Ana Soares

Ana Candeias Dias Soares has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (Portuguese/English) from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (FLUL, 1993) and a PhD from the Literature Theory Programme of the same Faculty (2003). In 2009, she completed post-doctoral research on Portuguese cinema and poetry in this programme. She has taught at the University of the Algarve, where she is an Associate Professor, and has been a guest lecturer at Portuguese and foreign universities. She was part of the founding team of the Association of Moving Image Researchers, of which she was the first President (2010-2014). Between August 2011 and October 2012, she was Assistant to the Secretary of State for Primary and Secondary Education, where she took part in the launch of the National Film Plan. From January 2013 to December 2014, she was a Senior Technician at Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua.