It is with pleasure that we announce that Linda Ruth Williams will be at the Centre for Film and Screen during the Lent term (2019). She is with us thanks to a visiting fellowship at Corpus Christi College. She will be giving a talk in the Film and Screen Studies Research Seminar series on 6 March.Ìý
Linda Ruth Williams is Professor of Film at Exeter University, and is currently Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College.ÌýWhilst at º£½ÇÉçÇø Linda Ruth WilliamsÌýwill be developing aÌýmonograph onÌýwomen writer-directors in twenty-first century British cinema, which deploys original interviews with key filmmakers,Ìýand analyses oral history as process and method in film studies. This work stems from her research as co-investigator of the major 4-year AHRC-funded research project on contemporary women filmmakers,ÌýCalling the Shots: women and contemporary film culture in the UK, 2000-2015. Ìý