Below are (most of) my writing, radio, television, and podcast appearances, including film criticism. If you're interested specifically in my work on Star Wars, all my writing and media related to the franchise is collated here.
RADIO, TELEVISION, PODCASTS
Contributor, “Why Going to the Cinema is Good for You, ” BBC Ideas, March 6, 2023 - watch here.
Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time 2022 poll results, The World Tonight, BBC Radio 4, December 1, 2022 - listen here.
James Earl Jones, Darth Vader, and the ethics of AI in Star Wars, Newshour, BBC World Service, and PM, BBC Radio 4, September 24, 2022.
The Empire Strikes Back Part One and Two, Bloomsbury Academic podcast, September 16 and 30, 2022 - listen here and here.
Princess Leia, Princess podcast for BBC Radio 4 with Anita Anand and Maddie Moate, July 2022 - listen here.
Train Culture (March 26, 2022) and Railroad Movies (April 10, 2022) episodes of Roundhouse Crosstalk podcast - listen here.
Critics (October 12, 2021) and Franchises (October 28, 2021) episodes of Women vs Hollywood with Helen O'Hara podcast - listen here and here.
The Empire Strikes Back, Projection Booth podcast, June 2, 2021 - listen here.
Contributor on BBC Radio ScotlandThe Afternoon Show, 2019-2021. Film Reviews - various dates, films including Animals, The Dead Don’t Die, Terminator: Dark Fate, Little Women, Honey Boy, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Vivarium, etc.
The Empire Strikes Back: Examining the Story Behind the Story, Slice of SciFi podcast, December 9, 2020 - listen here.
The Empire Strikes Back, New Book Network podcast, November 30, 2020 - listen here.
Jyn Erso and Rogue One, Heroes of the Galaxy podcast, June 26, 2020 - listen here.
May the 4th Be With You, The Cosmic Shed podcast, May 4, 2020 - listen here.
Star Wars and Fandom, The Current, CBC, December 20, 2019.
Should We Listen to Film critics? The Morning Show, BBC Scotland, December 20, 2019.
Star Wars and The Rise of Skywalker: BBC Ulster, December 18, 2019 and BBC Wales, December 19, 2019.
Star Wars release, The Afternoon Show, BBC Radio Scotland, December 17, 2019.
Resurrecting James Dean in New War Film – BBC Radio Scotland, November 8, 2019.
The Scorsese vs Marvel debate - BBC Radio Scotland, October 25, 2019.
Star Wars and its popularity with audiences - BBC Radio Ulster, October 23, 2019.
The Rise of Skywalker and responses to the trailer - BBC 5 Live News, October 22-23, 2019.
The Rise of Skywalker trailer release - BBC Radio 4, PM, October 22, 2019.
Episode 37 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Fantasy Animation Podcast, 2019 - listen here.
James Bond and the representation of black women, BBC Radio Scotland, July 16, 2019.
James Bond and the representation of women, BBC Radio Scotland, May 10, 2019.
LGBT representation in the Marvel franchise, BBC Radio Scotland, May 8, 2019.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Bond, The Nine, BBC Scotland, April 15, 2019.
Russian Trolls 'Pushed their Agenda' with Star Wars Critiques, Study Suggests, The Current, CBC Radio (Canada), October 8, 2018 - listen here or read a transcript here.
Women's clothing and safety in public space, Drive Time, BBC Three Counties Radio, September 4, 2018. You can listen to the interview at the bottom of the page.
Creative Scotland and Scottish television funding, Scotland Tonight, STV, August 21, 2018.
Star Wars and representation, Fan Girls Going Rogue podcast, June 27, 2018 - listen here.
Star Wars and screen time for women, Newsdrive, BBC Radio Scotland, June 1, 2018 - listen here.
Why Solo Never Wants to Know the Odds, Beyond Bechdel podcast, June 2, 2018 - listen here.
Netflix and the Cannes Film Festival, Scotland Tonight, STV, March 2018. You can watch the interview at the bottom of the page.
Projectionettes, Cambridge Radio, April 25, 2017.
Mabel Normand, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, August 2015. Interview on Mabel Normand and women filmmakers in early Hollywood.
