Dr Carmen Ramos Villar (she/her)

BA Hons, MA, PhD

School of Languages, Arts and Societies

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies (Portuguese)

Carmen Ramos Villar
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c.ramosvillar@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0547
2.35, Jessop West

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Dr Carmen Ramos Villar
School of Languages, Arts and Societies
2.35
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
Profile

Dr Carmen Ramos Villar studied at the University of Bristol, where she obtained a BA Hons in Hispanic Studies and went on to specialise on Portuguese literature afterwards. She was awarded her doctorate in 2004. Her doctoral thesis examined the theme of emigration in Portuguese literature, concentrating in the works produced by writers from the Azores islands and from the Azorean-American community. Before coming to the 爆料TV in 2005, Dr Ramos Villar taught Portuguese Studies at Manchester University for one year.

Dr Ramos Villar teaches on a variety of modules at Undergraduate and MA, mostly centred on Cultural Studies, and on the Portuguese-speaking world.

Qualifications
  • BA Hons Hispanic Studies (University of Bristol)
  • MA in Portuguese Studies (University of Bristol)
  • PhD in Portuguese Literature (University of Bristol)
Research interests

Dr Ramos Villar has published on the literature produced by Azorean writers, and also Portuguese American writers. She has also co-edited volumes on Azorean literature, Postcolonial debates in the Lusophone World, and otherness in literary and intercultural communication.

Dr Ramos Villar's current research explores Portuguese American life writing, and she is currently writing a monograph. As well as a textual and photographic analysis, the monograph examines how Portuguese American women wrote wrote about the American West, wrote for others as ghost writers, used fiction to write about someone's life, and used the documentary genre as non-textual life writing.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Ramos Villar C (2022) . 骋谩惫别补-叠谤辞飞苍鈥擜 Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-North American Letters and Studies, 46, 106-120.
  • Villar CR & Green S (2022) . Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 99(1), 179-181.
  • Ramos Villar C (2019) Voicing the community, or a voice for the community: Katherine Vaz, a Portuguese American writer. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, 32, 26-49.
  • Ramos Villar C (2019) . Portuguese Studies, 35(1), 115-118.
  • Ramos Villar CM (2017) . Portuguese Studies, 33(1), 70-84.
  • Ramos Villar CM (2016) Filling in when memory fails: the use of stories in Portuguese American memoirs. Revista Configura莽玫es, 17, 139-152.
  • Ramos Villar CM (2015) Image, Text, Self: Representation in Charles Reis Felix's Through a Portagee Gate (2004).. a/b:Auto/Biography Studies, 2(29), 279-297 (18).
  • Ramos Villar CM (2013) Francisco Cota Fagundes: The Challenge of Autobiographies.
  • Ramos Villar CM (2013) Janus and the Portuguese Emigrant: The Autobiographies of Portuguese Immigrants in the United States. Luso-Brazilian Review, 49(2), 232-250.
  • Ramos Villar CM (2013) Writing the Home: Charles Reis Felix's Autobiography and its Negotiation of Domestic Place and Space. Ellipsis, 11, 187-209.
  • Ramos Villar CM (2009) Travelling, the Traveller, and the Journey Theme in Azorean Literature. AndarILHAgem, 6, 67-79.
  • Ramos Villar CM (2008) Quando uma ilha tem consci锚ncia de si pr贸pria: auto-imagina莽茫o em A ilha d茅cima de Maria Lu铆sa Soares. 鈥橳eia Liter谩ria, 2, 35-48.
  • (2006) . Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 83(6), 595-621.
  • Ramos Villar C (2006) Sexual/textual empires: Gender and marginality in Lusophone African literature. BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES, 83(6), 621-621.
  • Ramos Villar CM (2004) War as an internal and external battleground in Alamo Oliveira's At茅 Hoje (Mem贸rias de C茫o). Portuguese Studies, 20(1), 152-168.
  • Ramos Villar CM () . MOARA 鈥 Revista Eletr么nica do Programa de P贸s-Gradua莽茫o em Letras(64), 141-159.

