Maria João Maciel Jorge
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
Associate Professor
Associate Dean, Global & Community Engagement
Office: S900 Ross Building
Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext: 33425
Email: mjoao@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.yorku.ca/mdodman/index.html
Secondary website: http://www.yorku.ca/ccars
A first-generation scholar, Maria João (M. J.) Maciel Jorge immigrated to Canada from the Azores in 1989. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, and her research and publications include both Spanish and Portuguese early modern literatures as well as colonial and new world encounters, and Portuguese island culture and literature.
Professor Maciel Jorge has served in various academic roles and also in the Portuguese community, from member of the advisory council for the consulate of Portugal in Toronto to more recently as member of the committee leading the 70th anniversary of the celebrations regarding the arrival of the Portuguese immigrants in Canada. Currently, she is Associate Professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies and Associate Dean, Global & Community Engagement in the faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoMA, University of Western Ontario
Research Interests
“As Nossas Avós Açorianas: Histórias, Crenças, Superstições.” Avós e Migração: Raízes e Identidade. Manuela Marujo ed. Toronto: University of Toronto, Friends of Portuguese Studies, 2010. 73-79.
“De ojos y oídos: amor, religión y sentidos en las Cartas de Mariana Alcoforado.” Los cinco sentidos del convento: Europa y el Nuevo Mundo. Josefina Lopez ed. Publicaciones UCAB, Venezuela, 2010. 25- 39.
“(Mis)Fortunes and Perils of Beauty: the Women of Bernardim Ribeiro’s Menina e Moça” eHumanista, Journal of Iberian Studies. Vol. 19, 2011. 390-406.
”Truth Telling, Credibility and the Story of the Self in the Diário da Navegação of Pero Lopes de Sousa” in The Early Modern Relation: Family Tree and Hermeneutics. Renaissance and Reformation. Renaissance et Réforme. 33.1-2, Winter-Spring / Hiver-Printemps 2011. 159-182.
“A Vez e a Voz da Mulher na Literatura Açoriana: o caso de Pedras Negras de José Dias de Melo.” The Voice and Choice of Portuguese Women in the Diaspora: In Macao and Elsewhere / A Vez e a Voz da Mulher Portuguesa na diáspora: Macau e Outros Lugares. Actas do III Congresso Internacional. Maria Antónia Espadinha and Leonor Diaz de Seabra eds. Macao: Universidade de Macau, 2009. 15-22.
“Spanish Violence in the Theatre of Gil Vicente.” La violencia en el mundo hispánico en el Siglo de Oro. Juan M. Escudero and Victoriano Roncero eds. Madrid: VISOR, 2010. 79-90.
“Entre o Cais e a Lancha: Azorean-Ties” in mundoacoriano.com.
“Marquinha: Uma Avó (In)Vulgar.” Passos de Nossos Avós. Aida Baptista and Manuela Marujo eds. Ponta Delgada: Publiçor, 2010. 123-125.
“Notions of Man and Manhood in Seventeenth Century Iberia: the Nobleman of La margarita del Tajo que dio nombre a Santaren of Ángela de Avezedo” 27 pages (forthcoming in Moenia – Revista Lucense de Lingüistica & Literatura, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela).
‘Nem comem senão desse inhame’: the Significance of Food in the Discovery of Brazil” 29 pages (forthcoming in Luso-Brazilian Review).
A first-generation scholar, Maria João (M. J.) Maciel Jorge immigrated to Canada from the Azores in 1989. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, and her research and publications include both Spanish and Portuguese early modern literatures as well as colonial and new world encounters, and Portuguese island culture and literature.
Professor Maciel Jorge has served in various academic roles and also in the Portuguese community, from member of the advisory council for the consulate of Portugal in Toronto to more recently as member of the committee leading the 70th anniversary of the celebrations regarding the arrival of the Portuguese immigrants in Canada. Currently, she is Associate Professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies and Associate Dean, Global & Community Engagement in the faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoMA, University of Western Ontario
Research Interests
All Publications
“As Nossas Avós Açorianas: Histórias, Crenças, Superstições.” Avós e Migração: Raízes e Identidade. Manuela Marujo ed. Toronto: University of Toronto, Friends of Portuguese Studies, 2010. 73-79.
“De ojos y oídos: amor, religión y sentidos en las Cartas de Mariana Alcoforado.” Los cinco sentidos del convento: Europa y el Nuevo Mundo. Josefina Lopez ed. Publicaciones UCAB, Venezuela, 2010. 25- 39.
“(Mis)Fortunes and Perils of Beauty: the Women of Bernardim Ribeiro’s Menina e Moça” eHumanista, Journal of Iberian Studies. Vol. 19, 2011. 390-406.
”Truth Telling, Credibility and the Story of the Self in the Diário da Navegação of Pero Lopes de Sousa” in The Early Modern Relation: Family Tree and Hermeneutics. Renaissance and Reformation. Renaissance et Réforme. 33.1-2, Winter-Spring / Hiver-Printemps 2011. 159-182.
“A Vez e a Voz da Mulher na Literatura Açoriana: o caso de Pedras Negras de José Dias de Melo.” The Voice and Choice of Portuguese Women in the Diaspora: In Macao and Elsewhere / A Vez e a Voz da Mulher Portuguesa na diáspora: Macau e Outros Lugares. Actas do III Congresso Internacional. Maria Antónia Espadinha and Leonor Diaz de Seabra eds. Macao: Universidade de Macau, 2009. 15-22.
“Spanish Violence in the Theatre of Gil Vicente.” La violencia en el mundo hispánico en el Siglo de Oro. Juan M. Escudero and Victoriano Roncero eds. Madrid: VISOR, 2010. 79-90.
“Entre o Cais e a Lancha: Azorean-Ties” in mundoacoriano.com.
“Marquinha: Uma Avó (In)Vulgar.” Passos de Nossos Avós. Aida Baptista and Manuela Marujo eds. Ponta Delgada: Publiçor, 2010. 123-125.
“Notions of Man and Manhood in Seventeenth Century Iberia: the Nobleman of La margarita del Tajo que dio nombre a Santaren of Ángela de Avezedo” 27 pages (forthcoming in Moenia – Revista Lucense de Lingüistica & Literatura, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela).
‘Nem comem senão desse inhame’: the Significance of Food in the Discovery of Brazil” 29 pages (forthcoming in Luso-Brazilian Review).
