Ana

​Ana Vera is a Lecturer in Portuguese Studies at University College Dublin. Previously, she was Associate Professor [Teaching] in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and she holds a PhD in Iberian Studies from the University Lumière Lyon 2 in France. Her research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first-century Portuguese cinema, examining how films reflect and interpret significant political, social and cultural transformations in the country. Following the publication of her monograph on Portuguese film, her current research explores Iberian cinemas in the context of contemporary multifaceted crises. Additionally, she is studying the exchanges and relationships among women filmmakers in the Iberian Peninsula, particularly along the Galicia-Portuguese axis.