Andrew McGregor

Background

About Andrew McGregor

Andrew McGregor is Associate Professor in French Studies and Chair of Languages in the School of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, at The University of Melbourne. He is also Vice-President of the Australian Society for French Studies. Prior to completing his PhD in French Studies at Melbourne, he obtained a Masters in Cinema Studies from the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, and received a film research accreditation from the President of the Cannes International Film Festival. Andrew is the founding co-editor of the Film Cultures series for Peter Lang Academic Publishing, Oxford. He is the author of Film Criticism as Cultural Fantasy: The Perpetual French Discovery of Australian Cinema (Peter Lang, 2010). The book has been reviewed in French Studies and Film Studies journals internationally, with the prestigious US journal Film Quarterly describing it as a pioneering work. Andrew is currently writing a book on Tony Gatlif for publication in the French Film Directors series by Manchester University Press. He lectures and publishes on French, European and World Cinema, and particularly on the representation and interpretation of cultural identities in film.