About us

APEAA is a scientific non-profit-making organization, member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) and EAAS (European Society for American Studies), devoted to fulfilling the following aims:

• • Promote the convergence and contact of members;
  • Study and publicise questions and problems related to the area of Anglo-American Studies in Portugal;
  • Contribute to updating and improving the quality of research in the area of Anglo-American Studies;
  • Establish cooperation programmes with other national and international universities and/or other teaching/cultural institutions;
  • Support and collaborate with national or international individuals or organizations that pursue similar aims;
  • Organize and participate in study meetings, seminars, symposiums, or specialization courses and publicise other actitivies related to the area of Anglo-American Studies.

Besides these goals, which the Statutes of our Association stipulate, we hope to contribute to the following:

• • Promote the interdisciplinarity of English Studies in a period of major geo-political and disciplinary change.
  • Affirm the Anglo-American paradigm as the theoretical and critical “locus” that inspires the association.
  • Confirm, despite this, the interlinguistic and intercultural study of anglophone language, literature and culture in an era of globalization, as well as the multiple contexts in which this takes place.