Alexander Sergeant

2025-09-04 03:11:49

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Lecturer in Digital Media Production, University of Westminster

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Dr. Alexander Sergeant lectures at the University of Westminster. He is an acclaimed film historian and theorist, with research expertise in the history of Hollywood cinema, fantasy media, popular animation, psychoanalysis and film theory.

His research has been twice nominated by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), first for his co-edited collection Fantasy/Animation: Connections between Media, Mediums and Genres (Routledge, 2018 – nominated for 'Best Collection') and, more recently, for Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema (SUNY Press, 2021 – nominated for 'Best First Monograph').

He is the co-founder of fantasy-animation and co-host of the Fantasy/Animation podcast.

Experience

2024–present Lecturer in Digital Media Production, University of Westminster
2019–2024 Senior Lecturer in Film & Media Studies, University of Portsmouth
2017–2019 Lecturer in Film & Media Theory, Bournemouth University

Education

2017 King's College London, PhD Film Studies

Publications

2021 Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema, SUNY Press
2018 Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres, Routledge

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