Professor of Film Studies

Room: G.O. Jones Building 6.04
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8330
Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 5400
Email: a.f.kuhn@qmul.ac.uk

I took Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Sociology at the University of Sheffield and a PhD on the history of film censorship at the University of London; and embarked on an academic career in 1989, joining the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer in Film and Television Studies in January of that year. I had previously worked as a writer, lecturer and editor, with posts in publishing and television production, and for some years was a lecturer on the (then) Polytechnic of Central London's pioneering part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Film Studies, on which I had been among the first cohort of students.

At Glasgow I was promoted to Reader in Film and Television Studies in 1991, and in 1998 moved to Lancaster University, where I was promoted to Professor of Film Studies in 2000. In 2006 I took up my present appointment at Queen Mary.

I have held Fellowships and Visiting Professorships at the Australian National University's Humanities Research Centre at Mount Holyoke College (as Fulbright Senior Research Scholar), and at Stockholm University; and in 2004 was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

For many years I have been a working co-editor of Screen and am currently on the editorial boards of Secuencias: revista de historia del cine; Journal of British Cinema and Television; Visual Studies; Memory Studies; and Transformations: the Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy; Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research; Film Journal; Aura: Filmvetenskaplig Tidskrift.

Interests

I am interested in supervising research on cultural memory (especially in relation to cinema and/or photography), photography as visual culture, cinema/cultural experience and psychoanalytic theory, and various film history topics; and in conducting workshops, in academic and other contexts, on photography and cultural memory.

Current research and writing includes Transitional Phenomena and Cultural Experience and (with co-author Guy Westwell and contributors Eugene Doyen), The Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies.

Publications include:

• (edited) Screen Theorizing Today: a celebration of Screen's Fiftieth Anniversary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  
  
• Ratcatcher. London: British Film Institute, 2008.
  
  
• (edited with Kirsten Emiko McAllister) Locating Memory: Photographic Acts. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.
  
  
• (edited, with Catherine Grant) Screening World Cinema: a Screen Reader. London: Routledge, 2006
  
  
• Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination. revised edition. London: Verso, 2002.
  
  
• An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002. Published in the USA as Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
  
  
• (edited) Alien Zone II: the Spaces of Science Fiction Cinema. London: Verso, 1999.
  
  
• (edited, with Jackie Stacey) Screen Histories: a Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  
  
• (edited) Queen of the Bs: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera. Bradford-on-Avon: Flicks Books; New York: Praeger, 1995.
  
  
• Women’s Pictures: Feminism and Cinema, second edition. London: Verso, 1994.
  
  
• (edited) Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. London: Verso, 1990.
  
  
• Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality. London: Routledge, 1988.
  
  
• The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985
  
  
  
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