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Dr Eleanor Yule

Liverpool Screen School

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Email: E.R.Yule@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 8786

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Dr. Eleanor Yule is an award-winning writer, director and interdisciplinary senior lecturer working across both Media and Film Studies at the Liverpool Screen School. She has written and produced over thirty films, including a UK BAFTA nominated short, a series of bespoke arts documentaries with ex - python Michael Palin and a critically acclaimed feature film, 'Blinded' (2004), an adaptation of Zola’s, Thérèse Raquin, which was selected for competition at film festivals around the world.

In the run up to the Scottish referendum she co- authored, 'The Glass Half Full: Moving Beyond Scottish Miserablism' (2014, Luath Press), which analysed the impact of social realism in film and literature within Scottish culture. In 2017 her practice based PhD pioneered a new screenwriting methodology for the creation of Medieval film screenplays. She is currently working on a new film documentary, 'Stories from the Magic Attic', which celebrates an eccentric archive in Swadlincote, West Derby, which was salvaged by the local community. She is also developing a feminist horror feature screenplay, with LJMU Senior lecturer Rosa Fong, which centres around the representations of British East and Southeast Asian women and their experiences during the Covid 19 Pandemic and writing a literary novel based in Cornwall and Edinburgh using screenwriting techniques.

Degrees

2016, University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom, PhD Creative Screenwriting
2011, University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom, PG Cert (Research Methods)
1989, Glasgow University, United Kingdom, MA (Hons) Film Studies and English Literature

Academic appointments

Senior Lecturer, Film Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, 2024 - present
Senior Lecturer, Media and Film Studies, LJMU, 2018 - 2024
Lecturer in Creative Screenwriting, Theatre and Radio, Creative Writing, Falmouth University, 2016 - 2018
Associate Lecturer, Film and TV Studies, Glasgow University, 2010 - 2015
Visting Lecturer, Business and Creative Studies, University of the West of Scotland, 2009 - 2016

Postgraduate training

Diploma in Radio, Film and TV, United Kingdom, University of Bristol, 1989 - 1990

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