Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Stephanie Dennison

Reader in Brazilian Studies

0113 3433523

Books

  • Brazilian National Cinema. Co-authored with Lisa Shaw. (Routledge, 2007)
  • Joaquim Nabuco: Monarchism, Panamericanism and Nation-building in the Brazilian Belle Epoque (Peter Lang AG, 2006)
  • Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics on Film. Co-edited with Song Hwee Lim (Wallflower Press, 2006)
  • Latin American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender, and National Identity. Co-edited with Lisa Shaw (McFarland Press, 2005)
  • Pop Culture Latin America: Media, Arts and Lifestyle. Co-edited with Lisa Shaw. (ABC-Clio, 2005)
  • Popular Cinema in Brazil (with Lisa Shaw). (Manchester: Manchester University Press: 2004)

Chapters in Books

  • "A aproximação das duas Américas: a promoção do Brasil feita por Joaquim Nabuco em universidades americanas, in K David Jackson (ed), Conferências sobre Joaquim Nabuco (Bem-te-Vi, 2010)
  • "Sex and the Generals: Reading the Brazilian Pornochanchada as Sexploitation" in Victoria Ruetalo and Dolores Tierney (eds), Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas and Latin America (Routledge, 2009)
  • "Introduction: On World Cinema as a Theoretical Problem", co-written with Song Hwee Lim in Stephanie Dennison and Song Hwee Lim (eds), Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics on Film (Wallflower Press, 2006)
  • "The New Brazilian Bombshell: Sônia Braga, Race and Cinema in the 1970s", in Stephanie Dennison and Song Hwee Lim (eds), Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics on Film (Wallflower Press, 2006)
  • "Nelson Rodrigues on Film: Two Adaptations of O Beijo no Asfalto", in Stephanie Dennison and Lisa Shaw (eds), Latin American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender, and National Identity (McFarland Press, 2005)
  • Nelson Rodrigues in the 1990s: Two Recent Screen Adaptations, Lúcia Nagib (ed), The New Brazilian Cinema (London and New York: IB Taurus, 2003)

Articles in Refereed Journals

  • A Carioca Belle de Jour: A Dama do Lotação and Brazilian Sexuality", Framework, 44:1 (2003). (also joint guest editor of this edition)
  • "Comédia e pornochique: a produção cinematográfica popular no Brasil dos anos 70", Revista Fronteiras: Estudos Midiáticos( December 2002)
  • Critical Responses to the Screening of Nelson Rodrigues, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (May 2000)
  • Pra Inglês Ver: Joaquim Nabuco and the Brazilian Belle Epoque, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (July 2000)
  • The Meeting of Two Worlds: Recent Trends in Brazilian Cinema, Journal of Latin American and Iberian Studies (December 2000)
  • Ever-decreasing circles: Chico Buarque's Hidden Agenda in Estorvo", Portuguese Studies (October 1998)

Work at Press

  • "Questions of National Identity in Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus", in Sara Brandellero (ed) Journeys of (Self) Discovery in Brazilian Cinema (University of Wales Press, 2012)
  • "Blonde Bombshell: Xuxa and notions of whiteness in Brazil", in Tim Bergfelder, João Luis Vieira and Lisa Shaw (eds), Race and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema (Berghahn, 2012)

Work under Contract

  • Edited book: Contemporary Hispanic Cinema: Interrogating Transnationalism in Spanish and Latin American Film (Tamesis, forthcoming 2012).

Invited lectures

  • Seminar paper: Brazilian Cinema and the Transnational (University of Ulster, 30 Nov 2011)
  • Seminar series participant: Moving Through and Beyond Latin America (University of Sheffield, 5 Oct 2011)
  • Public Lecture: "Marketing Latin American film in the UK: an Academic's Perspective", The Future of Latin American Cinema (London, 6 May 2011)
  • Seminar paper: "Interrogating the Transnational in Contemporary Brazilian Film", St Andrews, 19 April 2011.
  • Keynote speech: Mulheres da Retomada conference, University of Tulane, 17-19 Feb 2011
  • Conference: "Joaquim Nabuco: Abolitionist, Statesman, Intellectual", Institute for the Study of the Americas, 3 Nov 2010
  • Panel discussion participant at Legacies of Slavery Documentary Film Festival, Hull History Centre,13 March 2010
  • Public lecture "The Future of Brazilian Cinema" University of Maynooth, Ireland, 9 March 2010
  • Seminar paper "'National, transnational and post-national: locating the present and future of Brazilian cinema", University of Oxford, 25 Feb 2010
  • Seminar paper "Tropicalia at the movies: melodrama and kitsch in 1970s Brazilian film", King's College London, 24 Feb 2010
  • Respondent at conference "Reality Effects: Poetics of Locality, Memory, and the Body in Contemporary Argentine and Brazilian Cinema" (Birkbeck, 26-28 November 2009)
  • Seminar paper: "International Sexploitation", University of Salford Film Seminar Series, Feb 2009.
  • Conference paper: "A eterna questão do nacional do cinema brasileiro", Cinema Brasileiro: Desafios Culturais e Econômicos, CINESESC, São Paulo, Brazil, Dec 2008.
  • Conference paper: "Questions of National Identity in Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus", Journeys of (Self) Discovery in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema, University of Oxford, May 2008.
  • Seminar paper: "Sex and the Generals: Reading Brazilian Pornochanchada as Sexploitation", Hispanic Film Seminar, University of Cambridge, April 2008.
  • "A Aproximação das Duas Américas: Joaquim Nabuco's promotion of Brazil in U.S. Universities", University of Yale, USA, April 2008.
    Issues of National Identity in Contemporary Brazilian Film: A Case Study of Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus, University of Liverpool, March 2008.
  • Seminar paper: "Adapting Clarice for the Screen: A Hora da Estrela", Cinema of Brazil: Literature into Film, Barbican, London, Dec 2007
    Seminar Paper: "Intertextuality in the films of Arnaldo Jabor", Intertextuality in Brazilian Cinema workshop, University of Southampton, July 2007.
    Seminar paper: "The Brazilian pornochanchada"at Workshop: Latsploitation: Exploitation Cinemas in Latin America, University of Alberta, Canada, June 2007.
  • Seminar paper: "Racialised Sexuality in the Star Texts of Sônia Braga and Xuxa", Stars and Stardom workshop, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil, Jan 2007.
  • Chair of roundtable discussion on Brazilian Theatre of Resistance, Canning House, London, Oct 2006.
  • Panel chair at symposium on contemporary Brazilian literature, Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, Mar 2005.

