Dr Simone Knox
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+44 (0) 118 378 4076
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Head of Department
Head of Department
Sustainability Champion
Areas of interest
My main research interests lie in the analysis
of television and film, especially style and medium specificity, acting
and performance, adaptation and translation (including dubbing and subtitling),
the politics of representation, and the lived experience of screen
culture.
My current research focuses on the dubbing of film and television. My recent publications include the co-authored monograph Friends: A Reading of the
Sitcom, a book chapter
interrogating the notion of British acting, and a journal article on the
representations of British Chinese identity in British television drama.
Postgraduate supervision
I would welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students on my research interests, as well as those with an interest in my key research methodologies, which include close textual analysis, practitioner interview, fieldwork observation and archive research.I am currently supervising PhDs on creative agency of women of size in contemporary film and television, how independent US TV stations provided distribution for progressive programming in the 1970s, the Arabic subtitling of His Dark Materials, the Arabic dubbing of Disney films, as well as second supervising contemporary Chinese independent film and performative documentary.
Completed doctoral projects
First/co-supervisor
- Hsin Hsieh, Creative infidelity in the process of adaptation: Peter Shaffer from stage to screen
- Shweta Ghosh, Filmmakers with disabilities and film expression in contemporary India (practice-as-research)
- Delphi May, Chinese identity in contemporary Spanish film and television
- Trevor Rawlins, Actor Training for Television
- Anna Varadi, Screening the cultural heritage of the 1980s on contemporary US television
- Timotheus Vermeulen, The Suburb in Contemporary Film and Television
Second supervisor
- Jamila Baluch, Representations of Race in Contemporary US Television Drama
- Tamara Courage, Contemporary Chinese Independent Cinema: Urban Spaces, Mobility, Memo
- Michael Fitzgerald, Representations of Native Americans in US Television Drama
- Tonia Kazakopoulou, Olga Malea's Films
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Member of the operational board for Critical Studies in Television
- Member of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Television Studies Sub-Section
- Member of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)
- Member of the European Television History Network
- Member of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Germany
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.