Professor Lizelle Bisschoff

  • Professor of Film Studies (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)

telephone: 0141 3306130
email: Lizelle.Bisschoff@glasgow.ac.uk

School of Culture & Creative Art, Theatre Film and TV Studies, Gilmorehill Halls

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377

Biography

I am Professor of Film Studies at the University of Glasgow, where I have worked since 2012 in various capacities including as a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow (2012-2015), Lecturer (2015-2019), Senior Lecturer (2019-2024), and Professor since 2024. I previously held a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh (2010–2012). I hold a PhD in African cinema from the University of Stirling (2010), and an MSc in Cultural Studies from the University of Edinburgh (2005).

My academic journey began with a focus on African cinema – particularly gender and aesthetics in women’s filmmaking across West Africa and Southern Africa. This expanded during my postdoctoral research to include East African cinematic cultures, and I have conducted fieldwork across the continent and beyond. I have presented my research at numerous international film festivals and conferences, as speaker and/or jury member.

I founded the Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival in 2006, which grew into a major platform for African cinema in the UK. I directed the festival until 2011 and continued to serve as trustee and advisor until 2022. The festival blends public engagement with academic exploration, offering symposia, curated screenings and student involvement in programming and production. Our work has helped challenge dominant Eurocentric canons and promote underrepresented voices in African and diasporic filmmaking in Scotland and beyond.

Alongside my scholarly and public dissemination work, I am deeply committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in Higher Education; anti-racist and decolonial approaches in teaching and research; and supporting the holistic well-being of students and staff. I chaired the EDI Committee for the School of Culture and Creative Arts (2019–2023) and currently contribute to the Decolonising and Health & Wellbeing Working Groups. I was part of the core organising committee for the School of Culture and Creative Arts’ inaugural Health Wellbeing Week in April 2025, which featured activities from Tai chi, yoga and Pilates to park walks, singing workshops and mindfulness sessions.

Research interests

My research spans African and diasporic cinemas, feminist film historiography, and critical pedagogies, with an increasing focus on decolonising practices in screen studies and higher education.

During my MSc in Cultural Studies (Edinburgh, 2005), I explored gender in the work of Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, followed by a PhD (Stirling, 2009) examining filmmaking by women in francophone West Africa and lusophone/anglophone Southern Africa. This research laid the foundation for my sustained interest in African histories and cultures, non-Western film histories and critical feminist aesthetics.

I have since expanded my research to encompass East African cinematic industries, feminist curatorial practice, African science fiction and digital arts, and the politics of representation within both historical and contemporary visual cultures. My current work explores how feminist, decolonial and anti-racist approaches can shape equitable and inclusive screen cultures and education.

Key areas of interest include:

  • Pedagogies of care, inclusive education, and decolonising the screen studies curriculum
  • Feminist and decolonial approaches to film history, archives and heritage
  • Film curation, exhibition practices and festival cultures in African and global contexts
  • African cinemas, particularly by women filmmakers across West, East and Southern Africa
  • African digital arts and the impact of emerging technologies on media production and circulation
  • Science fiction, Afrofuturism and speculative aesthetics in African film
  • Post-apartheid South African cinema and national identity
  • Nollywood and popular film industries in Nigeria and beyond, with a particular focus on the role of women

I have authored and co-edited multiple scholarly publications, including:

  • Stretching the Archives: Decolonising Global Women’s Film Heritage (Archive Books, 2025)
  • Film Education Journal special issue: “Decolonising film education” (UCL Press, 2022)
  • Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic (Routledge, 2019)
  • Africa’s Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema (Legenda, 2014)
  • Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film (I.B. Tauris, 2013)

My research has appeared in journals such as Interventions, Research in African Literatures, Journal of African Cinemas, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture and Critical African Studies, and I have contributed chapters to major volumes on world cinema, African cinema, animation, art and reconciliation, the star system, Afro-modernism, and more.

I have led and collaborated on projects dedicated to research and knowledge exchange, including:

  • Feminist Film Heritage (Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2021–2023), building a global network of feminist film historians
  • Africa in Motion Digital Hub (2019), featuring an interactive African video games exhibition and VR lounge
  • Building Capacity for Film Curation in East Africa (GCRF, 2018–2019), offering mentorship and training to aspiring curators across four East African countries
  • Africa’s Lost Classics in Context (AHRC, 2017–2018), restoring and touring landmark classic African films

Publications

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Number of items: 35.

