My degrees are in English Language and Literature BA Hons (Oxon) 1983; Film Studies MA (UEA) 1986. I also have a doctorate in post war British film which was awarded in 2004 (UEL).

My main areas of teaching and research are in cultural history and theory. I have taught at Birkbeck College, City University, and London Metropolitan in these areas and I have been lecturing at UEL since 1995 in film, media, and modern aesthetics. I have also worked on the production side of the Film and Video undergraduate degree which I validated and led from 2000 to 2006. Currently I teach film history and critical theory in the School of Arts and Digital Industries.

Along with my pastoral tutees from the single honours Film and Video course, I am also personal tutor to Film Studies combined honours students.

Much of my work looks at cultures of class. I have a particular interest in early cinema and in the relationship between film and history. I am also engaged in producing literary texts which explore these fields.

Film and Video; Media Studies

• MS2204 Film and Critical Theory 1
• MS2205 Film and Critical Theory 2
• MS1204 Hollywood Cinema
• MS1202 Early and Silent Film
• MS 3203 Contemporay British Cinema

Current Publications (within last two years) include:

*‘Tragedy, Ethics and History in Contemporary British Social Realist Film’ in British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940, (ed.), David Tucker, Palgrave, 2011

*'Robinson in Ruins: New Materialism and the Archaeological Imagination', in Radical Philosophy, 169, Sepember/October 2011

*'Cultures of Neoliberalism in Contemporary British Film' in Peter Muller (ed) British Cinema Futures ( forthcoming 2012)

I am currently researching a monograph on British Cinema and romanticism.

• Visions of England: Class and Culture in Contemporary Cinema, Berg, 2006.

• ‘Apocalypse, Millennium, Jubilee: Images of Class and Capitalism in Contemporary English Cinema’, in Film International, Vol 2 Issue, 10, 2004.

• ‘Peter Linebaugh’s The London Hanged ‘, in Soundings, Issue 25, Winter 2003.

• Preface to Aftershocks: The End of Style Culture, Wallflower Press, 2002.

• Representations of Class, Capitalism and History in the work of Patrick Keiller’ in Justine Ashby and Andrew Higson (eds.), British Cinema: Past and Present, Routledge, 2000, pp.339-351.

• ‘Heritage Cinema and the Bourgeois Paradigm’, in New Left Review, 224, July/August, 1997, pp.111-126. Read the article: http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=1914

Currently I am Subject External Examiner for the Screen and Performance Panel at the University of the West of Scotland.

Read my account of Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Ruins (2010) in Radical Philosophy