Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Cecilia Sayad, Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Kent, where she has been based 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. Cecilia talks about the accidental set of circumstances which 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. Cecilia remembers flash memories from her childhood e.g. buying lollies from the post office and writing the letter K, and we talk about the 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