Fiona Handyside

Fiona Handyside is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of EXETER. Her research interests include feminist and postfeminist media, girlhood studies, and female film directors across US, UK and European film cultures. She is the author of Girls' Hairstories: Resilience and Sparkle in Contemporary Screen Cultures (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood (IB Tauris, 2017) and Cinema at the Shore: The Beach in French Film (Peter Lang, 2014). 

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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.