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
“Shabu,” Sight & Sound, Summer 2023, p.127.
“Polite Society: A Genre-Jumping Debut with an Anarchic Sense of Fun,” Sight & Sound, April 27, 2023 - read it here.
“Gender-Based Violence: A Call to Action for FE and HE,” UCU Commons blog, March 21, 2023 - read it here.
“Greening Film and Television to Save Our Blue Planet,” OpenLearn, Novmber 30, 2022 - read it here.
“Get Out” and “The Red Shoes,” Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022 - read comments here and here.
“Little Women,” Sight & Sound 32, no. 10 (2022): 86.
“She Said: A Powerful Call to Arms in the Struggle Against Patriarchy,” Sight & Sound, October 17, 2022 - read it here.
“Meet Me in the Bathroom: A Nostalgic Indie Rock Theme-Park Ride,” Sight & Sound, October 14, 2022 - read it here.
“Call Jane: A Powerful, Timely Pro-Choice Drama,” Sight & Sound, October 14, 2022 - read it here.
“Girls Can't Surf: A Bittersweet Story of Women in the Waves,” Sight & Sound, August 19, 2022 - read it here.
“A League of Their Own: Stirring Baseball Drama,” Sight & Sound, August 18, 2022 - read it here.
“Bullet Train: Mind the Gap Between Its Ears,” Sight & Sound, August 4, 2022 - read it here.
“The Railway Children Return: A Big Hearted Yet Nostalgic Railway Ride,” Sight & Sound, July 15, 2022 - read it here.
“Faithless,” Sight & Sound 32, no. 5 (2022): 93.
“True Things: An Uneasy Psychological Character Study,” Sight & Sound, April 1, 2022 - read it here.
“Pam & Tommy is an Entertaining But Ultimately Hypocritical Take on 90s Celebrity Culture,” Sight & Sound, February 1, 2022 - read it here.
“The Mad Women's Ball,” Sight & Sound 31, no. 10 (2021): 82.
“LFF in VR: Asif Kapadia's Ode to A Dog in Space,” Sight & Sound 31, no.10 (2021): 9-10.
“House of Gucci: A Tragi-Comic Triumph,” Sight & Sound, November 25, 2021 - read it here.
“Exploring Virtual Realities at the BFI London Film Festival 2021,” Sight & Sound, October 28, 2021 - read it here.
“Curse of the Chippendales Explores Gender Dynamics of Stripping in the 1980s,” Sight & Sound, October 18, 2021 - read it here.
“The Chair Studies the Absurdities of Academia,” Sight & Sound, August 27, 2021 - read it here.
“I Went to Hoth to Go Behind the Scenes of The Empire Strikes Back at 40,” The Mary Sue, December 24, 2020 - read it here.
“The Mandalorian Season 2 Seeks Hope in a Bruised and Battered Galaxy,” Sight & Sound, December 21, 2020 - read it here.
“Industry Doesn't Work For Us,” Sight & Sound, December 2, 2020 - read it here.
“Limbo Gives a Scottish Welcome to Four Far-Flung Refugees,” Sight & Sound, October 15, 2020 - read it here.
“Tenet is a Fast-Forward Blockbuster Worth a Rewind Viewing,” Screen Queens, August 26, 2020 - read it here.
“Queer Empire: On the 40th Anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back,” LA Review of Books, May 21, 2020 - read it here.
“The Rise of Skywalker Achieved Gender Parity, Still Needed More Women of Color,” The Mary Sue, May 4, 2020 - read it here.
“Don't Kill the Past: The Rise of Skywalker and the Troubled History of Star Wars,” Screen Queens, January 19, 2020 - read it here.
“Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker Review: New Hope Springs Eternal,” Sight & Sound, December 19, 2019 - read it here.
“I Know Because It's Me: Women and Archiving in Star Wars,” Contingent, December 8, 2019 - read it here.
“How the Lighthouse Makes a Monster of Capitalism,” LA Review of Books Blog, November 11, 2019 – read it here.
“LFF Review: Love, Life and Laughter,” Silent London, October 28, 2019 – read it here.
