Dr Antonio Da Silva
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872332
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Location
4.203, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Tuesday - 13:00 - 14:00 Thursday - 15:00 - 16:00
Profile
Biography
Dr Antonio da Silva possesses a BA in Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (Portuguese & English) from FUOM (Brazil); a PGCE in Modern Languages (Spanish & French) from the University of Sussex; a Master's by research in Modern Languages from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Bristol. Dr Da Silva is currently the Director of Admissions, Outreach, and Recruitment for Language and Linguistics (UG).
Qualifications
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PhD - Hispanic Studies University of Bristol,
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MA (by research) - Modern Languages University of Leeds,
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PGCE - Modern Languages University of Sussex,
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BA - Languages and Literature FUOM,
Appointments
University of Essex
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Lecturer, Language and Linguistics, University of Essex (1/9/2020 - present)
Other academic
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Associate Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London (1/9/2017 - 31/8/2018)
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Associate Teaching Fellow in Portuguese, University of Surrey (16/1/2017 - 31/7/2018)
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Portuguese language coordinator, University of Kent (1/9/2013 - 13/1/2017)
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Brazilian Lector, Birkbeck, University of London (1/9/2008 - 31/8/2012)
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External examiner, University of Liverpool (1/10/2016 - 31/8/2018)
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External examiner, Modern Language Centre, King's College London (1/9/2015 - 31/8/2018)
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External examiner, Coventry University (1/1/2011 - 31/12/2014)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Cinema in Portuguese
World cinema
Portuguese language
Language teaching
Internet stardom and fandom
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)
AI (Artificial Inteligence) & language learning/teaching
Conferences and presentations
The use of new technologies for differentiation purposes
Invited presentation, The Language Teaching Conference, Colchester, United Kingdom, 6/7/2023
Workshop: Designing differentiated teaching materials with technology
Invited presentation, The Language Teaching Conference, Colchester, United Kingdom, 6/7/2023
Teaching linguistic variation and culture through new medias: Instagram, Youtube and memes
Questioning Language Teaching Orthodoxy in Higher Education, Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching, Leeds, United Kingdom, 28/6/2023
Reexamining Motherhood and Femininity in the Brazilian Film Central Station (1998)
Maternal Narratives on Screen, Manchester, United Kingdom, 16/6/2023
Enhancing Language Teaching with AI: Leveraging ChatGPT and Quizlet for Effective Learning Object Creation
AULC Teaching and Learning support SIG, United Kingdom, 26/5/2023
Considerações sobre a formação de professores de línguas adicionais em contexto inglês: possíveis contribuições teórico-práticas para o contexto brasileiro
Porto Alegre, Brazil, 20/12/2022
Latin American LGBTQIA+ cinema in the 2000s
Latin American LGBTQIA+ Cinema Showcase, Nicosia, Cyprus, 8/4/2022
The intermediality of Brazilian queer cinema: A case study from the 1960s onwards
II Intermedia conference - The moving form of film: exploring intermediality as a historiographic method, Reading, United Kingdom, 7/11/2017
Framing abjection through violence in Teresa Villaverde’s films
International Symposium ‘Women in Iberian Cinema’, Lisbon, Portugal, 11/9/2017
Enviadecendo intimacy: resisting (gay) heteronormativity in Brazilian queer funk videos
ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists) Conference, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 8/9/2017
Human rights abuses and state violence in prison films by Hector Babenco
Film-Philosophy Conference, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 17/7/2017
Déjà-vu brésilien; ou, cinema e política ainda não se misturam: O caso do filme Aquarius (2016) de Kleber Mendonça Filho
REBRAC International Conference: Brazil in the Spotlight, Belfast, United Kingdom, 11/11/2016
O uso de recursos online gratuitos para ajudar jovens alunos de Português a ter sucesso e manter a motivação
Invited presentation, MFL Teachers’ conference, Leeds, United Kingdom, 6/6/2016
Portuguese as a heritage language
Invited presentation, Portuguese Language day seminar, London, United Kingdom, 4/5/2016
Rebuilding colonial memory through archive in the work of two Portuguese women filmmakers: Margarida Cardoso and Filipa César
