Renata Soares Junqueira
@fclar.unesp.br
Full Professor /Department of Linguistics, Literature and Classical Studies / Faculty of Sciences and Letters
São Paulo State University (UNESP)
Her experience in Portugal allowed her to create and expand an international network of researchers that for years has involved UNESP in joint projects with various Portuguese institutions, most notably, alongside the University of Lisbon (UL), the Open University of Lisbon (UAb), the University of Beira Interior (UBI), the Porto Higher School of Arts (ESAP), and the Higher School of Theatre and Cinema (ESTC) of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. She has developed interdisciplinary research on literature and other arts, focusing on theatre and cinema. From April 24, 2011 to April 23, 2013, she coordinated the Undergraduate Course in Letters at UNESP in Araraquara. She is the founder and leader of the Research Group in Dramaturgy, Cinema, Literature and other Arts (GPDC-LoA), which has been active for twenty-five years. From 2002 to 2011, she created and coordinated the UNESP Week of Theater Studies. Since 2013, she has been a CNPq Productivity Fellow.
EDUCATION
Professor at the São Paulo State University (UNESP), affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, Literature and Classical Letters and the Postgraduate Program in Literary Studies at the Faculty of Sciences and Letters, on the Araraquara campus. Academic qualifications: Bachelor's (1987), Master's (1992) and Doctorate (2000) in Letters, in the area of Literary Theory, from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP); Habilitation in Portuguese Literature (2010) and Full Professor (2018) from UNESP. He conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of Lisbon (2001-2002; 2003; 2004-2005; 2006-2007; 2007-2008), at the Nova University of Lisbon (2010 and 2011) and at the Porto Higher School of Arts - ESAP (2013-2014).
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Literature and Literary Theory, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Multidisciplinary, Arts and Humanities
FUTURE PROJECTS
Soul in the eye and camera in the hand: peculiarities of the epic in Brazilian cinema narratives directed by black women
This project is conceived as a modest contribution to a necessary review and expansion of the so-called New History of Brazilian Cinema (2018), which, although it reserves some space for female (white) filmmakers, in no way considers Brazilian cinema directed by black women. Following the pioneering work of Adélia Sampaio (Amor maldito, 1984), other names, now in the 21st century, have been standing out in this cinema whose directors, despite their competence and originality, have only been able to rely on scarce financial resources, often insufficient for the production of films that are not short or medium-length. We have included in the research corpus contemporary films that already have a nascent critical body of work, very efficient in identifying and contextualizing their themes and identity guidelines, but which have not yet been analyzed in depth regarding their forms of expression.
Applications Invited