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Associate Professor

Connect with Malcolm

Email: m.cook@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Professor of Film

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Michael

Email: m.t.williams@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Lecturer in Film

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Robert

Email: r.j.mills@soton.ac.uk

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Ruby

Email: ruby.cheung@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Head of Department

My interests include women filmmakers, women's films/chick flicks, gender and popular culture (esp Hollywood), celebrity studies, postfeminism and feminism in the media, contemporary Hollywood cinema, film and television adaptation, the figure of the woman author, and reception discourses. I have recently published on black women filmmakers who make romantic comedies, the politics of the chick flick and Trainwreck, and race in the sitcom Friends.
I welcome PhD applications on topics related to any of the above areas.
I have supervised to completion theses on British women directors and cinematic space; women documentarians working across film and television; literary celebrity in the 19th century; contemporary gothic fiction for adolescents, and authorship and adaptation of contemporary children's literature and film. My current PhD students are working on Black women and contemporary Hollywood cinema; Chinese chick flicks; East Asian celebrity and fandom; queer Black cinema; the war on terror and Hollywood cinema; gender and class in amateur filmmaking in the UK 1930-1950.

Connect with Shelley

Email: s.cobb@soton.ac.uk

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