School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Dr Tatiana Heise

  • Senior Lecturer (Hispanic Studies)

telephone: 01413303372
email: Tatiana.Heise@glasgow.ac.uk

School of ML&C, Hetherington Building

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620

Biography

I am a Brazilian-born scholar, educator and psychotherapist. Before entering academia, I worked as a journalist in São Paulo and for an environmental and animal-welfare organisation in the Brazilian Amazon. I studied at the University of São Paulo, the University of York and the University of Leeds, where I completed my PhD, and subsequently taught at York and the University of Manchester before joining the University of Glasgow. I am commited to connecting academic research with creative practice, psychological care and wider public conversations.

Research interests

My research explores how cinema shapes collective memories of political violence and resistance in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil and the Southern Cone. I am especially interested in the capacity of film to create spaces for testimony, recognition and public dialogue.

My monograph Transnational Memories and Post-Dictatorship Cinema: Chile, Brazil and Argentina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) examines how filmmakers revisit the region’s authoritarian pasts through transnational forms of remembrance. The book developed from my Leverhulme Trust- and Carnegie Trust-funded project, Memories of the Dictatorship, and builds on my wider publications on political cinema, documentary activism, the sociology of cinema and Brazilian culture.

My current research extends this work through a collaborative documentary project about Brazil’s Clínicas do Testemunho (Testimony Clinics), a pioneering programme that provided psychological support to survivors of the country’s military dictatorship and their families. Working with Brazilian filmmakers, psychoanalysts, survivors and human-rights organisations, I am producing a short documentary provisionally entitled After the Silence. The film explores what it means for experiences of state violence to be heard and acknowledged decades later, and how therapeutic listening can contribute to both individual and collective processes of reparation. The project combines research, creative practice and public engagement, with particular attention to ethical filmmaking and psychological support for participants.

My principal research interests encompass Latin American culture and society, Memory Studies, Film Studies, trauma and testimony, political cinema, ecocriticism and collaborative public engagement. I regularly contribute to film festivals and cultural events in Scotland, including IberoDocs and the Havana Glasgow Film Festival, through public talks, film introductions and conversations with filmmakers.

I hold a PhD from the University of Leeds, an MA in the Sociology of Contemporary Culture from the University of York and an MPhil in Communication Sciences from the University of São Paulo. Before joining the University of Glasgow, I taught at the University of Manchester and the University of York. My earlier professional experience includes journalism in São Paulo and work with an environmental and animal-welfare organisation in the Brazilian Amazon.

Publications

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2024

Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2024) Transnational Memories and Post-Dictatorship Cinema: Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Series: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783031470684 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-47069-1)

2021

Signorelli Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 and Tudor, Andrew (2021) Für eine Soziologie des Kinos. In: Geimer, A., Heinze, C. and Winter, R. (eds.) Handbuch Filmsoziologie. Series: Springer reference sozialwissenschaften. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, pp. 1-25. ISBN 9783658109479 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-10947-9_104-1)

2020

Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2020) The national and the transnational in Brazilian postdictatorship cinema. In: Owen, Hilary and Williams, Clare (eds.) Transnational Portuguese Studies. Series: Transnational modern languages. Liverpool University Press, pp. 273-290. ISBN 9781789621396

Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2020) Women’s memories of political violence in Brazilian cinema. In: Maseda García, Rebeca, Gámez Fuentes, Maria Jose and Zecchi, Barbara (eds.) Gender-Based Violence in Latin America and Iberian Cinemas. Series: Global gender. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 26-42. ISBN 9781138349476 (doi: 10.4324/9780429436307-4)

2017

Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2017) Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts. Edited by Severino J. Albuquerque and Kathryn Bishop-Sánchez. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 94(1), pp. 178-179. (doi: 10.1080/14753820.2017.1290900)[Book Review]

2016

Heise, Tatiana Signorella ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 and Tudor, Andrew (2016) For a sociology of the cinema. In: Inglis, David and Almila, Anna-Mari (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology. SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 481-495. ISBN 9781446271971 (doi: 10.4135/9781473957886.n35)

