Academic CV

Academic Employment

University of Exeter – Lecturer in Film Studies (Aug 2021 – Present)

EAF1506: Interrogating Screens (Level 1), Co-convener, 2021/2, Convener, 2023/4
EAS1034: Film Studies: An Introduction (Level 1)
EAF2502: Shots in the Dark: American Film in Profile (Level 2)
EAF2510: Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture (Level 2)
Level 3 Undergraduate Dissertation Supervisor (2021-Present)
MA Dissertation Supervisor (2023 – Present)

University of Exeter – Associate Lecturer in the Humanities and Project Enhance Enabler (Aug 2020 – June 2021)

University of Exeter – Occasional Teacher (2018-20), Postgraduate Teacher (2016-18).

Academic Career

University of Exeter – PhD in Film Studies (2015-2018) – Passed with no corrections.
University of Warwick – MA Film and Television Studies (Distinction) (2013-14).
University of Exeter – BA English Literature and Film Studies (1st Class Degree) (2010-13).

Teaching Qualifications

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy – Advanced Certificate in LTHE (worth 30 credits at NQF Level 7) – Awarded July 2018.

Research Funding

PhD – funded by the University of Exeter’s Chancellor’s Scholarship Award (£43,000).
MA – funded by the AHRC Master’s Award (£9,500).

Research Awards

Winner of the New York Theatre Library Association’s 2021 Richard Wall Memorial Award (including $500 Honorarium) for ‘an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance’, for Cinema on the Front Line (University of Exeter Press, 2021)
The Philip M. Taylor IAMHIST-Routledge Prize for the Best Article by a New Scholar: Chris Grosvenor, ‘“Dr Kinema”: The cinema, the trade and the rehabilitation of wounded and disabled soldiers during the First World War‘, 40:1 (March 2020), pp. 140-161. (Awarded April 2021)

Publications

Books

Cinema on the Frontline: British Soldiers and Cinema in the First World War (University of Exeter Press, 2021).
- Winner of the Theatre Library Association’s 2021 Richard Wall Memorial Award
- Review Excerpt:
  - ‘[Cinema on the Front line] is an impressive and significant piece of scholarship. Indeed, reading this book you wonder why this project has not been undertaken previously. The answer most likely lies with Grosvenor’s industrious research, discovering, cataloguing and critically analysing a rich and varied collection of materials that bring to life the experiences of soldiers and film personnel at this most tumultuous moment’. Tom Rice, Screen, Vol. 63.4.
- Educational Use:
  - University of St Andrews – ‘FM4106: War and Cinema’ – Required/Core Reading.

Journal Articles

‘“Is this the Way?”: The Mandalorian and the Contemporary Phenomenon of Intra-Franchise Adaptation [Forthcoming]
Netflix, Fan Management, and the Promotional Rhetoric of Comic Book Adaptations [Forthcoming]
‘Secret Origins: The disavowal of the comics medium within the promotional rhetoric of film trailers’, Adaptation (2024)
‘Cinemas Behind Barbed Wire: British Prisoners of War and POW Camp Cinemas, 1914-1918’, Early Popular Visual Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2019), pp.178-191.
‘Dr Kinema’: The Cinema, the Trade and the Rehabilitation of Wounded and Disabled Soldiers during the First World War’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2019). (Award Winner)
‘”He Sees Now What He Looked Like”: Soldier Spectators, Topical Films and the Problem of onscreen representation during WWI’, Film History: An International Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4 (2018) pp. 84-106.
‘Discontinuity and the Tramp: Understanding Discontinuity as a Constitutive Element of Charles Chaplin’s ‘Charlie’ Identity’, Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2018).
‘”At the Front” postcard series c.1916, the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum collection’, Early Popular Visual Culture, Vol. 15, No. 4 (2017).

Book Reviews

Blog Posts

‘Cinemas and Soldiers, 1914-1918: Reflections upon my doctoral research during the final year of centenary commemorations for the First World War’, The International Association for Media and History, iamhist.net (Invited Contributor) (July 2018).

Conference Papers and Speaking Events

2023

‘Secret Origins: The Disavowal of the Comics Medium within the Promotional Rhetoric of Film Promotion’, AAS Conference: Authenticity and Adaptation, University of Birmingham June 2023.
‘Comic Book Adaptations and Promotional Rhetoric’, BAFTSS Adaptation SIG, W.I.P. online event January 2023.

2021

Book Launch: Cinema on the Front Line, Hosted by Exeter Screen Studies Research Centre (University of Exeter), November 2021.

