Laura Rascaroli is is Professor of Film and Screen Media at University College Cork, Ireland. Her interests span art film, modernism and postmodernism, geopolitics, nonfiction, first-person cinema and the essay film. She is the author of several monographs, including How the Essay Film Thinks (Oxford UP, 2017), The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (Wallflower/Columbia UP, 2009), and Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie (with Ewa Mazierska, Wallflower/Columbia UP, 2006), and editor of collections including Antonioni: Centenary Essays (with John David Rhodes, BFI, 2011) and Expanding Cinema: Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art (with Jill Murphy, AUP, 2020). She is general editor of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media.