2015

Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2015) The weight of the past: trauma and testimony in Que bom te ver viva. New Cinemas, 13(2), pp. 107-122. (doi: 10.1386/ncin.13.2.107_1)

2014

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 and Tudor, A. (2014) Shooting for a cause: cyberactivism and genre hybridisation in the cove. In: Nagib, L. and Jerslev, A. (eds.) Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film. I.B. Tauris: London. ISBN 9781780765112

Heise, Tatiana Signorelli ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2014) New Argentine and Brazilian cinema: reality effects (New Directions in Latino American Cultures Series). Screen, 55(2), pp. 294-297. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hju016)[Book Review]

2013

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2013) Road to riches: migration and social mobility in dois filhos de francisco. In: Brandellero, S.L.A. (ed.) The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of (Self) Discovery. University of Wales Press: Cardiff. ISBN 9780708325988

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2013) A Via Láctea. In: Pinazza, N. and Bayman, L. (eds.) World Film Locations: Sao Paulo. Series: World film locations. Intellect: Bristol, pp. 85-88. ISBN 9781783200290

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 and Tudor, A. (2013) Dangerous, divine, and marvelous? The legacy of the 1960s in the political cinema of Europe and Brazil. Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 6(1), pp. 82-100. (doi: 10.1080/17541328.2013.782196)

2012

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2012) Breaking the myth: Brazilian racial democracy in two films. Vida Hispánica, 46(2),

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2012) Remaking Brazil: Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema. Series: Iberian and Latin American studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff. ISBN 9780708325094

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2012) Sounds from Brazil: brasilidade and the rise of the music documentary. In: Shaw, L., Stone, R. and Biddle, I.D. (eds.) Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719083808

2007

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 and Tudor, A. (2007) Constructing (film) art: Bourdieu's field model in a comparative context. Cultural Sociology, 1(2), pp. 165-187. (doi: 10.1177/1749975507078186)

2006

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2006) A chegada da TV digital no reino unido: idéias para o Brasil. Olhar de Profesor, 7(12/13), pp. 93-102.

2005

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2005) Perspectivas para a TV Digital no Brasil. Comunicação e Espaço Público, 7(1/2), pp. 94-103.

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Articles

Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2015) The weight of the past: trauma and testimony in Que bom te ver viva. New Cinemas, 13(2), pp. 107-122. (doi: 10.1386/ncin.13.2.107_1)

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 and Tudor, A. (2013) Dangerous, divine, and marvelous? The legacy of the 1960s in the political cinema of Europe and Brazil. Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 6(1), pp. 82-100. (doi: 10.1080/17541328.2013.782196)

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2012) Breaking the myth: Brazilian racial democracy in two films. Vida Hispánica, 46(2),

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 and Tudor, A. (2007) Constructing (film) art: Bourdieu's field model in a comparative context. Cultural Sociology, 1(2), pp. 165-187. (doi: 10.1177/1749975507078186)

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2006) A chegada da TV digital no reino unido: idéias para o Brasil. Olhar de Profesor, 7(12/13), pp. 93-102.

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2005) Perspectivas para a TV Digital no Brasil. Comunicação e Espaço Público, 7(1/2), pp. 94-103.

Books

Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2024) Transnational Memories and Post-Dictatorship Cinema: Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Series: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783031470684 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-47069-1)

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2012) Remaking Brazil: Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema. Series: Iberian and Latin American studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff. ISBN 9780708325094

Book Sections

Signorelli Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 and Tudor, Andrew (2021) Für eine Soziologie des Kinos. In: Geimer, A., Heinze, C. and Winter, R. (eds.) Handbuch Filmsoziologie. Series: Springer reference sozialwissenschaften. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, pp. 1-25. ISBN 9783658109479 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-10947-9_104-1)

Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2020) The national and the transnational in Brazilian postdictatorship cinema. In: Owen, Hilary and Williams, Clare (eds.) Transnational Portuguese Studies. Series: Transnational modern languages. Liverpool University Press, pp. 273-290. ISBN 9781789621396

Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2020) Women’s memories of political violence in Brazilian cinema. In: Maseda García, Rebeca, Gámez Fuentes, Maria Jose and Zecchi, Barbara (eds.) Gender-Based Violence in Latin America and Iberian Cinemas. Series: Global gender. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 26-42. ISBN 9781138349476 (doi: 10.4324/9780429436307-4)

Heise, Tatiana Signorella ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 and Tudor, Andrew (2016) For a sociology of the cinema. In: Inglis, David and Almila, Anna-Mari (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology. SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 481-495. ISBN 9781446271971 (doi: 10.4135/9781473957886.n35)

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 and Tudor, A. (2014) Shooting for a cause: cyberactivism and genre hybridisation in the cove. In: Nagib, L. and Jerslev, A. (eds.) Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film. I.B. Tauris: London. ISBN 9781780765112

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2013) Road to riches: migration and social mobility in dois filhos de francisco. In: Brandellero, S.L.A. (ed.) The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of (Self) Discovery. University of Wales Press: Cardiff. ISBN 9780708325988

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2013) A Via Láctea. In: Pinazza, N. and Bayman, L. (eds.) World Film Locations: Sao Paulo. Series: World film locations. Intellect: Bristol, pp. 85-88. ISBN 9781783200290

Heise, T.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2012) Sounds from Brazil: brasilidade and the rise of the music documentary. In: Shaw, L., Stone, R. and Biddle, I.D. (eds.) Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719083808

Book Reviews

Heise, Tatiana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2017) Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts. Edited by Severino J. Albuquerque and Kathryn Bishop-Sánchez. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 94(1), pp. 178-179. (doi: 10.1080/14753820.2017.1290900)[Book Review]

Heise, Tatiana Signorelli ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3620 (2014) New Argentine and Brazilian cinema: reality effects (New Directions in Latino American Cultures Series). Screen, 55(2), pp. 294-297. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hju016)[Book Review]

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Grants

2026–2027 Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund (GKEF), Principal Investigator: Testimony and Repair: Ethical Filmmaking, Psychological Rehabilitation and Public Engagement.

2025–2026 Creative and Social Futures Fund, Principal Investigator: Survivor Stories: Trauma and Rehabilitation in Brazil’s Testimony Clinics 

2025–2026 AHRC Impact Acceleration Account, Principal Investigator: Survivor Stories: Trauma and Rehabilitation in Brazil’s Testimony Clinics.

2022–2025 British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, Principal Investigator: A Socio-Political Lens on Trauma: Brazil’s Testimony Clinics 

2017–2018 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship: Memories of the Dictatorship: Brazil, Chile and Argentina.

2016 Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant: research on Brazilian post-dictatorship cinema.

2003–2004 CAPES Doctoral Scholarship, Brazilian Ministry of Education.

    

Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective research students interested in Latin American culture, cinema and society, particularly in relation to Brazil, Chile and Argentina. I am especially keen to supervise interdisciplinary projects exploring film and other forms of cultural production; collective memory and contested histories; dictatorship, political violence and human rights; trauma, testimony and psychological reparation; and Brazilian history and society. I would be delighted to hear from students whose work brings Film Studies, Memory Studies or Trauma Studies into conversation with the cultural and political questions shaping contemporary Latin America.

My past doctoral and postgraduate supervision has encompassed a broad range of interdisciplinary topics, including cultural identity and representation; Argentine cinema; political cinema in Brazil and Europe; memory, history and trauma; ecocriticism; and Comparative Literature. These projects have drawn on approaches from Film Studies, Cultural Studies and literary criticism to examine the relationship between culture and wider social, historical and political questions.

     

Teaching

POSTGRADUATE

MLitt in Comparative Literature

MsC in Translation Studies

MLitt in Film Studies (FTV)

 

UNDERGRADUATE 

Classic European Cinema

What is a Human?

Latin American Cinema (Exploring Latin America through Film)  

Comparative Literature (Intercultural Readings and Myths & Modern Imagination)

Core Culture Level 2

Portuguese Senior Honours

Portuguese Language 2

Portuguese Culture 2


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