Áreas Científicas
Techno-scientific rationality and mytho-poetic imagination
Post-Illuminist culture
Pedagogical innovation
Publicações Representativas
“Abordagens interdisciplinares ao «psychisme hydrant» bachelardiano na poesia de António Gedeão e Jorge de Sena: uma poética da metamorfose”, in Carnets, Revue Electronique d’Etudes Françaises (Revista Electrónica da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Franceses), nº 1, 2009, pp. 33-54. ISSN: 1646-7698
“Reflections on an Emerging Bio-Poetics,” in Palmira Fontes da Costa (coord.), Ciência e Bioarte, Encruzilhadas e Desafios Éticos. Casal de Camba, Portugal: Caleidoscópio, 2007, pp. 109-124. ISBN: 978-989-8010-96-4
“António Gedeão and Jorge de Sena: Myth, Tradition, and the Poetics of Diaspora”, in Francisco Cota Fagundes, Irene Maria F. Blayer, Teresa F. A. Alves, Teresa Cid (eds.), Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora: Piecing Things Together, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2011, pp. 3-18. ISBN: 978-1-4331-1430-4 ISSN: 0893-5963
Dez Anos in Portugal, Ensaios, Prosa, Poesia, Lisboa: Colibri, 2011. ISBN: 978-989-689-145-9
Álvaro de Campos, Autobiografia de uma Odisseia Moderna, Lisboa: Colibri, 2012. ISBN: 978-989-689-200-5
Perfil Profissional
Christopher Damien Auretta has taught at the School of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon since 1987. He received his PhD degree in Hispanic languages and literature from the University of California, USA. He lectures on aspects of contemporary thought and practises interdisciplinary approaches to science and literature. He has published essays on the poetry of António Gedeão, Fernando Pessoa (both on his published and unpublished works), Jorge de Sena, the writer and chemist Primo Levi, the Nobel Prize recipient and poet Roald Hoffmann, the fiction of nineteenth-century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, aspects of the prose universe of Franz Kafka, as well as on the emerging aesthetics of the interdisciplinary field known as bioart. He has published four volumes of poetry. He has lived in Portugal for more than twenty-five years.
