Dr Elizabeth Miller

Lecturer (School of History, Law and Social Sciences)

e.miller@bangor.ac.uk

0000-0002-7929-0770

Dr Elizabeth Miller

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Dr Elizabeth Miller is a Lecturer in Media Studies and Digital Ethics and PGR Lead in the School of History, Law and Social Sciences. From 2021 to 2024, she was a Lecturer in Film and Media and Pastoral Care Lead for Film, Media and Journalism students in the School of Arts, Culture and Language. Prior to joining Bangor, she taught at King’s College London, where she also received her PhD in Film Studies. 

Her research interests lie within feminist and sociological approaches to both French cinema and sci-fi, with publications in French Screen Studies, Modern and Contemporary France, Studies in European Cinema and Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. She is currently co-editing a book - “More human than human”: The Cultural Heritage of Blade Runner - for Liverpool UP with Nathan Abrams (Bangor University) and Christopher L. Robinson  (École Polytechnique IP-Paris).

She co-organised the Blade Runner @40 (June 2022), Paul Verhoeven @85 (September 2023) and Terminator @40 (June 2024) conferences held at Bangor University, as well as the Women in the Wake of May 68 (May 2018) conference held at King’s College London.

She currently teaches/convenes the following modules:

  • UXS-1000 Issues in Media, Journalism and Politics
  • UXS-2046: Media, Politics and Society
  • UXS-2100/UXS-3100: Digital Journalism and Society
  • UXS-2803/UXS-3083: AI Ethics

She previously taught/convened the following modules:

  • UXS-1021: Mass Culture: From the Printing Press to TikTok
  • UXS-1063: Film History
  • UXS-2064: Film Theory 
  • UXS-2099: Research Skills and Methods
  • UXS-2053/UXS-3053: Film Industry Development: From Global to Local 
  • UXS-2062/UXS-3062 Film Distribution and Marketing 
  • UXS-2050/UXS-3050: Race and Gender
  • UXB-3901: Creative Practice Dissertation
  • UXB-3900: Research Dissertation
  • UXS-4720: Film Research Project

She has also contributed to the following modules as a Guest Lecturer or Seminar Leader:

  • UXS-2025/UXS-3025: Stanley Kubrick: Auteur 
  • UXS-4050: Creative Industries
  • UXS-4101: Critical Approaches to Film
  • QXE-4031: Post-Medieval Arthur
  • Professional: Fellowship (HEA)
    Advance HE, 2024
  • Professional: Associate Fellow (HEA)
    Advance HE, 2020
  • PhD: The Modern Woman in “Long” 1960s French Cinema: Beyond the New Wave
    King's College London,
  • MA: Film Curating
    London Film School and Birkbeck, University of London,
  • BA: Film and Media Studies; Psychology
    Washington University, St Louis,

2024

2023

2022

  • PublishedBlade Runner @40: Origins and Legacies
    Miller, E., 2022, In: Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. 143, 51.3, p. 83-86
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

2020

2019

2023

  • Paul Verhoeven @ 85

    Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) has left an indelible mark on popular culture. His films marry a European arthouse sensibility with the US blockbuster but in a wickedly satirical way. But this does not mean his films are not open to criticism.

    His American dystopic trilogy – RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers (1997) – provided dark visions of futuristic metropoles that continues to resonate to this day, touching on capitalism, robotics, biopolitics, posthumanism, urban planning, artificial intelligence, transhumanism and climate change, while female-led dramas, such as Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995), Black Book (2006), Elle (2016) and Benedetta (2021), remain controversial for their overt eroticism, sexual violence and representation of lesbianism.

    To critically explore the origins and legacies of Verhoeven’s body of work, this conference proposes to bring together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore Paul Verhoeven’s output, debate its legacy and consider its position within visual culture including specialists from fields as diverse as literary and cinematographic studies; the history of art, design, fashion and architecture; musicology; philosophy; political sciences; computer science and robotics; urban and ecological studies; and feminist, queer and sexuality studies.

    7 Sep 2023 – 8 Sep 2023

    Links:

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)
  • SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference

    Co-rganiser of international panel titled: French Cinema in the Wake of the Women’s Liberation Front Stars, Directors, Collectives

    Paper title: The Popular Feminism of Annie Girardot, France’s Highest-Paid Actress from 1968 to 1978

    2023 →

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

2022

2021

2019

2018

  • Women in the Wake of May 68

    Presented paper titled: 'Erotissimo is the way of today:’ post-May 68 modernity in Gérard Pirès’ Erotissimo (1969)

    18 May 2018

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
  • Women in the Wake of May 68

    An interdisciplinary conference which brought together more than 70 people to look at the impact of May 68 on women’s lives and representation, including those on female artists, writers, directors, philosophers, and stars, as well as the representation of women in art, literature and popular, auteur and militant cinema.

    May 2018

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)
  • BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) Conference

    Presented paper titled: The Radical Stances à Sophie: Female Modernity in the Wake of May 68

    2018 →

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
  • NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference

    Presented paper titled: Deeply Misogynistic or a Feminist Text?: Unravelling the meaning of Les Feux de la chandeleur (Serge Kober, 1972)

    2018 →

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)