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Ricardo Rato Rodrigues is currently Assistant Professor of Portuguese Studies at UMCS (Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sk?odowskiej w Lublinie), Poland.

In 2016, he obtained his PhD in Lusophone Studies from the University of Nottingham. His research interests are varied from trauma and madness in literature and the arts, health humanities, disability studies, comparative literature (especially in between the Lusophone and Anglophone contexts), psychiatry, suicide studies, politics in literature, applied drama and gender studies (with a special focus on masculinities).

He is the author of the book A slow scream: trauma and madness in the biographemical early works of António Lobo Antunes (Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, 2023), several book chapters, including "Narrating Trauma in Contemporary Literature: The Cases of António Lobo Antunes and Patrick McGrath" in Narrative Medicine: Trauma and Ethics, eds. Anders Juhl Rasmussen, Morten Sodemann (Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2024) and "Doctor, Soldier, Writer: António Lobo Antunes as Portugal's pathographer" in The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing, Jayjit Sarkar, Jagannath Basu (Eds.) (Vernon Press, 2021).