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 Richard Langley Head of Department of Film and Creative WritingAssociate Professor in Film With an academic grounding in American and Canadian Studies, and professional experience of television and film production, I am interested in multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and research. In particular, I am keen to develop a fusion of theory and practise by way of a multifaceted audio-visual academia that can function as a versatile teaching tool, and as a mode of publication and ... Academic staff Dr Kavita Bhanot Teaching Fellow I am a writer, translator, editor, researcher and organiser. I have edited three short-story collections, including Too Asian, not Asian Enough and Book of Birmingham. I also co-edited Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation with translator Jeremy Tiang and my translation of Anjali Kajal’s Hindi stories Ma is Scared was published recently. My work unpacks how literature can perpetuate ... 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 Professor Max Saunders of the digital publication Ego Media: life writing and online affordances (Stanford University Press, 2023). She has contributed a chapter – ‘Digital Editions: rethinking how we preserve, present and explore literary correspondences’ – to the Routledge Companion to Literary Media (August ... 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 Manager As the department's Film Manager my work focuses on making sure all the students have access to the best filmmaking equipment and professional expertise we can offer, as well as managing these resources by keeping them aligned with the evolving digital media landscapes. I also have a lead role in teaching the students how to use anything from cameras, microphones and lenses all the way ... Professor Luke Kennard Professor of Creative Writing Prose poem, Absurdist and Surrealist technique in contemporary poetry, Transatlantic influence and publishing trends in contemporary British poetry Dr Catherine Lester Associate Professor 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 Carleigh Morgan Assistant Professor in Film Animation, production studies, new media, cinematic materiality, video games, film history, feminist theory, labour, art history, digital culture, visual effects, expanded cinemas, and philosophies of film and media. 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 Bohdan Piasecki Assistant Professor I am a poet with a background in performance and interests in multilingualism/translation, site specific work, and hybrid storytelling. 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 cognition, emotions, and timing in moving images. I specialise in the micro-analysis of comic and suspense timing in contemporary cinema, especially genres such as comedy, action, horror, and the suspense-thriller. My other research interests include analytic-cognitive media studies (e.g. video games, comics, and online video) as well as analytic-cognitive ... 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. Professor James Walters Professor of Screen Aesthetics and Criticism 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, television, and literature. I have a particular research focus on adaptation studies and mental health, as well as queer representation and the body. Ella Wright Digital and Media Technician As Digital and Media Technician, I work across Film and Creative Writing, English Literature and Language and Linguistics, Drama and Theatre Arts, Shakespeare Institute and Digital Media and Communications, to make sure students have access to the best filmmaking equipment and professional expertise we can offer, as well as managing these resources by keeping them aligned with the evolving ... Honorary Fellows Dr Elsa Braekkan PayneDr Alex Marlow-Mann
Dr Richard Langley Head of Department of Film and Creative WritingAssociate Professor in Film With an academic grounding in American and Canadian Studies, and professional experience of television and film production, I am interested in multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and research. In particular, I am keen to develop a fusion of theory and practise by way of a multifaceted audio-visual academia that can function as a versatile teaching tool, and as a mode of publication and ...
Dr Kavita Bhanot Teaching Fellow I am a writer, translator, editor, researcher and organiser. I have edited three short-story collections, including Too Asian, not Asian Enough and Book of Birmingham. I also co-edited Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation with translator Jeremy Tiang and my translation of Anjali Kajal’s Hindi stories Ma is Scared was published recently. My work unpacks how literature can perpetuate ...
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 Professor Max Saunders of the digital publication Ego Media: life writing and online affordances (Stanford University Press, 2023). She has contributed a chapter – ‘Digital Editions: rethinking how we preserve, present and explore literary correspondences’ – to the Routledge Companion to Literary Media (August ...
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 Manager As the department's Film Manager my work focuses on making sure all the students have access to the best filmmaking equipment and professional expertise we can offer, as well as managing these resources by keeping them aligned with the evolving digital media landscapes. I also have a lead role in teaching the students how to use anything from cameras, microphones and lenses all the way ...
Professor Luke Kennard Professor of Creative Writing Prose poem, Absurdist and Surrealist technique in contemporary poetry, Transatlantic influence and publishing trends in contemporary British poetry
Dr Catherine Lester Associate Professor 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 Carleigh Morgan Assistant Professor in Film Animation, production studies, new media, cinematic materiality, video games, film history, feminist theory, labour, art history, digital culture, visual effects, expanded cinemas, and philosophies of film and media.
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 Bohdan Piasecki Assistant Professor I am a poet with a background in performance and interests in multilingualism/translation, site specific work, and hybrid storytelling.
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 cognition, emotions, and timing in moving images. I specialise in the micro-analysis of comic and suspense timing in contemporary cinema, especially genres such as comedy, action, horror, and the suspense-thriller. My other research interests include analytic-cognitive media studies (e.g. video games, comics, and online video) as well as analytic-cognitive ...
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.
Professor James Walters Professor of Screen Aesthetics and Criticism 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, television, and literature. I have a particular research focus on adaptation studies and mental health, as well as queer representation and the body.
Ella Wright Digital and Media Technician As Digital and Media Technician, I work across Film and Creative Writing, English Literature and Language and Linguistics, Drama and Theatre Arts, Shakespeare Institute and Digital Media and Communications, to make sure students have access to the best filmmaking equipment and professional expertise we can offer, as well as managing these resources by keeping them aligned with the evolving ...