BIRTHPLACE:   Adelaide, Australia LIVES IN:   Paris, France

WORKS IN:   France, Germany, UK

Frances Guerin completed her PhD in Cinema Studies at NYU, following an MA in Art History at University of Melbourne, in Australia. She is currently Marie Curie Fellow at the Instutitut für Medienwissenschaft, Ruhr University, Bochum in Germany.  She is the author of A Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). She is co-editor of The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture (Wallflower Press, 2007). Her articles have appeared in international journals, including Cinema Journal, Screening the Past, Film and History, and Cinema e Cie. Her book entitled Through Amateur Eyes: Cinema and Photography in Nazi Germany is forthcoming.

She is currently writing a book on grey painting and sculpture. She lives in Paris.