KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Katarzyna Paszkiewicz 

Katarzyna Paszkiewicz is Associate Professor in Film and English Studies at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. Her primary research is in film studies and cultural studies, with an emphasis on women’s cinema in the US. She also has an interest in questions of embodiment, affect, and the senses, as well as in ecological thought. She has published several book chapters and journal articles on Kathryn Bigelow, Andrea Arnold, Sofia Coppola, and Isabel Coixet in Film-Philosophy, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of British Cinema and Television, among others. She has co-edited, with Mary Harrod, Women Do Genre in Film and Television (Routledge, 2017, winner of First Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition), Final Girls, Feminism and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, with Stacy Rusnak), and published her monograph Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (Edinburgh University Press, 2018, Honourable Mention in the ESSE Awards). In May 2020, she was awarded a “Knowledge Generation R&D” Grant to be Principal Investigator on the 3-year research project, “Cinema and Environment: Affective Ecologies in the Anthropocene”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. 

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Shelley Cobb 

Shelley Cobb is Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies at the University of Southampton. She has published widely on women’s cinema in relation to authorship, genre, reception and industry inequality and was the PI on the ARHC-funded project Calling the Shots: women and contemporary film culture in the UK. She is currently Co-I on the ARHC-funded project Women's Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible, led by Prof Helen Hanson at the University of Exeter.