Other activities

  • Q and A with Brazilian film director Henrique Goldman, Hyde Park Picture House (Leeds), 8 Sept 2011 (part of Association of British and Irish Lusitanists Annual Conference, Leeds University, 2011)
  • Dept Seminar Series organiser: The Representation and Marketing of Latin-Americanness  (University of Leeds, 2010-11)         
  • Panel organiser and presenter: Interrogating the Transnational in Hispanic Film, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, March 2011
  • Visiting Lecturer, UNISINOS, São Leopoldo, Brazil, April 2010
  • Conference co-organiser: Talking Dirty: Sex and the Cinema (University of Leeds, Nov 2009)
  • Conference paper: Blonde Bombshell: Xuxa and Notions of Whiteness in Brazil", White Spaces? Racialising White Femininities and Masculinities, University of Leeds, July 2009
  • Symposium organiser: Transnational Film Financing in the Hispanic World (University of Leeds, June 2009)
  • Conference paper: "Tropicalismo and Melodrama: Intertextuality in Arnaldo Jabor's filmic adaptation of Toda Nudez Será Castigada", Association of British and Irish Lusitanists Annual Conference, University of Bristol, Jan 2008
  • Conference Paper: "Defining the national in Brazilian cinema", Association of British and Irish Lusitanists Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, Sept 2006
  • Conference co-organiser: New Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Cinema and Filmmaking (University of Leeds, June 2005)
  • Conference co-organiser: World Cinema: Identity, Culture, Politics (University of Leeds, June 2002)
  • Conference co-organiser: Latin American Cinema: Theory and Praxis (University of Leeds, June 1999)

Forthcoming activities

  • Symposium participation: Reframing the National in Hispanic Cinema (University of Lincoln, 24-25 Feb 2012)
  • Conference participation: Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Boston, March 2012). Paper entitled: Globofilmes and 'Bad' Brazilian Movies

Research funding

  • SLAS and JISLAC (travel and subsistence to attend symposium Reframing the National in Hispanic Cinema (University of Lincoln, 24-25 Feb 2012)
  • Leeds Humanities Research Institute (£600 towards organisation of conference Sex and the Cinema, 2009)
  • Banco Santander/University of Leeds travel grant (£600) research trip to Brazil 2009
  • SMLC Research Fund/ Instituto Cervantes/ Instituto Camões (£2000) towards symposium organisation: Transnational Film Financing in the Hispanic World (29th June 2009)
  • Conference Fund Grant, University of Leeds (£550 to attend SOCINE conference, Brasilia, Oct 2008)
  • Banco Santander/University of Leeds travel grant (£900) research trip to Brazil Oct 2008
  • British Academy UK Latin America Link Programme (travel and subsistence to attend seminar in Brazil (Jan 2007) and Southampton (June 2007)
  • University of Leeds Faculty of Arts Teaching Relief Scheme (£1240), 2004
  • British Academy Small Research Grant (£1,370), 2004
  • Special Payments Fund, University of Leeds (in recognition of exceptional contribution to university) (£1,600 to fund research trip to Brazil), 2002
  • Conference Fund Grant, University of Leeds (£550, to attend AATSP conference in Rio de Janeiro), 2002
  • AHRB Study Leave Grant (with University matched funding), Feb 2002-Feb 2003 (£9,000)
  • Small Research Grant in the Humanities, AHRB (£1,800), 1999

Teaching

  • SPPO2410/1 Culture and Society in the Portuguese-Speaking World
  • SPPO 2420/1 Introduction to Writing in Portuguese
  • SPPO3110 Advanced Portuguese Language
  • SPPO3570 Viva! Latin American Film Industries and the Marketing of Latin-Americanness 
  • MODL5607M World Cinemas: Dissertation

Postgraduate Research Supervision

  • Latin American cinema (especially, but not exclusively Southern Cone): Third Cinema, contemporary films and film industries, reading films in the context of popular culture
  • Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazilian cultural history

School and/or University Responsibilities

  • SMLC Graduate Studies Director
  • Chair SMLC Postgraduate Strategy Committee
  • Member of School Executive Group
  • Member of Faculty Graduate Board
  • Executive Committee Member of Centre for World Cinemas
  • Member of University of Leeds Promotional College