CONFERENCE DIRECTOR
Paolo Russo
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Oxford Broookes University
Paolo researches and teaches screenwriting, story development and film history. Currently, he is Secretary and Acting Chairperson of the SRN.
He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies (Intellect) and L’Avventura – International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes (Il Mulino). He published a History of Italian Cinema (2008), an edited volume on screenwriting in Italy (2014), articles on the Journal of Screenwriting, and several chapters in edited books (see here).
A former script reader, ghostwriter and story editor for feature, and video-game localizer, he is also a professional screenwriter.
LOGISTICS
Peter Turner
Lecturer in Film, Oxford Brookes University
Peter Turner is the Subject Coordinator for the MSc in Digital Media Production at Oxford Brookes University where he lectures on the Film Studies, Digital Media Production and Media, Communications and Culture courses.
His monograph Found Footage Horror Films: A Cognitive Approach was recently published as part of Routledge Advances in Film Studies
series. He has delivered papers at the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image conferences in London, Helsinki and Montana. His current project examines audience memories of underage film viewing.
FLOOR MANAGER
Maya Nedyalkova
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford Brookes University
Maya earned her BA in Film and Philosophy and MA in Film and Cultural Management and she explored selected transnational aspects of the Bulgarian film industry during her AHRC-funded PhD at the University of Southampton.
Currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, she is investigating the shifting patterns of contemporary Bulgarian film consumption, positioned within global culture and economy.
EDITORIAL
Francesco Sticchi
Associate Lecturer in Film, Oxford Brookes University
Francesco has a Ph.D in Film Studies from Oxford Brookes University. He works as Associate Lecturer in the same institution and at the SAE Institute, and has published the book: Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema: A Spinozian Analysis of Film Experience (Routledge, 2019) in addition to several articles in peer-reviewed journals.
He is interested in the possibility to combine Spinoza’s philosophy with contemporary theories on the ecology of the mind. His current project uses Mikhail Bakhtin’s chronotope to develop an affective-ethical approach to examine how contemporary media culture addresses the concept of precarity.
