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About

I hold a First Class BA in Film and Literature, an MA For Research in Film and Television Studies, and earned my PhD in Film and Television Studies in 2016 - all from The Department of Film and Television Studies at Warwick. My doctoral is concerned with theories of film authorship and postmodern cinema.

In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I am also the department's Widening Participation and Outreach OfficerLink opens in a new window.

I am the official point of contact for SMLC Joint Honours with Film Students and students from other departments taking options in Film and Television Studies.

Current Teaching

For the 2025 - 2026 academic year I will be convening core and optional modules at a number of levels. In the Autumn I'll be convening Transnational Action Cinema, an research led optional module for second year and finalist students. I will also be co-convening the First Year Film Studies core module Visual Cultures with Ritika Kaushik. In the Spring I'll be convening the first year core Film Theory module and the Finalist core Film Aesthetics 2.

Research Interests

• Film Theory; particularly theories of film authorship, genre, and issues of representation (especially as this relates to genre cinema)
• Contemporary Hollywood Cinema; specialising in action cinema and post-classical style
• Horror Cinema; with particular interest in British Horror cinema, definitions of the gothic, folk horror, and the relationship between horror and science-fiction
• Film-philosophy; including R.G. Collingwood's philosophy of art, Nietzsche (particularly depictions of eternal recurrence), postmodern aesthetics, post-structuralism, and representations of the posthuman and non-human (particularly in relation to Artificial Intelligence)

Research

For research conducted between 2016 and 2023, please see my independent research Link opens in a new windowpage. The publications and conference papers listed bellow only include those where I have had institutional support..

Publications

• '"Knowing Me Alan Partridge, Knowing You Steve Coogan": Character-Brand Franchising and Metafictional Stardom' (co-author) [forthcoming]
• 'Not Actual Play: Examples of Play and Expectations of Experience in TRPGs', Paidia: Zeitschrift f眉r Computerspielforschung, Special Issue "Monsters, Magic, Mediality (co-author)
• 鈥楧econstructing Depth: Proximity and Contemplation in D茅j脿 Vu鈥�, Film-Philosophy Special Issue: The Surfaces of Film-Philosophy, 22:2, (2018) 240-260
• 鈥業ntroduction: The Surfaces of Film-Philosophy鈥�, Film-Philosophy Special Issue: The Surfaces of Film-Philosophy, 22:2, (2018) 143-147 (co-author)

Conference Papers

• 'Tony Scott's D茅j脿 Vu (2006): Looking Again at Spectacle, Style, and Substance'
  Film-Philosophy Conference, 20th – 22nd June 2015, Oxford University
• '鈥淭hese Woods Are No Place for Children!鈥�: Reconsidering Children鈥檚 Folk Horror'
  Fear 2000 Horror Uncaged, 21st - 22nd July and 27th - 29th July 2023, Sheffield Hallam University
• '鈥淭hat goes in the butt bank鈥�: Tina Belcher and The Horny Teen in a Queer Time and Place'
  Sex in Contemporary Media: An Interdisciplinary Conference 4th - 6th October 2023, 神马福利影片 and Online
• 'Not actual play: examples of play and expectations of experience in TTRPGs'
  Video Game Cultures The Other Conference, 12-14 September 2024 at Birmingham City University, UK (co-author)

Memberships and Associations

The Fear Network (Warwick Institute of Advanced Studies NetworkLink opens in a new window)

British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies ()

International Gothic Association

I am a Warwick LGBTUA+ supporterLink opens in a new window