Please see below for more information and contact details for our Steering Group members who are responsible for various aspects of WFTHN‘s work:
Secretary – Angela Martin (Formerly: Snr Lecturer in Film Practice and Studies, Sheffield Hallam University; film/video editor (freelance); Commissioning Editor Publications, British Film Institute)
Academic/professional interests: creative and/or politically-informed film and art practice; women and film authorship.
Contact: amartin200@yahoo.co.uk
Education Liaison – Lee-Jane Bennion (Portfolio Leader, BA Film and Television Production & Masters Programmes, University of Greenwich)
Academic/professional interests: women in the film and tv industries; postfeminism; women warriors on screen.
Contact: L.BennionNixon@greenwich.ac.uk
Treasurer – Elaine Burrows (British Entertainment History Project BEHP; formerly of the British Film Institute Archive)
Academic/professional interests: British cinema; women’s film and television history; a long-time member of the Board of Cinenova.
Contact: elaine_burrows@hotmail.com
Meetings Co-Ordinator & minutes – Christine Gledhill (Professor, Cinema Studies)
Academic/professional interests: women’s film history; feminist film theory; British cinema – especially but not only 1920s; stars and film performance; melodrama, genre and transnational cinemas.
Contact: christine.gledhill@gmail.com
Membership and Listserv Manager – Shelley Cobb (Associate Professor in Film at University of Southampton) and Angela Martin [acting] (Formerly: Snr Lecturer in Film Practice and Studies, Sheffield Hallam University; film/video editor (freelance); Commissioning Editor Publications, British Film Institute)
Academic/professional interests: women filmmakers (directors, producers, screenwriters); women in contemporary British film industry; film and tv adaptation.
Contact: s.cobb@soton.ac.uk and amartin200@yahoo.co.uk
Website and Social Media Manager – Sarah Louise Smyth (Lecturer in Film, University of Essex).
Academic/professional interests: women filmmakers, particularly in contemporary Britain; representations of women in film and television; feminist film theory; genre theory; Nora Ephron.
Contact: sarah.smyth@essex.ac.uk
TV Blog Series Editor – Laura Minor (Lecturer in Television Studies, University of Salford).
Academic/professional interests: feminist television studies; female authorship; women’s labour in the media industries; comedy; performance; representations of social class; British screen cultures; social realism.
Contact: l.j.minor@salford.ac.uk
Link to website
Link to Twitter
Events Manager – Lizzie Thynne (Emeritus Professor in Media and Film, University of Sussex)
Academic/professional interests: Documentary directing; film programming; curating; life history and auto/biography; female authorship; women’s employment in the screen industries; practice-led research; lesbian representation; photography.
Contact: L.Thynne@sussex.ac.uk
Steering Group Member and Facebook Editor – Janet McCabe (Reader in Television and Film, Studies at Birkbeck, University of London; Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Critical Studies in Television).
Academic/professional interests: feminist film curator (feminist collectives and the TV essay); feminist film and television theories and histories; histories of feminism on television; transnational television and feminism.
Contact: j.mccabe@bbk.ac.uk
Link to website
Link to Critical Studies in Television
Link to CSTonline
Steering Group Member – Yvonne Tasker (Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leeds).
Academic/professional interests: Feminist media studies; gender and sexualities in cinema and culture; women filmmakers and media history; postfeminist culture
Contact: Y.Tasker@leeds.ac.uk
Steering Group Member – Melanie Bell (Associate Professor in Film and Media).
Academic/professional interests: gender and film; women’s film culture; British cinema history; media production; labour and work; oral history; life-story interviews; archival research
Contact: M.J.Bell@leeds.ac.uk
Steering Group Member – Sarah Arnold (Lecturer in Media, Maynooth University).
Academic/professional interests:
Contact: sarah.arnold@mu.ie
For information on the organisers of our past conferences, Doing Women’s Film and Television History (DWFTH), click here
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