Mark Shiel

Biography

"PhD in Film Studies, Birkbeck College/British Film Institute, University of London (1999) BA in English Literature and Drama Studies, Trinity College Dublin (1994) Previously Lecturer in Film Studies, Department of History of Art and Film, University of Leicester (2001-04); Lecturer in Film Studies, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University (2000-01); and Faculty of Arts Fellow, Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin (1997-2000) Visiting Research Fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University (2006-07) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow (2003-04) Visiting Scholar in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles (2003-04)"   "PhD in Film Studies, Birkbeck College/British Film Institute, University of London (1999) BA in English Literature and Drama Studies, Trinity College Dublin (1994) Previously Lecturer in Film Studies, Department of History of Art and Film, University of Leicester (2001-04); Lecturer in Film Studies, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University (2000-01); and Faculty of Arts Fellow, Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin (1997-2000) Visiting Research Fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University (2006-07) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow (2003-04) Visiting Scholar in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles (2003-04)"  

Research Interest

"history and geography of film and visual culture in the United States  cinema and the city (especially Los Angeles) Italian neorealism the road movie cinema and radical politics (especially circa 1968) critical theory"