Dr Fiona Handyside

I grew up in Paignton, Devon, and was educated at the Universities of Southampton, Nottingham, Strasbourg and London. I also worked for a year as a Lectrice at Universite Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux. I was appointed as a Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen's University Belfast in 2002, and returned to my home roots to work as a Lecturer in Film Studies at Exeter in 2007. I was promoted to Associate Professor in January 2019.

My recent book publications are:

• Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2025)
• Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood (I.B. Tauris, 2017)
• Cinema at the Shore: The Beach in French Cinema (Peter Lang, 2014, reissued 2023). 
• International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts co-edited with Kate Taylor-Jones (Palgrave, 2015)
• Eric Rohmer: Interviews (University of Mississippi Press, 2013). This appeared in Korean translation in 2017, translated by RHEE Soue-won.

My office is 110 Queens or office 2 The White House

Please email me for an appointment.

Research supervision:

I am always happy to hear from prospective doctoral students with proposals linked to my areas of research. I am especially interested in working with candidates on the following areas

• Contemporary French cinema
• Spatiality in cinema
• Postfeminism and cinema
• The films of Eric Rohmer
• The films of Sofia Coppola

Please explain to me in your proposal how your research links to my areas of interest and why you want to be supervised by me.