2018

‘The Dream that Kickstarts: Kickstarting Silent Film Restorations and Participatory Fan Culture’, New Approaches to Silent Film Historiography, University of Leeds, September 2018.

‘”Ageless, Invincible and Unchanging”: Sherlock Holmes, Transtextuality and Adaptation as Political Discourse’, PGR College of Humanities – ‘Crossing Boundaries’ Conference, University of Exeter, April 2018.

‘”Wake Up!”: British Cinema, the Outbreak of War, and the Voluntary Recruiting Movement, 1914-1916’, British Silent Film Festival Symposium, King’s College London, April 2018.

‘The Forgotten Audience of First World War Cinema: The Evidence of Cinema Spectatorship in Official Military Documentation’, Researching Past Cinema Audiences: Archives, Memories and Methods, Aberystwyth University, March 2018.

2017

‘“He Sees Now What He Looked Like”: Soldier Spectators, Topical Films and the Problem of On-Screen Representation during WWI’, 27^th Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, June 2017.

‘Soldiers in the Archive: Uncovering the History of Military Cinema Audiences during WWI through the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum’, Invited Speaker, 20th Anniversary Lecture Event, The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, March 2017.

2016

‘Reels, Recovery and Rehabilitation: Examining the use of cinema entertainment for wounded and disabled soldiers in WWI’ – PGR Conference of the Humanities, University of Exeter, April 2016.

2015

‘Cinema on the Front Line: Military Cinema Exhibition during the First World War’ – Moving Pictures and Photoplays: New Perspectives in Silent Cinema, University of York, June 2015.

2014

‘Discontinuity and the Tramp: Chaplin’s ‘Charlie’ Persona’ – Film and Media 2014 Conference, University of London, June 2014.

Teaching Awards

University of Exeter Teaching Award

May 2024 – Shortlisted – ‘Educator of the Year’

July 2023 (Nominated): ‘Supervisor of the Year’; ‘Innovative Teaching Award’.
- Student nomination: ‘Chris was always very encouraging whenever I wanted to discuss my dissertation or had issues with it. […] He also provided additional reading for me from his own book collections on the topic, so I had a wider range of reading than I would have had if I had just used the library and resources available. He is always very friendly and approachable, and as someone who had doubts about certain elements of my dissertation, he really helped ease my mind and was a great help.’
June 2022 (Nominated)
- Student nomination: ‘Best led seminar I’ve been in – super attentive & let the conversation flow nicely.’
July 2021 (Nominated)
- Student nomination: ‘[Chris] took over when another lecturer left the course and provided incredible lectures. They were very understanding through some personal problems and make the seminars interesting and were quick to create solutions when lectures weren’t published due to technical issues’
June 2020 (Nominated)
- Student Nomination: “Chris led my seminar for the ‘Shots in the Dark’ second year film module and was truly brilliant. His seminars were great; engaging and interesting, he established a genuine relationship with members of the group and created a comfortable environment in which students readily put forward ideas and, moreover, enjoyed each other’s company. Upon writing my summative essay, Chris was hugely helpful and offered me a lot of support which was crucial, as someone who struggles with the pressures of assessments. Since then, I have sought his help for other work and, again, he was more than happy to help outside of his regular teaching, discussing essay plans and general interests in the field. I am also aware that he has arranged times to meet other students, one a particularly close friend of mine, to assist with postgraduate studies – they are equally grateful to him and their recommendations about his teaching (having had him as a seminar leader as well) heavily influenced my decision to study film in the first place.”

Roles/Positions

Widening Participation
Film Studies Widening Participation Officer (2022-Present)
Film Studies Session Tutor for the Exeter Progression Programme, (2017-19)
Project Enhance Enabler, University of Exeter (2020-2021).
- Project Enhance Team member (contributor to weekly workshopping discussions and development)
- Produced instructional content for staff and students, including ‘how-to’ videos and guidance documents.
- Produced and ran skills development workshops for University of Exeter staff.

Student Representative/Member – Bill Douglas Cinema Museum Board (2016 – 2018).

Bill Douglas Cinema Museum Volunteer (2012-2013; 2015-2018).

Film Selection Committee Member and Promotional/Marketing producer for ‘Fleet Film’ Film Society (2013-15).

Editorial Experience

Early Popular Visual Culture – Peer reviewer (2020 – ).

Silent Features: The Development of Silent Feature Films 1914-1934, Steve Neale (ed.)(Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2018) – Produced index and proofread for editor Richard Maltby.