Teresa Casal

|Teresa Casal - Editor| is Assistant Professor in English at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, and a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for Lisbon Studies (ULICES). She currently coordinates the interdisciplinary project in Medical Humanities, based at ULICES. Her main areas of research are narrative fiction and non-fiction, Irish Studies, and Medical Humanities. Her research focuses on how contemporary narrative fiction and creative non-fiction represent...See more

|Teresa Casal - Editor| is Assistant Professor in English at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, and a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for Lisbon Studies (ULICES). She currently coordinates the interdisciplinary project in Medical Humanities, based at ULICES. Her main areas of research are narrative fiction and non-fiction, Irish Studies, and Medical Humanities. Her research focuses on how contemporary narrative fiction and creative non-fiction represent experiences of dislocation, loss, and illness. She is equally interested in the co-constructed nature of narratives and in the role of readers and listeners. She has published articles and book chapters in her areas of expertise and co-edited the literary anthology Contar (com) a Medicina [Counting on Medicine] (2015; ext. and revised eds. 2016 and 2018), Beyond Diagnosis: Relating Person to Patient, Patient to Person (2014), and Revisitar o Mito / Myths Revisited (2015). She has given various workshops and coordinated reading and writing groups for healthcare professionals. See less