Dr Maria Inês Castro e Silva

• 2024 – PhD Hispanic Studies, University of Warwick.
• 2019 - Commendee for 2019 Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates Who Teach (WATE PGR).
• 2018/2019 - Humanities Research Fund (HRF), University of Warwick
• 2017-2020 – PhD Scholarship (Departmental Grant) awarded by the University of Warwick.
• 2009-2010 – Master’s Program degree in Literary, Cultural and Interart Studies - Literary Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, Portugal.
• 2008/2009 - Fellow Researcher under the FCT [Foundation for Science and Technology] Integration Scholarships Programme (BII/UNI/0500/ELT/2008). The project was carried out in the Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, Portugal (Essay title: Devassos no paraíso: uma análise do discurso carnavalesco em quatro ficcionistas brasileiros [Carnival discourse in four Brazilian novelists]).
• 2006-2009 – Undergraduate degree in Modern Languages and Literatures – Portuguese and Lusophone Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, Portugal.

Maria Inês Castro e Silva is currently a Teaching Fellow (Portuguese) in the Department of Modern Languages. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies (2024), University of Warwick, and she is interested in Portuguese film, postcolonial studies, urban studies and Portuguese popular culture. Inês joined the University of Birmingham in September 2020. She also taught Portuguese language and culture and film at different universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland (Queen's University Belfast, 2014-2017; National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2016/2017; The University of Warwick, 2017-2020). She has been publishing in the context of Portuguese studies in Brazil, Portugal, and in the United Kingdom, as well as presenting papers at conferences in the United States, Portugal, Brazil, and the United Kingdom.

As Teaching Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, Inês is the Subject Liaison for Portuguese Studies and the Year Abroad Programme Coordinator for Portuguese Studies. Inês is also the General-Secretary of ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists).

At Birmingham, Inês currently teaches modules on Portuguese culture, film, literature, and language. She is the convenor of the Final Year Portuguese modules, as well as the optional modules LC Roots of Inequality: Race, Gender and the Legacies of Colonialism in the Global South and LC Roots of Inequality: Race, Gender and the Legacies of Colonialism in the Global North.

Inês currently supervises MA students in EDACS – School of English, Drama and Creative Studies.

Inês is currently working on her first book, to be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2026. The book will reflect on the dynamics of social exclusion in the contemporary Portuguese urban film.