2025

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377, Grgić, Ana and Van De Peer, Stefanie (Eds.) (2025) Stretching the Archives: Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage. Archive Books. ISBN 9783949973697

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2025) Into the archives: critiquing White feminism through the work of Katinka Heyns. In: Bisschoff, Lizelle, Grgić, Ana and Van de Peer, Stefanie (eds.) Stretching the Archives: Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage. Archive Books, pp. 313-328. ISBN 9783949973697

2022

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Atkinson, Justine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8634-4995 (2022) Curating Africa Online: The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Consumption of African Audio-visual Content. In: Stefano, Baschiera and Alexander, Fisher (eds.) World Cinema On Demand: Global Film Cultures in the Era of Online Distribution. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781501348594

Mistry, Jyoti and Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2022) Editorial: decolonising film education. Film Education Journal, 5(1), pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.14324/fej.05.1.01)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2022) Maia Lekow and Christopher King, directors. The Letter. 2019. 81 min. English and Swahili, with English subtitles. Filmed and produced in Kenya. BFI Player. No price reported. African Studies Review, 65(1), E61-E63. (doi: 10.1017/asr.2022.15)

2020

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2020) African cyborgs: females and feminists in African science fiction film. Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 22(5), pp. 606-623. (doi: 10.1080/1369801X.2019.1659155)

2019

Barker, Timothy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025, Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Watson, Lauren (2019) Game On, Africa! [Exhibitions]

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2019) The power of film: grassroots activism in Ousmane Sembène’s Moolaadé. In: Mitchell, Jolyon, Vincett, Giselle, Hawksley, Theodora and Culbertson, Hal (eds.) Peacebuilding and the Arts. Series: Rethinking peace and conflict studies. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 323-338. ISBN 9783030178741 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-17875-8_16)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Van de Peer, Stefanie (2019) Women in African Cinema: Film Beyond the Body Politic. Routledge. ISBN 9780415425667

2018

Van De Peer, Stefanie, Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Atkinson, Justine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8634-4995 (2018) Africa in motion: busting the canon since 2006. MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, 2, 21.

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Daya, Shari (2018) Editorial introduction. Critical African Studies, 10(2), pp. 127-129. (doi: 10.1080/21681392.2018.1517940)

2017

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2017) The future is digital: an introduction to African digital arts. Critical African Studies, 9(3), pp. 261-267. (doi: 10.1080/21681392.2017.1376506)

2016

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2016) Katrina Daly Thompson , Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts: language, power, identity. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (pb $27 – 978 0 25300 651 6). 2013, 256 pp. Africa, 86(1), pp. 184-185. (doi: 10.1017/S000197201500090X)[Book Review]

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2016) Seeing ourselves on screen: African film stars in Nollywood and beyond. In: Bell, James (ed.) Black Star: a BFI Compendium. British Film Institute: London. ISBN 9781844579716

2015

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2015) Cinema in East Africa. Journal of African Cinemas, 7(2), pp. 71-78. (doi: 10.1386/jac.7.2.71_2)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2015) From Nollywood to New Nollywood: the story of Nigeria’s runaway success. Conversation, 28 Sep.

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2015) Defining Afro-modernism: African cinema’s response to modernity. In: Ross, Stephen and Lindgren, Allana (eds.) The Modernist World. Series: Routledge worlds. Routledge. ISBN 9780415845038

2014

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Murphy, David (Eds.) (2014) Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema. Series: Moving image. Maney: Leeds. ISBN 9781907975516

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2014) Gender equality, women and African film. Discussion Paper. UNESCO.

