Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
- Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
- Our staff
- Academic Staff
Academic Staff
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Dr Alessandro Altavilla Email: alessandro.altavilla@york.ac.uk |
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Dr James Ballands Email: james.ballands@york.ac.uk |
British and European art cinema, particularly the films of Terence Davies; intertextuality; literary adaptation; documentary filmmaking. |
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Professor David Barnett Email: david.barnett@york.ac.uk |
Political theatre, particularly Bertolt Brecht, the Berliner Ensemble, Heiner Müller, dialectics on stage, and post-Brechtian performance; Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his work in the theatre; postdramatic theatre; modern German theatre; documentary theatre; theatre documentation. |
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Mr Simon van der Borgh Email: simon.vanderborgh@york.ac.uk |
Screenwriting, including adaptation, genre films & hi-concept movies; short films; the function of character in the creation of compelling screen stories and story structure; the form & function of scenes in scene-writing; Theatre, especially playwriting; the Australian film & TV industry. |
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Dr Ed Braman Email: ed.braman@york.ac.uk |
Multi-camera techniques, documentary production, studio drama, TV as a cultural industry and screen storytelling. |
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Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks |
Human-computer interaction, interaction design, user-centred design and evaluation methodologies. Web and app design and development. Multi-modal interaction, particularly auditory interaction including non-speech audio and music. Affective interaction. Quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Accessibility, including sensory substitution devices. Teaching-led research. |
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Mr Matt Brannan |
Film and television production teaching and support for single camera location and multi-camera studio work. Offering advice on production methods, skills, techniques and technologies; specialising in cameras, lighting and grip equipment related to feature film, drama, documentary, music promos/commercials, multi-camera studio production and outside broadcast. |
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Mr Álvaro Cáceres Muñoz Email: alvaro.cacersmunoz@york.ac.uk |
HCI applied to music; Live coding for classical and jazz music; Musical escape rooms; Game design & narrative; Game development; Web development (React, React Native); Accessible game engines for visually impaired users; Refreshable braille screens; AR, VR, XR & Mixed reality. |
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Dr Tom Cantrell Email: tom.cantrell@york.ac.uk |
Modern British drama, political theatre, documentary and verbatim theatre, acting technique and training, voice and the actor, screen performance. |
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Professor Michael Cordner Email: michael.cordner@york.ac.uk |
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. |
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Dr Sebastian Deterding Email: sebastian.deterding@york.ac.uk |
Motivational and engagement design; persuasive design and games; gameful and playful design; creative AI; games and play in culture |
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Dr Kristyn Gorton Email: kristyn.gorton@york.ac.uk |
Television Criticism; Feminist Film/TV Theory; Theorising the Concept of Desire; Emotion/Affect Theory; Melancholia/Hysteria in Contemporary Film; Films/Writings by Marguerite Duras. |
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Dr Katherine Graham Email: katherine.graham@york.ac.uk |
Scenography; lighting design, in particular the agency of light in performance; phenomenology; |
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Dr David Hickman Email: david.hickman@york.ac.uk |
Film and television production; TV and independent documentary; the art and technique of cinematography; writing and directing for television. |
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Professor Andrew Higson Email: andrew.higson@york.ac.uk |
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. |
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Dr Jonathan Hook Email: jonathan.hook@york.ac.uk |
Human-computer interaction and interaction design, with a focus on the human-centred design of new interactive technologies for creative settings and practices; the design and development of new interaction techniques, including those for tabletop, multi-touch, tangible, tactile and reconfigurable user interfaces. |
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Dr Ollie Jones Email: oliver.jones@york.ac.uk |
Medieval and early modern British drama, in particular the repertory of and performance by Elizabethan companies on tour; original practices and performance-as-research; the archaeology of medieval and post-medieval buildings; early theatre architectures. |
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Dr Nick Jones Tel: +44 (0)1904 325289 Room: TFTV/122 |
Digital media; action cinema; 3D; the representation of space and architecture on film; media archaeology |
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Dr Fiona Keenan |
Sound performance and sonic interactivity; sonic experience; phenomenology; sound design and storytelling; prototyping and remaking as design methods; history and philosophy of technology; noisemakers and sound effects |
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Dr Ben Kirman |
Interaction design for games and playful experiences; critical and speculative design; mobile and social play; animal-computer interaction. |
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Dr Louise LePage Email: louise.lepage@york.ac.uk |
Theatre and the posthuman; performing robots; twenty-first century drama; dramatic character; science-fiction theatre; technologies and film in theatre. |
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Dr Mariana Lopez Email: mariana.lopez@york.ac.uk |
Sound Design for Theatre, Film and TV; Accessibility in audiovisual arts; Virtual Acoustics; York Mystery Plays; Digital Heritage. |
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Professor John Mateer Email: john.mateer@york.ac.uk |
Film and TV production and postproduction; visual effects and compositing; story and script development; single camera directing; cinematic virtual reality; advanced production technologies. |
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Dr Debbie Maxwell |
Interactive media; user experience; traditional storytelling; knowledge exchange; codesign; ethnography; design methods; community engagement. |
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Dr Jenna Ng Email: jenna.ng@york.ac.uk |
Digital cinema; digital visual culture; interactive media; digital humanities; augmented realities; machinima; philosophy of film; cinephilia; East Asian cinema (Chinese, Singaporean); cross-culturality; comparative film studies. |
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Dr Lisa Peschel Email: lisa.peschel@york.ac.uk |
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. |
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Professor Duncan Petrie Email: duncan.petrie@york.ac.uk |
British, Scottish and New Zealand Cinema History; Cinematography; Scottish Culture; Moving Image Policy and Institutions. |
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Dr Emma Pett Email: emma.pett@york.ac.uk |
Media audiences, institutions and cultural policy; immersive media and participatory cultures; memory studies and histories of cinema-going; East Asian cinema and transnational contexts of reception; cult media. |
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Dr Benjamin Poore Email: benjamin.poore@york.ac.uk |
Contemporary playwriting; literary adaptation; the Victorians on stage and screen. |
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Dr Karen Quigley Email: karen.quigley@york.ac.uk |
Critical approaches to staging and unstageability; European theatre histories; contemporary performance practice in the UK and Ireland; autoethnographic approaches to writing about performance; pedagogies of theatre and performance in higher education. |
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Mr Paul Ryan Email: paul.ryan@york.ac.uk |
Workflows and techniques for production and post production. Multi-camera studio techniques and processes. Editing and post production finishing in the storytelling process. Visual effects in theatre and interactive media. |
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Dr Guy Schofield Email: guy.schofield@york.ac.uk |
Postproduction, 3D computer graphics and animation, media art, game design and production, participatory film-making, human-computer interaction, creative practice in technology. |
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Dr Mark Smith Email: mark.smith@york.ac.uk |
Contemporary British theatre and performance, devised and physical theatre, large-scale community productions, performance and social media. |
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Professor Marian Ursu |
Interactive Media: interactive narratives and digital storytelling (especially video driven); context-adaptable video communication systems; context-aware media; interactive digital art. |
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Mr Andrew Vickers Email: andrew.vickers@york.ac.uk |
Screenwriting; story and script development. |