Summary
  Patricia Schor is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University. She holds a BA from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation – São Paulo, and an MA from the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, with a thesis on Afro-Brazilian religions and emancipation. After her MA, she worked for five years at Oxfam-Novib, as Programme Officer Lusophone Africa. Her PhD research focuses on the continuities and reconfigurations of the Portuguese empire in the contemporary narratives of the Portuguese language, and it seeks manifestations of the imperial heritage, and its transformation, in fundamental sites of Portuguese culture that represent points of contact with Africa, namely literature and postcolonial theory. Patricia has conduced field research for her PhD in Lisbon in 2008/9, as Associated Researcher to the Centre for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon, member of the group Dislocating Europe: Post-Colonial perspectives in Literary, Anthropological and Historical Studies. At Utrecht University she is an Affiliated Researcher to the Research Institute for History and Culture, member of the group Textual Culture. Patricia was awarded a Prins Bernhard Scholarship 2009 to carry out the comparative research project Language as art object: Africa in the representations of the Portuguese language in Brazil & Portugal. She is currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Portuguese Cultural Studies entitled Brazilian Postcolonialities(with Emanuelle Santos), and has just co-organised the workshop Atlantic Triangles: Lusophone Colonial and Postcolonial Crossingsat NIAS (with Paulo de Medeiros). Her main research interests are post-imperial imaginaries, post-colonial representations of Africa, Border theory and language discourse.