Natália Pinazza

I was awarded my BA in Languages and Literature (Letras) at the University of São Paulo. I hold an Academic Excellence Awards funded MA with distinction in European Cinema and an Overseas Research Student Awards Scheme funded PhD (Globalisation and the National Imaginary in Contemporary Agentine and Brazilian Cinema) from the University of Bath. I worked at the Cultural Sector of UNESCO headquarters in Paris. In 2012, I was awarded the UNESCO Keizo Obuchi Fellowship to explore intercultural dialogue through visual arts at the University of Ottawa, Canada. I taught content and language modules at the University of Cambridge, University of Sheffield, Regent’s University and Birkbeck College, University of London.

I wrote my doctoral thesis in 2012 and published my first monograph Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Movies in a Global Era by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. I translated the updated version of The Penguin Portuguese Phrasebook (2014). My other books as an editor include World Film Location São Paulo (2013), World Cinema Directory: Brazil (2013), New Approaches to Lusophone Culture (2016) and, more recently, Journeys on Screen: Theory, Ethics, Aesthetics (2018).

I have published articles and chapters in English and Portuguese on various aspects of Latin American and Portuguese-speaking cinema and delivered conference papers and invited talks in Australia, the United States, Canada, UK, Ireland and Brazil.

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My teaching reflects my interest in Latin American and Portuguese-speaking cultures.