Álvaro Seiça (b. 1983) is a Portuguese writer and researcher based in Bergen, Norway. He was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Bergen (UiB) until Dec. 2021. Between 2018 and 2020, he was a visiting researcher in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a postdoctoral fellow in Materialities of Literature at the University of Coimbra. During the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action “The Art of Deleting,” he investigated the poetics and politics of erasure. Seiça holds a PhD in Digital Culture from UiB, with the thesis “setInterval(): Time-Based Readings of Kinetic Poetry” (2018), and an MA in Contemporary American Literature from the University of Évora (2011). His scholarly publications include peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, co-edited volumes, and the monograph "Transdução" (2017), which won the Moser Prize for Literary Essay from the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies. He is the author of 7 books of poetry, most recently "Supressão" (2019). His current research interests include book censorship in 20th-century Europe, with a focus on the Portuguese dictatorship.
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