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2014) "They have made Africa proud": The Nollywood star system in Nigerian and beyond. In: Bandhauer, Andrea and Royer, Michelle (eds.) Stars in World Cinema: Screen Icons and Star Systems Across Cultures. Series: Tauris world cinema. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781780769776

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2014) Women's stories and struggles in "These Hands" (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling). In: Bisschoff, Lizelle and Murphy, David (eds.) Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema. Legenda: Oxford. ISBN 9781907975516

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Murphy, David (2014) Introduction: revising the classics: opening up the archives of African cinema. In: Bisschoff, Lizelle and Murphy, David (eds.) Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema. Series: Moving image (5). Legenda and Maney Publishing. ISBN 9781907975516

Fletcher, Marc and Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2014) African sport in the global arena: contemporary approaches and analyses. Critical African Studies, 6(2-3), pp. 123-133. (doi: 10.1080/21681392.2014.957923)

2013

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Van der Peer, S. (Eds.) (2013) Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film. Series: International library of cultural studies. I.B. Tauris: London. ISBN 9781848856929

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2013) African history through the arts: editorial introduction. Critical African Studies, 5(2), pp. 61-66. (doi: 10.1080/21681392.2013.821376)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2013) Representing Africa in Europe: programming the Africa in Motion Film Festival. Research in African Literatures, 44(2), pp. 142-162. (doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.44.2.142)

2012

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2012) Reconciling the African nation: Fanta Regina Nacro’s La Nuit de la Vérité. In: Bisschoff, Lizelle and Van De Peer, Stefanie (eds.) Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film. Series: International Library of Cultural Studies, 21. I.B. Tauris, pp. 213-230. ISBN 9781848856929

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Van de Peer, Stefanie (2012) Representing the unrepresentable. In: Bisschoff, Lizelle and Van de Peer, Stefanie (eds.) Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film. Series: International Library of Cultural Studies. IB Tauris: London, pp. 3-25. ISBN 9781848856929

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2012) The emergence of women’s filmmaking in sub-Saharan Africa: From pioneering figures to contemporary directors. Journal of African Cinemas, 4(2), pp. 157-173. (doi: 10.1386/jac.4.2.157_1)

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Moura Mendes, I. (2012) Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival 2011: Children and Youth in Africa [Review]. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 24(1), pp. 107-112. (doi: 10.1080/13696815.2012.676318)

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Overbergh, A. (2012) Digital as the new popular in African cinema? Case studies from the continent. Research in African literatures, 43(4), pp. 112-127.

2010

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2010) Visions of Female Emancipation: Three recent films from West Africa. Journal of African Cinemas, 2(1), pp. 37-48. (doi: 10.1386/jac.2.1.37_1)

2009

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2009) Sub-Saharan African cinema in the context of FESPACO: close-ups on francophone West Africa and anglophone South Africa. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 45(4), pp. 441-454. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqp116)

2007

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2007) Framing diversity in the new South Africa: The Project 10 documentary series. In: Baker, C. and Norridge, Z. (eds.) Crossing Places: New Research in African Studies. Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle, UK. ISBN 9781847180964

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Murphy, David (2007) Africa’s Lost Classics: Introduction. Screen, 48(4), pp. 493-499. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjm050)

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Number of items: 35.

Articles

Mistry, Jyoti and Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2022) Editorial: decolonising film education. Film Education Journal, 5(1), pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.14324/fej.05.1.01)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2022) Maia Lekow and Christopher King, directors. The Letter. 2019. 81 min. English and Swahili, with English subtitles. Filmed and produced in Kenya. BFI Player. No price reported. African Studies Review, 65(1), E61-E63. (doi: 10.1017/asr.2022.15)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2020) African cyborgs: females and feminists in African science fiction film. Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 22(5), pp. 606-623. (doi: 10.1080/1369801X.2019.1659155)

Van De Peer, Stefanie, Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Atkinson, Justine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8634-4995 (2018) Africa in motion: busting the canon since 2006. MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, 2, 21.

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Daya, Shari (2018) Editorial introduction. Critical African Studies, 10(2), pp. 127-129. (doi: 10.1080/21681392.2018.1517940)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2017) The future is digital: an introduction to African digital arts. Critical African Studies, 9(3), pp. 261-267. (doi: 10.1080/21681392.2017.1376506)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2015) Cinema in East Africa. Journal of African Cinemas, 7(2), pp. 71-78. (doi: 10.1386/jac.7.2.71_2)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2015) From Nollywood to New Nollywood: the story of Nigeria’s runaway success. Conversation, 28 Sep.

Fletcher, Marc and Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2014) African sport in the global arena: contemporary approaches and analyses. Critical African Studies, 6(2-3), pp. 123-133. (doi: 10.1080/21681392.2014.957923)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2013) African history through the arts: editorial introduction. Critical African Studies, 5(2), pp. 61-66. (doi: 10.1080/21681392.2013.821376)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2013) Representing Africa in Europe: programming the Africa in Motion Film Festival. Research in African Literatures, 44(2), pp. 142-162. (doi: 10.2979/reseafrilite.44.2.142)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2012) The emergence of women’s filmmaking in sub-Saharan Africa: From pioneering figures to contemporary directors. Journal of African Cinemas, 4(2), pp. 157-173. (doi: 10.1386/jac.4.2.157_1)

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Moura Mendes, I. (2012) Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival 2011: Children and Youth in Africa [Review]. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 24(1), pp. 107-112. (doi: 10.1080/13696815.2012.676318)

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Overbergh, A. (2012) Digital as the new popular in African cinema? Case studies from the continent. Research in African literatures, 43(4), pp. 112-127.

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2010) Visions of Female Emancipation: Three recent films from West Africa. Journal of African Cinemas, 2(1), pp. 37-48. (doi: 10.1386/jac.2.1.37_1)

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2009) Sub-Saharan African cinema in the context of FESPACO: close-ups on francophone West Africa and anglophone South Africa. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 45(4), pp. 441-454. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqp116)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Murphy, David (2007) Africa’s Lost Classics: Introduction. Screen, 48(4), pp. 493-499. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjm050)

Books

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Van de Peer, Stefanie (2019) Women in African Cinema: Film Beyond the Body Politic. Routledge. ISBN 9780415425667

Book Sections

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2025) Into the archives: critiquing White feminism through the work of Katinka Heyns. In: Bisschoff, Lizelle, Grgić, Ana and Van de Peer, Stefanie (eds.) Stretching the Archives: Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage. Archive Books, pp. 313-328. ISBN 9783949973697

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Atkinson, Justine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8634-4995 (2022) Curating Africa Online: The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Consumption of African Audio-visual Content. In: Stefano, Baschiera and Alexander, Fisher (eds.) World Cinema On Demand: Global Film Cultures in the Era of Online Distribution. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781501348594

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2019) The power of film: grassroots activism in Ousmane Sembène’s Moolaadé. In: Mitchell, Jolyon, Vincett, Giselle, Hawksley, Theodora and Culbertson, Hal (eds.) Peacebuilding and the Arts. Series: Rethinking peace and conflict studies. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 323-338. ISBN 9783030178741 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-17875-8_16)

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2016) Seeing ourselves on screen: African film stars in Nollywood and beyond. In: Bell, James (ed.) Black Star: a BFI Compendium. British Film Institute: London. ISBN 9781844579716

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2015) Defining Afro-modernism: African cinema’s response to modernity. In: Ross, Stephen and Lindgren, Allana (eds.) The Modernist World. Series: Routledge worlds. Routledge. ISBN 9780415845038

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2014) "They have made Africa proud": The Nollywood star system in Nigerian and beyond. In: Bandhauer, Andrea and Royer, Michelle (eds.) Stars in World Cinema: Screen Icons and Star Systems Across Cultures. Series: Tauris world cinema. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781780769776

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2014) Women's stories and struggles in "These Hands" (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling). In: Bisschoff, Lizelle and Murphy, David (eds.) Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema. Legenda: Oxford. ISBN 9781907975516

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Murphy, David (2014) Introduction: revising the classics: opening up the archives of African cinema. In: Bisschoff, Lizelle and Murphy, David (eds.) Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema. Series: Moving image (5). Legenda and Maney Publishing. ISBN 9781907975516

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2012) Reconciling the African nation: Fanta Regina Nacro’s La Nuit de la Vérité. In: Bisschoff, Lizelle and Van De Peer, Stefanie (eds.) Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film. Series: International Library of Cultural Studies, 21. I.B. Tauris, pp. 213-230. ISBN 9781848856929

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Van de Peer, Stefanie (2012) Representing the unrepresentable. In: Bisschoff, Lizelle and Van de Peer, Stefanie (eds.) Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film. Series: International Library of Cultural Studies. IB Tauris: London, pp. 3-25. ISBN 9781848856929

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2007) Framing diversity in the new South Africa: The Project 10 documentary series. In: Baker, C. and Norridge, Z. (eds.) Crossing Places: New Research in African Studies. Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle, UK. ISBN 9781847180964

