Curriculum Vitae
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Carla Isabel Ambrósio Garcia
Citation names
- Ambrósio Garcia, Carla
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 1316-F882-94C9
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5607-1287
- Scopus Author Id
- 56292489300
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) |
| French | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2016/09/26 - 2017/07/01
Concluded
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Academic Practice in Higher Education (Postgraduate Certificate)
King's College London, United Kingdom
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2008/01/01 - 2013/12/01
Concluded
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Film Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
King's College London Department of Film Studies, United Kingdom
"The Retreat in Film" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2001/09/24 - 2003/06/13
Concluded
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MFA Fine Art Media (Master)
University College London Slade School of Fine Art, United Kingdom
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1997/09/15 - 2000/07/04
Concluded
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Design Studies (Bachelor)
London Guildhall University, United Kingdom
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/02/12 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/11/05 - 2023/11/04 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | The British University in Egypt, Egypt |
| 2018/02/01 - 2019/06/30 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | University of Bedfordshire Department of Culture and Communications, United Kingdom |
| 2012/09/15 - 2019/06/30 | Assistant (University Teacher) | King's College London Department of Film Studies, United Kingdom |
| 2019/01/15 - 2019/06/01 | Assistant (University Teacher) | King's College London Department of English, United Kingdom |
| 2018/09/15 - 2019/02/01 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | University of Bedfordshire - School of Media and Performance, United Kingdom |
| 2017/09/01 - 2018/01/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | University of Suffolk, United Kingdom |
| 2016/09/01 - 2017/07/01 | Assistant (University Teacher) | Royal Holloway University of London Department of Media Arts, United Kingdom |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/03/01 - 2020/07/31 | Blue-Book Traineeship | European Commission, Belgium |
| European Commission Directorate-General for Interpretation, Belgium | ||
| 2017/08/01 - 2018/10/01 | Research Project Assistant for 'Extending Rosemary Butcher's Archive: Oral History Project' led by Dr Stefanie Sachsenmaier | Middlesex University, United Kingdom |
| 2015/05/01 - 2015/10/01 | Admissions Officer, University of London International Programmes | University of London Worldwide, United Kingdom |
| University of London Worldwide, United Kingdom | ||
| 2013/05/01 - 2013/09/30 | Assistant Manager, film installation project led by Dr Stamatis Zografos | Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2003/11/01 - 2005/04/01 | Luxonline Editor Assistant, Part-time Internship | LUX artists' moving image, United Kingdom |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2011/01/01 - 2013/12/01 | Bolsa Individual de Doutoramento
SFRH/BD/68628/2010
PhD Student Fellow
King's College London, United Kingdom
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2012/06/01 - 2012/06/30 | Conference Attendance Grant, for participation in NECS Conference 2012, Lisbon
N/A
Researcher
King's College London Department of Film Studies, United Kingdom
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King's College London Department of Film Studies
Concluded
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| 2002/09/01 - 2003/09/01 | Bolsa de Pós-Graduação
N/A
Master Student Fellow
University College London, United Kingdom
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Concluded
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| 2001/09/01 - 2003/07/01 | Fees Award for Master Programme
N/A
Master Student Fellow
University College London, United Kingdom
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Arts and Humanities Research Board
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Exhibition catalog |
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| Journal article |
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| Online resource |
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Artistic / Performance
| Video recording |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2023/09/15 | Strategies of unworlding in Youssef Chahine s Adieu Bonaparte (1985) | ‘Reframing Postcolonialism and Cinema’, ECREA Film Studies Section Conference
University of Nicosia (Nicosia, Cyprus)
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| 2023/06/19 | Strategies of unworlding in Youssef Chahine s Adieu Bonaparte (1985) | Research Seminar of the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media
