Staff in Film and Creative Writing

I am an award-winning poet, critic and writer of fiction, publishing on prose poetry and Absurdism in contemporary poetry.

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

Ecopoetics, environmental writing, and interdisciplinary practice.

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 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 ...

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 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, ...

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.