Prof Glyn Davis

Prof Glyn Davis

Professor of Film Studies

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2087
Email
gpd1@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Glyn Davis is Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is a historian and theorist of queer visual culture, with a specialist interest in experimental and avant-garde cinema. Recent publications include Queer Print in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2022, co-edited with Laura Guy), The Richard Dyer Reader (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2023 co-edited with Jaap Kooijman), Pop Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2024, co-edited with Tom Day), and a contribution to the BFI Classics series on Rebel Without a Cause (2025).

Prior to joining the University of St Andrews, Glyn was Reader in Screen Studies and Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has also previously held positions at the University of Bristol and Glasgow School of Art.

From 2016 to 2019, Glyn was Project Leader of Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures, a pan-European queer history project funded by HERA and the European Commission. The project involved 28 researchers based in Germany, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom. In addition to a series of major international conferences, the project generated an array of publications, including 'Imagining Queer Europe Then and Now', a special issue of Third Text that Glyn co-edited with Fiona Anderson and Nat Raha. Glyn is currently the PI of Perverse Collections: Building Europe's Queer and Trans Archives, a two-year project funded by JPICH which involves researchers based in the Netherlands, Spain and the UK.

Glyn's writing has appeared in journals including Aniki, GLQ, JCMS, MIRAJ, and Screen. His books include two studies of films by Todd Haynes, a co-edited anthology on Queer TV, a co-edited collection of essays on Andy Warhol's films, and a co-authored textbook, Film Studies: A Global Introduction. He is a member of the AHRC's Peer Review College, and sits on the board of Third Text.

[Profile photograph courtesy of Benny Nemer.]

PhD supervision

  • Lucy Howie
  • Hal Young

Selected publications

  • Rebel Without a Cause

    Davis, G., 13 Nov 2025, London: Bloomsbury. 96 p. (BFI film classics)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Always crashing in the same car

    Davis, G., 30 Oct 2024, Pop cinema. Davis, G. & Day, T. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 163-181 19 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Introduction: towards a pop cinema

    Davis, G. & Day, T., 30 Oct 2024, Pop cinema. Davis, G. & Day, T. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 1-20 20 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Pop cinema

    Davis, G. (Editor) & Day, T. (Editor), 30 Oct 2024, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 266 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • The Richard Dyer reader

    Davis, G. (Editor) & Kooijman, J. (Editor), 7 Sept 2023, London: British Film Institute. 560 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Andy Warhol films, The Velvet Underground and Nico

    Davis, G., 6 Oct 2022, The Velvet Underground: what goes on. Albiez, S. & Pattie, D. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 53-66

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • "A panorama of gay life": Nighthawks and British queer cinema in the 1970s

    Davis, G., 23 Mar 2022, The Oxford handbook of queer cinema. Gregg, R. & Villarejo, A. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 435-456 18 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Open access

    Filmographies as archives: on Richard Dyer's list-making in Gays and Film

    Davis, G., 7 Mar 2022, In: Frames Cinema Journal. 19, p. 308-314 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

  • Queer print in Europe

    Davis, G. (Editor) & Guy, L. (Editor), 17 Nov 2022, London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. 266 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Open access

    'Gay sex kits': lessons in the history of British sex education

    Davis, G., 18 Jan 2021, In: Third Text. 35, 1, p. 145-160 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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