Role
I am a Senior Lecturer and Subject Coordinator for the MA in Film Studies: Popular Cinema.
I studied Film and Drama at Bulmershe College, Reading (BA Hons, 1983) and completed a PhD in Film Studies, University of Warwick (1990).
Teaching and supervision
Modules taught
I have taught for many years across the Film programme at Brookes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level on subjects ranging from introductory film analysis, film genre, realism and documentary, dissertation supervision and world cinema. At present, I am Module Leader for Framing Film Analysis, Global Film and TV Cultures and also the postgraduate module Popular European Cinema.
My teaching background also includes twenty years of adult education classes in Film Studies for Oxford University’s Dept. Of Continuing Education.
Research
My research interests currently include aspects of international cinema such as Nordic Noir but have always centred on film genre. I have published on Body Horror, and more recently contributed essays on television and film Science Fiction to edited book collections on the subject.
Publications
Further details
I have been a professional blues guitarist and I am a member of the Brookes steering committee for promoting the Paul Oliver Collection of Blues documents currently housed in Brookes’ Special Collections Archive.