Staff in Film and Creative Writing

With an academic grounding in American and Canadian Studies, and professional experience of television and film production, I am interested in multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and research. In particular, I am keen to develop a fusion of theory and practise by way of a multifaceted audio-visual academia that can function as a versatile teaching tool, and as a mode of publication and ...

I am a writer, translator, editor, researcher and organiser. I have edited three short-story collections, including Too Asian, not Asian Enough and Book of Birmingham. I also co-edited Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation with translator Jeremy Tiang and my translation of Anjali Kajal’s Hindi stories Ma is Scared was published recently. My work unpacks how literature can perpetuate ...

Ecopoetics, environmental writing, and interdisciplinary practice.

Lisa is co-editor with Max Saunders of Ego Media: life writing and online affordances a digital publication coming out from Stanford University Press in 2023. She has contributed a chapter – ‘Digital Editions: rethinking how we preserve, present and explore literary correspondences’ – to the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Literary Media. 

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I am a poet, critic and novelist, with an academic specialism in modern poetry and syntax. I have published two collections of poetry and am currently working on a general audience nonfiction book called How to Think Like a Poet.

Contemporary literature, transnational fiction, form and narratology, Irish Studies.

Long-form fiction and screenwriting, and I have an interest in writing for new forms (performance, live art, and for digital platforms).

As the department's Film Manager my work focuses on making sure all the students have access to the best filmmaking equipment and professional expertise we can offer, as well as managing these resources by keeping them aligned with the evolving digital media landscapes.
  
I also have a lead role in teaching the students how to use anything from cameras, microphones and lenses all the way ...

Prose poem, Absurdist and Surrealist technique in contemporary poetry, Transatlantic influence and publishing trends in contemporary British poetry

My current research focuses on the intersections between children’s culture and the horror genre. My other teaching and research interests include children’s cinema, animation, and representation in film and television.

Short stories, interculturality, human rights narratives and fiction in translation (especially from French and Mandarin).

Chris Nunn is the former Festival Director of Screentest: The UK’s National Student Film Festival, and has been championing aspiring filmmaking talent for nearly a decade. Passionate about filmmaking education, he has recently completed his PhD entitled Towards a New Film Pedagogy: Recrafting Undergraduate Filmmaking Education for an Expanded Field (2019) and plans to continue and broaden ...

Ellena Savage (she/her) is an Australian author and scholar. Her debut essay collection Blueberries (Text Publishing and Scribe UK, 2020) was shortlisted for the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and longlisted for the Stella Prize.

My academic film research focuses on cognition, emotions, and timing in moving images. I specialise in the micro-analysis of comic and suspense timing in contemporary cinema, especially genres such as comedy, action, horror, and the suspense-thriller. My other research interests include analytic-cognitive media studies (e.g. video games, comics, and online video) as well as analytic-cognitive ...

World Cinema, European Cinema, American Independent Cinema, Spanish, Basque, Cuban and Latin American Cinema, Film Theory. Film and Philosophy, The Politics of Film Aesthetics.

Ethics and aesthetics of the literature of perpetration; ethical and epistemological implications of aesthetic choices made in fiction more generally; theories outlining the role of narrative for our lives in a wide variety of contexts.

Fantasy film and television, film aesthetics and close analysis, television studies, political satire, performance, Hollywood, film and television criticism.

Contemporary film and literature,  film genres.