Meet the Conference Committee

Senior Lecturer in Popular Music
Oxford Brookes University

Jan Butler is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Oxford Brookes University, where she has worked since 2009.  At Brookes, her teaching has mainly focused on film music with particular interest in the use of pre-existing popular music. Her published research, meanwhile, has focused on popular music and record production, continuing work from her PhD exploring authenticity in 60s rock.  Now her teaching has shifted back to popular music, she has brought these interests together in her most recent publication, an exploration of the score for Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, for the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Music (2022).  

Senior Lecturer in Film
Oxford Brookes University

James Cateridge is Senior Lecturer in Film at Oxford Brookes University, and Network Lead for the Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network based at Brookes. He has co-taught undergraduate modules on Film Music with Jan Butler and Matt Lawson. He also runs a successful Documentary Film Club which screens new international factual films to staff, students and the general public from Brookes campus.

His research on film policy and screen tourism has been widely presented and published. He is the author of The People's Pictures: National Lottery Funding for British Cinema (2011) and Film Studies for Dummies (2015).

Senior Lecturer in Music
Oxford Brookes University

Matt Lawson is Senior Lecturer in Music at Oxford Brookes University, UK, where he has worked since 2017. Primarily a film and television music specialist, Matt completed his PhD at Edge Hill University in 2017, with a thesis focussing on the music used in German depictions of the Holocaust on screen. This followed on from an undergraduate BMus (Hons) degree from the University of Huddersfield, and an MA in Music with Distinction from the University of York. Matt is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, having completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education in 2015. He is co-author of the book, 100 Greatest Film Scores (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), and has appeared on BBC Radio across England to discuss his passion for film music.  

Reader in Film Studies
Oxford Brookes University

Lindsay Steenberg is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University where she co-ordinates their graduate programme in Popular Cinema. She has published numerous articles on the crime and action genres. 

She is the author of Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science and Are You Not Entertained? Mapping the Gladiator in Visual Culture, for which she was awarded a Research Excellence Fellowship from Oxford Brookes. She has recently begun a new project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to map the fight sequence in post-millennial action cinema.