Invited presentation, Portuguese Cinema Symposium, London, United Kingdom, 13/1/2016
Synchronous and asynchronous connectivity through blended learning: Language teaching in the post method era
Invited presentation, London, United Kingdom, 27/11/2015
When Language Teaching and Cultural Studies go hand in hand: A Snapshot of an Approach to Brazilian Studies at University Level
Invited presentation, International Conference: Remapping Brazilian Cultural Studies, London, United Kingdom, 25/9/2015
Synchronous and asynchronous activities in Portuguese language teaching: cinema, blogs, phones and beyond
Invited presentation, Portuguese as a Global Language: Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Learning, Exeter, United Kingdom, 30/6/2015
Language research and Portuguese teaching practices
Invited presentation, Portuguese Studies in the UK, London, United Kingdom, 5/6/2015
Disability, sexuality and abjection: The (im)perfect horny body and subjectivity in contemporary Brazilian and Angolan cinemas
Film-Philosophy Conference: A World of Cinemas, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 3/7/2014
There come the naughty Brazukas: Gender identity and the Brazilian immigrant in Europe in the Brazilian films Foreign Land (1996) and Jean Charles (2009)
III Seminário de Estudos sobre a Imigração Brasileira na Europa, London, United Kingdom, 15/4/2014
O exame Celpe-Bras em contexto britânico
Invited presentation, I Simpósio Europeu sobre o Ensino de Português como Língua de Herança, London, United Kingdom, 24/10/2013
A retextualização na produção escrita de aprendizes de português como língua adicional em contextos multilíngues
Congreso Internacional La Lengua Portuguesa, Salamanca, Spain, 28/5/2013
Guilherme de Almeida and Brazilian neo-noir cinema: A dama do Cine Shanghai (The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema, 1987)
Invited presentation, Brazilian Week, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1/3/2013
In-between: encouraging students’ interaction beyond the classroom context through VLE
Invited presentation, Enhancing flexible learning, London, United Kingdom, 18/2/2013
O processo de compreensão e produção em leitura por aprendizes iniciantes de português e de inglês em ambiente digital.
° Simpósio internacional: Ensino de português como língua adicional – práticas de ensino e formação de professores, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 12/11/2012
Because they are too dirty! Abjection and the films of the contemporary Brazilian and Portuguese filmmakers Cláudio Assis and João Pedro Rodrigues
The 5th Annual Film-Philosophy Conference, London, United Kingdom, 13/9/2012
The little adults: gender and child prostitution in contemporary Brazilian cinema.
Gender and Visual Representation Conference, Winchester, United Kingdom, 12/9/2012
Brazilian cinema and counter-culture movements in the 1960s: Cinema novo and Underground cinema
Invited presentation, Utrecht, Netherlands, 15/2/2012
The use of technology to facilitate inter and extra classroom interaction for learners of Portuguese as an additional foreign language
E-Learning Symposium, Southampton, United Kingdom, 26/1/2012
Public sex and the challenge to the patriarchal law: the femme fatale as a symbol of otherness in A dama do lotação (Lady on the Bus, 1978).
ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists) IV Conference, Leeds, United Kingdom, 9/9/2011
Configurações de tarefas de ensino de português como língua estrangeira adicional - implementação e condições de uso de linguagem.
Congresso Brasileiro de Linguística Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 26/7/2011
Pleasurable but dirty and castrating: the display of female sexual organs in Brazilian WIP (Women in Prison) Film
Cine-Excess IV Corporeal Excess: Cult Bodies, London, United Kingdom, 14/4/2010
From prison to the street, from the street to prison: transposing the prison walls in the Brazilian documentary O Cárcere e a rua (The Prison and the Street, Liliana Sulzbach, 2005)
‘Transitions’ - The WISPS (Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2/10/2009
A title says all: Brazilian Pornochanchada’s titles as an indication of male anxiety about female sexuality
ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists) Conference III, Maynooth, Ireland, 11/9/2009
Titillating and betraying the male audience: Brazilian sexploitation film titles and covers
Framing Film – Cinema and the Visual Arts, Winchester, United Kingdom, 5/9/2009
Brazilian Women in Prison Film: a gendered reading
B for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics and Cultural Value, Melbourne, Australia, 9/4/2009
Madame Satã e a performance da femme fatale: problematizando a construção de gênero (2002)
Retratos do Brasil Homossexual – IV Congresso ABEH/ Encontro Hispano-Brasileiro de Miliantes Homossexuais, São Paulo, Brazil, 10/9/2008
Troubling the femme fatale gender in Brazilian film Madame Satã (2002)
JISLAC Event, Bristol, United Kingdom, 14/2/2008