British University in Egypt (El-Shorouk, Cairo, Egypt)
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| 2023/03/19 | Contemporary Portuguese Cinema | Lecture given to the preparatory year students
NOVA University Lisbon in Cairo (Cairo, Egypt)
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| 2022/09/08 | Voices in Dialogue: A Cross-Cultural Collaboration Between a European and an Egyptian Filmmaker | ‘Silenced Voices’ MeCCSA Conference
Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
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| 2021/07/21 | Group dynamics in Paul Thomas Anderson s The Master | Thinking Cinema: Bion and Film, as part of Film in Focus: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Cinema, International Journal of
Psychoanalysis Centenary Conference
International Journal of Psychoanalysis (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2021/04/07 | A Network of Reflecting Space-Times in the Cinema of João Salaviza | ‘Time and the Body in Film, Television and Screen Studies’ BAFTSS Conference
University of Southampton (Southampton, United Kingdom)
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| 2020/07/17 | Um olhar sobre o cinema português contemporâneo | Presentation on contemporary Portuguese cinema given to the Interpreters with Portuguese language of the European Commission
and the European Parliament
European Commission - Blue Book Traineeship (Brussels, Belgium)
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| 2016/05/07 | The Aesthetic Conflict in Manoel de Oliveira s Voyage to the Beginning of the World | VI AIM Annual Meeting
Catholic University of Portugal (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2016/04/08 | A Bionian Approach to the Feminine in Cammell and Roeg s Performance | Psychoanalysis in Our Time: Psychoanalysis and Femininity
Maritime Culture Centre (Gdansk, Poland)
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| 2014/10/27 | Embodied Encounters with Film: The Work of Jayne Parker | Embodied Encounters Symposium
Freud Museum (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2014/06/14 | Dimensionality in Jonathan Glazer s Under the Skin | Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society Conference, Centre for Psychoanalysis
Middlesex University (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2014/01/17 | Images of Bion s Model of Container/Contained in A Man Asleep | ‘Moving Objects: Film, Relation, Change; The Moving Image and Object Relations Psychoanalysis’ Conference
Birkbeck, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2012/06/23 | Process and Medium in the Making and Experience of Film | NECS Conference ‘Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory’
NOVA University Lisbon and University of Coimbra (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2011/04/16 | From Freud, through Klein, to Bion: Reading Pasolini s Pigsty | Working through Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Legacy in Art, Cinema, Literature and Popular Culture Conference
University of Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
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| 2011/02/17 | Cinema with No Memory, Desire or Understanding | Caves: A Programme of Talks, Performances and Installations
King's College London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2009/03/21 | Rethinking the Cinematic Apparatus with Bion s Theory of Thinking | Emergent Encounters in Film Theory: Intersections between Psychoanalysis and Philosophy Conference
King's College London (London, United Kingdom)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2021/09/01 - 2023/09/01 | As part of my role as Research Coordinator for the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media, I organised and chaired monthly
research seminars (2021/09/01 - 2023/09/01)
Seminar
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The British University in Egypt, Egypt |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2024/01/12 - Current | Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM), Portugal | Member |
| 2017/11/21 - Current | Advance HE (previously Higher Education Academy), UK | Fellow |
| 2012/01/01 - Current | British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), UK | Member |
| 2012/01/01 - 2012/12/31 | European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), Germany | Member |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/02/01 - 2023/06/30 | Introduction to Film | Communication and Mass Media (Bachelor) | The British University in Egypt, Egypt |
| 2021/02/01 - 2023/06/30 | Film History Theory | Communication and Mass Media (Film and Media Studies) (Bachelor) | The British University in Egypt, Egypt |
| 2022/09/01 - 2023/01/31 | Introduction to [Media] Psychology | Communication and Mass Media (Bachelor) | The British University in Egypt, Egypt |
