Information

Membership Number: FCA3404

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Humanities

Corresponding Email: ***@ianconrich.co.uk

Homepage(s): http://www.ianconrich.com/ 

Present and Previous Positions

Associate Professor, Department of Media Studies / Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Honorary Professor in Visual Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria.

Professorial Fellow in Visual and Material Culture, University of Vienna, Austria.

Professor of Film and Visual Culture, University of Derby, United Kingdom.

Associate Professor and Associate Head of School: Research, University of South Australia, Australia.

Founder and Director, Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom.

Chair, New Zealand Studies Association, 1997–present.

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Film Studies; Media Studies; Visual Culture; Popular Culture; Cultural History; Visual Anthropology

Professor Ian Conrich is a scholar of film, media, visual culture, and popular culture whose work has developed across cinema studies, cultural history, visual anthropology, and New Zealand and Pacific studies. His research has ranged from film genre and horror studies to national cinema, screen music, visual culture, and the cultural representation of place, identity, and the South Pacific. He is especially recognized for his sustained contributions to the study of New Zealand cinema and for helping build New Zealand studies as an international field of scholarly inquiry. 

His work brings together historical inquiry, theoretical reflection, and close attention to screen culture. Across his books, edited volumes, teaching, and institutional initiatives, he has explored how cinema and other visual media shape cultural memory, national imagination, sensory experience, and modern forms of popular narrative. His scholarship has also extended into Indigenous film, Asia-Pacific visual culture, and the relationship between screen media and broader questions of cultural exchange. In addition to his academic writing, Professor Conrich has played an important role in international scholarly organization and cultural exchange. He has chaired the New Zealand Studies Association since 1997, founded the Centre for New Zealand Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, and has been active in international conferences, film festivals, editorial work, and cross-disciplinary teaching in film and visual culture.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI).

Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS).

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).

Fellow of the International Institute of Literature and Arts.

Air New Zealand New Zealander of the Year in the United Kingdom (2008).

Selected Publications

Conrich, Ian, and Stuart Murray, eds. New Zealand Filmmakers. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007.

Conrich, Ian, and Stuart Murray, eds. Contemporary New Zealand Cinema: From New Wave to Blockbuster. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008.

Conrich, Ian, ed. Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. Supported by later scholarly references and publisher bibliographies.

Conrich, Ian, and Estella Tincknell, eds. Film’s Musical Moments. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Conrich, Ian, and Laura Sedgwick, eds. Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature: The Body in Parts. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Verified through scholarly citation records.

Conrich, Ian, and Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin. The Cinema of Sri Lanka: South Asian Film in Texts and Contexts. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Other Information

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