Dr Cecilia Sayad, Senior Lecturer in Film in the School of Arts, is the subject of a new podcast on ‘Nostalgia’, as part of an ongoing project by Dr Chris Deacy in the Department of Religious Studies.
Cecilia has been based at Kent since 2008 and is presently working on a project on horror and people’s desire to engage with the supernatural. Born in Brazil, Cecilia moved to the US and then grew up in Sao Paulo before returning to the US to undertake a PhD.
In the podcast, Cecilia talks about the accidental set of circumstances that led her to where she is now. She used to play with a band and once hoped to be a singer when beginning a degree in Journalism and Social Sciences for a year, before transferring to study Literature. She then worked as a journalist for four years and from there became involved in film.
She remembers flash memories from her experience of learning English. She always liked writing and the theatre and was into Brazilian music but not the charts, and she recounts how her peers were more into contemporary music whereas she listened to the sounds of the 1960s.
Cecilia discusses how she never dreamed about becoming an academic and initially studied Film as she was a film buff. She also reveals which university teachers inspired her, and why she used to bring her guitar to parties.
To listen to the podcast, please see the page here:
https://audioboom.com/posts/7128795-cecilia-sayad