Dr Stephen Morgan joined the Film Studies in September 2024, having previously taught in the department on an hourly basis over many years, and having previously worked at the University of Bristol, Queen Mary University of London, and a number of other institutions.

His current research focuses on the cinemas of settler nations, as well as the Indigenous cinemas of Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa / New Zealand. Broader efforts to reconceptualise settler national cinemas in these spaces includes his upcoming monograph, Ealing Abroad: Post-War British Cinema, Settler Colonialism and Ealing Studios in Australia, which will be published by BFI/Bloomsbury in 2025.

Beyond academia, Stephen is also an experienced film archivist, and film programmer and curator, currently serving as Co-Programmer of the London Australian Film Society & Festival. Independent projects include the co-curation of a mini-retrospective of the films of Mikmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, as part of 2024's Cinema Rediscovered festival.

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

• Settler national cinemas
• Indigenous cinemas
• Postcolonial cinemas
• Decolonisation
• Early and silent cinema

Teaching

Teaching interests include film history, cultural history, spectatorship, settler and Indigenous cinemas, decolonial cinemas.

Expertise and Public Engagement

Stephen has written articles for the British Film Institute and The Conversation, and contributed essays and video features to Blu-Ray releases for the BFI and Indicator.

Selected Publications

• Ealing Abroad: Post-War British Cinema, Settler Colonialism and Ealing Studios in Australia (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2025). [Forthcoming]
• ‘Deep Time, Deep Space: Towards a Geologic Cinema in Walkabout‘ in Stephen Morgan and Peter Kilroy (eds), Screening Australia: Culture and Media in Context (Peter Lang, 2025). [Forthcoming]
• ‘Where to begin with Indigenous horror’ [Online Article], British Film Institute, 22 July 2024.
• ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga does little to address the franchise’s frustrating attitude towards Australia’s dark past’ [Online Article], The Conversation, 29 May 2024.
• ‘An international production but ‘not much Australian’: Authenticity and ‘Australianness’ in Under Capricorn’, Under Capricorn: 70 Years On (special issue), Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism (2021), 80-101.