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Mariana Liz is an Assistant Professor in Film Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon in Portugal (FLUL). She is the Director of the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp-FLUL) and coordinator of FLUL's Masters Programme in Culture and Communication. Mariana has a PhD from King's College London and taught at King's, Queen Mary and the University of Leeds in the UK. 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.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Mariana Liz

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

  • Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Faculdade de Letras, 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
"Report on final year project 'Dreams and Visions in Cinema' (April 2006 film programme)." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16 - Bom com Distinção
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
2020/12/02 - 2021/12/31 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2017/04/01 - 2020/12/01 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/01/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2013/08/01 - 2016/07/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2012/09/24 - 2013/07/31 Lecturer (University Teacher) Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
2009/10/01 - 2013/02/01 Tutor (University Teacher) King's College London, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2025/09 - Current From Francoism to Democracy through Film Archives (1969-1986): Retrieving, Preserving and Disseminating
PID2024-156778NB-I00
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Ongoing
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
Ongoing
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
Concluded
2017/04 - 2020/12 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
Concluded
2017/09 - 2019/02 Portuguese Women Directors
P-210212
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Concluded
2008/10 - 2012/09 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. Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema. New York, United States: Bloomsbury. 2016.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Liz, Mariana. "O 25 de Abril Através do Cinema". In Democracia e Cidadania – Turres Veteras XXVI, edited by Silva, Carlos Guardado da, 97-112. Lisbon: Colibri, 2025.
    Published
  2. 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, 23-41. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, 2024.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42182-2_2
  3. Liz, Mariana. "A Mulher Sem Cabeça/ La Mujer Sin Cabeza (2008) – Lucrecia Martel: Cinema no lugar do morto". In Os 100 Melhores Planos do Cinema. Lisbon: Edições 70, 2023.
    Published
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-73667-9_12
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
Book review
  1. Liz, Mariana. "Transnational European Cinema: Representation, Audiences, Identity". 15, 3 (2024): 308-310. https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2024.2389604.
    Published • 10.1080/25785273.2024.2389604
  2. Liz, Mariana. "Women in Iberian Filmic Culture: A Feminist Approach to the Cinemas of Portugal and Spain". 36, 2 (2023): 177-179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00101_5.
    Published • 10.1386/ijis_00101_5
  3. Liz, Mariana. "Cinema of crisis: film and contemporary Europe". 20, 2 (2022): 224-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2022.2073771.
    Published • 10.1080/17411548.2022.2073771
Edited book
  1. Liz, Mariana; Owen, Hilary, ed. Realizadoras Portuguesas: Cinema no Feminino na Era Contemporânea. Lisbon, Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. 2023.
    Published • Editor
  2. Liz, Mariana; Owen, Hilary, ed. Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal. New York, United States: Bloomsbury. 2020.
    Published • Editor
  3. Liz, Mariana, ed. Portugal's Global Cinema: Industry, History and Culture. London, United Kingdom: IB Tauris. 2018.
    Published • Editor
  4. Liz, Mariana; Harrod, Mary; Timoshkina, Alissa, ed. The Europeanness of European Cinema: Meaning, Identity, Globalization. London, United Kingdom: IB Tauris. 2015.
    Published • 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. Liz, Mariana. "Feminism in post-dictatorship Iberian cinemas: Monique Rutler and Cecilia Bartolomé". Studies in European Cinema (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2024.2441551.
    Published • 10.1080/17411548.2024.2441551
  2. Liz, Mariana. "Netflix’s transnational identities: From Europeanness to cosmopolitanism in Sex Education". Journal of Popular Television 12 3 (2024): 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv_00131_1.
    Published • 10.1386/jptv_00131_1
  3. Liz, Mariana. "Marginality, resilience and escape: Home in Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen". Alphaville: journal of film and screen media 26 (2024): 25-38. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.26.02.
