Staff in Film and Creative Writing In 'Staff' StaffSupervisors in creative writingSupervisors in film studies Back to 'Film and Creative Writing' Head of Department Professor Luke Kennard Professor of Creative WritingHead of Department of Film and Creative Writing I am an award-winning poet, critic and writer of fiction, publishing on prose poetry and Absurdism in contemporary poetry. Academic staff Dr Isabel Galleymore Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Ecopoetics, environmental writing, and interdisciplinary practice. Dr Lisa Gee Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and Digital Media 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. The ... Dr Dai George Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Poetry) 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. Professor Ruth Gilligan Professor in Creative Writing Contemporary literature, transnational fiction, form and narratology, Irish Studies. Dr Richard House Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Long-form fiction and screenwriting, and I have an interest in writing for new forms (performance, live art, and for digital platforms). Nina Jones Film Technician 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 ... Dr Richard Langley Lecturer in Film Film production; documentary; digital media; audio-visual academia; social action filmmaking. Dr Catherine Lester Lecturer in Film and Television 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 Anna Metcalfe Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Writing Short stories, interculturality, human rights narratives and fiction in translation (especially from French and Mandarin). Dr Chris Nunn Assistant Professor of Film (Education Focused) 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 ... Dr Ellena Savage Teaching Fellow 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. Dr Alaina Schempp Lecturer in Film My academic film research focuses on the temporal nature of the moving image. I’m interested in philosophical and psychological explanations for how timing in movies affect the emotions. Taking an analytic-cognitive approach to the study of emotion in film, I specialise in the micro-analysis of comic and suspense timing in contemporary cinema, especially genres such as comedy, action, ... Professor Rob Stone Professor of Film StudiesCo-director of B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies World Cinema, European Cinema, American Independent Cinema, Spanish, Basque, Cuban and Latin American Cinema, Film Theory. Film and Philosophy, The Politics of Film Aesthetics. Dr Dan Vyleta Reader in Creative Writing and Literary Studies 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. Dr James Walters Reader in Film and Television Studies Fantasy film and television, film aesthetics and close analysis, television studies, political satire, performance, Hollywood, film and television criticism. Dr Christina Wilkins Lecturer in Film and Creative Writing Contemporary film and literature, film genres. Honorary Fellows Dr Elsa Braekkan PayneDr Alex Marlow-Mann
Professor Luke Kennard Professor of Creative WritingHead of Department of Film and Creative Writing I am an award-winning poet, critic and writer of fiction, publishing on prose poetry and Absurdism in contemporary poetry.
Dr Isabel Galleymore Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Ecopoetics, environmental writing, and interdisciplinary practice.
Dr Lisa Gee Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and Digital Media 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. The ...
Dr Dai George Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Poetry) 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.
Professor Ruth Gilligan Professor in Creative Writing Contemporary literature, transnational fiction, form and narratology, Irish Studies.
Dr Richard House Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Long-form fiction and screenwriting, and I have an interest in writing for new forms (performance, live art, and for digital platforms).
Nina Jones Film Technician 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 ...
Dr Richard Langley Lecturer in Film Film production; documentary; digital media; audio-visual academia; social action filmmaking.
Dr Catherine Lester Lecturer in Film and Television 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 Anna Metcalfe Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Writing Short stories, interculturality, human rights narratives and fiction in translation (especially from French and Mandarin).
Dr Chris Nunn Assistant Professor of Film (Education Focused) 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 ...
Dr Ellena Savage Teaching Fellow 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.
Dr Alaina Schempp Lecturer in Film My academic film research focuses on the temporal nature of the moving image. I’m interested in philosophical and psychological explanations for how timing in movies affect the emotions. Taking an analytic-cognitive approach to the study of emotion in film, I specialise in the micro-analysis of comic and suspense timing in contemporary cinema, especially genres such as comedy, action, ...
Professor Rob Stone Professor of Film StudiesCo-director of B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies World Cinema, European Cinema, American Independent Cinema, Spanish, Basque, Cuban and Latin American Cinema, Film Theory. Film and Philosophy, The Politics of Film Aesthetics.
Dr Dan Vyleta Reader in Creative Writing and Literary Studies 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.
Dr James Walters Reader in Film and Television Studies Fantasy film and television, film aesthetics and close analysis, television studies, political satire, performance, Hollywood, film and television criticism.
Dr Christina Wilkins Lecturer in Film and Creative Writing Contemporary film and literature, film genres.