Teacher
Ana Sofia Pereira

Resume

Ana Sofia Pereira holds a European PhD in Communication Sciences from NOVA University of Lisbon, with a research stay at the University of Reading (2020). She is an integrated researcher at CICANT – Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies, a higher education professor, and a filmmaker whose work consistently bridges academic research and creative practice. Her main research interests include communication sciences, media studies, gender studies, feminisms, activisms, cinema, and social inclusion. She is currently Sub-director of the BA in Applied Communication at Universidade Lusófona, where she also teaches in the fields of communication sciences, media studies, cinema and audiovisual theory. She has extensive teaching experience across multiple higher education institutions in Portugal and internationally, including the University of Saint Joseph (Macau). After completing her PhD in Communication Sciences (specialising in Cinema and Television), she became an integrated researcher at CITAR – Research Centre in Science and Technology of the Arts, contributing to funded projects such as INSERT – Educational strategy for an inclusive and flexible film literacy (EXPL/CED-EDG/0716/2021). In 2022, she joined the project FEMglocal – Glocal Feminist Movements: Interactions and Contradictions (PTDC/COM-CSS/4049/2021) as a postdoctoral researcher and subsequently became an integrated researcher at CICANT. At CICANT, she has contributed to European-funded initiatives such as FilmEU – European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts (Erasmus+ / Horizon 2020), RestART (Erasmus+) and CRESCINE (Horizon Europe - RIA on cultural heritage and CCIs). Her research has been published in national and international journals and edited volumes, and she regularly participates in international conferences and interdisciplinary research networks that connect academia, activism and cultural production. As a filmmaker, Ana Sofia Pereira has worked in national and international fiction and documentary productions, receiving several distinctions. In Portugal, she has been awarded funding by the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual (ICA) on three occasions: in 2020 for the development of "Virgínia", based on a case study from her doctoral research; in 2022 for a fictional television series addressing migration and inclusion; and in 2023 for the production of the feature documentary "Virgínia". Throughout her career, she has consistently integrated academic research and filmmaking as complementary practices aimed at promoting gender equality, feminist memory, civic engagement and social transformation.

Graus

• Outros
  Screenwriting Workshop
• Outros
  Workshop "Mixing Genres" by Marc Didden
• Outros
  Robert McKee Story Seminar
• Outros
  Robert McKee Genres Seminar
• Licenciatura
  Sound and Image [Bachelor's Degree]
• Doutoramento
  Communication Sciences [PhD]
• Doctor
  Visiting Research Study in Film and Theatre
• Outros
  Content analysis with MAXQDA
• Outros
  Formação SPSS [SPSS Training]
• Outros
  Reflexões sobre ética em investigação em redes sociais e culturas digitais [Reflections on research ethics in social networks and digital cultures]
• Outros
  Plataformas Sociais: métodos e técnicas para análise de dados [Social Platforms: methods and techniques for data analysis]

Publicações

Journal article

• 2026-02-25, On/Offline–Communication practices used by Portuguese feminist groups, Feminist Media Studies
• 2026, On/Offline – Communication Practices used by Portuguese Feminist Groups, Feminist Media Studies
• 2025-03-16, Contemporary Portuguese feminist activisms through the analysis of the International Feminist Strike website: subversive revolt and counterpower, Journal of Gender Studies
• 2023, Beyond non-linearity: tracing Pulp Fiction’s structure and meaning, Journal Of Science And Technology Of The Arts
• 2023, #MeToo em Portugal: uma análise temática do movimento através de artigos de opinião [#MeToo in Portugal: a thematic analysis of the movement through opinion articles], Cuadernos.info
• 2021-01-23, Territórios femininos por explorar no mapa do cinema português contemporâneo [Uncharted feminine territories on the map of contemporary Portuguese cinema], Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento
• 2020-06-23, Short film production in educational contexts: Exploring the methodology of the Olhar pela Lente project in Portugal, Film Education Journal
• 2020-03-01, The 2019 Screenwriting Research Network Conference, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto (11-14 September): A personal reflection, Journal of Screenwriting
• 2019-10, O Cinema em Portugal tem Sexo? [Does cinema in Portugal have a sex?], Faces da Eva: Estudos Sobre a Mulher

