Dr Lisa Smithstead

Lisa Smithstead is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Swansea University | Prifysgol Abertawe. She specialises in feminist film history, feminist film theory, adaptation studies, and archival film and literary theory / practice. She is the author of Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women’s Writing, and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Gender and the Archive (Oxford University Press, 2021) and Ageing on Screen After #MeToo: Gender, age and celebrity (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press in 2027). She was  PI on the AHRC project ‘Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Gender and the Archive’ (2018-2020). More recently has led as PI on the UKRI Challenges funded project ‘Ageing on Screen After #MeToo’ (2023), as PI on the collaborative Welsh Crucible funded project ‘Screening Dementia: Framing Realities, Fostering Understanding’ (2023-24) with an interdisciplinary team of researchers across humanities and health care studies, and as PI on the Medr funded project ‘Cinemagoing, Ageing Women and the Covid-19 Pandemic’ (2025) with Dr. Elain Price.