Chris Berry's research interests are in the areas of Chinese and East Asian cinema and screen cultures, screens and public space, gender, sexuality and cinema, documentary film, and theories of national and transnational cinema
He has previously been Professor of Film & Television Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London (2004-2012); Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (2000-2004); Lecturer at La Trobe (1990-2000) and Griffith (1988-1989) universities in Australia; and consultant at the China Foreign Languages Press (1987-1988) and China Film Corporation in Beijing (1985-1987).