Ana Vera

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Research Assistant in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. My research focuses on the relationship between cinema, culture, and society. On this issue, I am preparing a volume on how cinema has represented the evolution of contemporary Portugal. This research questions how Portuguese cinema depicted the different political and social main events that occurred in the country from the sixties until 2015 (e.g. Dictatorship, Revolution, Europeanisation and Postcolonial contexts) and contributed thus to a better understanding of the Portuguese society.

Currently, I am working on the following projects:

1)    The impact of the financial and social crisis on Portuguese and Spanish film productions and narratives. More precisely, I am studying how the same event – the European financial crisis – affected and was perceived by both cinemas between 2008 and 2016. Through a comparative approach, I intend to explore the existence of a certain Iberian affinity in dealing with this major event.

2)    The Brazilian cinematographic production (2014-2019) and how the emergence of the “New Right” has affected it. I am particularly interested in looking at cinema understood as a political instrument shaping social and cultural representations, as well as in questioning how film narratives and aesthetics suggest this relation between politics and artistic production.

General interests: Portuguese cinema in the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries; Brazilian contemporary cinema; Portuguese history, culture and society; Immigration, race, gender and nation in Portuguese cultural productions; Contemporary Lusophone literature; Lusophone cultural identities and transculturalism. 

Office hours: Wednesday 14-15

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Since 2/2017

Research Assistant in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies. 

2011-2014

Research and Teaching Assistant (ATER) at the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II, France.

2005-2015

Ph.D. Researcher in the doctoral program for Iberian Studies, Department of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France.

2010-2011

Teaching Assistant in Portuguese Language at the Department of Languages and Communication, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon.

GUEST LECTURESHIP

12/2018
Visiting Lecturer in Portuguese Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. 

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Education and Academic Qualifications

2016

Teaching Qualification as “Maître de Conférences” in Romance Languages and Arts (Film Studies) granted by the French National Council of Universities (CNU).

2015

PhD in Iberian Studies, University Lumière Lyon 2 (France). Doctoral dissertation entitled “Le géocinéma portugais:espace, imaginaire et cinéma ”.

2004-2005

Master in Philosophy at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France).
Master theis entitled “Le cinéma de Manoel de Oliveira : une ouverture du regard sur le monde“

2003-2004

Maîtrise in Anthropology, University Lumière Lyon 2 (France). Dissertation entitled “Passages par le cinémonde : éléments pour une anthropologie du cinéma“

Research Internship at ANIM (National Archive of Images in Movement), Portuguese Cinematheque.

1998-2002

BA in Philosophy (4 years, full-time), Universidade de Évora (Portugal).