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Staff Profile

Professor Guy Austin

Professor of French Studies

  • Address: Professor of French Studies
    School of Modern Languages
    Â鶹´«Ã½
    Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne NE1 7RU

Background

I have been Professor of French Studies at Â鶹´«Ã½ since 2010.

I was Director of the Research Centre for Film & Digital Media from its establishment in 2011 until 2016.

Before coming to Â鶹´«Ã½, I worked in the French Department at the University of Sheffield.

My PhD is from Leeds and my degree from Oxford. 

My hobbies are painting, jogging, and listening to music from the 1970s.

Research

My main research areas are Algerian cinema, Algerian cultures and politics, plus French cinema since the 1960s (especially fantasy genres).

I have recently been Principal Investigator on a major AHRC project called Screening Violence: a Transnational Study of Post-Conflict Imaginaries, which began in spring 2018 and concluded in autumn 2023. We used film reception as a means to elicit stories of conflict and transition to peace in communities with recent experience of civil conflict, namely: Algeria, Argentina, Colombia, Indonesia and Northern Ireland. The digital follow-on (Refracted Violence, also sponsored by the AHRC) will presents video stories of conflict on an interactive website.

The other investigators on the SV project are Dr Nick Morgan and Dr Philippa Page (Â鶹´«Ã½, SML), Dr Simon Philpott (Â鶹´«Ã½, GPS), Dr Roddy Brett (Bristol) and Professor Brandon Hamber (Ulster). We also work with partner academics and filmmakers in each of the five countries. My colleague Gemma McKinnie (SML) is co-investigator on RV.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Austin G. . Modern and Contemporary France 2024, 32(4), 445-459.
    • Austin G, McKinnie G. . Contemporary French Civilization 2023, 48(2), 133-151.
    • Austin G, McKinnie G. . French Cultural Studies 2022, 33(4), 315-327.
    • Austin G. . French Cultural Studies 2019, 30(1), 34-43.
    • Austin G. . Studies in French Cinema 2015, 15(2), 156-167.
    • Austin G. . Screen 2014, 55(1), 73-83.
    • Austin G. . L'Esprit Createur 2012, 52(2), 99-113.
    • Austin G. . Modern & Contemporary France 2011, 19(2), 195-208.
    • Austin G. . Journal of African Cinemas 2010, 2(1), 27-35.
    • Austin G. . Screen 2007, 48(4), 529-536.

  • Authored Books

    • Austin G. . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012.
    • Austin G. . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008.
    • Austin G. . London; New York: Arnold; Oxford University Press, 2003.

  • Book Chapters

    • Austin G. . In: Hodgin N; Thakkar A, ed. Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp.31-52.
    • Austin G. Mohamed Chouikh: from anti-colonial commemoration to a cinema of contestation. In: Gugler, J, ed. Ten Arab Filmmakers. Bloomington, IA: Indiana University Press, 2015, pp.166-187. Submitted.
    • Austin G. . In: Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphaelle Moine, Hilary Radner, ed. A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2015, pp.275-288.
    • Austin G. . In: Austin, J, ed. New Spaces for French and Francophone Cinema. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, pp.115-125.

  • Edited Books

    • Yu SQ, Austin G, ed. . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
    • Austin G, ed. . New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2016.

  • Editorial

    • Austin G, Martin F. . Studies in French Cinema 2013, 13(3), 193-196.