I’m currently working on a project on refugee cinema with my regular collaborator and writing partner, Katarzyna Marciniak. Based on work that we’d done as co-authors and as co-editors, we were invited by an editor at Oxford University Press to develop a book on the topic, and we have been working on this for a couple of years in a transnational working partnership, since Katarzyna is based in LA while I live in LA/ncaster. The book is in progress, building on and consolidating work we’ve done separately and together, and we are aiming to complete the manuscript by autumn 2023.

• The Polish poster for Dolce Fine Giornata

This fascinating research has fed into our teaching in different ways and has also been the basis for several conference papers as well as a new open-access article that has just been published by the journal Third Text. Entitled ‘Fugitive Aesthetics: Echoes, Ghosts Stories and Refugee Cinema’, the article examines several recent films – including Jacek Borcuch‘s Dolce Fine Giornata and Mati Diop‘s Atlantics – that explore issues surrounding refugeeism through the device of spectral figures who are marginalised and effaced. The article introduces some of the themes and approaches we will be exploring at more length in the book, and can be found on the journal website here.

• The French poster for Atlantique