Professor Amy Holdsworth
- Professor of Television, Film and Cultural Studies (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)
telephone:
01413305625
email:
Amy.Holdsworth@glasgow.ac.uk
R327, Gilmorehill Centre, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Research interests
Research Interests
My research focuses on television and domestic media as interdisciplinary objects of inquiry, and my work has drawn upon theoretical traditions and frameworks within memory studies, childhood studies and disability studies.
I am currently working on a series of related projects and have specific interests in the following topics:
- The disabled child in film and television
- Learning disabilities and screen media
- Television, autobiography and autoethnography
- Television and discourses of care
Biography
- 2009- : Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies (University of Glasgow)
- 2008-9: Senior Lecturer in Television Studies (Leeds Metropolitan University)
- 2004-7: PhD Film and Television Studies (University of Warwick)
- 2002-3: MA Cultural Studies (University of Leeds)
- 1998-2001: BA (hons) Film and Literature (University of Warwick)
Supervision
I welcome applications from new PhD students interested in television theory and criticism. I am also interested in supervising students interested in disability, film and/or television, and children's media.
- Floyd, Matthew
How the Industry Speaks to Itself: Constructing a History of Television (1976 – present day) through the MacTaggart Lectures and the Edinburgh International TV Festival Archive - Oweis, Zein Almaha Rami Wahdan
How are people with disabilities perceived in traditional mainstream Jordanian media vs. Facebook?
Past projects
- Archiving the Referendum: BBC Scotland’s Television Archive and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
- Comfort TV: considering everyday television use as a mode of self-care
- Engaging television characters: a cognitive approach to contemporary television
- 'Don't stop': re-thinking the function of endings in narrative television
- Subtitling Chinese cinema: a case study of Zhang Yimou’s films
- You had to be there? Reflections on the 'legendary' status of the Glasgow Apollo theatre (1973-85)
Teaching
- Looking, Listening, 'Reading' (Level 1)
- Television Analysis (Honours)
- Genders (Honours)
- Advanced Topics in Television Studies (PGT)
Additional information
Administration
- Head of Film and Television Studies
- School Disability Officer
External Responsibilities
- Editorial advisory board member for Screen (OUP) and Memory Studies (Sage)
- Advisory board member of Centre for Screen Cultures, Universit of St Andrews
- Series editor 'TV and....' (EUP)
- Series editor ‘Edinburgh Studies in Television’ (EUP)
- Chair of Northern Television Studies Research Group