Sérgio Dias Branco (born 5 September 1977) is a film critic, film and television theorist, philosopher, theologian, and trade unionist. He is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Coimbra and a member of the Executive Board of the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers (CGTP-IN), the largest trade union federation in Portugal. Career His teaching career in higher education began at the University of Kent, where he was awarded a PhD in film studies. He then taught at NOVA University Lisbon before moving to the University of Coimbra. He is the director of the MA in Art Studies and coordinator of LIPA - Laboratory for Investigating and Practicing Art at the University of Coimbra. Research Branco is a researcher at the Centre for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) at the University of Coimbra, after leaving the NOVA Institute of Philosophy. He has been an invited member of the film criticism group "The Magnifying Class" at the University of Oxford, coordinated by Andrew Klevan. His research work focuses on the aesthetics and poetics of works of the moving image, in their relations with philosophy, history, Marxism and religion. Journals From 2010 to 2019, he was one of the editors of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image. He co-edits Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, the only academic journal dedicated to the study and discussion of Stanley Cavell’s work. Affiliations He was elected for the Direction Board of the Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM) between 2014 and 2020 and its president between 2018 and 2020. Branco is also a member of the Working-Class Studies Association since 2017 and of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies since 2011 and 2009, respectively. Religion A lay member of the Order of Preachers, Branco is a devout Catholic. He was received into the Lay Fraternity of Saint Dominic in Porto in 2012 and made his perpetual profession as a lay Dominican in 2017, in a Mass presided by the then Master of the Order, Bruno Cadoré, in Fatima. Branco is a regular contributor for Pontos SJ, the portal of the Jesuits in Portugal. Activism Much of his political activism has to do with uniting the Left. As a trade unionist, he has been a member of the Teachers’ Union of the Centre Region and the National Federation of Teachers, acting