Fiona Handyside is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the department of Communications, Drama and Film at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood (2017) and the co-editor of International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts (2016). She has also written Cinema at the Shore: The Beach in French Cinema (2014) and edited Eric Rohmer: Interviews (2013).