Centre for International Film Research

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Berenike Jung

Lecturer in Film

Research interests

  • Global and Transnational cinema, especially of the Global South
  • Politics of memory, ethics, agency and political cinema
  • Documentary film and theory

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Beth Carroll

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Sound
  • Music
  • Space

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Dr Dominic Topp

Teaching Fellow in Film

Research interests

  • Historical poetics of cinema
  • Classical French cinema
  • History and sociology of cinephilia

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Eleonora Sammartino

Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Hollywood musical
  • Popular genres in US film and media
  • Postfeminism and Popular Feminism in contemporary media
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Dr Elija Cassidy

Associate Professor in Media

Research interests

  • Gender and sexuality
  • Digital media

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Huw Jones

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Contemporary European cinema
  • Film industries (production, distribution, exhibition, policy)
  • Audiences

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Jaap Verheul

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Film and media industries
  • British, European and American cinema
  • Gender and masculinity

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Jara Fernandez-Meneses

Lecturer in Film

Research interests

  • Film policy 
  • Film industry 
  • Contemporary European cinema

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Kevin Donnelly

Professor of Film & Film Music

Research interests

  • Music and sound in audiovisual culture
  • Film theory and aesthetics
  • Horror films and culture
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Dr Louis Bayman

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Popular genres
  • Film aesthetics
  • Italian cinema

Accepting applications from PhD students

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