“Isso não Xica!” O corpo escravo e o imaginário da femme fatale no filme Xica da Silva (1976): de striptease a masoquismo
ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists) Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom, 11/1/2008
Socio-cultural identity: meaning of travel in Brazilian film Central Station
7th Borders and Crossings Congress, Sardinia, Italy, 9/11/2007
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Business and Social Justice in Latin America (BE444)
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Concepts of Translation and Cultural Mediation (LA043)
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Portuguese Conversion (LA333)
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Advanced Portuguese (LA340)
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Proficiency Level Portuguese (LA350)
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Mastery Level Portuguese (LA360)
Publications
Journal articles (20)
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2024). Densidade Lexical em Textos Gerados pelo ChatGPT: Implicações da Inteligência Artificial para a escrita em Línguas Adicionais (Lexical density in texts generated by ChatGPT: implications of artificial intelligence for writing in additional languages). Texto Livre: Linguagem e Tecnologia. 17, 1-19
Da Silva, AM., (2024). Diferenciação no ensino de línguas adicionais: estratégias baseadas no uso de tecnologias educacionais (Differentiation in additional language teaching: strategies based on the use of educational technologies). Revista Dimensões Docentes. 1 (1), 86-103
Rottava, L. and Da Silva, AM., (2023). Sistema lógico-semântico de expansão na reescrita de textos acadêmicos: escolhas linguísticas de uma estudante versus as escolhas do ChatGPT (Logical-Semantic Expansion System in the Rewriting of Academic Texts: Linguistic Choices of a Student versus the Choices of ChatGPT). Diálogo das Letras. 12, 1-18
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2023). Ondas semânticas no ensino de português como língua adicional: gravidade e densidade semântica na construção do conhecimento (Semantic waves in the teaching of Portuguese as an additional language: semantic gravity and semantic density in the construction of knowledge). Trabalhos em Lingüística Aplicada. 62 (2), 307-321
Rottava, L. and Da Silva, AM., (2020). 'Construção de um campo semântico por meio de prática espaçada em ensino de línguas adicionais online' [Constructing a semantic field through spaced practice in the teaching of additional languages online]. Organon. 35 (68), 1-21
Da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., (2019). ‘Reel life: Brazilian realities reflected in cinema.’. The Architectural Review (1465)
Da Silva, AM., (2016). ‘The little adults: child and teenage sexual exploitation in contemporary Brazilian cinema’. Hispania. 99 (99), 212-222
Da Silva, AM., (2016). ‘Archives, memory and colonial resistance in the work of the Portuguese filmmakers Margarida Cardoso and Filipa César’. Journal of Romance Studies. 16 (2), 96-111
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2015). ‘Blended learning no ensino de português língua estrangeira adicional: tarefas assíncronas extra-classe’. Portuguese Language Journal. 9
Da Silva, AM., (2014). ‘The Portuguese queer screen: gender possibilities in João Pedro Rodrigues’ cinematic production’. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. 6 (1), 69-78
Da Silva, AM., (2014). ‘I’m dirty, dirty, dirty! Abjeção e identidade queer em Stella Manhattan de Silviano Santiago’. Caderno Seminal Digital. 21 (21), 168-199
Da Silva, AM., (2014). ‘Lima Barreto: uma releitura da obra do autor sob a ótica pós-colonial’.. Revista de Letras da UNESP. 54 (1), 51-70
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2014). Language learning, identity and globalization: a comparison between learners of Brazilian Portuguese in England and learners of English and Spanish in Brazil’. Acta Scientiarum : Language and Culture. 36 (2), 171-181
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2014). ‘Da tela ao papel: a retextualização como recurso na aquisição da escrita em português como língua adicional’.. Revista Veredas - Revista da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas, 25-38
Da Silva, AM., (2014). ‘O ensino de português como língua estrangeira adicional em contexto universitário inglês: especificidades e prática’. SIPLE
Da Silva, AM., (2014). Lima Barreto: A postcolonial rereading of the author's work. Revista de Letras. 54 (1), 51-70
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2012). ‘A interação em ambiente eletrônico no ensino de português língua estrangeira adicional: a otimização da aprendizagem de iniciantes’. Revista Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada. 11 (1), 159-188
Da Silva, AM., (2011). ‘Viewing the Angolan experience of war and peace through the filmic representation of Luanda in Maria João Ganga’s Na cidade vazia/Hollow City (2004) and Zezé Gamboa’s O herói/The Hero (2004)’. Journal of African Cinemas. 3 (2), 187-200
