Dr Max Gee
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Lecturer in Film Studies and Film Production
Biography
Max is a Lecturer in Film Studies and Film Production. She is an internationally produced playwright, whose stage adaptation of Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band has been performed in both York, England and Sydney Australia. As a screenwriter, her work includes the medieval webseries Tales of Bacon and science fiction short films Terminal, developed from her PhD practice screenplay and Standing Woman, adapted from a short story by acclaimed Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui. Her screenplays have also placed in a variety of international screenwriting competitions.
Max completed her PhD by Creative Practice in Screenwriting, titled 'Posthuman Noir: Creating Positive Posthumans in 2017. Max has published on posthuman noir in Cinema: Journal of Film and Philosophy; web series in the Palgrave Handbook of Script Development; Folk Horror, gender and Japanese survival horror for The Journal for Cultural Research, and on her practice research screenplay Golems Inc. in Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy.
In 2024 she become a Co-Investigator on AHRC BRAID funded research project, Shared Post-Human Imagination: Human-AI Collaboration in Media Creation and in 2025 she was Co-Investigator on Innovate UK, AI solutions to develop AI competencies in key sectors: The AIMICI Companion Tool - upskilling AI competencies in creative industries.
Areas of Research
Creative Practice Research
- Screenwriting, creative writing, playwriting and the webseries.
- Adaptation
Posthumanism
- Science fiction in film, television, Japanese anime and video games, Generative AI, sentient objects
Horror Studies
- folk horror, eco horror, in film, television, Japanese anime and video games.
Areas of Supervision
Screenwriting, Practice as Research, Film Genre, Horror, Science Fiction, Adaptation, Posthumanism
Qualifications
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PhD by Creative Practice in Screenwriting
2014 - 2018 -
Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
2008 - 2010 -
BA Joint Honours English Literature and History
2005 - 2008