Dr. Stefanie Van De Peer

Biography

Stefanie Van de Peer is Assistant Professor in Film. She is a film historian, specialised in women"s and feminist cinema of the Global South. Her research focuses on Arab and African women's contributions to cinema history, women's cinematic solidarity networks, and their (re-)presentation at film festivals. Addressing issues of neglect and amnesia in archives, she has worked on the restoration of films from Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and has organised symposia where academics and archivist practitioners have exchanged ideas for a more inclusive and accessible global film heritage. Her latest edited collection is the Open Access book Stretching the Archives: Towards a Global Women"s Film Heritage. Her monographs are Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary (EUP, 2017), Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic (with Bisschoff, Routledge, 2020) and ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir (with Cheema, EUP, 2023 " winner of the MeCCSA Monograph of the Year Award 2024). Her edited collection Animation in the Middle East won the BAFTSS award for Best Edited Collection in 2018. Dr Van de Peer welcomes enquiries from research students interested in working on aspects of film history, film feminism, film preservation and restoration, and various aspects of the cinema of the Global South.