Emma Dussouchaud-Esclamadon
Thesis title: Multilingual cinemascapes: representation, curation, and revitalisation of Indigenous languages in fiction features.
PhD in Film Studies
Year of study: 4
- Film Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: e.dussouchaud@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Background
Emma Dussouchaud-Esclamadon is a doctoral scholar in Film Studies. She previously studied at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris, France) where she graduated from an MRes and BA in Cinematographic and Audiovisual Studies. She completed the first year of her Master’s at the Sogang University of Seoul, South-Korea. She was the 2025 Robert D. Hevey, Jr. and Constance M. Filling Graduate Fellow in Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Previously, in 2024, she was a visiting researcher at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences, funded by the Norwegian HK-Dir.
She has held several positions at academic and research libraries (François Truffaut Cinema Library, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris Cité University, Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts, and School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris) as well as at university tutoring programs in Documentary Research Methodology (Paris Cité University), French (Sogang University) and for incoming international students (Sorbonne Nouvelle). At Edinburgh, she taught in Film Studies, French, and History of Art.
She has participated in several film festivals as a research fellow, volunteer and youth jury member (Mother Tongue Film Festival, Festival Cine Alter'Natif, Lumière Film Festival, Champs-Elysées Film Festival, Objectif Censier, Korea International Expat Film Festival, Mashup Film Festival, Paris Courts Devant, Paris Korean Film Festival).
Qualifications
PhD Film Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2022-on
MRes Cinematographic and Audiovisual Studies, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, 2018-2020
2018-2019 at Sogang University, Seoul, South-Korea
MRes thesis title: “'Ghost in the Shell', humanities under the audiovisual prism.” Semiotic analysis of trans- and posthumanist representations in the 'Ghost in the Shell' franchise.
BA Cinematographic and Audiovisual Studies, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, 2015-2018
2015-2017 at Bordeaux Montaigne University
Responsibilities & affiliations
Editorial Assistant, NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, since Sept. 2025
Co-convenor, Universriy of Cambridge Indigenous Studies Discussion Group, since Sept. 2024
Assistant Editor, FORUM University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, Jan. 2023-Sept. 2024
Research summary
Emma’s research focuses on the representation of Indigenous languages in feature fiction films.
It aims to 1) understand the representational dynamics of Indigenous languages in feature fiction films, and 2) develop a methodology to support Indigenous language education, preservation and revitalisation through film.
Emma’s PhD is funded by the Edinburgh Doctoral College Scholarship (2022-2025).