Catherine Lester, who is currently researching the children's horror film for her PhD in Film and Television Studies has won the Warwick Humanities Research Centre Doctoral Fellowship competition, which provides funding to put on a one-day interdisciplinary conference. Details of the conference - which is titled "Let's Hear It For The Girls": Discussing Girls and Girlhood, 1990-present - are now available online at this web page: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/girls/

The conference is due to take place on 12th March 2016 here at Warwick and is co-organised by Catherine and Leah Phillips, a PhD student in the English department.

One of the Department’s former students, James Cotton, visited us on Tuesday 10^th March to deliver a workshop on getting into the UK film industry. James is now a successful independent producer and brought a wealth of experience and insight to current students studying Film and Television Studies. The evening was part of a rolling series of informal alumni events designed to bring the Department’s students­, past and present, together to discuss job and career planning and experience.

Zoë Shacklock, who is a PhD student in Film and Television Studies, has published an article entitled 'The Affective Sublime in Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ and Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’' in the journal New Review of Film and Television Studies. She co-authored the article with Sarah French. More information here