CECC Members

Peter HANENBERG

Associate Professor

Faculty of Human Sciences, Catholic University of Portugal

Research Line Coordinator, Research Center for Communication and Culture, CECC

Master of Arts (1988) and Dr. phil. (1993) in german Studies and Philosophy at the University of Bamberg (Germany), Doutor em Letras by Coimbra University (1997), scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation (1983-1988), research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Modern German Literature in Bamberg 1988-1995, from 1995 to 2001 Profesor Auxiliar at the Catholic University of Portugal in Viseu, since 2001 Professor Associado at the same University in Viseu (until 2006) and in Lisbon (since 2006), from 1997 to 2006 Director of the research group on Representations of Europe in German Literature at the University Center for German Studies (CIEG) in Coimbra (financed by FCT and evaluated as excellent), guest lecturer at the Universities of Bamberg (Germany), Galway (Ireland) and Minho (Portugal), since 2006 President of the Portuguese Association for German Studies, since 2007 coordinator of the research group on Translating Europe across the Ages at the Communication and Culture Research Centre at the Catholic University in Lisbon, translator of Portuguese Literature into German.

Publications (selected):

Hanenberg, P. (2008). "Europa eine Seele geben". Übersetzung als kulturelles Fundament Europas. In: Kritische Ausgabe. Zeitschrift für Germanistik & Literatur12 (2008/09), S. 16- 19.

Hanenberg, P. & A. Abrantes, Org. (2005). Cognição, Linguagem e Literatura. Contributos para uma Poética Cognitiva. Coimbra: Minerva/Cieg.

Hanenberg, P. (2004). Europa. Gestalten. Studien und Essays. Frankfurt/M. etc.: Peter Lang.

Hanenberg, P. (1993). Peter Weiss. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Schreiben. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.

Hanenberg, P. (1989). Geschichte im Werk Wolfgang Hildesheimers. Frankfurt/M. etc.: Lang.

Hanenberg, P. (1997). Aquilino Ribeiro: Deutschland 1920. Eine Reise von Portugal nach Berlin und Mecklenburg. Translated and anotated by PH, Bremen: Atlantik.

Hanenberg, P., U. Knefelkamp, and M. dos Santos Lopes. (1995). Portugal und Deutschland auf dem Weg nach Europa. Portugal e a Alemanha a caminho para a Europa. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus.

Together with Marília dos Santos Lopes editor of the series passagem, Studies in Cultural Sciences (Frankfurt/M.: Lang 2006ff.).

Ana Margarida ABRANTES

Postdoc

Research Center for Communication and Culture, CECC

Faculty of Human Sciences, Catholic University of Portugal

Post-doc researcher at the Research Center for Communication and Culture, Catholic University of Portugal.

Ana Margarida Abrantes studied German and English at the Universities of Aveiro, Essen and Innsbruck. She completed her MA in cognitive linguistics and received her PhD in German language and literature from the Catholic University of Portugal in 2008, with a study in cognitive poetics. Previous appointments include an assistant position in the Department of German Studies, Catholic University of Portugal. She received a grant from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian to develop her research at the Center for Semiotics of the University of Aarhus, from February until November 2006. As a post-doc scholar supported by the Portuguese research foundation FCT, she was a visiting researcher at the Department of Cognitive Science of Case Western Reserve University (USA) between 2007 and 2009. She is currently senior researcher at the Center for Communication and Culture (CECC) at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon. She is a member of the editorial board of the international peer reviewed journal Cognitive Semiotics.

Her research interests include cognitive literary studies, cognitive semiotics, cognitive culture studies and German language and literature.

Publications (selected):

Abrantes, A.M. (in press). Temporal minds, timeless tales. Experiencing time in theater, Journal of the Semiotics Society of America.

Abrantes, A.M. (in press). Cognition and Culture. A Semiotic Perspective, Journal of the Semiotics Society of America.

Abrantes, A.M. (2010). Meaning and Mind. A Cognitive Approach to Peter Weiss’ Prose Work. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.

Abrantes, A.M. (2009) Poetry in the subway: Deixis and cognition in a journey through Lisbon, POST. Online Journal of the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies. Mater Dei Institute, University of Dublin.

Abrantes, A.M. (2008) Gestalt, perception and literature. Journal of Literary Theory. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 181-196.