Alexandra Grieve is a Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. From 2022-25, she held a Junior Research Fellowship in Modern Languages at St John’s College, University of Oxford. She holds a BA in Film and Media Production from the University of Cape Town, and an MPhil and PhD in Film and Screen Studies from the University of Cambridge.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• African and Afro-diasporan film
• Global postcolonial cinemas
• Women’s filmmaking
• Cinematic embodiment
• Costume and material culture in film

Teaching

Alexandra Grieve currently teaches on undergraduate and graduate modules on film theory and history, and has previously taught on African cinemas, world cinemas and feminist filmmaking.

Before joining King’s College, Alexandra Grieve taught on the Oxford MSt in Film Aesthetics, and on undergraduate courses in film studies at the University of Cambridge.

Selected publications

• ‘“She’s Connected to My Head While Doing My Hair”: Embodiment and Afrofeminist Epistemologies in the Documentaries of Rosine Mbakam’. Contemporary French Civilization, 2025, vol. 50, no.3, pp. 275 – 94.
• ‘Fashioning African Screen Worlds: La Noire de … and Les Saignantes’. Pp. 167–83 in Contemporary African Screen Worlds, edited by L. Dovey, A. Agina, and M. W. Thomas. Duke University Press.
• ‘Material Afterlives: The Quilted Poetics of Daughters of the Dust (1991) and Lemonade -(2016)’, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Summer 2024, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 75-97.
• ‘Surface Tensions: Race, Costume and the Politics of Texture in Claire Denis’ Chocolat (1988)’, Film, Fashion & Consumption, Vol. 10, no. 2, 1 October 2021, pp. 335–52.