“Co-ordinating Intimacy: Making Sex Scenes Safe,” Sight & Sound, October 14, 2019 – read it here.
“Our Ladies Review: Catholic Lasses Go Wild,” Sight & Sound, October 11, 2019 – read it here.
“Make Up Review: A Thrillingly Queer Tangle in a Cornish Campsite,” Sight & Sound, October 10, 2019 - read it here.
“How Biopic Judy Silences Garland - And Why That Matters for Survivors,” Screen Queens, October 04, 2019 - read it here.
“Ad Astra: An ‘Angstonaut’ Journey into a Spaceman’s Psyche,” Birth, Movies, Death, September 24, 2019 – read it here.
“I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story is an Important Look Beyond the Shrieking Stereotypes,” Mary Sue, September 23, 2019 – read it here.
“Dark Rey – A New LGBT Hope?” Screen Queens, September 5, 2019 – read it here.
“Which is the sexiest train? (*in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Starlight Express),” City Metric, July 23, 2019 (with Penny Andrews) – read it here.
“What Should Have Won the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or?” Sight & Sound, May 26, 2019 (contributor) – read it here.
“Cannes: Bull Director Annie Silverstein on Rodeo Culture and the Realities of On-Set Childcare,” Women & Hollywood, May 24, 2019 – read it here.
“Cannes 2019 Review: Lux Æterna Reveals the Eternal Darkness of Cinema Made by Men,” Birth, Movies, Death, May 20, 2019 – read it here.
“Cannes 2019 Review: Pain And Glory is a Bittersweet Journey to the Heart of a Cinephile,” Birth, Movies, Death, May 20, 2019 – read it here.
“Too Old to Die Young first look: Nicolas Winding Refn Depopulates the Small Screen,” Sight & Sound, May 18, 2019 – read it here.
“Rocketman review: An Out and Proud Elton John Musical Biopic,” Sight & Sound, May 17, 2019 – read it here.
“Bull first look: A Bucking Portrait of a Rodeoing Odd Couple,” Sight & Sound, May 16, 2019 – read it here.
“Glasgow Film Festival 2019: A Vital Antidote to One-Size Cinema,” Sight and Sound, March 13, 2019 - read it here.
“Book Review: Star Wars: Queen’s Shadow Is the Padmé Story Her Fans Deserve,” The Mary Sue, March 9, 2019 - read it here.
“Book Review: Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds Puts Hawkins’ Past in a New Perspective,” The Mary Sue, February 13, 2019 - read it here.
“Why is Star Wars' Inclusiveness Getting So Much Hate Now When It Was Celebrated in the Past?” The Mary Sue, September 10, 2018 - read it here.
“Alienation and the Limits of Access at Edinburgh 2018,” Sight and Sound, July 11, 2018 - read it here.
“George Michael: Freedom First-Look Review,” Little White Lies, June 26, 2018 - read it here.
“From Ocean’s 8 to #MeToo: Why the Gender Bias in Film Criticism Matters,” Prospect Magazine, June 21, 2018 - read it here.
“Why I Decided to Cut All the Men Out of Star Wars, and What it Showed Me,” Women and Hollywood, June 11, 2018 - read it here.
“Star Wars, I Love You… But Solo Needed to Stop Saying ‘I Know’,” Medium, June 3, 2018 - read it here.
“Cannes First Look: Little Tickles is an Unflinching Exploration of Abuse and Therapy,” Sight and Sound, May 24, 2018 - read it here.
“Raze the Red carpet: Cannes 2018 Responds to #MeToo,” Sight and Sound, May 21, 2018 - read it here.
“Cannes First Look: My Favourite Fabric Unwraps Women's Lives in the Arab Spring,” Sight and Sound, May 16, 2018 - read it here.
“Athena SWAN is an Ugly Duckling,” Times Higher Education Supplement, May 3, 2018 - read it here.
“On Brilliance: Making Light of Women's Creative Labour,” MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, May 1, 2018 - read it here.
“What Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Cat Person Have in Common,” New Statesman, December 18, 2017 (coauthored) - read it here.
“The Last Jedi: Latest Star Wars is a Fable for Our Post-Truth Times,” The Conversation, December 15, 2017 - read it here.
