Dr Cristina Johnston

Senior Lecturer

French Stirling

Dr Cristina Johnston

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I joined the University of Stirling in 2006 and am a currently Senior Lecturer in French and Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

My research focuses on two overlapping strands: contemporary French cinema and ‘minority’ cinemas, on the one hand, and questions of gender and sexualities in contemporary French social politics, on the other. Most recently, I have been working on the films of Céline Sciamma and I published an article on the “queer circulation of objects” in her films in French Screen Studies (2022). I have published widely across my areas of research expertise, including a monograph on French Minority Cinema (2010), co-edited volumes on ‘Hypervisibility’ (working with Florian Grandena, University of Ottawa) and chapters and articles on the PaCS partnership legislation, sexual citizenship, banlieue cinema, Franco-Iranian cinema and transatlantic stardom. In 2021, working with Aedín ní Loingsigh (University of Stirling) and David Murphy (University of Strathclyde), I co-translated Lilian Thuram’s La Pensée blanche (published in English as White Thinking: Behind the Mask of Racial Identity, Hero Press). I am one of the Associate Editors of Intellect’s Journal for European Popular Culture and am regularly invited to act as a reviewer for journals and publishers across the fields of French film, French cultural studies and gender and sexualities.

I was Programme Director for French from 2011-16 and again from 2017-19, and I have been Programme Director for our BA Hons in International Management with European Languages and Society for the past decade. I have taught across all levels of our undergraduate programmes in French and I run option modules in French and Francophone Detective Fiction and Screening the City. I regularly contribute to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities' TPG programmes in Gender Studies and Creative Writing.

I also founded and maintain the French at Stirling blog.

Contemporary French cinema; Minority cinema in France; Gender and Sexuality in contemporary France; Contemporary French social politics

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