Book chapters

  • Ramos Villar C (2024) Negotiating place and the ethnic experience: Joseph Conforti鈥檚 another city upon a hill (2013) In Bastos C, Feldman-Bianco B & Moniz M (Ed.), Migration, Mill Work, and Portuguese Communities in New England Tagus Press, UMass Dartmouth
  • Ramos Villar CM (2016) A ilha grande assombrada de Daniel de S谩 In Cota Fagundes F, Antunes S & Igrejas A (Ed.), Rememorando Daniel de S谩: Escritor dos A莽ores e do Mundo (pp. 105-123). Ponta Delgada, Portugal: Ver A莽or.
Research group
  • Ruth Fisher (2012-2018): 鈥楻esistance and Survival: Deconstructing the Narratives of Women Political Prisoners after the Spanish Civil War.鈥 Successful completion. 
  • Deborah Madden (2014-2018): 鈥楶olitics and Sexual Politics: Women's Writing in Early Twentieth-Century Spain and Portugal.鈥 Successful completion. 
  • Katy Hunter (2016-2022): 鈥淏odies in Motion: Physicality, materiality, and decoloniality in the digital age of francophone and lusophone African cinema.鈥 Successful completion.
  • Milena Chaine (2021-present):  鈥淭he role of context in the translation of non-literal language in audiovisual translation for dubbing.鈥  Awaiting examination.

Dr Ramos Villar has also supervised numerous MA Dissertations on various topics, including Angolan literature, Portuguese literature, contemporary translation studies and Intercultural Communication and International Development.
 

Teaching interests

Dr Ramos Villar鈥檚 teaching on the literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world focused on Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa (with a sprinkling of the literature of Brazil, Goa, Macau and East Timor). She also teaches in modules that examine how language is used in specific contexts, that take a comparative approach across languages and societies, and in translation modules. 


Dr Ramos Villar has also taught Portuguese and Spanish language, Spanish / Latin American literature, and supervises undergraduate dissertations on translation of literary texts across the Portuguese-speaking world, and on Guin茅-Bissauan, Mozambican, Brazilian and Portuguese topics. She has also supervised MA dissertations on Intercultural Communication, Translation, Localisation, and Portuguese Studies topics.

Teaching activities

Dr Ramos Villar鈥檚 teaching covers the literatures and cultures of the Lusophone world, particularly that of Portugal and Lusophone Africa. She also teaches in comparative modules across languages and societies. The modules Dr Ramos Villar currently teaches are:

MDL11015: Activism and Social Change

MDL217: Hispanic Spaces

MDL222 / MDL317: Cultural Crosscurrents in the Portuguese-speaking World

MDL603 / 612: Language in Context

MDL6048 / 6053 and MDL6049/6054: Translation Skills and Genres

MDL608: Directed Reading

Dr Ramos Villar has also taught Spanish language and Spanish / Latin American literature, and has supervised undergraduate dissertations on Guin茅-Bissauan, Mozambican, Brazilian and Portuguese topics, as well as supervising MA dissertations on Intercultural Communication, Translation, and Portuguese Studies topics.

Professional activities and memberships
  • Member of the 爆料TV Discipline Committee (2008-2021)
  • Member of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL)
  • President of ABIL (2021-2025)
  • Treasurer for ABIL (2009-2013)
  • Conference secretary for ABIL (2015-2017)
  • External examiner for PhD theses at NUI Maynooth (July 2010), Ireland and at the University of Nottingham (June 2022).
  • External examiner for Portuguese at the University of Essex (2007-2011); University of Exeter (2011-2012); University of Oxford (2015-2018); University of Cardiff (2015-2020); University of Birmingham (2018-2022); University of Leeds (2021-2024); University of Glasgow (2021-2025); University of Newcastle (2024-present); University of Southampton (2025-present) 
Publications

Book:

Ramos Villar CM (2006) The Metaphorical 鈥淭enth Island鈥 in Azorean Literature: The Theme of Emigration in the Azorean Imagination. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press.

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

Ramos Villar CM (2019) 鈥榁oicing the Community, or a Voice for the Community: Katherine Vaz, a Portuguese American Writer.鈥 Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, 32, 26-49. 

