Staff in Film and Creative Writing In 'Staff' StaffSupervisors in creative writingSupervisors in film studies Back to 'Film and Creative Writing' Head of Department Dr Luke Kennard Reader in 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. 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 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 StudiesChair of European Film, Co-Head of Department of Film and Creative Writing Co-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
Dr Luke Kennard Reader in 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.
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 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 StudiesChair of European Film, Co-Head of Department of Film and Creative Writing Co-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.