Marketing, Fundraising & Project Management.
Cultural Historian, Writer & Film Specialist.
Film and Media Lecturer (Levels 3 - 6), with additional experience of teaching international students and pastoral tutor responsibilities.
Qualified to teach at FE, HE and Adult level plus Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. Roles inc.
Film Studies Lecturer
Brighton Screen Film School
Lecturer for Research for Practice 3: Politics, Culture and Ideology, a Level 5 module on MA Filmmaking.
Film Studies & Personal Tutor
University of Sussex
International Study Centre (StudyGroup)
Preparing international students for BA/MAs in Film & Media.
Lecturer & Module Co-ordinator
University of Chichester
Taught across a number of film and media modules, was sole lecturer and module co-ordinator for 'TV Cultures' module.
Lecturer & Course Co-ordinator
Chichester College
Part of a team of lecturers on
ND Media Production. Sole lecturer and course co-ordinator for A Level Film Studies.
Lads of the Village: from stage to screen to court
British Silent Film Symposium, Kings College London, April 2018
Making Progress on Progress Films
British Silent Film Symposium, Kings College London, April 2017
Face 2 Face: An examination of the creator and creation in films featuring plastic surgery
(Dis)Connected Forms - Narratives on the Fractured Self Conference, University of Hull, September 2016
Charlie Chaplin and World War One
University of Chichester Research Conference, July 2016
Charlie Chaplin in the British Press
British Silent Film Symposium, Kings College London, April 2016
Alice in Wonderland, a Gothic Perspective
St Mary's University Research Conference, March 2016
Which Way? Film Adaptations of Alice in Wonderland
Wonderlands: Reading/Writing/Telling Fairy Tales and Fantasy Conference, Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairytales & Fantasy, University of Chichester, May 2015
Making a Living: Charlie Chaplin's Finances 1906 – 1916
The Tramp at 100 Conference
Bologna, June 2014
Public Talks
I regularly give illustrated talks to arts venues, cinemas, Women's Institute (WI) and National Women's Register (NWR) groups, local history and literary societies, festivals, libraries and adult education providers.
Whether you're looking for an in-depth exploration of a particular filmmaker, author, literary adaptation or a broader cultural subject, from Gothic fiction to the representation of gender in cinema, I'm happy to tailor or combine topics to suit your audience, programme and timescale.
Below is a selection of talks I have delivered. If you don't see exactly what you're looking for, please get in touch. I'm always happy to discuss bespoke talks and new ideas.
Do get in touch!
Talk Topics
Film Directors and Stars
Agnes Varda - Al Pacino - Alice Guy-Blache - Alfred Hitchcock - Andrea Arnold - Ang Lee - Audrey Hepburn - Baz Luhrmann - Billy Wilder - Buster Keaton - Chantal Akerman - Charlie Chaplin - Charlize Theron - Clio Barnard - Coen Brothers - Deniz Gamze Ergüven - Dorothy Arzner - Dorothy Davenport - Francois Truffaut - Frank Capra - Ida Lupino - Jean-Luc Godard - F W Murnau - Fritz Lang - Howard Hawks - Jafar Panahi - Jane Campion - Joan Morgan - Joanna Hogg - Kathryn Bigelow - Ken Loach - Kevin Smith - Leni Riefenstahl - Lois Weber - Lynne Ramsay - Marilyn Monroe - Martin Scorsese - Mike Figgis - Muriel Box - Nell Shipman - Nicole Kidman - Noel Coward - Mira Nair - Orson Welles - Pedro Almodovar - Quentin Tarantino - Robert de Niro - Sally Potter - Shirley Clarke - Sofia Coppola - Stephen Frears - Steven Soderbergh - Steven Spielberg - Terry Gilliam - Tim Burton - Věra Chytilová - Wes Anderson
Film Genres
Bio-Pics - Christmas - Comedy - Crime - Documentary - Film Noir - Genre Overview - Gothic - Holocaust - Horror - James Bond - Musical - Rom Coms - Sci-Fi - Time Travel - War - Western
General Film
Key Years of Cinema: 1895, 1920, 1939, 1945, 1970, 1995, 1999 and 2020 - Artists on Film - Auteur - Blockbuster - Censorship/Classification - Christmas - Cinemagoing - Fans and Fandom -
Film Form - Gender - Independent Cinema - Hollywood 1967-1977 - Movies About Movies - Objectification - Plastic Surgery (films featuring) - Shocking Cinema - Silent Cinema - Spectatorship - Stars - Studio System - Studying Film - Sussex on Film - Women film directors
From page to screen
Jane Austen: overview or individual titles - Macbeth - Taming of the Shrew - Alice in Wonderland - Les Liaison dangereuses - Stephen King - Wuthering Heights - Dracula - The Phantom of the Opera - Frankenstein - Jekyll & Hyde - The Big Sleep - Rebecca - A Christmas Carol - Daphne Du Maurier - Patricia Highsmith - Graham Greene - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Gothic Overview
International Film
Australia - British - Dogme95 - French New Wave - German 2nd World War - German Expressionism - Hollywood - Iranian - Italian Neo Realism
How Films are Made
Film Form - Cinematography - Costume and Make Up - Editing - Mise en Scene - Music - Performance - Screenwriting - Sound - Stunts - Special Effects
Literature and Culture
Gothic Literature - Mary Shelley - Bram Stoker - Daphne du Maurier - Jane Austen - Charles Dickens - Shakespeare - The Brontes - Women Writers - The Gothic Heroine - The Victorian Ghost Story - Literature and Landscape
Sussex
Writers on/in Sussex: HG Wells, RC Sherriff, Jane Austen etc
Cinema Heritage: living and lost
Sussex on Film: Various coastal and market towns, and stately homes ie Chichester, Bognor Regis, Worthing, Shoreham, Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings, South Downs
"Very illuminating and good fun."
"Really well delivered. Interactive, informed, enthusiastic and fun. First class!."
"Informative, clearly explained. Many opportunities to ask questions and to share knowledge with the group."