Lúcia Nagib

Academic career

Nagib began her academic career in Brazil, serving as an Assistant Professor (1996–1999) and Associate Professor (1999–2004) at the University of Campinas (Unicamp). Simultaneously, she was the Director of the Centre for Cinema Studies and an assistant professor at the Catholic University of São Paulo from 1996 to 2001.^[2]

In 2005, she moved to the United Kingdom to become the Centenary Professor of World Cinemas at the University of Leeds, a position she held until 2013. During her tenure at Leeds, she also served as the Director of the Centre for World Cinemas.^[3][4]

In April 2013, she was appointed Professor in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading.^[5] From 2014 to 2022, she served as the Director of the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) at Reading.^[6] She was appointed an Honorary Professor of Film at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China for the period of 2022 to 2025.^[7]

Editorial and curatorial work

Prior to her full-time academic career, Nagib worked as the assistant director of the Cinemateca Brasileira (Brazilian Film Library) from 1988 to 1991. She was a film and culture critic for the daily newspaper Folha de S. Paulo from 1989 to 2005.^[8]

She has served as Chief Editor for the journals Estudos de Cinema (1996–2001) and Imagens (1994–1998). Currently, she co-edits the World Cinema Series and the Film Thinks Series for Bloomsbury Publishing.^[9]

Authored books

• Werner Herzog: o cinema como realidade (Estação Liberdade, 1991)
• Nascido das cinzas: autor e sujeito nos filmes de Oshima (Edusp, 1995)
• O Cinema da Retomada: depoimentos de 90 cineastas dos anos 90 (Editora 34, 2002)^[17]
• A utopia no cinema brasileiro: matrizes, nostalgia, distopias (Cosac Naify, 2006)
• Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia (I.B. Tauris, 2007)^[18]
• World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2011)^[19]
• Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (University of Amsterdam Press, 2020)^[20]

Edited collections

• The New Brazilian Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003)^[21]
• Realism and the Audiovisual Media (Palgrave, 2009) – with Cecília Mello.
• Theorizing World Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2012) – with Chris Perriam and Rajinder Dudrah.^[22]
• Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film (I.B. Tauris, 2014) – with Anne Jerslev.^[23]
• Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) – with Luciana Corrêa de Araújo and Tiago de Luca.
• The Moving Form of Film: Historicising the Medium Through Other Media (Oxford University Press, 2023) – with Stefan Solomon.
• Reimagining the Humanities: Chinese and Western Perspectives, II & III (The Commercial Press, 2024–2025) – with Wong, S., Yang, H., He, W., and Reynolds, M.