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DrFrances Pheasant-Kelly

Reader in Film and Screen Studies

Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences

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  • Reader in Film and Screen Studies
    Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
  • 07484-847133 (Mobile)
  • 01902-323325 (Work)
  • University of Wolverhampton, Department of Film and Media, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 1LY, United Kingdom

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Early Cinema

Space: domestic, institutional, aesthetic, abject, uncanny, socio-cultural and political
American film and British and US television: especially 1960s-70s
Film and Science: ethics, science fiction, medicine, medical humanities and bio-medicine
Cinema, radicalization and terrorism
The Western
Trauma: representation in film and television
Film and fantasy: especially in relation to 9/11

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    The Man Behind Frankestein (C8)
    1 Jun 2025 - 31 Aug 2027
  • GRANT
    The Man Behind Frankestein
    1 Jun 2025 - 31 Aug 2027
  • GRANT
    BA Small Grant 2023
    1 Sep 2023 - 31 Jul 2025
  • GRANT
    One Day Conference - Tim Burton
    1 Jul 2016 - 30 Sep 2018
  • GRANT
    James Whale: from Dudley to Hollywood
    Leverhulme Trust1 Oct 2025 - 30 Sep 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Pheasant-Kelly F,
    • Titley D
  • GRANT
    The inevitability of myth: politics, culture and representation
    University of Wolverhampton15 Mar 2024 - 31 Jul 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Pawlett W,
    • Dhanda MEENA
  • GRANT
    Cuts and Controversy in Pre-Code Hollywood Horror: The Case of James Whale's Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein
    BRITISH ACADEMY1 Sep 2023 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Pheasant-Kelly F
  • GRANT
    Michael and Madonna Marsden Travel Grant
    American Popular Culture Association4 Apr 2023 - 8 Apr 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Pheasant-Kelly F
  • GRANT
    History Is Not Was, History Is: The Legacy of 9/11 Inaugural Conference
    9/11 Memorial Museum1 Jan 2017 - 1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Pheasant-Kelly F
  • GRANT
    ERAS
    University of Wolverhampton1 Feb 2010 - 1 Jun 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Pheasant-Kelly F