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); Cultural Studies; Using Technology in the ELT Classroom; Creativity in Modern Languages Teaching and Learning; Translation Studies: Special Language Project, Specialised Translation Workshops I and II, Translating History, Research Management and Dissertation Supervision.  

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. (2012) "Digital Brazil: Open-Source Nation and the Meta-Recycling of Knowledge". In Kathy Bacon and Niamh Thornton (eds) The ‘Noughties’ in Latin America. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (in press)
• Clarke, M.A. (2012) “Contested Writing in a Second Language: Identity, Authorship and Genre”. In Mary R. Lamb (ed) Contest(ed) Writing: Reconceptualizing Literacy Competitions. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (in press)
• Clarke, M.A. (2011) "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. (2009)  Collins Easy Learning Portuguese. London: Harper Collins
• 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. (2008) Book review of Graeme Harper and Jen Kroll, creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy. (Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2008) Liaison: Issue 1
• 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 and invited papers

• “A Política Pública e a Sociedade Civil no Brasil na Época Digital”. Universidade Estadual paulista, Assis, São Paulo, Brasil, 11 August 2011
• “Digitofagia: Towards a Brazilian Digital Aesthetic”.  Latin American Cybercultural Studies: Exploring New Paradigms and Analytical Approaches, University of Liverpool, May 20 – 21, 2011
• “Digital Storytelling by Young Women in Brazil: Issues of Genre, Creative Agency and Social Participation”. Feminine Singular: Women Growing Up Through Life-Writing in the Luso-Hispanic World.  Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, 6 – 7 May 2011
• “Brazil’s One Million Life Stories of Youth Movement: Constructing a Pedagogy for Social Mobilisation”. 4^th International Conference on Digital Storytelling, Lillehammer, Norway, February 5 – 7, 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

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.

Member without Portfolio and Lusophone Representative, Women in Spanish, Latin American and Portuguese Studies

External Examiner in Portuguese, MA Programmes in Translation, University of Sheffield
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