“It Makes Perfect Sense that Princess Leia Should Have a PhD – But We Need More Female Academics,” The Conversation, September 7, 2017 - read it here.
“La La Land Deserves its 14 Oscar Nominations for Asking Us, Quite Simply, to Feel,” The Conversation, February 22, 2017 - read it here.
‘Who Were Mack & Mabel?’ Mack & Mabel theatre programme, Chichester Theatre and UK touring editions, 2015.
INTERVIEWS
Amy Richau, “Day 558 - Rebecca Harrison,” 365 Days of Star Wars Women, November 18, 2020 - read it here.
“Record Number of Female Film Leads, Study Suggests,” BBC News, January 9, 2019 - read it here.
“Star Wars Ranked on Screen Time for Women,” BBC News, June 1, 2018 - read it here.
Rachel Thompson, “Professor Ranks Star Wars for Female Character Screen Time and the Results are Very Telling,” Mashable, May 31, 2018 - read it here.
Marc Horne, “How Star Wars Satirises Trump,” Times, January 11, 2018, p.10 - interviewee, includes coverage of my forthcoming Star Wars book - read it here.
Liz Dwyer, “Move Over, ‘Princess’ — Leia Organa, PhD, Is Here,” Good Magazine, August 7, 2017 - interviewed about Star Wars, feminism and working as a woman academic - read it here.
Maddy Searle, “Why Nothing Has Changed for Women in Film Since the Heyday of Liz Taylor,” Sunday Herald, October 2, 2016 - contributor on early women filmmakers - read it here.
My Star Wars work has also been discussed in publications including: Indiewire, Telegraph, Bustle, Syfy, Hollywood Reporter, Time, Vanity Fair and Teen Vogue, among others.
BLOG CONTRIBUTOR
'Shooting Stars: Review,' Brent on Film - read online here.
‘Making Yet More Noise: Interviewing the Women Behind the New BFI Suffragettes in Silent Film Collection,’ Brent on Film - read online here.
'Cinematic Memory, Consumer Culture and Everyday Life' blogger for the Autopsies Research Group, UCL Film Studies Space - read online here.
RADIO, TELEVISION, PODCASTS
Contributor, “Why Going to the Cinema is Good for You, ” BBC Ideas, March 6, 2023 - watch here.
Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time 2022 poll results, The World Tonight, BBC Radio 4, December 1, 2022 - listen here.
James Earl Jones, Darth Vader, and the ethics of AI in Star Wars, Newshour, BBC World Service, and PM, BBC Radio 4, September 24, 2022.
The Empire Strikes Back Part One and Two, Bloomsbury Academic podcast, September 16 and 30, 2022 - listen here and here.
Princess Leia, Princess podcast for BBC Radio 4 with Anita Anand and Maddie Moate, July 2022 - listen here.
Train Culture (March 26, 2022) and Railroad Movies (April 10, 2022) episodes of Roundhouse Crosstalk podcast - listen here.
Critics (October 12, 2021) and Franchises (October 28, 2021) episodes of Women vs Hollywood with Helen O'Hara podcast - listen here and here.
The Empire Strikes Back, Projection Booth podcast, June 2, 2021 - listen here.
Contributor on BBC Radio ScotlandThe Afternoon Show, 2019-2021. Film Reviews - various dates, films including Animals, The Dead Don’t Die, Terminator: Dark Fate, Little Women, Honey Boy, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Vivarium, etc.
The Empire Strikes Back: Examining the Story Behind the Story, Slice of SciFi podcast, December 9, 2020 - listen here.
The Empire Strikes Back, New Book Network podcast, November 30, 2020 - listen here.
Jyn Erso and Rogue One, Heroes of the Galaxy podcast, June 26, 2020 - listen here.
May the 4th Be With You, The Cosmic Shed podcast, May 4, 2020 - listen here.
Star Wars and Fandom, The Current, CBC, December 20, 2019.
Should We Listen to Film critics? The Morning Show, BBC Scotland, December 20, 2019.
Star Wars and The Rise of Skywalker: BBC Ulster, December 18, 2019 and BBC Wales, December 19, 2019.
