Editorial Team

Cinégraphia: Journal of Literature, Art, and Other Media

Editorial Board

Stella Bruzzi

Stella Bruzzi FBA has been Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Film at University College London (UCL) since 2017 where she is also Professor of Film. Her first academic post was at the University of Manchester, followed by periods at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Warwick, where she also served Chair of the Faculty of Arts from 2008 to 2011. She has published widely in the areas of costume and cinema, documentary (including the influential New Documentary in 2006), gender and masculinity in Hollywood and representations of history, and has, to date, published eight monographs, the last of which was Approximation: Documentary, History and the Staging of Reality (Routledge, 2020). In 2013 she was elected Fellow of the British Academy.

 

Asbjørn Gronstadt

Asbjørn Grønstad is Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, where he is also the director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture. He has published 12 books and over 60 scholarly articles. His most recent monographs are Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity (Palgrave, 2020) and Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State. In 2022, he co-edited, with Lene Johannessen, Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield).

 

David Greven (North Carolina)

David Greven is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He publishes in the fields of nineteenth-century American literature and Film Studies. His books include a volume on the Merchant-Ivory film Maurice (1987) for the revived Queer Film Classics series edited by Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays (McGill-Queens University Press, 2023); Ryan Murphy's Queer America, co-edited with Brenda Weber (Routledge, 2022); Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory (Oxford UP, 2017), Queering the Terminator (Bloomsbury, 2017), and Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity (SUNY Press, 2016). His essays on film have appeared in journals such as Screen, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, JCMS, and The Hitchcock Annual.

 

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (Independent scholar located in Melbourne)

Dr Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an award-winning film critic, author and editor of fourteen books on cult, horror and exploitation film with an emphasis on gender politics. Her 2020 book 1000 Women in Horror is on Esquire magazine's list of the 125 best books about Hollywood, and she is also a columnist at Fangoria magazine, an Adjunct Professor at Deakin University, a top critic at Rotten Tomatoes, a contributing editor at Film International, and a board member of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies (which has branches in LA, New York and London). Alexandra's most recent book, The Cinema Coven: Witches, Witchcraft, and Women’s Filmmaking, was published by McFarland Press in 2024.

 

Hilary Radner (Otago)

Hilary Radner is Emeritus Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Otago and author of three monographs that form a trilogy addressing the formation of feminine identity at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century as it is manifested in a nexus of media forms: Shopping Around: Consumer Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure (Routledge, 1995), Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture (Routledge, 2011), and The New Woman's Film: Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks (Routledge, 2017). She is currently co-editing a volume on Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, due out from Bloomsbury in early 2026.

 

Noa Steimatsky

Noa Steimatsky engages with questions of medium, aesthetics, and cultures of the moving image through specific historical intersections. She has a special interest in film locations, the sense of place, and the vicissitudes of the studio in postwar cinema (especially Italian). Quite distinct is her engagement with the human visage as privileged site of representation. Her most recent monograph, The Face on Film (Oxford University Press, 2017), reflects on the equivocal visuality and illegibility of the face, and the sense of belatedness and loss that distinguishes its post-classical cinematic incarnations.

 

Constantine Verevis (Monash)

Constantine Verevis is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Culture at Monash University, Australia. His work specializes in film theory and cultural studies, and he has a particular interest in media seriality. Has published widely within film, media, and cultural studies, including in leading journals such as Antithesis, Hitchcock Annual, Screen, and Studies in Documentary Film. He is the author of Flaming Creatures (Columbia University Press, 2020) and Film Remakes (Edinburgh University Press, 2005).