Hi - I'm Jessica, the founding editor-in-chief of Wasteland Arts, writer, critic, and MSt candidate at the University of Oxford.
In 2020 I completed a BA in English and graduated with the Humanities Rotary Prize, a prize awarded to the top student within the degree cohort. I am currently completing an MSt in Film Aesthetics. My literary background has eminently informed my research; my areas of interest include but are not limited to the philosophy of film, aesthetics, style, narratology, modes of play, states of presence, and narrative editing - all of which shape and spill into my editorial writing.
education
MSt Film Aesthetics, University of Oxford (Pending)
2021 - 2022
BA Hons English and American Literature, University of Kent (First)
2016 - 2020
Erasmus+, English, Freie Universität Berlin (Pass)
2018 - 2019
work
editor-in-chief of Wasteland Arts
September 2018 - Present
newsletter editor of Wasteland Arts
March 2020 - Present
designer for Wasteland Arts
December 2021 - Present
freelance writer (MUBI, Obscur, etc)
August 2020 - Present
staff critic at Cineccentric
August 2020 - Present
section editor of Cherwell
June 2021 - December 2021
press delegate for BFI's 64th and 65th London Film Festival, BFI Flare, and Long Distance Film Festival
October 2020 - October 2021
pre-selector for Cornwall Film Festival
May 2021 - August 2021
staff writer at Unpublished Magazine
August 2020 - June 2021
selected writing
essays / articles
Stella Dallas - Wasteland Arts, March 2022
Duel - Wasteland Arts, December 2021
Let's Scare Jessica to Death - Wasteland Arts, October 2021
Zola - Cherwell, September 2021
The Age of Innocence - Wasteland Arts, September 2021
The Woman with Two Heads - Wasteland Arts, September 2021
Clotheslines - Wasteland Arts, July 2021
Robert Altman's '3 Women' and the Allure of Imitation - Obscur Magazine, June 2021
Fake Fruit Factory - Wasteland Arts, June 2021
1968 - Wasteland Arts, May 2021
Close-Up - Wasteland Arts, March 2021
Wanda - Wasteland Arts, March 2021
Slouching Towards Nowhere: The Graduate - Cineccentric, February 2021
Betty Blue - Wasteland Arts, February 2021
Synthetically Eroded: the Femme Fatale in Double Indemnity and Chinatown - Wasteland Arts, January 2021
Visualizing Liberation in "But I'm a Cheerleader" - MUBI Notebook, December 2020
Eyes Wide Shut - Wasteland Arts, October 2020
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Wasteland Arts, June 2020
collaborations
The Films of Abbas Kiarostami - Cineccentric, June 2021
Discussing Vagabond - Cineccentric, March 2021
Short Films from the BFI London Film Festival - Cineccentric, November 2020
designs
contact info:
I am available to hire for editorial work
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