Malcolm Turvey (born 1969) is a British film theorist. He is professor of film studies at Tufts University and an editor of the journal October. He formerly taught at Sarah Lawrence College.
Turvey was born in North London, where he grew up, and attended the University of Kent.
He taught at Sarah Laurence College in Westchester, NY, before accepting a position at Tufts University in Medford, MA. Turvey began at Tufts in the late 2010s, and has been the Department Head of the Film Department at Tufts. He has written several books, his most acclaimed being Play Time, an analytical work about Jaques Tati.
Turvey lives in Massachusetts.