Paul Melo e Castro


Paul Melo e Castro is a British scholar and academic, known for his work on editing and translating particularly Indo-Portuguese literature. His area of work is Lusophone literature, film and visual culture.

Books

Dr. Castro has translated and edited two book-length works, Lengthening Shadows: An Anthology of Goan Short Stories translated from the Portuguese. He is also the author of Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photography.
In 2016, he and Prof Helder Garmes of the University of São Paulo in Brazil collaborated to edit an
undiscovered novel by the late Epitacio Pais, of Batim, called Preia Mar.

Other writing

He has also contributed many book chapters and journal articles. His work has gained noticed due to his translations of often-forgotten Goan short stories written decades ago in the Portuguese language, which is not much used in Goa, the former capital of the Portuguese Empire in the East today.
He is known to maintain the blog.

Background

A profile of the academic-author says Castro was born in west London, but his father was a descendente who left Goa as a "young boy" in 1961, when Portuguese rule ended. Castro heard stories of Goa recounted by family members.
Professionally, he is a lecturer in the Portuguese language at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies of the University of Leeds.