Jacqueline Furby

Jacqueline read for a Degree in English at the University of Southampton (gaining First Class Honours) before staying on to achieve a Distinction in her Masters degree in Culture and Social Change and progressing to her PhD. She completed her doctoral thesis, 'Travelling Light: The cinema as Time Machine', in 2003, an examination of time in film, supervised by Linda Ruth Williams and Peter Middleton.

As senior lecturer Jacqueline lectures on level 1 core unit 'Reading the Screen', level 2 cores 'Theories of the Text' and 'Spectators and Audiences', and an option unit on 'The Body'. She lectures on level 3 core unit 'Contemporary Cinema', and level 3 option 'The Time Machine'. She also supervises film MA theory students.

Jacqueline likes dogs, cats and horses, going to the cinema, and holidays in Italy. One of her favourite things to do is sitting outside in summer with a glass of wine discussing films with friends. 

Her research interests include the philosophy of time in film, fantasy film, science-fiction and psychological horror and the films of David Cronenberg, Derek Jarman, Terry Gilliam, Andre Tarkovsky and Jim Jarmusch.

Jacqueline has published on time in American Beauty ( Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies ) , and 'Rhizomatic Time and Temporal Poetics in American Beauty', Film Studies journal) and in 24 ( Reading 24: TV Against the Clock ) . She has been an invited speaker on time in film on a number of occasions at conferences: at the University of Southampton, the University of Glasgow ( Screen ), and at SCMS. ()and 'Rhizomatic Time and Temporal Poetics in journal) and in ()She has been an invited speaker on time in film on a number of occasions at conferences: at the University of Southampton, the University of Glasgow (), and at SCMS.

She is currently planning work on the fantasy films of Terry Gilliam, a Routledge Guidebook on Fantasy, and a book on cinematic time for Manchester University Press.