Professor Lúcia Nagib

Honorary Professor of Film

International Communications / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Nagib is Honorary Professor of Film at UNNC’s School of International Communications.

Lúcia Nagib is currently Professor of Film at the University of Reading, where she is the founder and rotating director of the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC). She is an internationally recognised specialist in world cinema, cinematic realism and cinematic intermediality, as well as in a number of national cinemas, such as Brazilian, Japanese and German cinemas. She has taught in academia on film theory, history and practice for nearly three decades and given lectures and keynotes speeches around the world. She has been at the forefront of major research projects in Brazil and the UK and organised dozens of conferences, symposia and workshops. She is the editor, with Julian Ross, of the World Cinema Series, and, with Tiago de Luca, of the Film Thinks Series, both with Bloomsbury. She has been Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College (London), Distinguished Visitor at the University of Alberta (Canada) and Ministry of Culture Research Fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford.

She is the author of 7 monographs, the editor of 10 books and the translator of 5 books. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters in the field of film studies. Her monographs include Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2020), World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia (I.B. Tauris, 2007). Her edited books include Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (with Luciana Araújo and Tiago de Luca, Edinburgh University Press, 2022), Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film (with Anne Jerslev, I.B. Tauris, 2013), Theorizing World Cinema (with Chris Perriam and Rajinder Dudrah, I.B. Tauris, 2011), Realism and the Audiovisual Media (with Cecília Mello, Palgrave, 2009) and The New Brazilian Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003). She is the writer and director, with Samuel Paiva, of the award-winning feature-length documentary, Passages (UK 2019).