Benedict is a senior lecturer in film, television, literature, and queer studies.

His research interests include queer film and television, critical animal studies, and golden age detective fiction.

He has published two monographs. The first, published with OUP in 2021, is a study of inarticulacy in art cinema, challenging the argument of David Bordwell and others that inarticulate character is a simple explanation for discontinuous, disjunctive film form. The second, published with SUNY Press in 2024, offers a new reading of eccentricity in postwar British comedy films as a form of queer possibilty that can continue to inform the politics of social justice today.

He has also written articles on character in Terence Davies' work and intermedia in the films of Peter Greenaway and book chapters on Agatha Christie's work for theatre, queerness in Doctor Who, and becoming-animal in the late films of Lindsay Anderson.

He has contributed to a number of podcasts and radio shows, including Shedunnit and the StudioCanal Podcast, as well as appearing on a number of specially filmed DVD extras for StudioCanal and Indicator.

He teaches on a wide variety of modules, on film, twentieth century literature, and theory.

He has supervised postgraduate research on such wide-ranging topics as the ontologies suggested by alternative interspecies relations in Mexico, queer-posthumanism in East Asian lesbian cinema, queerness in popular music, and domestic violence in the work of Agatha Christie. He welcomes approaches from prospective PhD candidates on queer theory, British cinema, British television, critical animal studies, and golden age detective fiction. All interested researchers should send a 500 word outline and a copy of their CV to the email address above.