Star Wars release, The Afternoon Show, BBC Radio Scotland, December 17, 2019.
Resurrecting James Dean in New War Film – BBC Radio Scotland, November 8, 2019.
The Scorsese vs Marvel debate - BBC Radio Scotland, October 25, 2019.
Star Wars and its popularity with audiences - BBC Radio Ulster, October 23, 2019.
The Rise of Skywalker and responses to the trailer - BBC 5 Live News, October 22-23, 2019.
The Rise of Skywalker trailer release - BBC Radio 4, PM, October 22, 2019.
Episode 37 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Fantasy Animation Podcast, 2019 - listen here.
James Bond and the representation of black women, BBC Radio Scotland, July 16, 2019.
James Bond and the representation of women, BBC Radio Scotland, May 10, 2019.
LGBT representation in the Marvel franchise, BBC Radio Scotland, May 8, 2019.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Bond, The Nine, BBC Scotland, April 15, 2019.
Russian Trolls 'Pushed their Agenda' with Star Wars Critiques, Study Suggests, The Current, CBC Radio (Canada), October 8, 2018 - listen here or read a transcript here.
Women's clothing and safety in public space, Drive Time, BBC Three Counties Radio, September 4, 2018. You can listen to the interview at the bottom of the page.
Creative Scotland and Scottish television funding, Scotland Tonight, STV, August 21, 2018.
Star Wars and representation, Fan Girls Going Rogue podcast, June 27, 2018 - listen here.
Star Wars and screen time for women, Newsdrive, BBC Radio Scotland, June 1, 2018 - listen here.
Why Solo Never Wants to Know the Odds, Beyond Bechdel podcast, June 2, 2018 - listen here.
Netflix and the Cannes Film Festival, Scotland Tonight, STV, March 2018. You can watch the interview at the bottom of the page.
Projectionettes, Cambridge Radio, April 25, 2017.
Mabel Normand, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, August 2015. Interview on Mabel Normand and women filmmakers in early Hollywood.
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
“Shabu,” Sight & Sound, Summer 2023, p.127.
“Polite Society: A Genre-Jumping Debut with an Anarchic Sense of Fun,” Sight & Sound, April 27, 2023 - read it here.
“Gender-Based Violence: A Call to Action for FE and HE,” UCU Commons blog, March 21, 2023 - read it here.
“Greening Film and Television to Save Our Blue Planet,” OpenLearn, Novmber 30, 2022 - read it here.
“Get Out” and “The Red Shoes,” Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022 - read comments here and here.
“Little Women,” Sight & Sound 32, no. 10 (2022): 86.
“She Said: A Powerful Call to Arms in the Struggle Against Patriarchy,” Sight & Sound, October 17, 2022 - read it here.
“Meet Me in the Bathroom: A Nostalgic Indie Rock Theme-Park Ride,” Sight & Sound, October 14, 2022 - read it here.
“Call Jane: A Powerful, Timely Pro-Choice Drama,” Sight & Sound, October 14, 2022 - read it here.
“Girls Can't Surf: A Bittersweet Story of Women in the Waves,” Sight & Sound, August 19, 2022 - read it here.
“A League of Their Own: Stirring Baseball Drama,” Sight & Sound, August 18, 2022 - read it here.
“Bullet Train: Mind the Gap Between Its Ears,” Sight & Sound, August 4, 2022 - read it here.
“The Railway Children Return: A Big Hearted Yet Nostalgic Railway Ride,” Sight & Sound, July 15, 2022 - read it here.
“Faithless,” Sight & Sound 32, no. 5 (2022): 93.
“True Things: An Uneasy Psychological Character Study,” Sight & Sound, April 1, 2022 - read it here.
“Pam & Tommy is an Entertaining But Ultimately Hypocritical Take on 90s Celebrity Culture,” Sight & Sound, February 1, 2022 - read it here.
“The Mad Women's Ball,” Sight & Sound 31, no. 10 (2021): 82.
“LFF in VR: Asif Kapadia's Ode to A Dog in Space,” Sight & Sound 31, no.10 (2021): 9-10.
