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Mariana Liz is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon in Portugal (FLUL) and a researcher at Centro de Estudos Comparatistas at the same institution. She has a PhD from King's College London and taught at King's, Queen Mary and the University of Leeds in the UK. Between 2016 and 2021 she was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). She is the author of Euro-Visions (2016), editor of Portugal's Global Cinema (2018) and co-editor of Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal (2020), among other publications. She is Vice-Chair of the Film Studies section of ECREA.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Mariana Liz

Citation names

  • Liz, Mariana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7415-05F8-BC5E
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3388-4415
Scopus Author Id
56524417600

Email addresses

  • mliz@letras.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Departamento de Literaturas Românicas - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa - Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Education
Degree Classification
2012
Concluded
 PhD in Film Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
King's College London, United Kingdom
"The Idea of Europe in Contemporary European Cinema" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Passed with no corrections
2006
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Ciências da Comunicação (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"I wrote a report on my final year project, the film programme 'Dreams and Visions in Cinema', which ran in April 2006." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/01/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/09 - 2025/08 Institutional Documentary & Amateur Cinema in the Colonial Era (El documental institucional y el cine de aficionado coloniales: análisis y usos)
PID2021-123567NB-I00
Researcher
España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
2018/01 - 2022/09 Cinema of mobility in the Hispanic Atlantic ('Cartografías del Cine de Movilidad: el eje Atlántico Hispánico')
CSO2017-85290-P
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Ongoing
2017/04 - 2020/12/01 Screening the European City
SFRH/BPD/115319/2016
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2017/09/11 - 2019/02/28 Portuguese Women Directors
P-210212
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Ongoing
2008/10/01 - 2012/09/30 The Idea of Europe in Contemporary European Cinema
SFRH/BD/43258/2008
PhD Student Fellow
King's College London, United Kingdom
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/12/02 - 2021/12/31 The Screen Geographies of Contemporary Lisbon
CEECIND/00824/2018
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Liz, Mariana. Realizadoras Portuguesas: Cinema no Feminino na Era Contemporânea. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. 2023.
    Published • Editor
  2. Liz, Mariana. Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema. New York, United States: Bloomsbury. 2016.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Liz, Mariana. "New Directive, Old Principles: EU Film Policy, Small Nation Cinemas and the Portuguese Case". In European Cinema in the Streaming Era: Policy, Platforms and Production. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, 2023.
    In press
  2. Liz, Mariana. "Lisbon on film, 1980-2020". In The Routledge Companion to European Cinema, edited by Gergely, Gábor; Hayward, Susan, 385-393. Routledge, 2021.
    Published • 10.4324/9781003027447-41
  3. Liz, Mariana. "Urban homes and urban families: Teresa Villaverde’s Colo and Susana Nobre’s Ordinary Time". In Women’s Cinema in Contemporary Portugal, edited by Mariana Liz; Hilary Owen, 88-106. New York, United States: Bloomsbury, 2020.
    Published
  4. Liz, Mariana; Hilary Owen. "Introduction: Portuguese cinema, women's cinema, world cinema". In Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal, edited by Liz, Mariana; Hilary Owen, 1-22. New York, United States: Bloomsbury, 2020.
    Published
  5. Liz, Mariana. "After the Crisis: Europe and Nationhood in Twenty-First-Century Portuguese Cinema". In Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema, edited by James Harvey, 235-256. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-73667-9_12
  6. Liz, Mariana. "Cinema and the City in European Portugal". In Portugal's Global Cinema, edited by Mariana Liz, 115-134. London, United Kingdom: IB Tauris, 2018.
    Published
  7. Liz, Mariana. "Introduction: Framing the Global Appeal of Contemporary Portuguese Cinema". In Portugal's Global Cinema, edited by Mariana Liz, 1-14. London, United Kingdom: IB Tauris, 2018.
    Published
  8. Liz, Mariana. "From European Co-Productions to the Euro-pudding". In The Europeanness of European Cinema, edited by Mary Harrod; Mariana Liz; Alissa Timoshkina, 73-86. London, United Kingdom: IB Tauris, 2015.
    Published
  9. Liz, Mariana; Harrod, Mary; Timoshkina, Alissa. "The Europeanness of European Cinema: An Overview". In The Europeanness of European Cinema, edited by Mary Harrod; Mariana Liz; Alissa Timoshkina, 1-15. London, United Kingdom: IB Tauris, 2015.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Liz, Mariana. Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal. New York, United States: Bloomsbury. 2020.
