Dr. Ranita Chatterjee
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies
Research areas: Film history; twentieth century screen cultures; the cinemas of India; colonial film in the British Empire; creative industries and transnational film circulation
Professor Sally Faulkner
Assistant Deputy Vice Chancellor (Europe), Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film Studies
Research areas: Spanish- and Portuguese-language cinemas
Dr. Felicity Gee
Senior Lecturer in Modernism and World Cinema.
Research areas: modernism, surrealism, critical women’s writing, and film-philosophy
Professor Fiona Handyside
Associate Professor in Film Studies
Research areas: representations of girls and girlhood from a range of different national cinemas
Professor William Higbee
Professor in Film Studies and Programme Link Manager for the London Film School Partnership
Research areas: French and Francophone cinema, with a particular emphasis on immigrant and post-colonial cinema in France and the cinemas of the Maghreb
Professor Helen Hanson
Associate Professor in Film History
Research areas: industrial, generic, stylistic and representational histories of Hollywood cinema, innovation and creativity within industrial structures and hierarchies, film sound
Professor Danielle Hipkins
Professor of Italian Studies and Film
Research areas: Italian cinema, feminist film theory, gender representation, and cinema audiences
Professor Joe Kember
Professor in Film and Visual Culture
Research areas: early and silent cinema, Victorian and Edwardian popular entertainments including the magic lantern, theories of film affect, and issues concerning the representation of the human face
Professor James Lyons
Associate Professor
Research areas: American indepdnent cinema, documentary, risk, television
Dr. Benedict Morrison
Lecturer in Literature and Film
Research areas: queer film and television
Dr. Melissa Oliver-Powell
Lecturer in Film
Research areas: Feminist and queer critical theories, cinema’s interaction with gender-related social issues, feminist politics and reproductive rights, representations of motherhood and family in film, collective filmmaking and LGBTQ+ parenting in anglophone cinema.
Dr. Aidan Power
Lecturer in Film
Research areas: European and Hollywood cinemas with a specialisation on the relationship between science fiction film and the various crises (social, political, economic) to have beset the European Union in the 21stcentury
Dr. Debra Ramsay
Lecturer in Film Studies
Research areas: the relationship between war, memory and media
Mr David Salas
Lecturer in Film Practice
Research areas: ephemeral cinema
Dr. Lisa Smithstead
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
Research areas: relationships between literature, gender and audiences in the early and interwar periods, intermedial exchanges between women’s film and print culture, archival film and literary studies, adaptation
Professor Linda Ruth Williams
Professor in Film Studies
Research areas: gender and culture, representations of sexuality and the history of censorship and classification