Interview With Portuguese Deaf Writer Marta Morgado

Abstract

Marta Morgado, Deaf writer, was born in Lisbon, Portugal. She is a multifaceted personality who plays a crucial role in the Deaf community in the country.. Morgado has a degree in Early Childhood Education from Escola Superior de Educadores de Infância Maria Ulrich, and has the equivalence of the Portuguese Sign Language Trainers Training Course granted by the Portuguese Association of the Deaf. Furthermore, the writer has a PhD in linguistics from Leiden University (2024), a master's degree in Deaf Education and Portuguese Sign Language (LGP), obtaining the title from Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2008). She also completed a specialization course in Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) and Deafness at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidade de Lisboa. With a career in the field of Education, Marta has taught at Jacob Rodrigues Pereira at Casa Pia, in Lisbon since 1997. In addition, she worked as coordinator of the LGP sub-department at the same CED Jacob Rodrigues Pereira at Casa Pia in Lisbon. She made significant contributions to the design of multimedia materials, such as My first gestures (2012) and the 1st-cycle manuals for the Portuguese Sign Language subject A Turma do Dinis (2015). She also published the notebook on Sign Language Literature (2011) and Deaf Studies (2012). Currently, Marta has been involved as an investigator in the Research Project on the Longitudinal Acquisition of Portuguese Sign Language, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology.