Daniela Côrtes Maduro
Portuguese theorist Daniela Côrtes Maduro is a researcher focused on digital and experimental literature.[1][2]
Early life and education
Daniela Côrtes Maduro holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and English languages and literatures. She wrote her master thesis, A creature made of bits: Illusion and Materiality in the Hyperfiction Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson for the Universidade de Coimbra/University of Coimbra, Portugal. After this, shw was awarded an individual doctoral grant by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, 2011) to complete her PhD in Materialities of Literature (project “Immersion and Interactivity in Digital Fiction”) at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In 2022, she finished her Master in Editorial Studies (University of Aveiro, Portugal). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bremen (Germany) for electronic literature.
Research and career
Daniela has been working with the Center for Portuguese Literature (Universidade de Coimbra/University of Coimbra), first as a PhD-fellow, and then as a postdoctoral researcher. She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellow at the Universität Bremen.[3][4]
Her research interests lie in the study of science fiction; storytelling; experimental and electronic literature; narratology; literary analysis; editorial studies; subversive children's literature; digital fiction; archive, preservation and curation of literature. She is an associate researcher of the Consortium on Electronic Literature and worked at the Universität Bremen (Germany), where her project, “Shapeshifting Texts: keeping track of electronic literature,” was developed with the support of the University of Bremen and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellowship Programme.
She currently works at the Centre for Portuguese Literature (group Digital Mediation and Materialities of Literature) hosted by the University of Coimbra. Together with Manuel Portela, Alex Saum-Pascual and Rui Torres, she is the co-chair of the Electronic Literature Organization's Electronic Literature Conference and Media Festival 2023 - Overcoming Divides-Electronic Literature and Social Change (Coimbra, Portugal).
Côrtes Maduro has been a researcher w/Po-ex.net & CELL. She chaired & curated Shapeshifting Texts at U of Bremen as part of her research into multimodal, experimental storytelling #womenofelit
Works and publications
List of works related to electronic literature, experimental literature, digital fiction and digital media
Entries published in the Electronic Literature Directory: Daniela Côrtes Maduro | Electronic Literature Directory (eliterature.org)
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes e Manuel Portela (2023). Cibertextualidades, volume 4, Re-Auto-Meta Arquivo, Formas e Transformações do Arquivo. Porto: Universidade Fernando Pessoa. Book series edited by Rui Torres.
Ryan, Marie-Laure (2022). Narrativa e Estudos Mediáticos [translation of Marie-Laure Ryan’s essays into Portuguese], edited by Carlos Reis, Ana Teresa Peixinho and Daniela Côrtes Maduro. Santo Tirso: De Facto Editores.
Torres, Rui and Daniela Côrtes Maduro (2021). “Wreadings: Digital Poetry and Collaborative Practice”, in The Community and the Algorithm: A Digital Interactive Poetics, edited by Andrew Klobukar. Wilmington: Vernon Press. Double-blind peer review.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2019). “Entre literatura e revolução: a poesia experimental Portuguesa” [Between Literature and Revolution: the Portuguese Experimental Literature], in Colóquio/ Letras. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, pp. 160–170. Print. Peer review. H-index 2, Q4.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2017). Digital Media and Textuality: from Creation to Archiving. Bielefeld: [transcript] Verlag. Book series Media Upheavals, edited by Peter Gendolla and Jörgen Schäfer.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2017). “Curating Shapeshifting Texts,” in Digital Media and Textuality: from Creation to Archiving, edited by Daniela Côrtes Maduro. Bielefeld: [transcript] Verlag, pp. 249-265. Now also available at (open access): https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-4091-5/digital-media-and-textuality/.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2017). “Choice and Disbelief: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity,” in Digital Media and Textuality, edited by Daniela Côrtes Maduro. Bielefeld: [transcript] Verlag, pp. 107-130. Bielefeld, Germany: [transcript] Verlag. Now also available at (open access): https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-4091-5/digital-media-and-textuality/.
Maduro, Daniela (2017). “Entre textões e escritões: a narrativa projetada [Between textons and scriptons: the projected narrative],” in Narrativa e Media: géneros, figuras e contextos, edited by Ana Teresa Peixinho and Bruno Araújo. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, pp. 345-375. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1324-6_13. Invitation.
She is the editor of the anthology Digital Media and Textuality: From Creation to Archiving (2017)
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2016). “Interactividade cognitiva: o papel do leitor na literatura electrónica [Cognitive interactivity: the reader’s role in electronic literature],” in Cartografia das fronteiras da narrativa audiovisual, edited by Maria Guilhermina Castro, Carlos Sena Caires, Daniel Ribas, Jorge Palinhos. Porto: Universidade Católica Portuguesa, pp. 138-147. Available at: http://www.uceditora.ucp.pt/resources/Documentos/UCEditora/PDF%20Livros/Porto/Cartografia.pdf. Single-blind peer review.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2016). “‘Words as occurrences’: a (i)materialidade digital”. In Tecnologias Culturais e Artes dos Médias. Colecção Cultura Média e Artes, edited by Maria Teresa Cruz; Maria Augusta Babo; José Gomes Pinto. Lisboa: CECL, FCSH, FCT, Goethe-Institut, UnYleYa. Available at: https://www.cecl.com.pt/pt/publicacoes/coleccao-cultura-media-e-artes/453-tecnologias-culturais-e-artes-dos-media. Proceedings.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2016). “Por entre frisos verbais: um percurso ao longo dos Homeóstatos de José-Alberto Marques [Through verbal strands: a journey along José-Alberto Marques’ Homeóstatos”],” in Texto Digital, 12, 1. Santa Catarina: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, pp. 27–37. Available at: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/textodigital/article/view/1807-9288.2016v12n1p27. Single-blind peer review. Qualis B2.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2016). “Histórias por um fio: narração mediada em tempo real [Stories hanging by a thread: real-time mediated narration],” Literatura e Novas Mídias, 47, in Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, pp. 141–156. Brasília: Universidade de Brasília. Available at: https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=323143255007. Double-blind peer review. Qualis A1.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2014). “Characters don’t need closure: a aventura impressa e digital [Character’s don’t need closure: the print and digital adventure],” in Revista de Estudos Literários, 4. Coimbra: Centro de Literatura Portuguesa, pp. 377–392. Print. Available at: http://impactum-journals.uc.pt/rel/article/view/2692. Peer review.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2012). “Cadáver esquisito, leitor ciborgue e inscrição magnética: três visões do texto electrónico [Exquisite corpse, cyborg reader and magnetic inscription: three perspectives on electronic text],” in Revista de Estudos Literários, 2. Coimbra: Centro de Literatura Portuguesa, pp. 297-334. Print. Available at: http://impactum-journals.uc.pt/rel/article/view/2544. No peer review.
Maduro, Daniela Côrtes (2006). “Uma edição electrónica de Lyrical Ballads,” in DigLitWeb: Digital Literature Web. Available at: http://www.ci.uc.pt/diglit/DigLitWebEdeEdicaoElectronicaEnsaio28.html. No peer review.
Awards and honors
2015 – 2017: BremenTRAC-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellowship Programme. Project: “Shapeshifting Texts: Keeping Track of Electronic Literature.” Universität Bremen, Germany.
April 2016 – July 2017: M8 Postdoc-Initiative PLUS funding program – Excellence Initiative, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Universität Bremen, Germany.
2011 – 2014: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – Individual Doctoral Grant, project “Immersion and interactivity in digital fiction” (SFRH/BD/79458/2011). Call for PhD Studentships 2011 (national call). Centre for Portuguese Literature (CLP). Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
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