Martine Beugnet

Martine Beugnet is Professor in Visual Studies at the Paris Cité University. She is a member of the LARCA-CNRS Research Institute. 

Her research focuses on time-based media, with a special interest in cinema and film-based work including found-footage, installation work and immersive environments. She has curated exhibitions and written articles on a wide range of film and media topics and published several books on cinema in English and French, including Cinema and Sensation (Edinburgh University Press, 2007/2012), Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty (E.U.P, 2017), and Le cinéma et ses doubles (Bord de l’Eau Press, 2021). L’attrait du flou (Yellow Now, 2017) will be published in English by Fordham University Press in 2025. Cowritten with Kriss Ravetto (UCLA), and forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2025, her latest book project focuses on media spectrality.

She co-directs, with Kriss Ravetto, the Edinburgh University Press series Studies in Film and Intermediality, and is a member of the editorial board of the journal NECSUS. 

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 Patricia White

Patricia White is Director of the Aydelotte Foundation for the Liberal Arts and Centennial Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College, where she also chairs the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on feminist, queer and trans film theory, independent filmmaking, and women's genres. Her books include Rebecca (BFI Film Classes); Women's Cinema/World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (Duke University Press), and Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability, and, with Timothy Corrigan, The Film Experience (now in its 6th edition with Bedford St. Martin's). Her recent essays have appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema; Ulrike Ottinger: Film Art, and the Ethnographic Imagination; Studies in World Cinema, and Film Quarterly, on whose editorial board she serves. A member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective, she has edited special issues and dossiers on the work of Chantal Akerman and Barbara Hammer and oversees the Camera Obscura book series with Duke University Press. She is Secretary of the Board of Women Make Movies, the feminist distributor and media arts organization founded in 1972. Her current book project is a study of the language of world cinema in the work of independent US women directors.