Sérgio Dias Branco
Associate Professor (DHEEAA-FLUC)
Sérgio Dias Branco is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Coimbra, where he directs the PhD in Art Studies and coordinates LIPA - Laboratory for Investigating and Practicing Art. He is an integrated researcher at the CEIS20 - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra, a research collaborator at Nova Institute of Philosophy, and also works with the Research Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal and Nova Institute of Philosophy. He has taught at Nova University of Lisbon and the University of Kent, where he was awarded with a MA and a PhD in Film Studies. He was President of the Association of Moving Image Researchers between 2018 and 2020 and member of its Direction Board between 2014 and 2020. His research falls within the scientific areas of film, religious, television, and working class studies. He co-edits Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies.
Selected recent publications
[Book] 2024. Cinema e Dialéctica: Uma Gramática Profunda [Cinema and Dialectics: A Deep Grammar]. Lisbon: Página a Página.
[Refereed article] 2024. “Places of Hope: A Cinematic and Theological Exploration”. Gavagai - Revista Interdisciplinar de Humanidades 11, n.º 1, “Representações Literárias e Audiovisuais do Território” [“Literary and Audiovisual Representations of the Territory”], org. Éverton de Moraes Kozenieski, Fernando Rossetto Gallego Campos, and Fátima Velez de Castro, 10-21. Federal University of the Southern Border. https://periodicos.uffs.edu.br/index.php/GAVAGAI/article/view/14842.
[Book chapter] 2025. “Jordan Peele, Autor Negro: Foge (2017), da Página ao Ecrã” [“Jordan Peele, Black Auteur: Get Out (2017), from Page to Screen”]. In Materialidades da Criação no Cinema: Matérias e Ofícios da Imagem em Movimento [Materialities of Creation in Cinema: Materials and Crafts of the Moving Image], ed. Alfonso Palazón, Caterina Cucinotta, Mirian Tavares, Patrícia Dourado, and Sérgio Dias Branco. Faro: CIAC. Edições, 17-22. https://processosdecriacao.ciac.pt/publicacoes/materialidades-da-criacao-no-cinema-materias-e-oficios-da-imagem-em-movimento.
[Book chapter] 2025. “Uma Personagem na História: Filmar O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis” [“A Character in History: Filming The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis”]. In João Botelho: “Filmo um texto como se fosse um rosto” [João Botelho: “I film a text as if it were a face”], ed. Golgona Anghel, 257-71. Lisbon: Documenta.
[Book chapter] 2025. With Teodora Jovanović and Daniel Škobla. “Liminal Situations: Aki Kaurismäki’s Cinematic Narratives of Refugees in Europe”. In Religious and Non-Religious Narratives on Migration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Regina Polak, Ansgar Jödicke, and Aybiçe Tosun, 113-32. Paderborn: Brill | Schöningh.
[Edited book] 2025. With Rita Benis. Exploring Film and Christianity: Movement as Immobility. London and New York: Routledge.
[Journal issue] 2025. With Alfredo Teixeira. REVER: Revista de Estudos da Religião 25, no. 1, “Religião e Cinema” [“Religion and Cinema”]. Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/rever/issue/view/3143.
[Journal issue] 2025. With Raquel Schefer. La Furia Umana 46, “Ousmane Sembène: Inverting the Colonial Gaze”. https://www.lafuriaumana.com/ousmane-sembene-inverting-the-colonial-gaze.
Interest/research areas
Film and Television Studies. Philosophy. Religious Studies. Theology. Working Class Studies.
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