Determined to reclaim their enthusiasm and energy for research and teaching, three scholars test using creative praxis in their institutional space to resist the patriarchal and neoliberal pressures in today’s university.
Isabelle McNeill
Dr Isabelle McNeill is the Philomathia Fellow in French and Film at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, where she has taught film studies and French literature since 2005. She is the author of Memory and the Moving Image: French Film in the Digital Era (EdinburghUniversity Press, 2010) as well as articles and essays on film in relation to memory, the city, home, tourism, Internet culture and girlhood. She is currently writing a book on the cinematic rooftops of Paris (for Wallflower). She is working with Cambridge colleagues Louise Haywood and Georgina Evans as part of Tactics and Praxis, a group exploring intersections between academic work and creative practice as part of a feminist, ethical response to academic institutions (https://www.tacticsandpraxis.org/). She is chair of the Cambridge Film Trust, which she co-founded, a charity that runs the Cambridge Film Festival and other initiatives.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey