Research in Film and Creative Writing
Staff research in the Department of Film and Creative Writing is diverse, innovative and dynamic. Our members produce leading work in the fields of critical and creative practice.
Research into the aesthetic, historical and theoretical contexts of literature and film is complemented by our strong traditions in creative practice as research. The department is home to award-winning writers and our academic work is regularly disseminated in short film, documentary and digital media formats.
The department enjoys a close collaborative relationship with B-Film, an international, interdisciplinary film research centre based at the University of Birmingham.
Researchers
Dr Isabel Galleymore - Contemporary poetry, environmental writing and ecocriticism
Dr Ruth Gilligan - Transcultural fiction and contemporary Irish fiction
Dr Richard House - Long-form fiction and screenwriting
Dr Luke Kennard - Prose poetry and Absurdism in contemporary poetry
Dr Richard Langley – Multidisciplinary approaches to creative practice
Dr Catherine Lester - Children's culture and the horror genre
Dr Anna Metcalfe - Short stories, interculturality, human rights narratives and fiction in translation
Dr Chris Nunn – Filmmaking, film education and pedagogy
Dr Alaina Schempp - Temporal nature of the moving image
Professor Rob Stone - World Cinema with particular emphasis on European and American Independent Cinema
Dr Dan Vyleta - Ethics and aesthetics of the literature of perpetration
Dr James Walters - Film and television aesthetics
Dr Christina Wilkins – Contemporary film, television and literature
Major publications
- Galleymore, Isabel, Significant Other
- Gilligan, Ruth, Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
- Gilligan, Ruth, The Butchers
- House, Richard, Lazarus Had it Easy
- Kennard, Luke, Cain
- Kennard, Luke, The Transition
- Lester, Cat, Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema
- Metcalfe, Anna, Blind Water Pass
- Stone, Rob, Walk, Don’t Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater
- Vyleta, Dan, Smoke
- Vyleta, Dan, Soot
- Walters, James, Television and Repetition