Linda Ruth Williams is Professor of Film at Exeter University. She has written five books including The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema (the first book on this important post-classical genre), and edited or co-edited several others including Contemporary American Cinema (co-edited with Michael Hammond). Earlier monographs focused on psychoanalytic critical and cultural theory, and modernism and visual culture. She has just completed a study of children, childhood and child actors in Spielberg entitled Steven Spielberg's Children. She has a longstanding interest in representations of sexuality and the history of censorship and classification, and has always worked on gender and feminist cultures. She is Co-Investigator of the major 4-year AHRC-funded research project on contemporary women filmmakers, Calling the Shots: women and contemporary film culture in the UK, 2000-2015, and is now writing a study of women writer-directors in twenty-first century British cinema using the interview materials garnered within the Calling the Shots project, through which she is developing oral historical methods for mapping film history within the contemporary. Linda also has a strong interest in film exhibition and curation, as co-curator of the annual Shetland Film Festival Screenplay, from which sprang A Hansel of Film - a round-the-UK tour of short films which was part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. She has served on international film festival juries in the UK, Canada and the USA.