Dr Des O’Rawe lectures in Film Studies at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also a Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. His research focuses chiefly on comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of film, and his recent publications include: Regarding the Real: Cinema, Documentary, and the Visual Arts (Manchester UP, 2016) and Post-Conflict Performance, Film, and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory (with Mark Phelan; Palgrave, 2016). He has also published journals such asFilm Quarterly, Studies in Documentary Film, Screen, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Kinema, Literature/Film Quarterly, and Screening the Past. Several of his research projects have been externally funded by British Academy (PI); Wellcome Trust (PI); and AHRC (CI)), and in 2013-14 he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.