Alumni publications
PhD alumni of the Department celebrate publications in 2025.
Department news
New Staff publication: Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed by Paul Flaig
Paul Flaig's book explores the appeal of American slapstick, cartoon, and screwball comedies during and after Germany's Weimar Republic.
AHRC funding success: 'Ways of Undoing: Craft, Collaboration and Videographic Practice'
Three-year AHRC-funded project and international collaboration on videographic practice starting in January 2026.
ONWARD! | Flaherty Film Seminar Gatherings - Department of Film Studies & Centre for Screen Cultures collaboration with LUX Scotland
In Autumn 2025 LUX Scotland will host three events as part of the 70th annual Flaherty Seminar in partnership with The Hunterian, Cooper Gallery and the Centre for Screen Cultures at the University of St Andrews.
Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference in Chiang Mai
Dr Philippa Lovatt co-organised the 12th Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas (ASEACC) conference at Chiang Mai University on 14-16 August.
"Transing Pacific Asia: Gender, Sexuality and Oceanic Cinema" funding success
The research project has received funding from the Chinese University of Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
PhD candidate Hal Young helps launch Leith Kino
PhD candidate in Film Hal Young is working with twelve members of the Leith Kino collective to launch a new, weekly community screening programme in Leith.
Professor Laura Mulvey awarded BFI Fellowship
Honorary Professor in the Department of Film Studies, Laura Mulvey, will receive a BFI Fellowship award.
Dr María Aimaretti, St Andrews Global Fellow, to join the Department in September
Dr Aimaretti will conduct the research project "Global Feminist Methods/Local Interventions: Towards a Non-androcentric Historicisation of Argentine Cinema," in collaboration with Isabel Seguí
Celebrating graduating students
This week the Department celebrates our graduating students, including four PhDs.