Professor Lúcia Nagib, Network Leader, University of Leeds

Lúcia Nagib is Centenary Professor of World Cinemas and Director of the Centre for World Cinemas, University of Leeds. Her major research subjects are cinematic realism, New Waves and Contemporary New Cinemas. She is author of the books Werner Herzog-Film as Reality (Estação Liberdade), Around the Japanese Nouvelle Vague (Editora da Unicampa), Born of the Ashes - the Auteur and the Individual in Oshima's Films (Edusp), The Brazilian Film Revival - Interviews with 90 Filmmakers of the 90s (Editora 34) and Brazil on Screen - Cinema Novo, New Cinema Utopia (IB Tauris). She is currently working on her book, World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism, coming out with Continuum in 2010. She is the editor of The New Brazilian Cinema (IB Tauris), Ozu (Marco Zero), Master Mizoguchi (Navegar) and Realism and the Audiovisual Media (co-edited with Cecília Mello, Palgrave). Two further edited books are currently in progress, Theorising World Cinema (co-edited with Chris Perriam and Rajinder Dudrah, IB Tauris) and Viewing Film, by Don Richie (IB Tauris)