American Film (especially in the history and theory of Hollywood cinema)

African American Culture and History (especially the relationship between popular culture and race)

Censorship and Mass Media

European Exiles and Hollywood

American Popular Culture/ Theories of Popular Culture

Undergraduate:

• African American Cinema: convene and deliver all lectures and seminars for this option module
• Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema: convene and deliver all lectures and seminars on this option module
• Convene independent research project (dissertation) for final year Film students
• Introduction to Film Studies: develop and contribute to team teaching on Film programme's core Part I module
• Global Cinema: develop and contribute to team teaching on core second-year Film Studies module

Postgraduate:

MA in Film Studies

• African American Cinema--convene and deliver all lectures and seminars on this option module
• Research and Methods--contribute to team teaching of core module
• Transnational Cinema--contribute to team teaching of core module
• Cinema and History--contribute to team teaching of option module

PhD supervision in Film 

• Flat aesthetics of made for television movies
• Queering of South Korean cinema
• Cinema and holocaust
• Women Nigerian filmmakers
• Cinema and the afterlife
• Outsider American cinema

Career details

• PhD in American Studies, University of Minnesota (1995)
• Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Film Studies and American Studies, LICA (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts), Lancaster University, UK (employee of Lancaster University since 1995)
• Sheila Bidle Ford Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Research in African American Culture and History, Harvard University (2010-2013)
• Member RAE2008 Main Panel L: Sub-Panel 47--American Studies and Anglophone Area Studies (2005-2008)
• Associate Director Research LICA
• Associate Director Undergraduate Studies LICA

His research interests are:

• The cultural history of American cinema
• African-American cinema and popular culture
• Race, ethnicity and criminal identity politics in America
• British cinema and race since Windrush
• Theories of popular culture.

Current research projects:

Mixed Race at the Movies: A Comparative Study of British and American Cinema's Mediation of Miscegenation--conducting research for a monograph contracted to Wayne State University Press.

Revolution or Oblivion: Julian Mayfield and the Freedom Struggle Completing research for a biography of the African American writer, actor, and political activist, Julian Mayfield (1928-1984)--contracted to the University of Chicago Press