Luís Trindade
Assistant Professor in Modern History (DHEEAA-FLUC)
luis.trindade1971@gmail.com
Luís Trindade is Assistant Professor in Modern History at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra (UC). He received his PhD at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) in 2006. Between 2007 and 2019, he was Senior Lecturer in Portuguese Studies and Reader in European Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He also taught at NOVA FCSH and, as invited professor, at the Pontifícia University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2006-2007, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
At Birkbeck, he was a member of the steering committee of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image. He coordinated the research group “Culturas Identidades e Poder” and the research line “Mediações Modernas” at the Institute of Contemporary History of NOVA FCSH and is currently vice-coordinator of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) at UC.
His research focuses on modern cultural history and the theory of history. He has published on the histories of nationalism, press, the revolutionary process of 1974-75, cinema, neo-realism, popular music and intellectuals in 20th century in Portugal.
Publications
Silêncio Aflito. A sociedade portuguesa através da música popular (dos anos 40 aos anos 70). Lisboa: Tinta da China, 2022.
“A Ciné-Geography of Militant Cinema in the age of three worlds. Making global history appear in the long 1960s”, in Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 24, 2022.
“Something is happening here: spaces and figures of change in post-war Portugal”, in Haro Garcia, Noemi de, et alia (ed.), Making Art History in Europe after 1945. London: Routledge, 2020.
“Vicarious Passions: the private life of Hollywood stars in 1950s Portuguese magazines”, in European Review of History/Revue Européenne de Histoire 27, 4, 2019.
“What shall I do with this sword? Narrative, speech and politics in the Carnation Revolution”, in Cultural and Social History 14, 3, 2017.
Narratives in Motion. Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal. London, New York: Berghahn Books, 2016.
Areas of interest/research
History of popular culture (cinema, television, popular music, press, intellectuals) in 20th century in Portugal; memory, theory and representation of the 20th century; history of the 1974-75 revolutionary process; global history of political cinema in the long 60s.