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Jules O'Dwyer is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of French at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He obtained his PhD from Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 2021 and previously held a Research Fellowship at St John’s College. His research interests encompass French Francophone cinema, queer studies, film theory, and spatial approaches to visual media within contemporary thought. He is the author of books that investigate the intersection of space and cinema, including "Seduction Space: Cruising French Cinema" (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) and "Hotels" (Fordham University Press, 2025). O'Dwyer's work has been published in notable journals such as Screen, Discourse, and Yale French Studies, and he is recognized for his prize-winning essay published in Screen in 2017. He is also a co-editor of a podcast titled 'World Picture' and hosts the 'New Books Network'. In the 2024/2025 academic year, O'Dwyer will convene the undergraduate course CS7: Cinema Political and the optional MPhil module FSS Spaces: Gender, Sexuality, Space, while also co-teaching the MPhil Core Course, Theorising Moving Images. Additionally, he contributes lectures to courses on European Cinema and Introduction to French literature and film thought.
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