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2020-02-11, PhD, Mulheres guionistas: uma definição dinâmica da linguagem no feminino no cinema português [Women Screenwriters: A Dynamic Definition of Language in the feminine in Portuguese cinema]

Book

• 2025, Manual de boas práticas para o Cinema e Audiovisual em Portugal [Good Practices Manual for Cinema and Audiovisual in Portugal], ANA SOFIA TORRES PEREIRA; Camila Lamartine. Corresponding author: ANA SOFIA TORRES PEREIRA, MUTIM - Mulheres Trabalhadoras das Imagens em Movimento
• 2022, INSERT: caderno pedagógico, Pedro Alves; Carlos Natálio; ANA SOFIA TORRES PEREIRA, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
• 2022, INSERT: caderno pedagógico [NSERT: pedagogical notebook], Alves, Pedro; Pereira, Ana Sofia; Natálio, Carlos, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
• 2022, História dos Ativismos Feministas em Portugal, ANA SOFIA PEREIRA; Carla Cerqueira; Célia Taborda; ANA SOFIA PEREIRA CALDEIRA; Camila Lamartine; Daniel Cardoso; Daniela Drummond; et al, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
• 2022, História dos Ativismos Feministas em Portugal [History of Feminist Activisms in Portugal], Cerqueira, Carla; Taborda, Célia; Pereira, Ana Sofia, FEMglocal/Edições Universitárias Lusófonas

Book chapter

• 2026, «#MeToo, és tu?»: Incertezas ativistas ontológicas por entre tensões e re-mobilizações portuguesas contra a violência de género no Twitter [“#MeToo, is it you?”: Ontological activist uncertainties amid Portuguese tensions and re-mobilizations against gender-based violence on Twitter], Ativismo, participação e cidadania digital [Activism, participation and digital citizenship] , CICS.NOVA - Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais
• 2026, The Struggles of African Feminist Movement: A Reflection Around #MeToo, Politics of Gender and Identity in the Lusophone World: Referencing the Past, Understanding the Present, and Preparing the Future, Palgrave
• 2026, From Global to Local to Glocal – Transnational Feminist Movements: The News Coverage of #MeToo in Portugal, Transnational Mediated Feminism: Activist Practices, Histories, New Research Approaches, Springer Nature
• 2026, Feminismos glocais: Tensões e Reconfigurações em Portugal [Glocal Feminisms: Tensions and Reconfigurations in Portugal], Movimentos Feministas Glocais: Desafios em Portugal [Glocal Feminist Movements: Challenges in Portugal], Edições Húmus
• 2026, A Cartography of Portuguese Feminisms: Memory as Resistance, Mapping as Mobilisation, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2773, Springer Nature Switzerland
• 2026, (In)visible voices: Questioning intersectionality in the Portuguese #MeToo, Intersectionality in Media, Communication and Culture
• 2026, Feminist Movements in Africa: The Voices of Women for International Security, The Palgrave Handbook on the Contemporary International Security: Complexities, Geographies, Governance and International Law, Springer
• 2025, 6, Ativismo, participação e cidadania digital, CICS.NOVA - Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais
• 2024, Reel equality, Empowering Restarting Women Entrepreneurs: Unleash The Potential with the Mentor’s Toolkit
• 2024, Movimentos feministas glocais: ações de resistência nas redes e nas ruas, Cidadania digital e culturas do contemporâneo
• 2024, Movimentos feministas glocais: ações de resistência nas redes e nas ruas [Glocal feminist movements: acts of resistance in networks and on the streets], Cidadania Digital e Culturas do Contemporâneo, Grácio Editor
• 2024, Lights, Camera, Equity, Empowering Restarting Women Entrepreneurs: Unleash The Potential with the Mentor’s Toolkit
• 2024, Deconstructing stereotypes, Empowering Restarting Women Entrepreneurs: Unleash The Potential with the Mentor’s Toolkit
• 2024, Arte, ciência e ativismo em convergência: estratégias criativas para disseminação científica feminista, Culturas, ativismos e mudanças culturais, Universidade de Aveiro
• 2024, Arte, ciência e ativismo em convergência: estratégias criativas para disseminação científica feminista [Art, Science, and Activism in convergence: creative strategies for feminist scientific dissemination], Culturas, ativismos e mudanças culturais, Centro de Línguas e Literaturas e Culturas
• 2024, Art, science, and activism in convergence: creative strategies for feminist scientific dissemination, Culturas, ativismos e mudanças culturais, Universidade de Aveiro
• 2024, Art, Science, and Activism in convergence: creative strategies for feminist scientific dissemination, Culturas, Ativismos e Mudanças Culturais, Centro de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas - CLLC
• 2024, 3, Renegotiating masculinities in European digital spheres , Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group
• 2024, (De)constructing masculinities in newsmagazines in the #MeToo era, Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres, Routledge
• 2023, Communicating for change: strategies used by Portuguese feminist groups - success and challenges, The normative imperative: sociopolitical challenges of strategic and organizational communication, LabCom Books
• 2023, Communicating for change : strategies used by Portuguese feminist groups: success and challenges, The normative imperative: Sociopolitical challenges of strategic and organizational communication, LabCom
• 2022, Storytelling by the Sea, Global Perspectives on Strategic Storytelling in Destination Marketing, IGI Global
• 2022, ABC Digital: ABC da aprendizagem à distância [ABC Digital: ABC of learning by doing at a distance], La Nueva Era Comunicativa, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi
• 2017, Construir o guião: um castelo de areia que resiste ao vento [Writing the script: a sandcastle that withstands the wind], Oficios del Cine: Manual para prácticas cinematográficas , Icono 14 Editorial

Conference paper

• 2016-11-13, O Argumento de Cinema tem Sexo? [Does the film script have a sex?], IX SOPCOM Congress
• 2016-05-05, "Homem com fala de mulher, nem o diabo o quer": um estudo da narrativa audiovisual portuguesa no feminino ["Man with a woman's voice, not even the devil wants him": a study of Portuguese audiovisual narrative from a feminine perspective], VI AIM Anual Meeting
• 2015-07-23, Descobrindo os Mistérios do Guião: a criar cultura e preconceito desde 1920? [Discovering the mysteries of the screenplay: creating culture and prejudice since 1920?], Avanca | Cinema 2015

Conference abstract

• 2025-07-07, Feminist histories in action: exploring the impact of FEMglocal’s outputs on knowledge dissemination, 12th European Feminist Research Conference – ATGENDER 2025
• 2023-06-29, News coverage on Feminism in Portuguese media: What voice does activism have?, IAMCR2023
• 2023-06-05, The National within the Transnational: The #MeToo movement in Portugal, IAMCR2023
• 2023-06-05, The (Re-)Start of a Portuguese #MeToo: Tensions and re-mobilizations on Twitter, IAMCR2023
• 2023-06-05, Ambivalences in opinion discourses about the #MeToo movement in the Portuguese media, IAMCR2023
• 2023-05-12, Once Upon a Time... A Historical Chronology on the Singularities of Portuguese Feminism(s), FEMCORUS mid-term symposium "Rewired and revamped? Media and trans/national feminisms in Europe and beyond
• 2023-04-05, Educar para a igualdade e diversidade no ensino secundário: contributos de um booklet para a recuperação da memória histórica sobre os feminismos em Portugal [Educating for equality and diversity in secondary education: contributions of a booklet to recover historical memory about feminisms in Portugal], XII Congresso Português de Sociologia
• 2022-12-06, Movimento feminista como forma de resistência à cultura hegemónica: entre as redes e as ruas [The feminist movement as a form of resistance to hegemonic culture: between networks and streets], VIII Congresso Internacional sobre Culturas

Program / Show

• 2023-12-23, [Co-coordinator and Scriptwriter] Podcast Feminisms in Action , FemGlocal, CICANT, FCT
• 2018-04, [Co-screenwriter] TV series "2' minutos para mudar de vida" [2 minutes to change your life], Cimbalino Filmes

Script

• 2023, Rio Grande
• 2023, Amália Amada [Beloved Amália] - feature documentary
• 2021, Family Heirloom
• 2011, Até ao Mar [Down to the Sea] - short-film
• 2008, Tóquio Porto 9 horas [Tokyo Porto 9 hours] - short-film documentary
• 2007, Smoke - short-film
• 2007, Mimusaparenta Criatis - short-film mockumentary

Visual artwork

• Director and Scriptwriter in Documentary Film: "Feminisms: The Freedom to Be" (2025), Ribeiro-Rodrigues, V.; Pereira, Ana Sofia Torres