Isabelle McNeill

Dr Isabelle McNeill was Philomathia Fellow in French and Film at Trinity Hall College Cambridge, where she had taught film studies and French Literature and culture since 2005. She was the author of Memory and the Moving Image: French Film in the Digital Era (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) as well as articles and essays on film in relation to memory, the city, home, tourism, Internet culture and girlhood. She was working on a book on the cinematic rooftops of Paris, alongside related work on the Parisian banlieue and drone cinematography. She collaborated with colleagues to establish the seminar Tactics and Praxis, a group exploring intersections between academic work and creative practice as part of a feminist, ethical response to the academic institution. She was co-founder and chair of the board of trustees of the Cambridge Film Trust, a charity which runs the Cambridge Film Festival.