Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in;
- Digital culture in Brazil/Latin America
- Representation of urban Brazil (particularly Rio de Janeiro/favelas)
- Contemporary Brazilian audiovisual production (especially documentary)
- Urban violence in Brazil
- Brazilian/Latin American cultural studies
- Critical data studies
- Digital ethnography
Public outreach & key achievements
Coordinator of Belfast Brazilian CineClub project, an initiative to screen Brazilian films in Belfast - https://belfastbraziliancineclub.wordpress.com/
Involved in collaborative Other Registers project, a sound installation about police violence in Rio de Janeiro - https://outrosregistros.wordpress.com/
Founding member of the European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis (REBRAC) - https://rebrac.net/
Member of the Interdisciplinary Research Advisory Panel for REF 2021 - https://www.ref.ac.uk/panels/interdisciplinary-research-advisory-panel/
Joint Track Chair for ‘Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches’ for 2019 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association
Editorial board member for Portuguese Studies journal
Research students
| PhD area | Collective Projections: The Social and Spatial Architecture of Rio de Janeiro’s Feminine Periphery Explored Through Audiovisual Production |
| Name | Mary Freedman |
| Years of study | 2015-present |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| PhD area | Locating Post-Conflict Cinema in Mozambique |
| Name | Tracy O’Connor |
| Years of study | 2017-present |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD area | Xicanisma and the Development of a Chicana Feminism in the Works of Ana Castillo |
| Name | Leona Blair |
| Years of study | 2014-2019 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |