Professor Guy Austin

• Professor of French Studies School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University
• Project Mentor

Guy's main research areas are Algerian cinema, Algerian cultures and politics, plus French cinema since the 1960s (especially fantasy genres). He has recently been Principal Investigator on a major AHRC project, Screening Violence: a Transnational Study of Post-Conflict Imaginaries, that used film reception as a means to elicit stories of conflict and transition to peace in communities with recent experience of civil conflict.