The Role of Audio Capture in the Language Learning Curriculum and have published an audio language course, Collins Easy Learning Portuguese (London, HarperCollins, 2009).

Research and Scholarship 
Aesthetics and art in digital media; digital storytelling; the museum in the digital age; software politics in Brazil and their role in national policy and development: digital inclusion and archive projects in Brazilian civil society; contemporary Brazilian fiction and poetry; women’s writing in Brazil.

Recent Publications

• Clarke, M.A. (2011) "Digital Brazil: Open-Source Nation and the Meta-Recycling of Knowledge". In Kathy Bacon and Niamh Thornton (eds) The ‘Noughties’ in Latin America. Woodbridge: Tamesis, TBA (forthcoming)
• Clarke, M.A. (2010) "Building Bridges Between Tellers and Listeners: The Role of Digital Storytelling in the Construction of Democratic Frameworks".  In Omar Swartz (ed) Communication and Creative Democracy  Suffolk:  Abramis Academic, 218 - 245
• Clarke, M.A. (2010)  "Regina Célia Pinto’s Museum of the Essential and Beyond That". In Pat O’Brien, Niamh Thornton and Gabrielle Carty (eds) Transcultural Encounters Amongst Women in Hispanic and Lusophone Literature, Art and Film. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,  21 - 33
• Clarke, M.A. (2009) "The On Line Brazilian Museu da Pessoa".In  Joanne Garde-Hansen, Andrew Hoskins and Anna Reading (eds) Save As… Digital Memories.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 151 – 166
• Clarke, M.A. (2009) "Developing Digital Storytelling in Brazil". In John Hartley and Kelly McWilliam (eds) Story Circles: Digital Storytelling Round the World. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 144 – 154
• Clarke, M.A. (2008) "Death and The Muse: The Poetry of Francisca Júlia." In Ann Davies, Par Kumaraswami and Claire Williams (eds)Making Waves: Essays on Hispanic Women’s Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 170 – 184
• Clarke, M.A. (2008) "Olga Savary" in Encyclopedia of Latin American Women’s Writing (eds. André, Maria H. and Bueno, Eva P.) New York: Routledge, 471 – 473
• Clarke, M.A. (2008) "Helena Parente Cunha" in Encyclopedia of Latin American Women’s Writing (eds. André, Maria H. and Bueno, Eva P.) New York: Routledge, 134 – 136
• Clarke, M.A (2008) "Creative Writing in the Borderlands" Rukopis: Review of Writing Practice, 20083:1: 9 – 2: "The Peculiar Fascination of Imperfection: Daniel Soukup talks to Margaret Anne Clarke" Rukopis: Review of Writing Practice 20083:1: 49 – 57.
• Clarke, M.A. (2007) "The Cyberart of Corpos Informáticos" In Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman (eds) Navegando: Latin American Cyberliteratures and Cybercultures   Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007: 70 – 84

Recent conference presentations

• Title TBC: Plenary to be presented at the Latin American Cybercultural Studies: Exploring New Paradigms and Analytical Approaches, University of Liverpool, May 20 – 21, 2011
• "The Role of Digital Storytelling in Hispanic Studies". Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies, University of Roehampton, 4 – 6 September 2010
• "Will the Circle Be Unbroken: The Metamorphoses of Digital Storytelling". British Comparative Literature Association, University of Kent, 5 – 9 July 2010
• "Student learning with voice technologies and multimedia: collaboration, interaction and authorship" Third CEMLL Symposium: Making Multimedia Work in the Digital Lab, University of Ulster, Belfast, 18 September, 2009
• "Mother Nature and Atomic Rose: The Cyberart of Regina Célia Pinto"  WISPS VIII Annual Conference, Dublin City University, 31 October – 1 November 2008
• "Eu Sou Guerreira: Stories of Brazilian Woman in Citizen-Produced Film, Audio and Digital Media". WISPS VII Annual Conference, University of Manchester 12 – 13 October 2007
• "The Citizen’s Door: The Creation and Development of E-Democracy in Portugal" Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies, Oxford Brookes University 4 – 6 September 2007
• "Beyond Reader and Author: The Metamorphoses of Hypertext". International Association of Comparative Literature, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 27 July – 7 August, 2007
• "Digital Inclusion in Brazil". Cultural representations of Race, Gender and Class in Latin America and the Caribbean. University of Portsmouth 30 May 2007

Other Professional Activities
Reviews Editor and member of Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Iberian Studies.
Treasurer and executive committee member, Association of Contemporary Iberian Studies. 
Web editor, designer, and executive committee member, British Association of Comparative Literature, www.bcla.org.
External Examiner in Portuguese,  BA (Hons) Programmes, School of Humanities, University of Southampton
External Examiner in Portuguese, BA (Hons) Programmes, School of Languages, University of Salford
Examiner in Portuguese, Chartered Institute of Linguists, London