Inês Cordeiro Dias

Inês Cordeiro Dias is a Lecturer in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures at the University of Leeds, a role she assumed in 2020.

Her educational background includes a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures (with an emphasis on Portuguese) from the University of California, Los Angeles; an MA in Comparative Studies from the University of Lisbon; and a BA in Portuguese Studies from the University of Lisbon.

Cordeiro Dias' research focuses on contemporary Lusophone cinema, especially the relationship between film and politics in Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, and Angola. She is completing a book on political cinema from the 1950s to 1980s, examining how dictatorships and decolonization influenced film, and is starting a new project on urban representation by marginalized communities in 21st-century Lusophone cities through art forms like film, music, and graffiti.

She currently supervises PhD candidate Israel Campos and is an active member of several research groups including the Cinema and Television Centre, the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, the Centre for World Literatures, and the Network for Hispanic and Lusophone Cultural Studies. Additionally, she holds professional memberships in the Modern Languages Association and the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL).