Screen Studies Group

The Screen Studies Group was founded in 2001 to serve the varied interests of academic staff and postgraduate students who work on screen-related research across the University of London.

Staff from King’s College London, Queen Mary, UCL, Birkbeck, Royal Holloway, SOAS, the LSE and Goldsmiths formed the Group for two reasons.  Firstly, we were aware that the field of study conventionally thought of as Cinema Studies was too narrow to deal with the expanding scope of the way screen media pervade everyday life given the digital turn.

New ideas and methods were urgently required to look at moving image matter in a number of evolving formats with their varied aesthetics, infrastructures, and technologies.  As leading figures in the field, we wanted to be at the cutting edge of the many new issues that emerged with these changes.  Secondly, because we belonged to a wide variety of Departments, including languages and art history, as well as media, we needed a place to focus on our key issues.  This kind of loosely structured consortium allowed us to create events and postgraduate training sessions for students who too were otherwise scattered across various departments around London.

As the subject continues to expand, covering topics from algorithms to archaeology, it is ever more pressing to have a place where researchers can come together to meet the shifting challenges of the field.

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Who we are

The Head of the Screen Studies Group is Dr Rachel Moore at Goldsmiths, University of London. Please direct any queries about the Screen Studies Group to Dr Rachel Moore: r.o.moore (@gold.ac.uk).

Each other participating institution has its own representative. Currently, these are:

• Professor Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck
• Dr Emma Sandon, Birkbeck
• Professor Chris Berry, King’s College
• Dr Virginia Crisp, King's College
• Dr Manishita Dass, Royal Holloway
• Dr Lindiwe Dovey, SOAS
• Dr Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary
• Professor Shakuntala Banaji, LSE
• Dr Keith Wagner, UCL

Student Representatives:

• Joe Jackson, SOAS
• Tashi Peter, QMUL
• Archie Wolfman, QMUL
• Alex Frohlick, Goldsmiths
• Meng Liang, UCL

University of London Screen Studies Group notes the implications for staff and student safety and for academic freedom of the 2020 National Security Law in Hong Kong, and we endorse the Association of Asian Studies statement.

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