Rebecca Harrison

Rebecca Harrison

Rebecca Harrison was Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow (2015–2021), after which she joined the Open University as Lecturer in Film and Media (2021–present). She completed her PhD at UCL and turned the research into a book, From Steam to Screen: Cinema, the Railways and Modernity (2018). She is currently working on another, Decoding Star Wars: Gender, Race and the Power of Code in a Galaxy Far, Far Away (due 2022). Rebecca is interested in cinema and British culture between 1895 and 1950, and particularly focuses on women cinemagoers and workers, as well as wartime filmmaking and exhibition. Her research appears in Film History and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, and she has discussed her work in various forums, including conferences, radio and a blog. Most recently, she founded the Glasgow Feminist Arts Festival, based at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, and authored a BFI Film Classics monograph on The Empire Strikes Back (2020).