    Open access • Published • 10.33178/alpha.26.02
  4. Liz, Mariana. "Espectros do feminismo no cinema português". Faces de Eva 50 (2023): 135-156. https://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc&pid=0874-688520230002&lng=pt&nrm=iso.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.34619/wif7-zlwa
  5. Liz, Mariana. "Vitalina's (in)visibility: contemporary Portugal and the cinema of human mobility". Transnational Screens 13 1 (2022): 1-15.
    Published • 10.1080/25785273.2022.2033400
  6. 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.
    Open access • Published • 10.22475/rebeca.v8n2.624
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Liz, Mariana; Faulkner, Sally. "Portuguese Film: Colony, Postcolony, Memory (Introduction)". The Journal of Romance Studies 16 2 (2016): 1-11.
    Published
  10. Liz, Mariana. "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.
    Published • 10.1080/17411548.2014.903098
  11. Kourelou, O.; Liz, Mariana; 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.
    Published • 10.1386/ncin.12.1-2.133-1
  12. 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
  13. 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. Liz, Mariana; Tedesco, Marina. "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. Liz, Mariana; Faulkner, Sally. "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; Alves, Tota. "Mulheres de Abril Somos", Argumento: Boletim do Cine Clube de Viseu, 2024
  2. Labayen, M.F.; Neto, Pedro Figueiredo; Liz, Mariana; Willems, G.. "Film, Migration and the Archive", Postcolonial Studies Association Newsletter, 2023
Newspaper article
  1. Liz, Mariana. "Perguntas, imperativos e desafios para um cinema e audiovisual mais inclusivo", Público, 2025, https://www.publico.pt/2025/12/02/culturaipsilon/opiniao/perguntas-imperativos-desafios-cinema-audiovisual-inclusivo-2156362.
  2. Liz, Mariana. "Desigualdade no Cinema e Audiovisual: E Agora?", Público, 2023, https://www.publico.pt/2023/12/04/culturaipsilon/opiniao/desigualdade-cinema-audiovisual-2072251.
Report
  1. Liz, Mariana. 2022. Educação para o Cinema em Portugal. https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/flipping/opj2022_pr/18/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/10 Os Verdes Anos e a Nouvelle Vague: Cinefilia, Autoria e Género Palestra de Abertura do Ano Académico 2025-26, Programa em Estudos Comparatistas
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
2025/06 From “New Wave Woman” to Tragic Heroine: Rediscovering Ilda in The Green Years NECS Annual Conference, ‘Discovering/Undiscovering’
Universidade Lusófona / NECS (Portugal)
2025/05 Half Full: Positive Developments in Contemporary European Cinema Frames of Change: Historicizing Recent European Cinema (1990–2025)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
2025/03 50 Years of Women’s Cinema in Portugal: a Transnational History PhD in Media Research Seminars
Communication and Media Studies Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
2024/12 Women in European Screens: Focus on Contemporary Portugal The Digital Zone of European Film and Television Culture
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
2024/10 A lexislación portuguesa na busca de novos públicos e diversidade: Un achegamento dende a colaboración da academia nas políticas públicas Simposio Internacional Proxecto LEXCAV: As linguas minorizadas no audiovisual a dous anos da aprobación da Lei 13/2022
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Spain)
2024/10 Passé colonial et visions post-coloniales: A Costa dos Murmúrios Le Portugal de nos jours - Carrefours d'identités vus par le cinema, Cours public
Université de Genève (Switzerland)
2024/06 A ausência presente do autor em Gestos e Fragmentos Colóquio ‘Contar de Abril. Testemunho e Revolução'
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/06 Portuguese cinema’s emerging diversity: the case of Basil da Cunha International Conference: Representation of Diversity in Mediated Popular Culture in the Twenty First Century
Erasmus University Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2024/03 'Alma Viva: A Return to Nature and to Portuguese Film History', Part of the pre-constituted panel ‘Contemporary Iberian Cinema and the Ecological Turn’ SCMS Annual Conference
SCMS – Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Boston, United States)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/12 - 2025/12 Introduction of the film Mamma Roma (1962), part of the event “Conversas sobre Pasolini”, organised by CEComp-FLUL, Cinema Fernando Lopes, Lisbon, Portugal, 5 December 2025
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
2025/03 - 2025/03 Invited Speaker, ‘O Cinema de Regina Pessoa’, AFCD Online, Take 22, Plano Nacional de Cinema, 6 March 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taHRUcwWyd8
Workshop
 O Cinema de Regina Pessoa
Plano Nacional de Cinema, Portugal
2025/03 - 2025/03 Presentation of Mosquito (2020) – Filme Comentado, 1ª Edição de Encontros com a História, Associação de Professores de História, Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval, Sintra, Portugal, 7-8 March 2025. 1ª Edição de Encontros com a História
Associação de Professores de História, Portugal
2025/01 - 2025/01 ‘Marginality, Resilience and Escape: Home in Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen’: speaker at the ‘Alphaville: Home as a Site of Resistance’ SCMS U/G/A SIG 24-25 Virtual Event, 24 January 2025.
