Dawson considers a proposed 60 million pound cinema in Edinburgh and the measures needed to make it accessible and welcoming to all.
Leanne Dawson
Leanne Dawson is Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where she focuses on gender, sexuality, and socio-economic position/class in screen studies, literature, theatre, performance art, archives, and festivals. She currently holds an AHRC Research Leader Fellowship, for which she is writing a book, Poor Queers, about LGBTQI+ and working-class representation in British cinema while working with festivals and audiences to improve access and inclusion.
Her publications include books, Queering German Culture (2018) and Queer European Cinema: Queering Cinematic Time and Space (2017); special journal issues, Queer/ing Film Festivals (with Loist, 2018), Queer European Cinema(2016), The Other: Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity in European Cinema and Beyond (2014). She is finalising a monograph on queer identities on the German screen from the 1930s to the present day and is about to begin editing a special journal issue on working-class culture and work on a queer pregnancy and parenting project.
She was the first Chair of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival; co-founded the Queer Screens Network; is a consultant and advisor to a range of artists and organisations; mentors young queer people in film curation; makes film; curates film for independent cinemas; is an invited jury member for international film festivals, and shares her academic expertise in the media.
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