Dr Catherine Grant

Biography

Catherine Grant studied Modern Languages and Literatures (French and Spanish) at the University of Leeds (1982-86), and gained a PhD from the same university (1987-1991) with a thesis on issues of authorship and feminism in Mexican fiction. She was appointed Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow in 1991, and later was made Director of its Postgraduate Programme in Women's Studies, until 1998 when she took up a post in Film Studies at the University of Kent. 

At Kent, she taught courses on such topics as world cinema, European cinema, film studies methodologies, individual film directors, 'border crossings' in American cinema, and, latterly, a highly successful practical module in film programming. Between 2003 and 2007, she was Director of the Kent Film Studies Department; she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2004.

After ten rewarding years at Kent, Grant moved to East Sussex to focus on research and writing. She was a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Media, Film & Music at Sussex between 2008 and February 2011, when she was appointed to her current Senior Lectureship in Film Studies in this School.

Grant has also given lectures and researched at universities in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Canada, the USA, Spain and France. She is a member of the editorial advisory boards of the following academic journals: Screen (since 1995); and Studies in Hispanic Cinemas (since 2003); she has advised Manchester University Press on their book series Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers since 2002; and, since 2008, she has been a member of the advisory board of the University of St Andrews Dynamics of World Cinema: Transnational Channels of Global Film Distribution project. In February 2012, she was invited to join the advisory boards of Frames Cinema Journal and the JISC MediaHub.

In August 2008, Grant created Film Studies For Free, a regularly updated web-archive of links to, and comment on, online, Open Access, film and moving image studies resources of note. The website, with its associated micro-blogs, has a large international readership, including almost 9,000 regular subscribers. Her research blog Filmanalytical can be found here; and Audiovisualcy, the film studies video essay group forum that she curates is here.

On February 24, 2012, Grant gave a lecture and workshop in the University of Sussex Decoding the Digital Humanities series, entitled "Reborn Digital? Film and Moving Image Studies". Her presentation slides may be viewed here.

Catherine Grant's current work centres on three main areas:

• Digital media object relations, including research by practice of the scholarly potential for immersive Fllm Studies offered by the online digital video essay form. For example,
  • Touching the Film Object? On Haptic Criticism (also see ImPersona)
  • True Likeness: on Peeping Tom and Code Unknown Also published in Spanish: "Extraño parecido: El fotográfo del pánico y Código desconocido" in TRANSIT CINE, September 13, 2011
  • Garden of Forking Paths? A real-time space for comparison of a sequence in the sound and silent versions of Hitchcock's Blackmail. Also published at the MUBI Notebook, March 12, 2012
  • La cueca chilena: Raúl Ruiz's Exilic Seductions in "Raúl Ruiz, Memories, 60s, 70s", MUBI Notebook, September 27, 2011
  • Unsentimental Education: on Claude Chabrol's Les Bonnes femmes
  • Establishing Split: on Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream
  • Video Primer: Refashioning the Femme Fatale? Gilda in Motion
  • Video Primer: Framing Incandescence: Elizabeth Taylor as 'Helen Burns' in Jane Eyre
• Film directing in contemporary world cinema and questions of authorship or auteurism;
• Recognition as concept, practice, motif, and scene in films and other audiovisual culture.

She is also researching practices and theories of film and video curation and programming, especially in online contexts.

Grant, Catherine (2011) "El fotógrafo del pánico / Código desconocido [True Likeness: On Peeping Tom and Code Unknown]", TRANSIT CINE. [Image]

Grant, Catherine (2008) Auteur machines? Auteurism and the DVD. In: Film and Television After DVD. Routledge, pp. 101-115. ISBN 0-415-96241-2

Kuhn, A (2006) Screening World Cinema: A Screen Reader. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-38428-1

Kuhn, Annette and Grant, Catherine (2006) Screening world cinema. In: Screening world cinema: a Screen reader. Screen readers . Routledge. ISBN 0415384281

Grant, Catherine (2004) Home-Movies: The Curious Cinematic Collaboration of Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Luc Godard. Black Dog Publishing.

Grant, Catherine (2003) Still Moving Images: Images of the Disappeared in Films about the Dirty War in Argentina. In: Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography & Narrative. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0826328253

Grant, Catherine (2002) La función de "los autores": la adaptación cinematográfica transnacional de El lugar sin límites. Revista Iberoamericana, 68 (199). pp. 253-268. ISSN 0034-9631

Grant, Catherine (2002) Recognizing Billy Budd in Beau Travail: Epistemology and Hermeneutics of an Auteurist "Free" Adaptation. Screen, 43 (1). pp. 57-73.

Grant, Catherine (2001) Secret Agents: Feminist Theories of Women's Film Authorship. Feminist Theory, 2 (1). pp. 113-130.

Grant, Catherine (2000) Intimista Transformations: María Luisa Bemberg's First Feature Films. In: An Argentine Passion: Maria Luisa Bemberg and Her Films. Verso. ISBN 1859847889

Grant, Catherine (2000) www.auteur.com? Screen, 41 (1). pp. 101-108.

Grant, Catherine (1999) Los de abajo and Cinema: An Approximate Comparison. In: Viajes por España y America Latina. University of Strathclyde, pp. 30-49.

Grant, Catherine (1997) Camera solidaria. Screen, 38 (4). pp. 311-328.

Grant, Catherine (1997) Giving up Ghosts: Eliseo Subiela's Hombre mirando al sudeste and No te mueras sin decirme a dónde vas. In: Changing Reels Latin American Cinema against the Odds. Leeds Iberian Papers - Trinity and All Saints/University of Leeds, pp. 89-120.

Stacey, J (1997) Screen 'Special Issue on Latin American Cinemas'. Unset.

Grant, Catherine (1996) Gender, Genre and the Social Imaginary in some Films from Argentina's "Cinema of Redemocratization" (1983-1993). In: Cinema and Ideology. Strathclyde Modern Language Studies, pp. 17-33. ISBN 0951416421

Grant, Catherine (1996) A Private Revolution? Alejandra Pizarnik's La bucanera de Pernambuco o Hilda la polígrafa. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 5 (1). pp. 65-82. ISSN 1356-932

Grant, Catherine (1996) "Queer Theorrhea" (and what it all might mean for feminists). In: Feminism and Sexuality: A Reader. Columbia Press, pp. 166-171. ISBN 0702808326

Grant, Catherine (1993) Women or Words? The Indigenous Nodriza in the Work of Rosario Castellanos. In: Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Spain and Spanish America. Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 85-100. ISBN 0889464235