Title: Professor in Visual Studies
Research Themes:
- Cinema and video art (phenomenology, aesthetics, reception)
- Forms and pratices of the moving image in the era of the digital
- Image and scale (visual culture and « Gulliverisation »)
- Technology, image and estrangement
- Cinema and intermediality
Current Projects:
- Two ongoing book projects: « Body and Screen » (phenomenology, aesthetics and practices of the moving image in the era of the digital), and « Le cinéma et ses doubles » (Bord de l’Eau, usages des patrimoines numérisés)
- Recent Conference Papers:
Dream Screen: Cinema, painting, and the attraction of blur (Cambridge, September 2017); Big Screen, Small Screens: Intermedial Encounters across the Scales (Vienne, Film and Art, June 2017); Digital Limbos. On Moving Images in Digital Film Menus (Necs, 2017), (S)wipe: Violence and the User Interface (IAMHIST, July 2017)
Education and Academic Positions:
- Since Septembre 2012 : Professor in Visual Studies, University of Paris 7 Diderot
- 2008 - 2012: Professor in Film Studies, University of Edinburgh
- 2005 - 2008: Reader in Film Studies, University of Edinburgh
- 1999 - 2005: Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Edinburgh
- 1997-1999: Lecturer in Film Studies, Université de Northumbria, Newcastle
- 1999 : PhD in Film Studies, « Framing the Other », University of Edinburgh
- 1995-1997: Lecturer in Film Studies, Edinburgh School of Arts and University of Glasgow
- 1989-1996 : Arts Officer, Institut français d’Ecosse, Edinburgh
Administrative Responsibilites:
- Chair of the Department of English Studies
- Co-director of udpn (Usages des patrimoines numérisés, SPC project)
- Co-director, with Emmanuelle André (Paris 7 Diderot), Nicole Vincent (Paris Descartes) and Camille Kurtz (Paris Descartes) of the Technological Uncanny project
- Co-director, with Kriss Ravetto (U.C.Davis) of the Film and Intermediality, E.U.P. series.
- Co-director, with Baptiste Bohet (Paris 3) of the Usages des patrimoines numérisés, Bord de l’Eau book series.
Research Supervision:
- Cinema and video art (phenomenology, aesthetics, reception)
- Forms and practices of the moving image in the era of the digital
- Contemporary Art Institutions
- Intermediality …
Sélection de publications:
- L’attrait du flou, Yellow Now, 2017
- Indefinite Visions : Cinema and the attractions of uncertainty, with A.Cameron and A.Fetveit, Edinburgh University Press, 2017
- “The reflexive turn: mediating and .remediating Hollywood”, co-edited with Jane Sillars, Screen 58, 2017
- Cinema and Sensation – French Film and the Art of Transgression, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-2042-5, 2007 and 2012
- Proust at the Movies, with Marion Schmid, Ashgate, ISBN: 0 7546 3541 4, 2005.
