DrFrances Pheasant-Kelly

Reader in Film and Screen Studies

Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences

  • 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

TEACHING INTERESTS

Fran has taught on the following MA Film and Screen modules:
7FI001 Screens of Terror Post 9/11
7FI003 Space, Place and Culture in American Cinema
7FI006 Screening Horror: Trauma, Fear and Fantasy
7FI007 Becoming an Academic
7FI008 MA Film and Screen Thesis
7FI016 Film Journalism

She currently supervises 14 doctoral students, and has supervised 10 to completion with examples including the following:
Early film and its relationship to musical theatre
Trauma and documentary inserts in post-9/11 cinema
Dementia and filmmaking practice
Musical soundtrack and identity in the films of Wes Anderson
The films of Andrea Arnold
Television stardom
Children and the films of Tim Burton
Space and identity in post-9/11 combat films
Early television and Gothic horror
Transhumanism, post-humanism, and anti-humanism in twenty-first century science fiction cinema

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    SEMIOTIC KINGSHIP DURAGS, BLACK MEN AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
    30 Oct 2025
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring Mental Health Representation in Film and Television
    1 Aug 2025 - 1 Aug 2028
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Online Prolificity and Online Content Creators
    1 Aug 2025 - 1 Aug 2027
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring the Engagement of Black Cinema Audiences
    1 Apr 2025 - 1 Apr 2028
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Eightiesification of Culture
    1 Feb 2025 - 1 Feb 2029
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Hybrid Hard Bodies and Reel Masculinities: Hollywood Heroes after 9/11
    19 Dec 2024
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A Genealogy of Toxic Masculinity: Desire, Seduction and Transgression
    1 Dec 2024 - 1 Apr 2031
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Portrayals of Remembrance: Representations of Individual Memory in Contemporary Cinema
    2 Oct 2024
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Overlapping Oppressions Uncaged: A feminist exploration into the intersecting oppressions of women and non-human animals in contemporary UK society.
    1 May 2024 - 30 Apr 2027
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Firing the Canon: Carnival, Entertainment and Shakespeare
    28 Aug 2023
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Cultural Influence of Japanese and American Animation on Saudi Students
    1 Mar 2023 - 1 Mar 2027
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Recalling Trauma: The Legacy of Slavery and Colonialism in Contemporary Black Women’s Fiction
    20 Feb 2023
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Representations of Individual Memory in Contemporary Cinema
    26 May 2022
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Non-binary Protagonists in Musical Theatre, Film and Television
    1 Sep 2021 - 1 Sep 2024
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Diagnosing Abjection in Middle Eastern Women's Writing
    15 Jul 2021
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Fine Art and Aesthetics in Post-9/11 Hollywood Science Fiction and Fantasy Films
    1 Mar 2021 - 1 Mar 2027
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Politics and Poetics of Animated Cartoons 1990-2020
    1 Feb 2021 - 31 Jan 2024
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Death and Gender in the Slasher Film
    1 Nov 2020 - 1 Dec 2026
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The 'Netflixisation' of Contemporary Cinematic Culture
    1 Nov 2020 - 1 Sep 2027
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Representations of the British ‘Roadman’ Stereotype on Screen
    1 Oct 2020 - 1 Sep 2027
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Femininity and Sexual Difference in 90s Pop Culture
    1 Jun 2020 - 1 Jun 2026
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Animation and Transitional Narratives in Japanese Cinema
    1 Mar 2020 - 1 Mar 2026
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Innovative Representations of Trauma: Trauma in Popular Culture
    11 Nov 2019
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Gender Identity and Body Dysmorphia in Children’s Films
    1 Oct 2019 - 1 Oct 2025
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Producing the Translators of Tomorrow: Designing a Student-Centred and Competence-Based Translation Curriculum for Saudi Universities
    26 Sep 2019