CATHERINE GRANT FBA, former Professor of Digital Media and Screen Studies at Birkbeck, is currently an Honorary Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading, UK. She has published widely on theories and practices of film authorship, adaptation and intertextuality, and has edited or authored significant collections of work on world cinema, Latin American cinema, digital film and media studies, and the scholarly online video essay (see here, here, here, and, most recently, here/here).

A relatively early and prolific adopter of the online short video form, Grant is internationally known for her work on the audiovisual essay in film and moving image studies, especially in found-footage, first-person and essay-film forms. She has produced well over 200 videos to date, herself, dozens of which have been published in online journals alongside her written reflections on these forms and their emergent role in film and media studies, especially in relation to theories of film spectatorship, material thinking, and psychoanalytic object relations. A longstanding practitioner as well as theorist in the field, her videos have screened at film festivals and film museums around the world. For over a decade, she served as a co-founding editor of the award-winning journal [in]Transition:Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, until March 2024, when she was made a Founding Editor Emerita.

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Photograph by David X. Green, May 2018.