Ramos Villar CM (2017) 鈥楢 Life Framed: Serafim Alves de Carvalho's Emigrar鈥 Emigrar: as contas do meu ros谩rio (1986).鈥 Portuguese Studies, 33(1), 70-84.

Ramos Villar CM (2016) 鈥楩illing in when memory fails: the use of stories in Portuguese American memoirs.鈥 Revista Configura莽玫es, 17, 139-152.

Ramos Villar CM (2015) 鈥業mage, Text, Self: Representation in Charles Reis Felix's Through a Portagee Gate.鈥 a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 29(2), 279-297. 

Ramos Villar CM (2013) 鈥楩rancisco Cota Fagundes: The Challenge of Autobiographies.鈥 骋谩惫别补-叠谤辞飞苍. Vol. XXXIV (2013): 49-68.

Ramos Villar CM (2013) 鈥榃riting the Home: Charles Reis Felix's Autobiography and its Negotiation of Domestic Place and Space.鈥 Ellipsis, 11, 187-209. 

Ramos Villar CM (2013) 鈥楯anus and the Portuguese Emigrant: The Autobiographies of Portuguese Immigrants in the United States.鈥 Luso-Brazilian Review, 49(2), 232-250. 

Ramos Villar CM (2009) 鈥楾ravelling, the Traveller, and the Journey Theme in Azorean Literature.鈥 AndarILHAgem, 6, 67-79. 

Ramos Villar CM (2008) 鈥楺uando uma ilha tem consci锚ncia de si pr贸pria: auto-imagina莽茫o em A ilha d茅cima de Maria Lu铆sa Soares.鈥 Teia Liter谩ria, 2, 35-48. 

Ramos Villar CM (2004) 鈥榃ar as an internal and external battleground in Alamo Oliveira's At茅 Hoje (Mem贸rias de C茫o).鈥 Portuguese Studies, 20(1), 152-168. 

Chapters in edited books:

Ramos Villar CM (2016) 'A ilha grande assombrada de Daniel de S谩鈥 in Francisco Cota Fagundes, S. Antunes, A. Igrejas, eds. Rememorando Daniel de S谩: escritor dos A莽ores e do mundo: Ver A莽or, Ponta Delgada: 105-123.

Ramos Villar CM (2007) 'Anthologies and Azorean Literature: The Construction of an Azorean Identity鈥, in Kirsty Hooper, Stuart Davis and Helena Buffery (eds), Reading Iberia. Oxford: Peter Lang.

Ramos Villar CM (2008) 'Independence Movements (Azores and Madeira)鈥 in Prem Poddar et.al., A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures 鈥 Continental Europe and its Empires. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press: pp. 460-61.

Ramos Villar CM (2007) 'Jo茫o de Melo: a Happy Emigrant with Tears鈥, in John Kinsella and Carmen Ramos Villar (eds), Mid-Atlantic Margins, Transatlantic Identities: Azorean Literature in Context. Bristol: University of Bristol Press: 105-123.

Ramos Villar CM (2006) 'Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto: The Problems of Being a Double Emigrant鈥, in Anthony Soares (ed.), Towards a Portuguese Postcolonialism. Bristol: University of Bristol Press: 169-195.

Edited books:

Hilary Owen, Sheila Khan, Ana Margarida Dias Martins and Carmen Ramos Villar, eds. (2012) The Lusotropical Tempest: Postcolonial Debates in Portuguese. Bristol: University of Bristol Press.

John Kinsella and Carmen Ramos Villar (eds), Mid-Atlantic Margins, Transatlantic Identities: Azorean Literature in Context. Bristol: University of Bristol Press.

Reviews:

Ramos Villar, CM (2019). 鈥楻eview of George Monteiro, There鈥檚 No Word for 鈥楽audade鈥: Perspectives on the Literature and Culture of Portuguese America.鈥 Portuguese Studies, 35.1, 115鈥18. 

Ramos Villar CM (2006) 鈥楻eview of Sexual/textual empires: Gender and marginality in Lusophone African literature.鈥 Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 83(6), 621-621.