معرفی
Tina Kendall is a Senior Lecturer in Film & Media at Anglia Ruskin University's Cambridge School of Creative Industries, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. She serves as Director of Research Students for her faculty and maintains an active research profile in contemporary media studies.
Her educational background includes a PhD in French Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory from the University of California, Davis, and a BA (Hons) in French & Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine.
Kendall's research centers on negative or minor affects in contemporary media, particularly boredom and disgust. Her work bridges critical and media theory, affect theory, and continental philosophy. She has made significant contributions to the study of extreme cinema spectatorship and has pioneered research on boredom in networked media environments. Her recent work explores the attention economy of digital platforms and the chronopolitics of contemporary media experiences.
Her publication record from 2010-2021 reveals consistent scholarly output focused on the intersections of affect, temporality, and media platforms. Her work demonstrates a clear trajectory from early research on extreme cinema toward contemporary investigations of digital boredom, platform studies, and the biopolitics of gesture in social media environments.
Kendall is an active member of multiple scholarly associations including the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), the British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), and the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). She holds the status of Senior Fellow with the Higher Education Association (HEA).
She teaches modules including Classical Hollywood Cinema, Theorising Spectatorship, Digital Media Theory, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, and Professional Practice in Film. Her supervision interests include contemporary cinema aesthetics, extreme cinemas, networked media, and affect studies in film. Notably, she collaborated with Chelmsford Young Creatives and the British Science Association on The Boredom Project during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdowns.