“House of Gucci: A Tragi-Comic Triumph,” Sight & Sound, November 25, 2021 - read it here.
“Exploring Virtual Realities at the BFI London Film Festival 2021,” Sight & Sound, October 28, 2021 - read it here.
“Curse of the Chippendales Explores Gender Dynamics of Stripping in the 1980s,” Sight & Sound, October 18, 2021 - read it here.
“The Chair Studies the Absurdities of Academia,” Sight & Sound, August 27, 2021 - read it here.
“I Went to Hoth to Go Behind the Scenes of The Empire Strikes Back at 40,” The Mary Sue, December 24, 2020 - read it here.
“The Mandalorian Season 2 Seeks Hope in a Bruised and Battered Galaxy,” Sight & Sound, December 21, 2020 - read it here.
“Industry Doesn't Work For Us,” Sight & Sound, December 2, 2020 - read it here.
“Limbo Gives a Scottish Welcome to Four Far-Flung Refugees,” Sight & Sound, October 15, 2020 - read it here.
“Tenet is a Fast-Forward Blockbuster Worth a Rewind Viewing,” Screen Queens, August 26, 2020 - read it here.
“Queer Empire: On the 40th Anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back,” LA Review of Books, May 21, 2020 - read it here.
“The Rise of Skywalker Achieved Gender Parity, Still Needed More Women of Color,” The Mary Sue, May 4, 2020 - read it here.
“Don't Kill the Past: The Rise of Skywalker and the Troubled History of Star Wars,” Screen Queens, January 19, 2020 - read it here.
“Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker Review: New Hope Springs Eternal,” Sight & Sound, December 19, 2019 - read it here.
“I Know Because It's Me: Women and Archiving in Star Wars,” Contingent, December 8, 2019 - read it here.
“How the Lighthouse Makes a Monster of Capitalism,” LA Review of Books Blog, November 11, 2019 – read it here.
“LFF Review: Love, Life and Laughter,” Silent London, October 28, 2019 – read it here.
“Co-ordinating Intimacy: Making Sex Scenes Safe,” Sight & Sound, October 14, 2019 – read it here.
“Our Ladies Review: Catholic Lasses Go Wild,” Sight & Sound, October 11, 2019 – read it here.
“Make Up Review: A Thrillingly Queer Tangle in a Cornish Campsite,” Sight & Sound, October 10, 2019 - read it here.
“How Biopic Judy Silences Garland - And Why That Matters for Survivors,” Screen Queens, October 04, 2019 - read it here.
“Ad Astra: An ‘Angstonaut’ Journey into a Spaceman’s Psyche,” Birth, Movies, Death, September 24, 2019 – read it here.
“I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story is an Important Look Beyond the Shrieking Stereotypes,” Mary Sue, September 23, 2019 – read it here.
“Dark Rey – A New LGBT Hope?” Screen Queens, September 5, 2019 – read it here.
“Which is the sexiest train? (*in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Starlight Express),” City Metric, July 23, 2019 (with Penny Andrews) – read it here.
“What Should Have Won the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or?” Sight & Sound, May 26, 2019 (contributor) – read it here.
“Cannes: Bull Director Annie Silverstein on Rodeo Culture and the Realities of On-Set Childcare,” Women & Hollywood, May 24, 2019 – read it here.
“Cannes 2019 Review: Lux Æterna Reveals the Eternal Darkness of Cinema Made by Men,” Birth, Movies, Death, May 20, 2019 – read it here.
“Cannes 2019 Review: Pain And Glory is a Bittersweet Journey to the Heart of a Cinephile,” Birth, Movies, Death, May 20, 2019 – read it here.
“Too Old to Die Young first look: Nicolas Winding Refn Depopulates the Small Screen,” Sight & Sound, May 18, 2019 – read it here.
“Rocketman review: An Out and Proud Elton John Musical Biopic,” Sight & Sound, May 17, 2019 – read it here.
“Bull first look: A Bucking Portrait of a Rodeoing Odd Couple,” Sight & Sound, May 16, 2019 – read it here.
“Glasgow Film Festival 2019: A Vital Antidote to One-Size Cinema,” Sight and Sound, March 13, 2019 - read it here.
