Title: Associate Professor, Université de Lille; member of LARCA
Research Themes:
- Film Analysis. Film Theory
- Cinema and Painting. Cinema and Other Art Forms
- Architecture, City, Landscape in Film
- Representation of the American City in Film and Visual Arts
- Oral History of Visual Arts and Cultural Institutions
Current Projects:
- Book project: Visual Arts and the University of Cambridge Today: An Oral History (working title)
- Website on cinema and emotions, and cinema as therapy
Education and Academic Positions:
- Doctorat Études Cinématographiques, Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle. "Figures filmiques : les mondes new-yorkais de Martin Scorsese et Woody Allen ". 2000
- Agrégation in English. 1984
- M.A. in Cinema Studies, New York University. 1978
- Maître de conférences (Associate Professor) in English-Speaking Cinema and American Studies, Université de Lille (2001 - Present)
- PRAG (Professeur Agrégé) in American Civilization, Université de Toulon (2000-2001)
- Instructor in French Cinema, University of Cambridge, UK. (1996-2000)
- Official Fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge (1993-1997)
- Cultural Delegate. Director of the French Cultural Delegation in Cambridge. Cultural Service of the French Embassy (Jan. 1993 - Sept. 1996)
Administrative Responsibilities:
- Responsable des cours de cinéma, Département d’Anglais (Angellier), Université de Lille
Research Supervision:
- English-speaking cinema and TV series: Auteurs, theory, adaptations, genres…
- Cinema and other art forms
- Representation of the US city and landscape in film and other media
Selected Publications:
- Figures filmiques : les mondes new-yorkais de Martin Scorsese et Woody Allen, Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses du Septentrion, 2002.
- Sound, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, reprinted 2007. Co-edited with Henry Stobart.
- “Le spectateur, le monstre et la victime : le point de vue dans Lolita de Stanley Kubrick”, in Didier Machu and Taïna Tuhkunen (eds.), Lolita, roman de Vladimir Nabokov et film de Stanley Kubrick, Paris: Ellipses, 2009, pp. 153-170.
- “David Lynch peintre et cinéaste : corps et espace”, in Patricia-Laure Thivat (CNRS, ARIAS), (ed.), Peintres Cinéastes, Ligeia n° 97-100, 2010, pp. 180-191.
- “Freeze Frame, Photograph, and Re-animation in Martin Scorsese’s Films”, in Laurent Guido and Olivier Lugon (eds.), Between Still and Moving Images: Photography and Cinema in the 20th Century, London: John Libbey Publishing / Indiana University Press, 2012, pp. 291-308.
