Curriculum Vitae: Ana Margarida Marcelino Abrantes
Ana Abrantes
Ana Margarida Marcelino Abrantes studied German and English Studies at the Universities of Aveiro, Essen and Innsbruck. She obtained her Masters Degree in Cognitive Linguistics from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga in 2001 with a thesis on the cognitive foundations and strategies of euphemism. From 1997 until early 2006 she taught German Language and Linguistics and Didactics at the Department of German Studies of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Viseu. In 2003 she started her PhD project in the field German Language and Literature: Meaning and Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Peter Weiss’ Prose Work.
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, and a doctoral grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia to conclude her dissertation at the Department of Cognitive Science of the Case Western Reserve University, in the United States. She submitted her dissertation at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in September 2007. As a prospective PhD she obtained a research grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia to develop a two year post-doc project on Cognitive Linguistics at the Case Western Reserve University and the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, planned to start in March 2008.
Her research interests encompass German Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Poetics and Culture and Cognition Studies.
