Zoë Viney Burgess Editor

Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is based at the University of Cambridge as a visual theorist and academic supervisor for the Department of Social Anthropology and Department of Sociology, an Official Fellow and Graduate Tutor, Clare Hall College, and a member of Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement. She is also a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute. She convenes the Amateur Cinema Special Interest Group for the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, and is the founder of the Amateur Cinema (Media) Studies Network. She has published extensively on amateur media culture, including the co-authored volumes ‘Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures’ (with Susan Aasman. London: Routledge, 2019), and ‘British women amateur filmmakers. National memories and global identities’ (with Heather Norris Nicholson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018). She also published on issue of visual culture and imperial studies including ‘De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire. Preliminary Perspectives’ (ed., New York: Routledge, 2021), and ‘Visual Histories of South Asia (with Marcus Banks. Delhi: Primus Ratna Sagar, 2017).

Dr Zoë Viney Burgess completed her PhD in film at the University of Southampton in 2024. She works simultaneously as Film Curator at Wessex Film and Sound Archive, Winchester, UK, and as a Senior Research Fellow in Screen Archives at the University of West London’s Practice Research Institute of Screen and Music (PRISM). She previously worked as a Senior Research Associate on the AHRC/IRC funded Women in Focus research project at the University of East Anglia and on several research projects at University of Southampton including Mapping Social Practice through the Social Practices Lab, and Investigating Incel Identity with the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics.