Patrícia Vieira


Biography

Patrícia Vieira is Research Professor at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra. Her fields of expertise are Latin American and Iberian Literature and Cinema, Utopian Studies and the Environmental Humanities. Her most recent book is States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture (SUNY UP, 2018) and her most recent co-edited book is The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (Synergetic, 2021). She is the recipient of a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to develop a project titled "ECO - Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin." For more information: www. patriciavieira.net For more information on the ECO project: eco.ces.uc.pt


Latest Publications

Book Chapter

Vieira, Patrícia (2025), Frans Krajcberg: Articulating the Natural World, in Inés Katzenstein; María del Carmen Carrión; Madeleine Murphy Turner (org.), Momentum: Art and Ecology in Contemporary Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press

Book Chapter

Vieira, Patrícia (2024), Comunidades Humanas e Não-Humanas em Águas do Pastaza de Inês Alves, in Filipe Rosário; José Duarte (org.), Um Olhar Português: Cinema e Natureza no Século XXI. Lisboa: Documenta, 43-49

Book Chapter

Vieira, Patrícia (2024), Fitografia: A literatura como escrita das plantas, in Fábio Roberto Lucas; Mariana Maia Simoni; Leila Darin (org.), Poéticas do coabitar: literatura e ecologia na era do antropoceno. Florianópolis: Cultura e Barbárie, 21-32