Manuel Portela (Professor, Coimbra University)

Workshop date and Venue:

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (Room 112, Old School of Philosophy)
Time: 18:30-20:30

Workshop Abstract

This creative writing workshop will explore Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet (in the English translation by Richard Zenith) and its digital archive (LdoDas https://ldod.uc.pt/) as source for diverse writing experiments. Its major aim is to develop a critical understanding of the process of writing with attention paid to human and computer-assisted writing.

Speaker Bio

Manuel Portela directs the Ph.D. Program in Materialities of Literature at the University of Coimbra. He is the author of Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines (MIT Press, 2013), the general editor of LdoD Archive: Collaborative Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet https://ldod.uc.pt/ (2017), and one of the contributors to The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature (2017). He has published widely on digital literature and digital editing, including articles in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Textual Cultures, Variants, and Electronic Book Review. He is cofounder and current general editor of the journal MATLIT: Materialities of Literature. His literary translations include works by Laurence Sterne, William Blake, and Samuel Beckett.