About
Lisa is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Media and Communications. She has previously lectured at the University of Exeter and the University of East Anglia. She joined Swansea in 2022 where she teaches film studies and has led on recruitment for the new Film & Visual Culture BA, acted as EDI Lead for the School of Culture and Communications, and is Deputy Impact Lead for UoA25 for REF2029.
Lisa specialises in feminist film history, feminist film theory, adaptation studies, and archival film and literary theory and practice. She is the author Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women’s Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain (Edinburgh University Press 2016) and Reframing Vivien Leigh, (Oxford University Press in 2021). Her work has explored topics such as film fan cultures, queer representation in film adaptation, children’s cinemagoing between the wars, digital methods in feminist film historiography, and female stars and ageing. She is currently writing a new monograph titled Ageing on Screen After #MeToo: Gender, Stardom, and Celebrity, forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press in 2027.
Lisa has been awarded various grants to support her interdisciplinary research. She was PI for the AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellowship funded project ‘Reframing Vivien Leigh: stardom, archives, and access’ (2018-2020) to the value of £183,975. More recently has led as PI on the UKRI Challenges funded project ‘Ageing on Screen After #MeToo’ (2023), as PI on the collaborative Welsh Crucible funded project ‘Screening Dementia: Framing Realities, Fostering Understanding’ (2023-24) with an interdisciplinary team of researchers across humanities and health care studies, and as PI on the Medr funded project 'Cinemagoing, Ageing Women and the Covid-19 Pandemic' (2025) with Dr. Elain Price. She is also Co-I on the AHRC funded 4-year project ‘Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible’ to the value of £1.49m.