Curriculum Vitae: Isabel Gil
Isabel Gil
Isabel Capeloa Gil is Professor of Cultural Theory at the Catholic University of Portugal and holds a Ph.D. from that same university. Her main research areas include intermedia studies, gender studies as well as representations of war and conflict.
She is the author of Mythographies (Lisbon, 2007), and co-editor of Landscapes of Memory Envisaging the Past/Remembering the Future, Lisbon 2004; The Colour of Difference: On German Contemporary Culture (2005). She has edited Poéticas da Navegação (Lisbon 2007) and Fleeting, Floating, Flowing: Water Writing and Modernity (Würzburg 2008). She is also the editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Comunicação e Cultura (Communication and Culture).
Her current work reflects on representational strategies. She has been visiting Professor at the University of Wales (Lampeter), at the National University of Ireland (Galway), at the Universität des Saarlandes (Germany), at the University of Hamburg, as well as at the University of Pennsylvania, Western Michigan University (USA) and at the University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari (Italy). She is currently the Dean of the School of Human Sciences at the Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon).