    Published • Editor
  2. Liz, Mariana. Portugal's Global Cinema: Industry, History and Culture. London, United Kingdom: IB Tauris. 2018.
    Published • Editor
  3. Liz, Mariana. The Europeanness of European Cinema: Meaning, Identity, Globalization. London, United Kingdom: IB Tauris. 2015.
    Editor
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Liz, Mariana. "Terra Estrangeira". In Directory of World Cinema: Brazil. Intellect, 2013.
    Published
  2. Liz, Mariana. "Alatriste". In Directory of World Cinema: Spain. Intellect, 2011.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Mariana Liz. "Cinema of crisis: film and contemporary Europe". Studies in European Cinema (2022): https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2022.2073771.
    10.1080/17411548.2022.2073771
  2. Liz, Mariana. "Vitalina's (in)visibility: contemporary Portugal and the cinema of human mobility". Transnational Screens (2022):
    In press • 10.1080/25785273.2022.2033400
  3. Liz, Mariana. "O Cinema e a Cidade no Portugal Europeu". Rebeca - Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual 8 2 (2020): 285-308. http://dx.doi.org/10.22475/rebeca.v8n2.624.
    Published • 10.22475/rebeca.v8n2.624
  4. Liz, Mariana; Marina Tedesco. "Introdução: Mulheres e Espaço no Cinema Contemporâneo". Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento 7 1 (2020): 63-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v7n1.659.
    Open access • Published • 10.14591/aniki.v7n1.659
  5. Liz, Mariana. "Thinking Europe from the margins and through marginal cinema: The case of The Nothing Factory (Pinho, 2017)". Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook 18 1 (2020): 131-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nl_00018_1.
    Published • 10.1386/nl_00018_1
  6. Liz, Mariana; Faulkner, Sally. "Portuguese Film: Colony, Postcolony, Memory (Introduction)". The Journal of Romance Studies 16 2 (2016): 1-11.
    Published
  7. Liz, M.. "From Europe with love: Urban space and cinematic postcards". Studies in European Cinema 11 1 (2014): 3-13. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84923226653&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/17411548.2014.903098
  8. Kourelou, O.; Liz, M.; Vidal, B.. "Crisis and creativity: The new cinemas of Portugal, Greece and Spain". New Cinemas 12 1-2 (2014): 133-151. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84924282239&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1386/ncin.12.1-2.133-1
  9. Liz, Mariana. "Krise und Kreativität. Zum Neuen Kino in Portugal, Griechenland und Spanien". Montage AV 23 2 (2014): 151-174. https://www.montage-av.de/pdf/232_2014/232_2014_Olga_Kourelou_Mariana_Liz_Belen_Vidal-Krise_und_Kreativitaet.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  10. Liz, Mariana. "A criatividade que gera criatividade". DOC online - Revista Digital de Cinema Documentário 3 (2007): 160-162. http://doc.ubi.pt/03/analise_mariana_luz.pdf.
    Open access • Published
Journal issue
  1. Mariana Liz; Marina Tedesco. "Mulheres e Espaço no Cinema Contemporâneo / Women and space in contemporary cinema". Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento 7 1 (2020): https://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/issue/view/22.
    Published • Coeditor
  2. Mariana Liz; Sally Faulkner. "Portuguese film: Colony, postcolony, memory". The Journal of Romance Studies 16 2 (2016):
    Published • Coeditor
Magazine article
  1. Liz, Mariana. "Futuros Urbanos: Cinema na Universidade de Lisboa", Cinema – Revista da Federação Portuguesa de Cineclubes, 2019, https://www.fpcc.pt/revista/cinema_4520190911.pdf.
Newsletter article
  1. Liz, Mariana. "Conference Report: Film, Migration and the Archive", Postcolonial Studies Association, 2023, https://www.postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk/psa-newsletter-29-april-2023/.
Online resource
  1. Liz, Mariana. Corresponding author: Liz, Mariana. A Cidade das Mulheres: Lisboa no Cinema. 2022. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2022/03/08/a-cidade-das-mulheres-lisboa-no-cinema/.
  2. Liz, Mariana; Alexandre Silva; Carla Gomes; Joana Sá Couto. Seis temas para 2022 nos seis anos do Blogue SHIFT. 2022. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2022/02/09/seis-temas-para-2022-nos-seis-anos-do-blogue-shift/.
  3. Liz, Mariana. Ambiente, Território e Sociedade na Iniciativa "Ciências Sociais em Público". 2021. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2021/05/19/ambiente-territorio-e-sociedade-na-iniciativa-ciencias-sociais-em-publico/#more-6467.
  4. Liz, Mariana. Film industry and sustainability in the era of Covid-19. 2020. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2020/10/21/film-industry-and-sustainability-in-the-era-of-covid-19/#more-5963.
