Carolin Overhoff Ferreira is an Associate Professor (Livre-Docente) at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil, where she teaches contemporary film and art from a decolonial perspective. She holds an MA in History of Art and Theatre Studies/Seminar in Film (1993), and a PhD in Theatre Studies (1997) from Freie Universität Berlin. During her undergraduate years she studied at the University of Vienna, University of Bristol and Humboldt University Berlin.
Professor Ferreira has taught at Hannover University for Applied Arts and Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Portuguese Catholic University in Porto and Coimbra University. She was a Research Fellow at the University of São Paulo, a Visiting Fellow at the Portuguese Sub-faculty/University of Oxford and Visiting Fellow at Jesus College/Cambridge University.
She also has a career in the arts as a dramaturge, curator and theatre critic. She worked at German national theatres, and for Portuguese and Brazilian fringe groups, curated several film shows on African and Luso-African cinema and contemporary film in Portugal and Brazil, and wrote weekly theatre reviews for the prestigious Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo.
Professor Ferreira will be hosted by Dr José Lingna Nafafe, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies, and they will be collaborating on: 'African resistance, history and culture in Lusophone film'.
You can read more about this and the events they will be delivering as part of her visit on Professor Ferreira's web profile page here.