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Tiago de Luca is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of Warwick, Faculty of Arts, where he serves as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Film & Television Studies. His academic journey began with a BA in Communication Studies from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP), followed by an MA in Film Studies from UCL, and culminated in a PhD in World Cinemas from the University of Leeds.
De Luca's scholarly profile centers on world cinema studies with particular expertise in slow cinema, cinematic realism, planetary cinema, and Brazilian/Latin American film traditions. He serves on the editorial board of the Contemporary Cinema book series and co-edits the Film Thinks book series (Bloomsbury) with Lúcia Nagib. His research has been supported by prestigious fellowships, including a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2018-19) that funded his monograph Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth (2022).
His publications reveal an evolving trajectory from early work on sensory realism in world cinema toward more recent explorations of planetary imaginaries, elemental ecocriticism, and intermedial approaches to understanding cinema's relationship with the Earth. His scholarship consistently bridges historical and theoretical perspectives, connecting nineteenth-century media culture with contemporary film practices to address questions of global representation and environmental crisis.
Among his significant contributions are the award-winning edited volume Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (2022), which won the Edited Collection of the Year MeCCSA 2023, and Slow Cinema (2016), the first comprehensive anthology on this cinematic trend. His single-authored works Realism of the Senses in World Cinema (2014) and Planetary Cinema (2022) have established him as a key voice in contemporary film studies, with the latter proposing that exploration of nineteenth-century media culture can help us understand contemporary planetary imaginaries in times of environmental collapse.
As an educator, De Luca teaches courses including World Cinema (FI204) and Contemporary Latin American Cinema (FI344/FI934), welcoming PhD projects related to his research areas. His leadership as Director of Graduate Studies demonstrates his commitment to mentoring the next generation of film scholars, while his ongoing research continues to shape contemporary debates in film studies through innovative approaches to planetary representation and intermedial analysis.
