Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
Academic Staff
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Dr Alessandro Altavilla Email: alessandro.altavilla@york.ac.uk |
Interactive media art, interaction design, theory and aesthetics of digital media; affordance, embodiment, memory; sound art, interactive sonification, sound design, listening practices, sonic memories; design of digital music instruments, live electronics and live coding, acousmatic composition, film music. |
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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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Dr Rebecca Benzie Email: rebecca.benzie@york.ac.uk |
Feminism and dramaturgy; twenty-first century new playwriting; the contemporary history play; feminist performance analysis; centenary and anniversary commemoration and performance practices; British theatre institutions and their wider socio-cultural contexts. Theatre practitioner specialising in devising and new writing. |
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Dr Florian Block Email: florian.block@york.ac.uk |
Enabling the general public to interact with real-world data through the use of novel interactive technology and visualization techniques. Utilizing interactive technology, data visualizations and games for scientific outreach, digital civics and citizen science. |
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Ms Susan Brand Email: susan.brand@york.ac.uk |
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Mr Simon van der Borgh Email: simon.vanderborgh@york.ac.uk |
Screenwriting, including adaptation, genre films and hi-concept movies; short films; the function of character in the creation of compelling screen stories and story structure; the form and function of scenes in scene-writing; Theatre, especially playwriting; the Australian film and TV industry. Member of the Immersive and Interactive Storytelling cluster |
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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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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. Member of the Performance and Production Practices and Context cluster |
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Dr Tom Cantrell Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching and Students 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 Hannah Davies Email: hannah.davies@york.ac.uk |
Playwright, theatre-maker and performance poet. Research by creative practice interests include: writing for stage and solo performance, memoir and life-writing. |
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Professor 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 Abigail Evans Email: abi.evans@york.ac.uk |
Human-computer interaction and interaction design; educational technology and computer-supported collaborative learning; human-centred machine learning; design research. |
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Dr Bridget Foreman Email: bridget.foreman@york.ac.uk |
Commissioning practices in new writing for theatre; directive commissioning; playwriting processes; the craft of playwriting; community & applied theatre; play analysis. |
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Dr Hasmik Gasparyan Email: hasmik.gasparyan@york.ac.uk |
Film direction, observational documentary, slow cinema, film-diary; sound-image relationship, ‘cinematic silence’, aesthetics of film sound; Chantal Akerman, Michael Haneke, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnès Varda and Sergei Parajanov; practice-based research, film authorship. |
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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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Miss Lorianne Hall Email: lorianne.hall@york.ac.uk |
Film and Television Production; producing, physical production and post-production. Screenwriting; story and script development. Film and Television distribution; international sales & acquisitions. Film and Television Finance. Art House cinema, French Cinema, and Studio Driven High Concept movies and Family Animation. Interdisciplinary fine art and media works that cross boundaries and create unique audience experiences. |
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Dr Marta Herrero Email: marta.herrero@york.ac.uk |
Non-profit fundraising and entrepreneurship in the creative industries; fundraising theory and practice; arts sponsorship activism and performance; 19th century history of women’s philanthropy and poverty in the arts; the interwar art market; sociology of artworlds/critical social theory.
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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. Member of the |
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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. Member of the Digital Cultures cluster |
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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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Mr Tim Leandro Email: tim.leandro@york.ac.uk |
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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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Dr Catherine Love-Smith Email: catherine.love@york.ac.uk |
Contemporary British theatre and performance; the relationship between text and performance; playwriting; adaptation for the stage; ecodramaturgy. |
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Dr Mark Love-Smith Email: mark.love-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 John Mateer Email: john.mateer@york.ac.uk |
Film and TV production and postproduction; business of film and television; story and script development; single camera directing; cinematic virtual reality; advanced production and post-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 Peter Merrington Email: pm1198@york.ac.uk |
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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. Member of the |
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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. Member of the |
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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; contemporary performance practice in the UK and Ireland; voice and music in contemporary theatre; 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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Mr Sanjit Samaddar Email: sanjit.samaddar@york.ac.uk |
Human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, interaction design, user-centred design and evaluation methods. Quantitative and qualitative research methods. Acceptance and use of technology by older people. Accessibility, including AI and robotics to help age at home. Universal Design for (e)learning. |
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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 Jon Swords Email: jon.swords@york.ac.uk |
Economic geography, specifically geographies of the creative industries; immersive technology and media; critical heritage studies; visual methodologies; post-representational cartography.
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Dr Nathan Townsend |
Film industry scholarship, particularly the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain and Hollywood, national and transnational cinemas and the political economy of film and television institutions. |
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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. |
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Mr Colin Ward Email: colin.ward@york.ac.uk |
Single and multi-camera production techniques; writing for film and television; content creation; children's media production, regulation and financing. |