Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal

Mariana Liz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ICS-ULisboa, the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, in Portugal. She completed a PhD in Film Studies at King's College London in 2012 and taught at King's, Queen Mary and at the University of Leeds in the UK before moving to Portugal in 2016. She is the author of Euro-Visions (2016), editor of Portugal's Global Cinema (2018) and co-editor of The Europeanness of European Cinema (with Mary Harrod and Alissa Timoshkina; 2015). Her work on European film and contemporary Portuguese cinema has been published in Studies in European Cinema, New Cinemas and the Journal of Romance Studies, among other publications.Hilary Owen is Emeritus Professor of Portuguese and Luso-African Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, and Research Fellow in the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Mother Africa, Father Marx. Women's Writing of Mozambique, 1948-2002 (2007), co-author of Antigone's Daughters? Gender, Genealogy and the Politics of Authorship in 20th-Century Portuguese Women's Writing, (with Cláudia Pazos Alonso, 2011) and co-editor of Transnational Portuguese Studies (with Claire Williams, 2020).