Isabelle McNeill studied for her first degree in Modern and Medieval Languages at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, before obtaining an M.Phil. in European Literature and then completing a Ph.D. with the Department of French. She is currently Affiliated Lecturer in the department of French and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. She is working on theories of memory, journeys and the moving image in relation to recent French and Francophone cinema. She has published work on Godard's eloge de l'amour and on memory and the city in contemporary French film.