Publications and Contributions
PhD THESIS
‘Sexual Plots in Charles Darwin and George Eliot: Evolution and Manliness in Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss’ (Department of English Studies, Keele University, UK, 2008)
BOOKS (Editor)
Graça da Silva, Sara (ed) New Interdisciplinary landscapes in Morality and Emotion. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Link
Graça da Silva, Sara (ed) Morality and Emotion: (Un)conscious Journey to Being. London and New York: Routledge, 2016 link
Graça da Silva, Sara; Vieira, Fátima and Jorge Bastos da Silva (eds.) (Dis)Entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on the Man and his Legacy, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. link
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Eugenio Bortolini, Luca Pagani, Enrico R. Crema, Stefania Sarno, Chiara Barbieri, Alessio Boattini, Marco Sazzini, Sara Graça da Silva, Gessica Martini, Mait Metspalu, Davide Pettener, Donata Luiselli, and Jamshid J. Tehrani, “Inferring patterns of folktale diffusion using genomic data”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017 114 (34) 9140-9145.
Graça da Silva, Sara and Jamshid Tehrani. “Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales”. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150645, 2016. Link
Graça da Silva, Sara. ‘Utopia e Espiritualidade’, Utopian Studies Journal, vol. 21. No. 2, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010, pp. 381–385.
Graça da Silva, Sara. ‘A Árvore de Darwin, Evolução Cultural e o Predicamento Humano: Novas Tendências em Antropologia’, in Ciências da Vida, Tecnologias e Imaginários na Era da Biodiversidade, ed. by Ana Leonor Pereira and João Rui Pita, CEIS20 / Grupo de História e Sociologia da Ciência, Colecção Ciências, Tecnologias e Imaginários, Estudos de História – séculos XVIII-XX, Coimbra, 2010, pp. 21-27.
Graça da Silva, Sara. ‘Chatto and Windus’; ‘Frederick and Hall’; ‘Robert Chambers’; ‘John Murray’, in Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, ed. by Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, London: Academia Press and British Library, 2009.
Graça da Silva, Sara. Dictionary entry on ‘Darwin’, in The Victorian Literature Handbook, ed. by Alex Warwick and Martin Wilils, Continuum, 2008.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Graça da Silva, Sara. “Real Brushstrokes of imagination”, in Oliveira, Leonor C. S. R. e. A.; Alfaro, Catarina. eds. Paula Rego: Contos tradicionais e contos de fadas ed. 1, ISBN: 978-972-8986-94-0. Cascais: Fundação D. Luís I, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, 2018.
Graça da Silva, Sara. “Morality and Emotion or why “this is a very complicated case. You know, a lot of ins, a lot of outs, a lot of what-have-you’s”. London and New York: Routledge, 2018.
Graça da Silva, Sara. “Morality and Emotion or ‘well, that’s another fine mess you got me into’”, in Morality and Emotion, ed. by Sara Graça da Silva, London and New York: Routledge, 2016.
Graça da Silva, Sara. ‘The Law of Sexual Selection in Edward Bulwer Lytton’s The Coming Race (1871): Gendering Utopia’, in (Dis)Entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on the Man and his Legacy, ed. by Sara Graça da Silva; Fátima Vieira and Jorge Bastos da Silva, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 2012.
Graça da Silva, Sara. ‘Altos e Baixos’ da Ciência Experimental no Século XIX: Frenologia, Género e Moralização do Carácter em George Eliot’, in Ciência e Cultura na Grã-Bretanha, ed. by Gabriela Gândara Terenas (Editora Caleidoscópio/CETAPS), 2012.