Dr Suzan Bozkurt

Profile

Suzan Bozkurt recently completed her PhD thesis on contemporary Portuguese women’s writing, entitled ‘Beyond the Mirror: Mechanisms of Transgressing the Canon in the Fiction of Contemporary Portuguese Women Writers (1980-2010)’ at the University of Manchester, under the supervision of Professor Hilary Owen. She has published widely on contemporary women’s writing in Portugal and on translation theory. Her most recent publications are an article on the Portuguese translations of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own in Comparative Critical Studies  (2013), an introduction to Teolinda Gersão’s work, and an introduction and translations of Luísa Costa Gomes’s short stories in the volume Contar um Conto (CEAUL, University of Lisbon, 2016). Her research interests are gender studies, digital media and translation theory.