People
ANLU gathers scholars from different departments like LICA (Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts) and Sociology, and it is open to all. If you want to join, get in touch!
Dr Dalila Missero
Dalila Missero works as a lecturer in film studies at Lancaster University (Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts). Her research interests include feminist filmmaking, critical archival studies, audiences, digital humanities, and transnational cinema. In 2022, she published her first monograph Women, Feminism, and Italian Cinema. Archives from a Film Culture (Edinburgh University Press), which won the runner-up award of the BAFTSS 2023 Publication Awards.
Dr Maryam Ghorbankarimi
Maryam Ghorbankarimi is a film practice lecturer in film studies at Lancaster University (Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts). Her research is focused on representation women both in front of and behind the camera (A Colourful Presence; The Evolution of Women’s Representation in Iranian Cinema (2015)). Her current research is on transnational cinemas and cultures and audiences. Her second book, the edited volume on seminal Iranian female filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad, ReFocus: The Works of Rakhshan Banietemad (2021) was published in spring 2021 (Edinburgh University Press).
Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li
Eva Cheuk-Yin Li is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in the Sociology Department. She is a global media and cultural researcher with research interests in queer fandom, East and Southeast Asian popular culture, and gender and sexuality. She has previously published articles about the queer fandom of the first publicly-out lesbian singer, Denise Ho (HOCC), in the Sinophone world and the nostalgic fandom of a disappeared urban anarchy in colonial Hong Kong. She is the assistant editor of Media,Culture & Society, and is currently researching queer media in Southeast Asia and the geopolitics of fandom in Sinophone Asia.Dr Naomi Jacobs
Naomi is Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking at Lancaster University, researching technology and society, and the nature of digital public spaces. Naomi’s work focuses primarily on interaction; between individuals, communities, disciplines or sectors, and between people and technology and the media they consume. Much of her current research uses speculative methods such as design fiction to think about what possible futures might look like. She has an interest in fan studies and has published on topics such as livestreaming of fan conventions, intergenerational experiences of Doctor Who on Twitch, and interdisciplinary methodologies in fan studies
Dr Yael Friedman
Yael Friedman is a Principal Lecturer and Academic Lead, Media and Screen Studies and Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research (FDPGR) at University of Portsmouth. He research focused on combining film scholarship, critic and practice. Her specific areas of expertise include World/transnational cinemas, Middle Eastern cinema and documentary theory and practice.
Dr Vincent M. Gaine
Vincent M. Gaine is a film scholar whose research focuses on the intersection of globalisation, liminality and identity politics on screen. He has published on contemporary filmmakers including Michael Mann, James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow, as well as the superhero and spy genres. He is currently researching nostalgic espionage as part of a research network on the legacy of 9/11 in screen culture.
Vincent is also a film critic and podcaster, and his work can be found on his blog, Vincent’s Views. https://vincentmgaine.wordpress.com/
Zoe Crombie
Zoe Crombie is an associate lecturer and PhD candidate in Film Studies at Lancaster University, currently researching Studio Ghibli’s interpretations of Western literature. She has work on anime published in journals including IDEA, Consumption and Society, and the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (for which she is also a reviewer), and has presented her ideas at conferences like BAFTSS 2022 and Mechademia 2023. In addition to academic work, Zoe is a critic and member of the OAFFC (Online Association of Female Film Critics) and GALECA (The Society for LGBTQ+ Critics). In this context, she has written on Japanese animation for publications like Vulture, Little White Lies, and The Skinny.Dr Patricia Prieto-Blanco
Patricia Prieto-Blanco works as a lecturer in Digital Media Practice in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Her interdisciplinary and practice-oriented expertise includes visual research methods, image-based activism and media practices in the context of migration and kinship.
Dr Debra Ferreday
Debra is a senior lecturer at Lancaster Univeristy. She is a feminist cultural theorist with strong research interests in gender, feminist theory, sexuality, critical race theory, queer theory and embodiment. Her research engages with embodied and social aspects of new media and digital cultures, celebrity culture, media and violence, fan studies, sexuality studies and mad studies.