Dr Peter Haysom-Rodríguez
- Position: Lecturer in Modern Languages
- Areas of expertise: 20th / 21st century Portuguese literature; Black Portugal; Portuguese rap; Brazilian rap; Brazilian cinema; Portuguese cinema; regional identity; feminist studies; anti-racism; medical humanities
- Email: P.Haysom@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 2.40 Michael Sadler Building
- Website: Academia.edu | Twitter | LinkedIn | Googlescholar | ORCID
Profile
I completed a B.A. in Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge (2014), an M.A. in Literary, Cultural and Inter-art Studies at the University of Porto (2016), and a Ph.D. programme in Portuguese & Lusophone Studies at the University of Nottingham (2022). Outside of academia, I worked for three years as an International Business Consultant, at the Portuguese company Market Access: Experts in International Business.
My teaching at Leeds has been multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary, ranging from Portuguese language teaching to the “Black Europe” discovery module. I have adopted a teaching-led research, alongside a teaching-led research ethos, to ensure maximum symbiosis between scholarship and pedagogy. I teach at all levels, from first-year undergraduate to postgraduate taught programmes.
I have published articles in several international outlets: in Portugal, Cadernos de literatura comparada, in the UK, Portuguese Studies , and in the USA, Journal of Lusophone Studies and Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies. My first monograph, Regionalisms and Resistance in the Twentieth-Century Portuguese Novel: Spatialized Ideologies will be published by Legenda/MHRA in 2024.
Research interests
My Ph.D. research (to be published as a monograph in 2024) examined the ideological uses of regional space and regional dynamics in selected novels by Aquilino Ribeiro, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Lídia Jorge and José Saramago. My other research interests include queer eco-consciousness in 21st century Portuguese poetry, anti-racist discourse in contemporary Portuguese music, dictatorship-era Portuguese cinema, Brazilian rap music from 1985–present and, more recently, the relationship between cancer and contemporary Portuguese poetry. The “Medical Humanities” field is my current direction of travel – my latest project analyses representations of cancer in Lusophone cultural production.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>Qualifications
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2023)
- PhD in Portuguese & Lusophone Studies (2022)
- MA in Literary, Cultural and Inter-Artistic Studies (2016)
- BA in Modern & Medieval Languages (2014)
Professional memberships
- Association of British & Irish Lusitanists
- American Portuguese Studies Association
- International Lusitanists Association
- Intersexualidades/Intersexualities international research network
- European Popular Musics Group
Student education
At Leeds, I have taught on the following topics:
- Portuguese language (at various levels)
- Spanish-English specialised translation
- Portuguese-English specialised translation
- Portuguese and Brazilian literature
- Portuguese, Brazilian and Angolan cinema
- The history of Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa
- Queer resistance in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
- Black Portugal, from 1400-present
- Hidden presences in Black Britain