Laura Rascaroli

Laura Rascaroli is Professor in Film and Screen Media at University College Cork, where she lectures on film theory, on documentary, and on European and World Cinema.

She is the author of two monographic studies on essayistic and first-person nonfiction: The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (Wallflower / Columbia University Press, 2009) and How the Essay Film Thinks (Oxford University Press, 2017). She has also co-authored three research monographs, on the postmodern cinematic city, on the European road movie, and on the cinema of Nanni Moretti. Among her four edited collections are Antonioni: Centenary Essays (British Film Institute, 2011) and Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). She has delivered over a hundred invited keynotes, lectures and master classes internationally in universities, film festivals and cultural institutes, and has been invited to teach in Cuba, Italy, Spain, the US, and the Netherlands. Her work has been translated into languages including Farsi, Chinese, Korean, Czech, Polish, Spanish, and Italian.

Currently, she is under contract with Oxford University Press for the co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Personal Cinema. Recently, she has been writing about the essay film, borders, the city, sound and voice, and artist film. At UCC, she co-directs the Laboratory for Semiotics, Ethnosemiotics, Nonfictional Studies and Audiovisuality (SENSA Lab) with Dr Tatsuma Padoan. She is Editor in Chief of the award-winning, diamond open access Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media.

Experimental nonfiction, the essay film, and first-person cinemas; European and World cinemas; artist film; the post-cinematic medium; space & film (the filmic city, film & architecture, travel & cinema); the politics of form.

World Cinema; Realism; First-Person Film; Documentary Cinema; Film Theory; European Cinema; Cinema and Modernism; Postmodern Cinema; Visual Culture; Cinema, Identity and Society; Space and Movement in Film.