Jennifer O’meara
Associate Lecturer
Department of Film Studies
University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
Biography
I hold a PhD in Film Studies from Trinity College Dublin. Prior to joining St Andrews in 2016, I taught at Maynooth University, the National University of Ireland, Galway, and Trinity College Dublin. My monograph Engaging Dialogue: Cinematic Verbalism in American Independent Cinema is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. I am currently working on a book on women’s voices in contemporary film, television and digital media. My teaching and research is increasingly concerned with the intersections between film and digital media, as well as between theory and creative practice—including audiovisual essays and film festivals as teaching sites. I have taught and supervised research on the theory and practice of videographic film studies, as well as giving guest workshops on the subject. Since 2015, I’ve served as a co-organiser and programmer for the Feminist Film Festival Dublin. Further details on my work can be found through my website.
Research Interest
My research and teaching interests include film dialogue, sound and music; American independent cinema; fandom; digital media; contemporary authorship; performance and stardom; and women in cinema.
Publications
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What “The Bechdel Test†Doesn’t Tell Us: Examining Women’s Verbal and Vocal (Dis)Empowermentâ€, Feminist Media Studies, Commentary and Criticism section on ‘Feminism and Sound’, Vol 16, Issue 6 (2016): 120-123.
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Parker Posey as Hal Hartley’s ‘‘Captive Actress’’’ in Steven Rybin, ed. The Cinema of Hal Hartley: Flirting with Formalism (Directors’ Cuts Series), Wallflower, Columbia University Press: 144-158, 2016
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The Actor-Writer as Author in the Before Sunrise Trilogy’, Mediascape: UCLA’s Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, special edition on The Question of Authorship in Cinema and Media, summer 2017.
