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Maria Clara Leal

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Maria Clara Leal is a research fellow, performing functions in the area of Project Management at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development, at the Lusófona University - University Centre of Lisbon. PhD candidate in Literature and Modern Cultures from NOVA University of Lisbon (FCSH). She has a Master degree in Literature and Modern Cultures (2022), by NOVA University of Lisbon (FCSH), and a Master degree in Labour Sciences and Industrial Relations (2020), by ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. She has a License degree in Laws (2017) by IBMEC-Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets (RJ-Brasil). She has professional experience in the field of law in Brazil and has participated in projects at CeiED as a research scholarship. Currently her research focuses on literature as a means of building collective memory through works of social denunciation analyzed from the perspectives of Sociology of Work and Gender Studies.

Áreas de interesse académico e científico Areas of academic and scientific interest

  • Comparative Literature
  • Gender Studies
  • Precariousness Work
  • Cultural Memory

Publicações Selecionadas Selected Publications

  • Ceia, E. M., Leal, M. C. (no prelo). Transitional justice and comic books: racial injustice and resistance in the work of Marcelo D’Salete". Comics and Life: Illustration, Intersections, and Insights. Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
  • Rosa, V., Dantas, L., Lopo, T. T., Leal, M. C. & Almeida, E. S. (2021). AVAL: Avaliação Pedagógica, Resultados Escolares e Literacia de Leitura. Edições Universitárias Lusófonas.
  • Leal, M. C. A. (2021). Operárias do Brás, a grande penitenciária social: uma análise entre precariedade e consciência de classe na obra “Parque Industrial” (1933), de Patrícia Galvão. In Caderno de Resumos Joeel: Anais (9). http://doi.org/10.29327/152637
  • Leal, M. C. A. (2020) A precarização laboral dos jovens em Portugal. In P. P. Cabreira (Ed.) História do Movimento Operário e dos Conflitos Sociais em Portugal: Congresso História do Trabalho, do Movimento Operário e dos Movimentos Sociais em Portugal. Instituto de História Contemporânea, 271-284.
  • Duarte, R. S., Robert, A. & Leal, M. C. (Org.) (2020). O Sindicalismo docente e a construção da profissão na Europa e na América Latina: contribuições dos sindicatos, estado de investigação e perspetivas. Edições Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Educação e Desenvolvimento (CeiED), ULHT