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 most recent publication explores the impact of increasingly globalised infrastructures affect the workflows and practices within local dubbing industries.
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.
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.