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Professor Fiona Handyside
Associate Professor in Film Studies
Extension: 4208
Telephone: 01392 724208
I grew up in Paignton, Devon, and was educated at the Universities of Southampton, Nottingham, Strasbourg and London. I also worked for a year as a Lectrice at Universite Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux. I was appointed as a Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen's University Belfast in 2002, and returned to my home roots to work as a Lecturer in Film Studies at Exeter in 2007. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in January 2013.
My recent book publications are:
- Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood (I.B. Tauris, 2017)
- Cinema at the Shore: The Beach in French Cinema (Peter Lang, 2014)
- International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts co-edited with Kate Taylor-Jones (Palgrave, 2015)
- Eric Rohmer: Interviews (University of Mississippi Press, 2013). This appeared in Korean translation in 2017, translated by RHEE Soue-won.
In 2018-2019, I will hold a Leverhulme International Academic Fellowship on French Girlhoods on Screen: Emotions and/of Places