Our staff
Academic | Technical | Support Staff
| Academic staff | |
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Mr Ed Braman tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5281 |
Multi-camera techniques, documentary production, shooting in difficult conditions. |
Dr Tom Cantrell tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5236 |
Modern British drama, political theatre, documentary and verbatim theatre, acting technique and training, voice and the actor, screen performance. |
| email: michael.cordner@york.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5228 |
English drama 1580-1740; theatre, film and television comedy; post-1945 British theatre; analysis and history of acting and performance traditions; from script to performance. |
Dr Kristyn Gorton tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5222 |
Television Criticism; Feminist Film/TV Theory; Theorising the Concept of Desire; Emotion/Affect Theory; Melancholia/Hysteria in Contemporary Film; Films/Writings by Marguerite Duras |
Mr David Hickman tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5232 |
Film and television production; TV and independent documentary; the art and technique of cinematography; writing and directing for television. |
Professor Andrew Higson tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5234 |
British cinema history, especially the silent period, and the 1990s/2000s; Film Europe in the 1920s; cinema and the past; national/transnational cinema; Anglia Television and the history of ITV. |
Dr Gavin Kearney e-mail: gavin.kearney@york.ac.uk |
Spatial audio and surround sound; sound design for film and television; real-time audio signal processing; Ambisonics and spherical acoustics; interactive audio systems; recording and audio post-production technique development. |
| email: mary.luckhurst@york.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5229 |
Modern British, European and American theatre; dramaturgy; modern acting and directing techniques; the representation of war, terror, and 9/11 on stage; documentary and verbatim theatre. |
Mr John Mateer tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5230 |
Film and TV production and postproduction; visual effects and compositing; advanced production technologies; interactive television. |
Dr Varsha Panjwani tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5233 |
English Renaissance Drama; Theatre and Performance History; Editing; Creative process of drama writing and production |
Dr Sandra Pauletto tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5223 |
Sound design; sound synthesis; interaction; auditory displays. |
Dr Lisa Peschel
tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5247 |
Theatrical performance in the World War II Jewish ghetto at Terezín/Theresienstadt, modern Czech theatre, theories of affect, identity and subjectivity, playwriting, translation and adaptation for the stage. |
| email: duncan.petrie@york.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5226 |
British, Scottish and New Zealand Cinema History; Cinematography; Scottish Culture; Moving Image Policy and Institutions |
Dr Benjamin Poore tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5231 |
Contemporary playwriting; literary adaption; the Victorians on stage and screen. |
Mr Patrick Titley
tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5235 |
Multicamera techniques for studio and Outside Broadcast; producing and directing children's, entertainment and science programmes. |
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email: andy.tudor@york.ac.uk |
Sociology of film; cinema history; popular film genres (especially the horror movie); football on television; cultural studies. |
| Technical staff | |
|---|---|
| Mr Erik Olafsen
Technical Facilities Manager email: erik.olafsen@york.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5282 |
Management of the technical facilities and leadership of the technical team. Planning of maintenance and upgrades. Health and safety strategy. |
Mr Andy Fravigar tel: +44 (0) 1904 32 5225 |
Technical support and technical instruction in lighting design and operation, sound and set construction. Stage management, training and implementation of health and safety matters. |
Mr Roberto del Pino tel: +44 (0) 1904 32 5225 |
Technical support and technical instruction in lighting design and operation, sound and set construction. Stage management, training and implementation of health and safety matters. |
Mr Paul Ryan tel: +44 (0) 1904 32 5240 |
Visual effects and compositing; production technology implementation and integration; film, video and audio production and postproduction; music technology and creative audio processing. |
Mr Matt Brannan tel: +44 (0) 1904 32 5243 |
Visual effects and compositing; production technology implementation and integration; film, video and audio production and postproduction; music technology and creative audio processing. |
| Mr Chris Robins
Technical Officer email: chris.robins@york.ac.uk tel: +44 (0) 1904 32 5246 |
Sound design and audio post-production; music technology; audio production technology; digital audio workstations; mixing (stereo/surround); general
technical support. |
| Support staff | |
|---|---|
Miss Andrea Potts tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5224 |
General management and administration of the department and business activities, management and leadership of the administrative team, managing all matters relating to teaching and assessment, timetabling, human resources and staff recruitment, marketing and publicity.
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Miss Helen Dowson email: helen.dowson@york.ac.uk
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Deputise for the Departmental Administrator, postgraduate administration, financial administration, building and resource management and research support. |
Miss Alison McManus Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5279 |
First point of contact for all Undergraduate administrative matters. |
Ms Sue Hodges
tel: +44 (0)1904 325242 |
Project Administrator for the Higher Education Academy funded project ‘Performing Classical and Modern Play-texts’. Assisting the Project Director Mary Luckhurst with coordinating the teaching and research aspects of the project. Also event management, running the project website www.performingplays.co.uk, and acting as a liaison between the project’s partner institutions. |
Mrs Carole Dove tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5244 |
Responsible for the development of commercial projects and commercial facilities hire. In addition working with industry partners to support and develop new ideas and concepts linking with student work experience opportunities. |
Miss Diane Rhodes email: diane.rhodes@york.ac.uk |
Responsible for welcoming visitors to the Department, answering general queries, reserving car parking, booking rooms, reporting maintenance issues, updating the website and providing general administrative support to the Department. |
Mr Steve Plews tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5241 |
Provides administrative support to the Head of Department, and is first point of contact for organisation of events. |
| Mrs Gemma Robinson-Wilson
Administrative Assistant (part-time) email: gemma.robinson-wilson@york.ac.uk
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Assisting with Postgraduate Administration and other general administration. |
Mr Tom Wright tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5284 |
Responsible for
outreach work with young people to publicise the Borthwick Institute's
archives, including of Sir Alan Ayckbourn.
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