Jonny Murray

Jonathan Murray studied at the University of Glasgow, where he completed an undergraduate MA and PhD in Film and Television Studies and Scottish History. Jonathan also taught briefly at the University of Glasgow before taking up a post as Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art in August 2003.

Since working at Edinburgh College of Art, Jonathan’s major research interests have lain in the field of contemporary Scottish cinema and popular culture. In addition to a range of articles published in various peer-reviewed journals and scholarly anthologies, he is the editor (with Rod Stoneman and Fidelma Farley) of Scottish Cinema Now (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), co-editor of the journal Visual Culture in Britain (Taylor & Francis), and the author of the books Discomfort and Joy: the Cinema of Bill Forsyth (Peter Lang, 2011) and The New Scottish Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2015). He is the former co-editor (with Maureen Furness) of Animation Journal, the current co-editor of Visual Culture in Britain, and is a Contributing Writer on the permanent staff of Cineaste, America’s leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema. Jonathan works also regularly with film festivals in Scotland (the Edinburgh International Film Festival) and overseas (the Varna World Festival of Animated Film). His teaching at Edinburgh College of Art predominantly focuses on moving image history, criticism and theory.