  5. Liz, Mariana. What Urban Futures? (II) Films on The Transformation of Lisbon. 2019. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2019/05/22/what-urban-futures-ii-films-on-the-transformation-of-lisbon/.
  6. Liz, Mariana. What Urban Futures? (I) Films on Nature and Technology. 2019. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2019/03/13/what-urban-futures-i-films-on-nature-and-technology/.
  7. Liz, Mariana. Cinema and the City discussed at Portuguese Cinematheque (‘O Cinema e a Cidade na Cinemateca Portuguesa’). 2018. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2018/01/10/o-cinema-e-a-cidade-na-cinemateca-portuguesa/.
  8. Liz, Mariana. Europe, Film Studies and the Social Sciences. 2017. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2017/03/08/europe-film-studies-and-the-social-sciences/.
  9. Liz, Mariana. MEDIA’s impact on European cinema. 2015. http://mecetes.org/medias-impact-european-cinema/.
Report
  1. Liz, Mariana. 2022. Educação para o Cinema em Portugal. https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/flipping/opj2022_pr/18/.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/09 - Current Co-organiser of the ECREA Film Studies section conference 'Reframing Postcolonialism and Cinema', University of Nicosia, Cyprus, 14-15 September 2023 (2023/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2023/06 - Current Co-organiser of 'Imagens como cicatrizes: realizadoras ibéricas e o arquivo colonial', Research Seminar by Anna Fonoll Tassier and first CITCOM Research Seminar (2023/06)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
2023/05 - Current Co-organiser of 'Transnational Cinema: Notes on a Developing Field of Study', Research Seminar by Deborah Shaw, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, FLUL, Portugal, 17 May 2023 (2023/05)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022 - Current Co-organiser of the ECREA Film Studies Section International Conference 'Film, Migration and the Archive', held at ICS-ULisboa on 2 and 3 June, 2022. (2022 - 2022)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2017/10 - 2022 Co-organiser of 'Social Sciences and Audiovisual' (Ciclo 'Ciências Sociais e Audiovisual'), between 2017 and 2021, ICS-ULisboa, Portugal. Series of sessions showcasing audiovisual work produced by social sciences researchers and discussing the link between the social sciences and the analytical value of the moving image: https://lugardistante.wixsite.com/csaudiovisual (2017/10)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/10 - 2019/10 Co-organiser of the ECREA Film Studies Section Bi-Annual Conference 'Research Methods in Film Studies: Challenges and Opportunities', 18-19 October 2019, Ghent University, Belgium. Keynote speakers: Catherine Grant (Birkbeck University, UK), Richard Dyer (King's College London, UK) and Barbara Fluckiger (Zurich University) https://ecreafilmstudies2019.wordpress.com/ (2019/10/18 - 2019/10/19)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 European Institute for Communication and Culture, Belgium
2019/09 - 2019/09 Co-organiser of the 'Small Cinemas, Small Spaces', 10th Annual Small Cinemas Conference, 25-27 September 2019, ICS-ULisboa, Portugal. Keynote speakers: Tamara Falicov (University of Kansas, USA) and Philippe Meers (Antwerp University, Belgium). URL: https://smallcinemassmallspaces.wordpress.com/ (2019/09/25 - 2019/09/27)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/06/03 - 2019/06/04 Co-organiser of the ICS Annual Conference 'What Urban Futures: From Crisis to Hope', 4-6 June 2019, ICS-ULisboa, Portugal. Responsible for programming a parallel film season, which includes two screenings: one, on the topic of nature and technology in urban settings, with five short films from Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, Singapore and the UK; another on the recent transformation of Lisbon, with four short films from Portugal. (2019/06/04 - 2019/06/06)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/01 Co-curator of the Film Season: 'Portuguese Women Directors', 18-27 January 2019. These were eight cinema sessions that included film screenings and debates with Portuguese women filmmakers working in the democratic era (post-1975). Information about the film season circulated widely in the Portuguese press. (2019/01 - 2019/01)
