Dr Peter Haysom-Rodríguez

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 Ana Luísa Amaral’s poetry, anti-racist discourse in contemporary Portuguese RAP music, dictatorship-era Portuguese cinema, Brazilian rap music from 1985–present and, more recently, the relationship between cancer and 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
• LCS Queer Area Studies Network
• University of Leeds Medical Humanities Research 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

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>