Book Reviews

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2016) Katrina Daly Thompson , Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts: language, power, identity. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (pb $27 – 978 0 25300 651 6). 2013, 256 pp. Africa, 86(1), pp. 184-185. (doi: 10.1017/S000197201500090X)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377, Grgić, Ana and Van De Peer, Stefanie (Eds.) (2025) Stretching the Archives: Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage. Archive Books. ISBN 9783949973697

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Murphy, David (Eds.) (2014) Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema. Series: Moving image. Maney: Leeds. ISBN 9781907975516

Bisschoff, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Van der Peer, S. (Eds.) (2013) Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film. Series: International library of cultural studies. I.B. Tauris: London. ISBN 9781848856929

Research Reports or Papers

Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 (2014) Gender equality, women and African film. Discussion Paper. UNESCO.

Exhibitions

Barker, Timothy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025, Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Watson, Lauren (2019) Game On, Africa! [Exhibitions]

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Grants

  • Africa in Motion Digital Hub – Co-I and Curator, African video games and VR exhibition, AiM Film Festival, Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Grant, 2019 (£8,500)
  • Building Capacity for Film Curation and Exhibition in East Africa – PI, Scottish Research Council, 2018–2019 (£24,000)
  • Africa’s Lost Classics in Context – PI, AHRC Follow-on Funding, 2017–2018 (£94,000)
  • South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour – Director and Executive Producer, BFI/British Council, 2014–2015 (£90,000)
  • From Africa, With Love – Director and Executive Producer, BFI, 2015 (£35,000)
  • Twenty Years of Democracy: Art and Activism in South Africa – Chancellor’s Fund grant, University of Glasgow, 2014 (£6,500)

Supervision

I supervise PhD students working on topics including African and diasporic cinemas, feminist film practice, curatorial studies and decolonial methodologies. I welcome inquiries from prospective students working on intersectional, inclusive and transformative approaches to screen studies in a world cinema context.

 

  • Brown, Michelah
    The Dilemma of Freedom for the Black Body in Performance
  • Han, Jiatong
    Exploring the Future of Ecofeminism through Cross-species Co-creation of Multimedia Art
  • Ibrahim, Umloda
    Resistance within/of Sudanese Cinema

Teaching

  • MSc core course: Materials of Film Curation
  • Honours option courses: Contemporary African Cinemas, Race on Screen
  • Sessions on PGT courses: Festivals, Advanced Topics in Film Studies, MLitt in Film and Television Studies core courses

Additional information

Affiliations

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Member, AHRC Peer Review College (2016–2020)
  • Member, Editorial Boards: Journal of African Cinemas (2015–2023), Critical African Studies (2012–2020)

Administration

  • REF Impact Lead (currently)
  • Convenor, MSc Film Curation (until 2025)
  • FTV PGT Coordinator (until 2025)
  • Chair, EDI Committee (2019–2023); Member of Decolonising and Health & Wellbeing Working Groups (currently)

Keynotes, conferences and presentations (Selected)

  • “Cultivating Anti-Racist Pedagogies of Care”, University of Glasgow Symposium, Sept 2024
  • “Decolonising Film Studies”, University of the West of Scotland, Dec 2021
  • “Postapartheid South African Cinema”, Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai (online), May 2021
  • “The Work of Safi Faye: Senegalese Film Pioneer”, Meno Avilys Media Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, Jan 2020
  • “Centralising Africa: Decolonising Film Studies Research and Teaching”, Keynote, Postgraduate Film Studies Conference, University of St Andrews, May 2019
  • “Africa’s Lost Classics: Histories of African Women in Film”, Workshop, Zanzibar International Film Festival, July 2018
  • “Hidden Herstories: Charting the Roles of Women in African Cinema”, Department of Film and Television, University of Bristol, May 2018
  • “Contemporary African Cinemas: New Genres, Aesthetics and Themes”, Centre of African Studies, University of Birmingham, Nov 2017
  • “Women in African Cinema: Female Identity on Screen”, (Re)reading African Feminisms Colloquium, Rhodes University, South Africa, July 2017
  • “Curating Africa in Scotland: The Africa in Motion Story”, Media and Culture, University of Stirling, March 2016