Festival (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2018/11 - 2018/11 Co-organiser of the Research Seminar: 'Women in Brazilian Cinema', 16 November 2018, ICS-ULisboa, Portugal. Discussion with Professor Marina Tedesco (Universidade Federal Fluminense). (2018/11/16 - 2018/11/16)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2017/09 - 2017/09 Co-organiser of the film industry roundtable: Women in Portuguese Film, 11 September 2017. Roundtable with a director (Susana de Sousa Dias), a producer (Joana Ferreira), a scriptwriter (Rita Benis), the director and senior programmer of International Film Festival DocLisboa (Cíntia Gil), and a film publicist at Lisbon's Film Commission (Cristina Matos Silva), moderated by a journalist (Ana de Sousa Dias), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. (2017/09 - 2017/09)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2017/09 - 2017/09 Co-organiser of the International Symposium 'Women in Iberian Cinema', 11-12 September 2017, FLUL/ICS, Lisbon, Portugal. Keynote speakers: Begoña Soto (Madrid) and Hilary Owen (Oxford/Manchester). Included a roundtable on Women in Portuguese Film. (2017/09/11 - 2017/09/12)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2016/04 - 2016/04 Organiser of the PARSUK Workshop: 'Brexit, Portugal and the Higher Education sector', 12 April 2016, ICS-ULisboa, Portugal. With guest speakers from ICS and the British Council in Portugal, as well as researchers from ICS-ULisboa, Edinburgh University and Birkbeck College, University London. (2016/04/12 - 2016/04/12)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2016/01 - 2016/01 Co-organiser of the symposium: Portuguese Film: Colony; Postcolony; Memory, 14-15 January 2016, IMLR, School of Advanced Studies, Senate House, University of London, UK. Co-organised with Sally Faulkner (Exeter). The event included the screening of Yvone Kane (2014) and a Q&A with director Margarida Cardoso. Sponsored by the Portuguese Government (Instituto Camões) and with the support of the Leverhulme Trust. (2016/01/14 - 2016/01/15)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 University of London School of Advanced Study Institute of Modern Languages Research, United Kingdom
2014/01 - 2014/01 Co-organiser of the 'Roundtable on Publishing in the Visual Arts', 27 January 2014, University of Leeds, UK. Guests included Anna Coatman, IB Tauris Visual Arts Editor. (2014/01/27 - 2014/01/27)
Round table (President of the Organising Committee)
 University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2013/03 - 2013/03 Co-organiser of the Seminar 'Fantasy vs. Reality in Contemporary Portuguese Cinema', 1-2 March 2013, Queen Mary University of London, UK. The event included the screening of Ruínas/Ruins (Manuel Mozos, Portugal, 2009). The director was in London for a Q&A led by Sight and Sound editor Kieron Corless. Sponsored by the Portuguese Government (Instituto Camões). (2013/03/01 - 2013/03/02)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
 Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
2011/06 - 2011/06 Co-organiser of the NECS Graduate Workshop ‘Of Other Languages’, 22 June 2011, King’s College London, UK. (2011/06/22 - 2011/06/22)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 King's College London, United Kingdom
2010/06 - 2010/06 Co-organiser of the Postgraduate International Conference ‘The Europeanness of European Cinema’, 4 June 2010, King’s College London, UK. Keynote speakers: Thomas Elsaesser, Ginette Vincendeau and Dina Iordanova. (2010/06/04 - 2010/06/04)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 King's College London, United Kingdom
2010/06 - 2010/06 Co-organiser of the NECS Graduate Workshop ‘Empty Spaces, (In)Visible Structures’, 23 June 2010, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. (2010/06/23 - 2010/06/23)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Turkey

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2018 - Current Vice-chair of ECREA’s Film Studies Section
President / Vice-president
 ECREA European Communication Research and Education Association, Belgium
2018 - 2020 On the Board of AIM, the Portuguese Association of Moving Image Researchers AIM: Associação Portuguesa dos Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2023/09 - Current Film International: reviewer
2023/07 - Current Studies in Documentary Film: reviewer
2023/06 - Current New Review of Film and Television Studies: reviewer
Specialist
2023/03 - Current Postgraduate Abroad Fellowships Programme, La Caixa Foundation: reviewer
Evaluator
2022/12 - Current Bulletin of Hispanic Studies: reviewer
2022/05 - Current Junior and Senior Research Projects, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO): reviewer
Member
2022 - Current Journal of Romance Studies: reviewer
2021 - Current New Studies in European Cinema (Peter Lang): Series Editor Peter Lang Publishing Oxford, United Kingdom
2021 - Current International Journal of Iberian Studies: reviewer
Other
2020 - Current Revision of educational resources for the national film literacy initiative "Plano Nacional de Cinema" (PNC): https://pnc.gov.pt/dossies-pedagogicos Plano Nacional de Cinema, Portugal
2018 - Current Bloomsbury: reviewer Bloomsbury Academic and Professional, United Kingdom
2018 - Current Edinburgh University Press: reviewer Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom
2016 - Current Studies in European Cinema: reviewer

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/06 - Current International Journal of Iberian Studies (17589150 ) Intellect
2021/12 - Current A Idade Maior AIM/FECA