Ekaterina Cordas

Ekaterina Cordas is a PhD candidate in Culture studies and a researcher at CECC (Research Centre for Communication and Culture) at the School of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), Lisbon, where she is developing her doctoral research (funded by FCT). Her object of study is the Eastern European animation film industry and the relationship between the censorship institutions and the artists. She is also a collaborator at CITAR - Research Center For Science And Technology Of The Arts at Escola Das Artes, UCP Porto where she guest lectures a course on Visual Narratives and Intermediality (MA program in Animation film at the Sound and Image department) and helps develop the school's academic program in Animation. She has experience in academic journal editing, peer-reviewing, conference organisation, academic course development, research (archival and data collection), critical analysis and teaching. Her main areas of expertise are Culture Studies; Social Sciences and Socio-cultural communication; Visual Culture and Visual Literacy; Film studies; Animation. She currently works as an assistant coordinator for CinEd - a European cooperation project co-funded by the Creative Europe / MEDIA programme of the European Union, "Support for film education". Its objective is to help the greatest possible number of European youths aged 6 to 19 discover European cinema and help build visual literacy skills.