Symposium
 SCMS U/G/A SIG 24-25 Virtual Event
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, United States
2025/01 - 2025/01 ‘Movimento: imagem e mecânica’: Second session of the series ‘A Ciência é Linda!’, conversations about science for the city, organized by the project “Study & Research in Lisbon”, Lisbon City Council (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa), Lisbon, Portugal. 29 January 2025.
Round table
 A Ciência é Linda!
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/11 - 2024/11 Book Presentation: Cinema e Dialéctica: Uma Gramática Profunda (2024), by Sérgio Dias Branco (UCoimbra), with Paulo Cunha (UBI), Livraria Linha de Sombra, Cinemateca Portuguesa, 6 November 2024.
Round table
Editora Página a Página, Portugal
2024/09 - 2024/09 Invited speaker for launch event of the Monique Rutler retrospective catalogue, ‘Conversa sobre a obra de Monique Rutler’, Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, Lisbon, Portugal, 20 September 2024
Round table
 Conversa sobre a obra de Monique Rutler
Cinemateca Portuguesa Museu do Cinema, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Discussion about the book Realizadoras Portuguesas: Cinema no Feminino na Era Contemporânea, eds. M. Liz & H. Owen (2023), Gulbenkian Library in Paris, October 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPsMIWQwHMg
Other
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021 - 2026 Member of the Advisory Board of the ‘Leading Women’ research project, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, coordinated by Sally Faulkner (Exeter), Hilary Owen (Oxford) and Núria Triana Toríbio (Kent): https://leadingwomenproject.com/pt/
Advisor / Consultant
2018 - 2024 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

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025 - Current Coordinator of the course "Women in Portuguese Film" (Mulheres no Cinema Português"), directed at teachers, film and film education professionals, held online, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, January-March 2026 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Lifelong learning session: 'Diversity in Contemporary Portuguese Cinema’ (A Questão da Diversidade no Cinema Português Contemporâneo), Maiores de 50ULisboa: Entender o Mundo no Século XXI - Comunidade, Natureza e Tecnologia em Artes e Humanidades, FLUL, Portugal, 16 October 2025 Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Coordinator of the course "The 25 April 1974 through Film" (O 25 de Abril Através do Cinema), directed at teachers and educators wanting to discuss best practices and resources about film and history, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, January-March 2024 (1st edition); September-December 2024 (2nd edition). Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2021 - Current New Studies in European Cinema (Peter Lang): Series Editor Peter Lang Publishing Oxford, United Kingdom

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025 - 2025 Jury member: Support for Artistic Creation (Apoio à Criação Artística), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2024/04 - 2024/06 Jury member: Support for Artistic Creation (Apoio à Criação Artística), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2025 Menção Honrosa: Prémios Científicos ULisboa/CGD, Área Científica de Estudos de Literatura e Cultura
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2024 The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies
The Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies, Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babes-Bolyai University , Romania