Da Silva, AM., (2010). ‘Ensino de Português Língua Estrangeira (PLE) por meio de filme: considerações sobre o ‘Portfólio Europeu para Línguas (CEFLs)’’. Revista Littera. 1 (1), 121-133
Da Silva, AM., (2007). 'Sugestões de atividades para aulas de Português Língua Estrangeira’.. Portuguese Language Journal. 2
Books (4)
Da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., (2018). Human rights, social movements, and activism in contemporary Latin American cinema. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-3319962078
Da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., (2017). Space and subjectivity in contemporary Brazilian cinema. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-3-319-48267-5
Da Silva, AM., (2014). The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema: Challenging Hollywood Norms. Palgrave Macmillan. 9781137399205
da Silva, AM., (2014). The "Femme" Fatale in Brazilian Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan US. 9781349485703
Book chapters (14)
Da Silva, AM., (2018). ‘Intersectionality as a human rights issue in contemporary Latin American Queer Cinema’. In: Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Editors: Da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., . Palgrave Macmillan. 225- 248. 978-3-319-96208-5
Da Silva, AM., (2018). ‘Human rights abuses and State violence in prison films by Hector Babenco’.. In: Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Editors: Da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., . Palgrave Macmillan. 71- 93. 978-3-319-96208-5
Cunha, M. and da Silva, AM., (2018). Introduction. In: Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Springer International Publishing. 1- 19. 9783319962078
Da Silva, AM., (2017). ‘Pós-modernidade e novas tecnologias: o ensino-aprendizado de português língua adicional na era do pós método’. In: Português para falantes de outras línguas:ensino-aprendizagem, tecnologias e letramentos. Editors: De Sá, RL. and Augusto, RC., . Pontes Editores. 91- 124. 9788571137158
da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., (2017). Introduction. In: Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema. Springer International Publishing. 1- 19. 9783319482668
Da Silva, AM., (2016). ‘Memory and gender in the Portuguese speaking Africa’s postcolonial cinematic production’. In: New approaches to Lusophone culture. Editors: Pinazza, N., . Cambria Press. 79- 110. 9781604979152
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2015). ‘Gêneros e registros em contexto de comunicação mediada eletronicamente: uma abordagem Sistêmico-Funcional da interação eletrônica de aprendizes de Português Língua Adicional’. In: Reflexões em Linguística Aplicada: a formação de professores de línguas e a prática em sala de aula - caminhos e expectativas. Editors: Rottava, L. and et al., . Pontes Editores. 199- 225. 978-857113-613-7
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2014). ‘A retextualização na produção escrita de aprendizes de português como língua estrangeira adicional em contextos multilíngues’. In: La lengua portuguesa - vol II Estudios Lingúísticos. Editors: De Dios, AM., . Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca y los autores. 711- 717. 978-84-9012-445-1
Da Silva, AM., (2013). Gender in Brazilian cinema: Introduction. In: Directory of World Cinema: Brazil. Editors: Pinazza, N. and Bayman, L., . Intellect. 82- 102. 9781783200092
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2013). Influência interlinguística no processo de escrita em português LE-adicional’. In: Português como língua (inter)nacional: faces e interfaces.. Editors: Da Silva, KA. and Dos Santos, DT., . Pontes Editores. 275- 297. 978-85-7113-483-6
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2013). ‘Interação em ambiente virtual no ensino de português como língua estrangeira adicional’. In: Comunicação electrónica na aula de Português Língua Estrangeira. Editors: Melo, S. and Sá, MHA., . Edições Lidel. 140- 155. 978-972-757-708-8
Da Silva, AM., (2012). ‘A experiência angolana de guerra e paz: um olhar por meio da representação fílmica de Luanda em Na cidade vazia (2004) de Maria João Ganga, e em O herói (2004), de Zezé Gamboa’.. In: Filmes da África e da diáspora. Editors: Meleiros, A. and Bamba, M., . EDUFBA. 19- 42. 978-85-232-0999-5
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2011). ‘Beliefs about learning Portuguese as a foreign language – multilingual context’.. In: Crenças, discursos & linguagem II. Editors: Da Silva, KA., . Pontes Editores. 153- 175
Da Silva, AM., (2009). ‘Troubling the femme fatale gender in the Brazilian film Madame Satã (2002)’. In: Latin American issues and challenges. Editors: Naciamento, L. and Sousa, G., . Nova Publishers. 81- 95. 978-1-60692-349-8
Grants and funding
2023
Developing employability skills through language learning: a pilot project with adult learners in the Colchester area
British Academy
Contact
Academic support hours:
Tuesday - 13:00 - 14:00 Thursday - 15:00 - 16:00