“Book Review: Star Wars: Queen’s Shadow Is the Padmé Story Her Fans Deserve,” The Mary Sue, March 9, 2019 - read it here.
“Book Review: Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds Puts Hawkins’ Past in a New Perspective,” The Mary Sue, February 13, 2019 - read it here.
“Why is Star Wars' Inclusiveness Getting So Much Hate Now When It Was Celebrated in the Past?” The Mary Sue, September 10, 2018 - read it here.
“Alienation and the Limits of Access at Edinburgh 2018,” Sight and Sound, July 11, 2018 - read it here.
“George Michael: Freedom First-Look Review,” Little White Lies, June 26, 2018 - read it here.
“From Ocean’s 8 to #MeToo: Why the Gender Bias in Film Criticism Matters,” Prospect Magazine, June 21, 2018 - read it here.
“Why I Decided to Cut All the Men Out of Star Wars, and What it Showed Me,” Women and Hollywood, June 11, 2018 - read it here.
“Star Wars, I Love You… But Solo Needed to Stop Saying ‘I Know’,” Medium, June 3, 2018 - read it here.
“Cannes First Look: Little Tickles is an Unflinching Exploration of Abuse and Therapy,” Sight and Sound, May 24, 2018 - read it here.
“Raze the Red carpet: Cannes 2018 Responds to #MeToo,” Sight and Sound, May 21, 2018 - read it here.
“Cannes First Look: My Favourite Fabric Unwraps Women's Lives in the Arab Spring,” Sight and Sound, May 16, 2018 - read it here.
“Athena SWAN is an Ugly Duckling,” Times Higher Education Supplement, May 3, 2018 - read it here.
“On Brilliance: Making Light of Women's Creative Labour,” MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, May 1, 2018 - read it here.
“What Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Cat Person Have in Common,” New Statesman, December 18, 2017 (coauthored) - read it here.
“The Last Jedi: Latest Star Wars is a Fable for Our Post-Truth Times,” The Conversation, December 15, 2017 - read it here.
“It Makes Perfect Sense that Princess Leia Should Have a PhD – But We Need More Female Academics,” The Conversation, September 7, 2017 - read it here.
“La La Land Deserves its 14 Oscar Nominations for Asking Us, Quite Simply, to Feel,” The Conversation, February 22, 2017 - read it here.
‘Who Were Mack & Mabel?’ Mack & Mabel theatre programme, Chichester Theatre and UK touring editions, 2015.
INTERVIEWS
Amy Richau, “Day 558 - Rebecca Harrison,” 365 Days of Star Wars Women, November 18, 2020 - read it here.
“Record Number of Female Film Leads, Study Suggests,” BBC News, January 9, 2019 - read it here.
“Star Wars Ranked on Screen Time for Women,” BBC News, June 1, 2018 - read it here.
Rachel Thompson, “Professor Ranks Star Wars for Female Character Screen Time and the Results are Very Telling,” Mashable, May 31, 2018 - read it here.
Marc Horne, “How Star Wars Satirises Trump,” Times, January 11, 2018, p.10 - interviewee, includes coverage of my forthcoming Star Wars book - read it here.
Liz Dwyer, “Move Over, ‘Princess’ — Leia Organa, PhD, Is Here,” Good Magazine, August 7, 2017 - interviewed about Star Wars, feminism and working as a woman academic - read it here.
Maddy Searle, “Why Nothing Has Changed for Women in Film Since the Heyday of Liz Taylor,” Sunday Herald, October 2, 2016 - contributor on early women filmmakers - read it here.
My Star Wars work has also been discussed in publications including: Indiewire, Telegraph, Bustle, Syfy, Hollywood Reporter, Time, Vanity Fair and Teen Vogue, among others.
BLOG CONTRIBUTOR
'Shooting Stars: Review,' Brent on Film - read online here.
‘Making Yet More Noise: Interviewing the Women Behind the New BFI Suffragettes in Silent Film Collection,’ Brent on Film - read online here.
'Cinematic Memory, Consumer Culture and Everyday Life' blogger for the Autopsies Research Group, UCL Film Studies Space - read online here.