Colm McAuliffe
Colm McAuliffe is a writer and lecturer in film and literature at Birkbeck, University of London. His work encompasses cultural and intellectual histories of film, music and institutions, with a specific interest in the Irish in Britain. He has curated archive television seasons for Whitechapel Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Freud Museum. He is a co-investigator on the award-winning “Make Film History” project which opens up television archives from the BBC for creative reuse by students and he has mentored and co-produced hundreds of films under this initiative. He is Irish, living in London and is currently exploring the meaning of this through teaching and writing both fiction and creative non-fiction. His work has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council England and the Society of Authors. He has two books currently in press: Film, In Theory (Bloomsbury, 2024) which explores the intersections of continental thinking and the formation of film studies in 1960s Britain and Rupture and Rapture (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) which investigates the journey of French Theory across film and music and literature in late twentieth-century Britain. He has written on popular – and unpopular – culture for the Guardian, Sight & Sound, British Journal of Photography, New Statesman and has a PhD, passed without corrections, from Birkbeck. He has guest lectured at Trinity College, Cambridge; Selwyn College, Cambridge; Royal Holloway; Sheffield Hallam; University College Cork, and many other institutions.