Dr Maria Rovisco
Lecturer in Media and Film Studies
BA Honours Sociology, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal,
1995
MPhil Communication and Culture, ISCTE – Universidade de Lisboa,
Portugal, 2001
PhD Sociology, University of York, 2003
Maria Rovisco is a Lecturer in Media and
Film Studies at York St John University. She gained her doctorate
in Sociology from the University of York and holds a MPhil in
Communication and Culture from ISCTE – University of Lisbon, and a
BA (Hons) in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. In 2006 she
was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the Center for Cultural
Sociology at Yale University. She has published articles on the
tradition of European films of voyage, cosmopolitanism and
religion, and on the cultural borders of Europe and globalization.
Her research interests cut across the humanities and the social
sciences bringing together fields as diverse as cultural geography,
social theory, postcolonialism, cultural sociology, and film. She
was a member of the interdisciplinary Research Programme ‘Changing
Media - Changing Europe’ (2000-2004), and of the NORFACE-funded
seminar series/network ‘Globalization and the Transformation of
Europe’s Borders’ (2007-2009). She is currently co-editing a book
on cosmopolitanism and religion and preparing a manuscript on
cosmopolitan cinema.
Research interests include cosmopolitanism,
cultural sociology, the idea of Europe, globalization,
transnational cinema.
Publications and Papers