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CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL FILM RESEARCH (CIFR)
CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL FILM RESEARCH (CIFR)

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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; Audiovisual aesthetics in postcinematic configurations;  Decolonising Film Studies and Film Education. 

Dr Beth Carroll

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Sound
  • Music
  • Space

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: e.carroll@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)

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

Dr Eleonora Sammartino

Teaching Fellow

Research interests

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

Email: e.sammartino@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)

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Dr Elija Cassidy

Associate Professor in Media

Dr Huw Jones

Lecturer B

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: h.d.jones@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)

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Dr Jaap Verheul

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Jaap would particularly welcome PhD supervision in the following areas of interest:
  • Film and media industries
  • British, European and American cinema

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Jara Fernandez-Meneses

Lecturer in Film

Research interests

  • Film policy 
  • Film industry 
  • Contemporary European cinema

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.m.fernandez-meneses-de-orozco@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)

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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

Email: k.j.donnelly@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)

Dr Louis Bayman

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Popular genres
  • Film aesthetics
  • Italian cinema

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: l.d.bayman@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)

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