A historian of photography and cinema, Teresa Castro is a university lecturer and researcher who also works as a film critic and cultural programme maker.

She has a degree in Art History from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a master’s degree in Digital Art History from Birkbeck College in London and in Film and Audiovisual Studies from Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, and a PhD in Film Studies from the same university.

As well as being a lecturer at Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, she is also a researcher at IRCAV – Institut de recherche sur le cinéma et l’audiovisuel, Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Histoire des sciences et des techniques, and ICNOVA – Instituto de Comunicação da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She was also a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Teresa Castro has focused her research on four areas – visual culture; documentary and filmic forms; theories of the image and cinema; ecocritical and environmental approaches to images – on which she has published several works. In 2011 he published La Pensée cartographique des images. Cinéma et culture visuelle, as well as several book chapters, essays and articles, and has coordinated several collective volumes and thematic dossiers for international journals in different countries. She has also been a guest lecturer at numerous festivals and cultural institutions throughout Europe.

Teresa Castro replaces Nuno Vassalo e Silva, who currently chairs the Belém Cultural Centre Foundation.