Interests:
Rachel Moseley-Wood is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literatures and English. She has published widely on Caribbean and West Indian cinema, and her book, Show Us as We Are: Place, Nation and Identity in Jamaican Film (2019), uses close readings of a selection of Jamaican films to explore how they contribute to the discourse on Jamaican identity, as seen through the lenses of place and nation. More recently, Dr Moseley-Wood has turned to historical research on Caribbean cinema. Her current projects include the documentation of the work of the West Indian film units during the 1950s, and the operation of a colonial network of production, distribution and exhibition that facilitated the global circulation of West Indian films. She is also involved in the project, “Mapping Caribbean Cinema”, which focuses on the exploration of historical patterns of movie going and the impact of cinema in the Caribbean in the first half of the 20th Century. Dr Moseley-Wood has served two terms as Head of Department and two terms as Associate Dean, Marketing and Outreach, in the Faculty of Humanities and Education. As Head of Department, she led the working group which designed and introduced the BA Writing, Literature and Publishing; along with Ms Rae-ann Smith, Coordinator of CARIMAC’s BFA in Film Production, she designed and introduced the BA Film Studies (Screenwriting).
