Maite Conde

Maite Conde is Professor of Brazilian Studies and visual culture at the University of Cambridge[1] and fellow of Jesus College,[2] Cambridge. Educated in England and the United States, she has taught at UCLA, Oxford University, Columbia University in New York, and King’s College London as well as Cambridge. She has held visiting professorships at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, and Universidade Federal Fluminense in Brazil.

Research

Maite Conde’s writes on cinema and culture in Brazil as well as on cultural theory. Her book, Foundational Films, Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil,[3] was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize by the MLA for most outstanding book in the fields of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.[4] It received an honourable mention for Best Book in the Humanities by the Latin American Studies Association[5] and was a finalist for the Richard Wall Memorial Award for Film and Theatre Studies.[6]

Selected publications
  • Between Conformity and Resistance. Essays on Culture, Politics and the State by Marilena Chaui (2011)
  • Consuming Visions, Cinema, Writing and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro (2012)
  • Foundational Films, Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil (2018)
  • On Global Cinema and Brazil by Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes (2018)
  • Manifesting Democracy, Urban Protest and the Politics of Representation in Brazil Post 2013 (2022)

References
  1. "Prof Maite Conde | Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics". www.mmll.cam.ac.uk.
  2. "Maite Conde". www.jesus.cam.ac.uk.
  3. Conde, Maite (5 August 2018). Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil. ISBN 9780520290990 – via www.ucpress.edu.
  4. "Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize Press Release" (PDF). mmll.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  5. "2019 Section Awards". Latin American Studies Association.
  6. "Wall Award Finalists, 2001-Present". Theatre Library Association. 12 September 2022.


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