Currently, Alves Jourdan is pursuing a post-doctoral degree in History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (12/2023) as a FAPERJ Post-doctoral fellow (SEI process 200003/019527/2022), developing research on "'Emotional performances' of grieving women: expressions of feminine pain and suffering in Hellas (8th to 4th centuries BC)."
She concluded a post-doctoral degree in History at the Federal Fluminense University with research on "Maritime borders in Greek imagination: a world of gods, men, and the dead" (2020-03/2023). She served as a susbtitute professor (2019-2021) of Ancient History in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IH - UFRJ).
Jourdan has a Social History PhD from the Post-Graduation History Programme at the Federal Fluminense University (PPGH - UFF), undertook an internship at ANHIMA (Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques) under the Sanduíche no Exterior PhD Programme (CAPES-PDSE), and was a fellow at the École Française d'Athènes under the category of "Bourse Scientifique" (pursuing research on a monthly basis at the EFA library). Her PhD thesis was awarded the “PPGH Prize for best theses – 2020” by the Federal Fluminense University.
She has a Master's degree in Social History from the Post-Graduation History Programme at the Federal Fluminense University (PPGH - UFF) and a bachelor's degree in History from that same institution.
Since 2009, she has been a part of the Centre for the Study of Representations and Images of Antiquity (NEREIDA-UFF), specifically the group “Images, Representations, and Ancient Ceramics,” under the coordination of Professor Alexandre Carneiro Cerqueira Lima.
Selected publications
JOURDAN, C.A. “Ausência dos corpos: a morte no mar em imagens e nos epigramas funerários gregos” In: Alexandre Carneiro Cerqueira Lima; Brian Gordon Lutalo Kibuuka; Mariana Figueiredo Virgolino; Camila Alves Jourdan. (Org.). Imagens e corpo: representações do Mundo Antigo. 1ed.Campinas: Pontes Editores, 2024, v. 1, p. 208-223.
JOURDAN, C. A. “Uma rede hídrica mediadora: a conexão entre vivos, mortos e imortais na Grécia Antiga (séculos VIII-IV a.C.).” In: Caio Rodrigues Schechner; Elizabeth Silva Ribeiro Lucas; Ninna Koritzky Falconiere Lopes; Thaís Rodrigues dos Santos; Vitória de Oliveira Barroso Abunahman. (Org.). História através da História (vol. 2): pesquisas do PPGH/UFF. 1ed.São Carlos: Pedro & João Editores, 2023, v. , p. 13-29.
JOURDAN, C. A. “Chorar até 'saciar-se do pranto': mulheres e homens enlutados nos épicos homéricos”. Mythos Revista do Núcleo de Estudos Multidisciplinares de História Antiga e Medieval, v. 17, p. 44-64, 2023.
JOURDAN, C. A. “’Emotional Performances’ in Ancient Greece: the mourning through the body (8th-5th Centuries B.C.). BRATHAIR (ONLINE), v. 23, p. 83-102, 2023.
JOURDAN, C. A. Entre monstros e naufrágios: o imaginário grego sobre a morte no mar. 1. ed. São Paulo: Fonte Editorial, 2020.
JOURDAN, C. A. Métis: do reconhecimento do Mar Mediterrâneo ao domínio do Mar Egeu. 1. ed. Curitiba: Editora Prismas, 2017. v. 1. 208p .
Research plan
Camila Jourdan will be at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra during six weeks (February-March, 2025), FAPERJ – Post-doctoral Note 10 funding, under the supervision of Professor Brian Gordon Lutalo Kibuuka.
Her post-doctoral research aims to examine feminine suffering borne from the loss of loved ones, as documented in the Achaic and Classical periods of Hellas. The mourning process and the demonstration of pain by women demands a transformation of the body: flagellation and weeping are central social elements to express mourning for the departed. In funerary rituals, women in Ancient Greece play a predominant role, being tasked with overseeing the corpse and actively partaking in the practices surrounding lamentation. Centring her perspective around the History of Emotions, her work proposes a reflection on female "emotional performance" within funerary contexts, paying close attention to discourses and practices that have shaped the visual aspects of mourning – meaning, in other words, the transformation of female bodies before society.
Her time with the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies will grant Jourdan access to diverse sources, particularly in the shape of images. Thus, her research plan is focused on the visual representations designed by painters and potters in ceramic vases and terracotta funerary plaques, in which women play central roles, from lamenting the dead to visiting their tombs.