| 2020/09/01 - 2023/01/31 | Cinematography | Communication and Mass Media (Film and Media Studies) (Bachelor) | The British University in Egypt, Egypt |
| 2020/09/01 - 2022/02/01 | Graduation Project (Film and Media) (year-long module; part of formative feedback and final assessment panel) | Communication and Mass Media (Film and Media Studies) (Bachelor) | The British University in Egypt, Egypt |
| 2020/09/01 - 2022/01/01 | Film Directing (co-led) | Communication and Mass Media (Film and Media Studies) (Bachelor) | The British University in Egypt, Egypt |
| 2019/02/01 - 2019/06/30 | Contemporary European Cinema | Film Studies (Bachelor) | King's College London Department of Film Studies, United Kingdom |
| 2019/02/01 - 2019/06/30 | Literature and Psychoanalysis | English (Bachelor) | King's College London Department of English, United Kingdom |
| 2018/02/01 - 2019/06/30 | Cinema Cultures (year-long module) | Media Production; Media Communications; Media and Public Relations (Bachelor) | University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom |
| 2018/09/01 - 2019/01/31 | Understanding Media | Media Communications; Media, Marketing and Public Relations; Television Production (Bachelor) | University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom |
| 2018/09/01 - 2019/01/31 | Film History: 1980 to the present | Film Studies (Bachelor) | King's College London Department of Film Studies, United Kingdom |
| 2018/09/01 - 2019/01/31 | Reading the Screen | Film Production; Film & TV Production (Bachelor) | University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom |
| 2018/09/01 - 2019/01/31 | Cinema and Narrative | Film Production; Film & TV Production (Bachelor) | University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom |
| 2018/02/01 - 2018/06/30 | Film History: 1930-1945 | Film Studies (Bachelor) | King's College London Department of Film Studies, United Kingdom |
| 2017/09/01 - 2018/01/31 | Contemporary Television: Studies in Format and Genre | Screenwriting (Bachelor) | University of Suffolk, United Kingdom |
| 2017/02/01 - 2017/06/30 | Critical Debates in Film Studies (co-convened) | Film Studies (Bachelor) | King's College London Department of Film Studies, United Kingdom |
| 2016/09/01 - 2017/06/30 | Film, Television and Digital Histories (year-long module) | Film, Television and Digital Production (Bachelor) | University of London Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, United Kingdom |
| 2016/09/01 - 2017/01/31 | Critical Theory and Textual Analysis | Film, Television and Digital Production (Bachelor) | University of London Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, United Kingdom |
| 2015/09/01 - 2017/01/31 | Contemporary Spanish Cinema | Film Studies (Bachelor) | King's College London Department of Film Studies, United Kingdom |
| 2014/09/01 - 2015/01/31 | Film History: 1945-1980 | Film Studies (Bachelor) | King's College London Department of Film Studies, United Kingdom |
| 2012/09/01 - 2015/01/31 | Introduction to Film Studies: Forms | Film Studies (Bachelor) | King's College London Department of Film Studies, United Kingdom |
| 2014/02/01 - 2014/06/30 | Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts | Film Studies (Bachelor) | King's College London Department of Film Studies, United Kingdom |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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| 2022/05/01 - 2022/05/31 | Jury Member, College Shorts Section, 2022 Screwdriver International Student Film Festival | Kun Shan University, Taiwan | Kun Shan University |
| 2018/06/01 - 2019/08/31 | Moderator of final-year coursework and examinations of the undergraduate course in Mass Communication for the Modern Sciences and Arts University in Cairo | University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom | Modern Sciences and Arts University |
| 2016/01/12 - 2016/01/12 | Invited Critic of presentations on final-year dissertation for the module BARC0134 History and Theory of Architecture | University College London The Bartlett School of Architecture, United Kingdom | University College London The Bartlett School of Architecture |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2019/09/01 - 2019/10/01 | Peer reviewer for Film-Philosophy journal (1466-4615) (1 article) | |
| 2017/01/01 - 2019/03/01 | Book proposal reviewer for Routledge (4 books) | |
| 2012/10/01 - 2012/10/31 | Peer reviewer for Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society journal (1543-3390) (1 article) |
Distinctions
Award
| 2004 | London Artists Film and Video Award, for the production of Seven Rolls of Slides
Film London, United Kingdom
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| 2003 | Julian Sullivan Award
University College London Slade School of Fine Art, United Kingdom
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| 2003 | Special Mention, Official Short Film Section, for Film #1 (2003)
L'Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, Spain
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