Staff in Film and Creative Writing

Award-winning writer of fiction and short film. My interests are in long-form contemporary fiction, from the mid-80s on, which engage, in some way, with larger political or social frameworks.

My research and publications focus on World Cinema with particular emphasis on European and American Independent Cinema. I have also published extensively on Spanish, Basque and Cuban cinema. My interests are in the overlap of philosophy, politics and aesthetics in many areas of World Cinema. Having recently co-edited The Routledge Companion to World Cinemaand written the second edition of my ...

The short story, editing theory and practice, cross-disciplinary models of authorship, writing as translation and adaption, autobiogriphical and biographical poetry.

Ecopoetics, environmental writing, and interdisciplinary practice.

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

As the department's Film Technician my work focuses on making sure all the students have access to the best film equipment we have on offer as well as managing these resources by keeping them up to date with the ever evolving digital film landscape .  I also have a lead role in teaching the students how to use anything from cameras, microphones and lenses all the way to the end of the film ...

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

Film production; documentary; digital media; audio-visual academia; social action filmmaking.

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.

Dr Alex Marlow-Mann is a specialist on European (and particularly Italian) cinema with strong interests in regional cinemas, the politics of popular genre cinema, cognitive theory, film and emotion, and film preservation. He is the author of The New Neapolitan Cinema (EUP, 2011), the editor of Archival Film Festivals(StAFS, 2013) and has written numerous articles on cinema from the silent era to ...

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

My work focuses on time, memory, short fiction, writing which falls between the boundaries of genre, historical fiction, and histories of recording and photographic technologies. 

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.