Ana Cristina Pereira
Centre of Communication and Society Studies · Universidade do Minho
Biography
Ana Cristina Pereira (AKA Kitty Furtado) is a cultural critic committed to blurring the boundaries between academia and the public sphere. She is the curator of (post)colonial cinema exhibitions and fosters public discussion around cultural memory, racism, and reparations, being the creator and coordinator of the Reparations Art-Lab project (Mala Voadora, Porto, 2023). Currently, Pereira is an invited professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts (University of Porto) and a researcher at the Centre of Communication and Society Studies (University of Minho), working on her project ‘The Black Gaze: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Afro-Lusophone Cinema as Counterpublics in Portugal’, coordinating the ‘Migrant Activisms’ research line of the MigraMediaActs project, and co-director of VISTA: Journal of Visual Culture.
Education
PhD in Culture Studies - university of Minho, 2019
Recent Scopus Publications
- Black Gaze Cinema in Portugal: a transnational counterpublic against erasure
- (De)Othering the grammar of the nation Black and anticolonial counter-publics in Portugal and Italy
- Introduction: From process to objects
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3698-0042
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zLXp0MMAAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=58137414700