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Meet the team at the Department of Film Studies.
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Prof Lucy Fife Donaldson
Head of Department (Film Studies)
Professor
film and television performance and aesthetics; affect and embodiment in film and television; audio-visual design; film sound; genre (especially horror and melodrama); videographic criticism.
Dr Philippa Lovatt
Director of Teaching
Senior Lecturer
Artists’ moving image, sound, environmental humanities, and independent film and video cultures in Southeast Asia.
Dr Jessica Mulvogue
Lecturer in Film Studies
ecocinema / environmental media; documentary and experimental film; immersive and interactive media; film exhibition
Dr Tyler Parks
Lecturer in Film Studies
cinema and place; environmental film history; global art cinema; East Asian cinema (especially Japanese and Taiwanese); atmosphere and landscape studies; experimental documentary and educational film
Prof Tom Rice
Director of Impact
Director of Research
Professor
Global film history; colonial cinema; documentary, educational and non-fiction film; early cinema; non-theatrical film practices
Dr Viviane Saglier
Lecturer in Film Studies
Palestinian and Arab cinemas; postcolonial, anticolonial, and decolonial approaches to cinema; transnational solidarity; film and visual cultures; cinema and neoliberalism; political documentaries.
Dr Isabel Segui
Lecturer in Film Studies
Film Collectives; Feminist Film History; Production Studies; Oppositional Cinema; Bolivian Cinema; Peruvian Cinema; Film Archives; Participatory Cinema; Andean-Amazonian Cinema; Collaborative academic practices; Video
Dr Leshu Torchin
Senior Lecturer
Documentary and nonfiction media; witnessing and testimony; human rights and human rights advocacy; the politics of screen cultures; feminism and gender studies; disability and health; race, ethnicity, and representation.