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Principal Investigator: Dr Sarah Wright

Dr Sarah Wright is Reader in Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has an established international reputation in the fields of Spanish theatre, cinema and cultural studies. Dr Wright has published three monographs, one coedited book and various articles.

Her most recent book is The Child in Spanish Cinema (Manchester University Press, 2013). Whilst the child is a persistent motif in the cinema of Spain, this is the first book to offer an in-depth analysis of the figure of the child. It draws on recent research in film theory, children’s geographies and memory studies to present a focus on the child and memory in connection with the horrors of Spain’s recent past.

Dr Wright is working closely with Professors Wilson and Hemelryk Donald to define the intellectual questions at the heart of the project. Dr Wright brings experience in the coordination of postgraduate events, work with schools and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Professor Emma Wilson

Professor Emma Wilson is currently Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge. A scholar of film and the visual arts, since 1996, she has published seven research monographs on French literature, French visual culture and international cinema.

In Cinema’s Missing Children (Wallflower Press, 2003), Wilson looked at the figure of the child lost or endangered and at its place in the cinematic imagination, arguing that the child has eclipsed the image of the lady that vanishes. She was concerned in particular with issues of innocence, nostalgia and loss, exploring the emotions gathered in the image of the missing child across first-world and Western cultures.

Professor Wilson brings to the Network the particular impact of her research in areas of feminist and queer theory as they relate to children in cinema.

Professor Stephanie Hemelryk-Donald

Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Professorial Future Fellow at the University of New South Wales. She is a film scholar specialising in childhood, China and comparative world cinemas. She has previously held a Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship at the University of Leeds.

Since 1995 she has published fourteen research books, over thirty book chapters in academic refereed collections as well as twenty-three refereed journal articles. Professor Hemelryk-Donald has worked on the intersection of film, childhood and politics since commencing her doctoral research in 1993. She wrote the first English language book on childhood in Chinese film (2005), which discussed the relationship between ideal childhoods and national identity, emotionality and film, and the new consumption habits of Chinese children in the early twentieth century.

Her current work on the migrant child in film connects explicitly to the network and she involves a team of PhDs and film-makers with expertise in participatory video, guerrilla film-making, and film studies in the network. Her experience as a researcher, a supervisor, and an academic manager, and her long involvement in intellectual pursuits are central to the project. Visit her website at www.stephaniedonald.info

Zitong Qiu

Dr Zitong Qiu is Associate Professor in the School of Media and Design at Ningbo Institute of Technology (NIT), Zhejiang University. Her research interests mainly cover three interdisciplinary areas: youth and childhood (from a cultural-historical approach), cultural theories (in particular Chinese modernism and modernity), and Chinese film studies. She has published work on Chinese youth and media in Cultural Studies, China Media Report and Oxford Bibliographies. She is currently working on her book, Youth and Chinese Modernity, which will be published by Zhejiang University Press in 2014.

Network Facilitator: Carol-Mei Barker (from October 2016)

Dr Carol-Mei Barker completed her PhD in Film Studies in 2015 specialising in contemporary independent Chinese cinema. She went on to produce an award winning short film and as well as supporting the Network, she works at the British Film Institute on film education programmes.

Network Facilitator: Lidia Merás (from March 2016)

Dr Lidia Merás (Royal Holloway, University of London) is a film historian based in London. Among her various contributions to film and contemporary art journals, she serves as the member of the editorial staff of Secuencias, a peer-reviewed film journal published by the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid. She was appointed Network Facilitator of the project in March 2016.

Network Facilitator: Sofia Mason (2014 - February 2016)

Sofia Mason completed her PhD, on Latin American women’s testimonial literature, at the University of Nottingham. Dr Mason was the Network Facilitator of the project, based at Royal Holloway, University of London until February 2016. She was responsible for the day-to-day management of the Network.

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