Mary Harrod is Professor of French and Screen Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of From France with Love: Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy (2015), Heightened Genre and Women’s Filmmaking in Hollywood (2021) and five edited collections including Women Do Genre in Film and Television (2017, with Katarzyna Paszkiewicz; BAFTSS Best Edited Collection, 2019); Imagining ‘We’ in the Age of ‘I’: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture (2021, with Suzanne Leonard and Diane Negra; MeCCSA Edited Collection of the Year, 2022) and Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France (2024, Open Access, with Raphaëlle Moine; Honourable Mention Best Edited Collection category BAFTSS Awards, 2025). She is co-Chief General Editor of French Screen Studies, with Ginette Vincendeau.