About

I primarily teach on the film and television studies at the University of Derby. I have taught and led programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

My research interests include issues of representation and identity, the concept of memory, science fiction, curation, visibility and feminism. I have established the Spaces/Places research group to explore curation and exhibition of a range of practices, including film, photography and art, and have established the Marion Adnams Project.

Research interests

• Member of Editorial Board of MAI Journal: Feminism & Visual Culture

Research Supervision

• Director of Studies: Fine Art PhD project on Women and Domestic Space
• First Supervisor: PhD project Horror and the Depiction of the Child
• 2017 External Panel Member on PhD Viva at De Montfort University: ‘Representation of Mental Illness: A Comparative Examination of Movies and Professional Perspectives’ 

Research Group and Centres

• Lead for Spaces/Places Research Group, Arts, University of Derby
• Member of Digital and Material Artistic Research Centre (D-Marc )
• Member of Identity, Culture and Representation Centre (ICR)

Recent publications

Book chapters and journal articles 

Co-editor and Contributor: Karen McNally, Jane Marcellus, Teresa Forde & Kirsty Fairclough,  The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality and American Television, London: Palgrave (2020).

Chapter: ‘Olivia Dunham and the New Frontier in Fringe’, Women’s Space: Essays on Female Characters in the 21st Century Science Fiction Western, ed. M. A Marotta, McFarland (2019).

Chapters on The L Word and True Blood in Finales: Considering the Ends of Television Series, Eds. David Bianculli, Douglas Howard, Syracuse University Press (2018).

Chapter: ‘Rory Williams: The Boy who Waited’ in Doctor Who Companions ed. Sherry Ginn and Gillian Leitch, McFarland (2016).

Chapter: ‘Solaris: Lem/Tarkovsky/Soderbergh: Adaptations in Space’ in Science Fiction across the Media: Adaptation/Novelization, series, SF Worlds: Critical Studies in Science Fiction, Gylphi, (2013).

Chapter: ‘The Doctor Who Experience and Experiencing Doctor Who’ in Doctor Who: Fan Phenomena, ed. Paul Booth, London: Intellect, (2013).

Catalogue and Magazine

March 2020: Article on Marion Adnams in Derby International Women’s Day Festival Magazine. 

January 2020: Contribution to article on ‘Trees’ by Mark Hudson for Royal Academy Magazine.

November 2019: Contribution to Catalogue entry on Marion Adnams for British Surrealism exhibition, Dulwich Picture Gallery (March 2020).

Curation/Exhibition

2018,: ‘Thingness’ Arts Research Exhibition, Digital & Material Artistic Research Centre (DMARC) School of Arts University of Derby: Video Installation: ‘Researching Marion Adnams’. 

Dec 2017-March 2018: Exhibition Co-curator: ‘Marion Adnams: A Singular Woman’ exhibition: Derby Museum. 

Video Installation: ‘Researching Marion Adnams’ at Marion Adnams exhibition(Soundtrack by Des O’Brien). 

Membership of professional bodies

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of Meccsa Women's Media Network

Professional interests

I am the Chair of the Gender Equality Network (GEN) at the University, a subgroup of the University Equality and Diversity Committee, which is concerned with issues related to equality in policy and experience and the promotion of events such as International Women's Day and Women's History Month. I am also currently on the Athena Swan working group for the University and am Equality Officer for Derby UCU.

Current Internal Roles

• Member of Athena Swan Steering Committee
• Member of Equality and Diversity Committee
• Chair of Gender Equality Network
• Equality Officer of UCU Branch Committee

Recent External Roles

• 2017- UCU Regional Committee HE Vice-Chair
• 2016- External Examiner, Film and Television Studies, London Metropolitan University
• 2014-2018 External Examiner, Film and Television Studies, University of Lincoln
• 2015 External Member of Masters Validation Panel, De Montfort University

Qualifications

• Foundation Diploma in Art and Design: North Oxon School of Art in film and Television
• BA (Hons) Combined Arts, Leicester Polytechnic
• MA in Critical Theory, University of Nottingham
• Postgraduate Diploma in Adult and Continuing Education, University of Nottingham
• PhD by Published Works, University of Derby

Recent conferences

2018 ‘Researching the Artist Marion Adnams’, Ryerson University, Toronto.

2018 Conference Organizer and Convenor: Marion Adnams Symposium, Paper: ‘Marion Adnams and Surrealism’, University of Derby.

2016 ‘1968 and the Escalation of Decay: Time Travelling in ‘The Flood’ ‘, Mad Men: The Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Nashville.

2015 ‘Performing Genres in Twin Peaks’;, I’ll See You Again in 25 Years: The Return of Twin Peaks and Generations of Cult TV, MediaCityUK, University of Salford.

2015 Conference Co-organiser & Convenor; Paper: ‘Researching Marion Adnams: A Singular Woman’ at Digital Humanities: Transformative Landscapes, University of Derby.

In the media

Radio Interviews 

• Live Interview about Made In Derby Star for Marion Adnams on Walk of Fame, BBC Radio Derby 
• Live Interview: World Television Day, BBC Radio Derby
• Live Interview: John Lewis Christmas Adverts, BBC Radio Derby
• Pre-recorded Interview: 'Good' and 'Evil' in Star Wars, BBC Radio Derby

International experience

March 2019: International Erasmus Exchange, Presentations on Researching Marion Adnams, CEU San Pablo University, Madrid.

Teaching responsibilities

Currently teaching on the following modules:

• Cyberbodies
• New Hollywood and Beyond
• Independent Studies and Dissertation
• Image/Music/Sound
• Critical Perspectives
• Communication and Creativity
• Film and Television: Text and Context
• Screening America

Additional interests and activities

Recent film introductions, panels and Q&A

• November 2019: Q and A with Ken Loach post-screening of I’m Sorry I Missed You, Derby Film Festival, Derby QUAD.
• December 2019: Introduction to Sweet Charity, Derby QUAD.
• March 2019: Introduction to the Divine Order for Women’s History Month, Derby QUAD.
• November 2018: Panel member for Reel Equality film screening of The Divine Order organised by Nottingham Women’s Centre, Canalside, Nottingham.