Mariana Liz completed a PhD at King's College London in 2012. Her doctoral research, on the idea of Europe in contemporary European cinema, was funded by FCT (Portuguese council for research funding). She taught at King's (2009-2013) and Queen Mary (2012-2013), University of London, and at the University of Leeds (2013-2016) in the UK. She is the author of Euro-Visions (2016), editor of Portugal's Global Cinema (2018) and co-editor of The Europeanness of European Cinema (2015). She has published on contemporary European cinema and Portuguese film in Studies in European Cinema and the Journal of Romance Studies, among others. Since 2017 she is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, in Portugal, where she conducts research on European cities, cinema and tourism.

Keywords: Film Studies, European Cinema, EU, Cinema and the City, Portuguese Film