Isabelle McNeill specializes in French cinema and theory, with a particular interest in the relation of film/moving image media to cultural memory, as well as the impact of new media on film theory and practice. Her current research is on questions of home and belonging in recent French and Francophone film.

She is the author of Memory and the Moving Image: French Film in the Digital Era (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and the co-editor of Transmission: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Cinema (Peter Lang, 2007).

Her publications include essays on virtual homes, Godard's Éloge de l'amour and on memory and the city in contemporary French film. Isabelle McNeill is Philomathia Fellow in French at Trinity Hall.

She is also co-founder and trustee of the Cambridge Film Trust, which runs the Cambridge Film Festival.

Dr McNeill welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to her interests.