Professor Lucia Nagib occupies the Centenary Chair in World Cinema, Faculty of Arts, University of Leeds. She is film and culture critic for the daily newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil. She has given lectures worldwide (Brazil, France, Germany, USA, Japan, South Africa, Ghana as well as in several places in the UK) and has coordinated conferences in Brazil and the UK.

Her major research subjects are cinematic realism, the New Waves of the 1960s and contemporary New Cinemas of the world. Her main books are: Werner Herzog: Film as Reality, Born of Ashes: The Auteur and the Individual in Oshima’s Films and The Renaissance of Brazilian Cinema: Interviews with 90 Filmmakerrs of the 90s. She is editor of The New Brazilian Cinema (I.B. Tauris) and has just completed a book on Utopia in Brazilian Cinema, to be published simultaneously in the UK and Brazil.