Deborah Cartmell

School of Humanities

Professor of English, Director of the Centre for Adaptations, and National Teaching Fellow

Research

In Progress: Series general editorship, Screen Adaptations (Methuen 2008-), The Blackwell Companion to Adaptations.

i. Books

• Screen Adaptation: Impure Cinema, with Imelda Whelehan, Palgrave, 2010.
• Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: The Relationship Between Text and Film, Methuen 2010
• The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen (with Imelda Whelehan), Cambridge University Press, 2007
• Shakespeare, ed. Cartmell, G. Egan, J. Joughin, Roultledge, June, 2005
• Retrovisions: Reinventing the Past in Film and Literature, co-ed. with I.Q. Hunter, Imelda Whelehan, Pluto, 2001
• Talking Shakespeare, co-ed. with Michael Scott (one chapter and introduction), Palgrave, 2001
• Interpreting Shakespeare on Screen, Macmillan, 2000
• Adaptations from Text to Screen, from Screen to Text, co-ed. with Imelda Whelehan (including one chapter, two chapters/introductions), Routledge, 1999
• Classics in Film and Literature, co-ed., Pluto, 2000.
• Alien Identities co-ed. I.Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye, Imelda Whelehan , Pluto, 1999, co-ed. , I.Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye, Imelda Whelehan, Pluto, 1998, including introduction
• Trash Aesthetics, co-ed with I.Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye and Imelda Whelehan, Pluto, 1997
• Pulping Fictions: Consuming Culture Across the Literature/Media Divide, Pluto, 1996, including chapter and introduction     

ii. Edited Journals

• Shakespeare, co-ed. Gabriel Egan, Lisa Hopkins, Brett D. Hirsch, Tom Rutter (Taylor & Francis, 2005-)
• Adaptation, co-ed. Timothy Corrigan, Imelda Whelehan (Oxford University Press, 2008)

iii. Selected Chapters/Articles

• ‘The First Adaptation of Shakespeare and the Recovery of the ‘Renaissance’ Voice: Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew’, The English in Popular Culture: An Age for All Time, ed. Greg Colón Semenza, Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2010.
• ‘Review of Recent Work on Adaptations’, Screen, 2009
• Review of Gregory Doran’s RSC Hamlet, Shakespeare, 2009.
• ‘Theater on Film and Film on Theater in Hamlet’, Shakespeare’s World/World Shakespeares: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, ed. Richard Fotheringham, Christa Jansohn, and R.S. White.  Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.
• 'Screening Authorship: Little Women on Screen’, 19th Century American Fiction on Screen, 2007 (Cambridge University Press) (with J Simons)
• 'Film as the New Shakespeare and Film on Shakespeare: Reversing the Shakespeare/Film Trajectory’ Literature Compass, September, 2006
• ‘Harry Potter and the Fidelity Debate’, Books in Motion Adaptation, Intertextuality, Authorship Edited by Mireia Aragay, Amsterdam/New York, NY 2005. Contemporary Cinema 2) with Imelda Whelehan
• 'Fin de Siècle Film Adaptations of Shakespeare’ in Janespotting and Beyond: British Heritage Retrovisions Since the Mid 1990s. Ed. Eckart Voigts-Virchow Germany Guntar Narr Verlag, 2004.
• Hamlet in 2000: Michael Almereyda’s City Comedy’ Plotting Early Modern London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy, ed. Dieter Mehl, Angela Stock and Anne-Julisa Zwierlein, Ashgate, 2004
• 'The Novelization of Peter Pan’ La Novellisation: Du Film au Roman, with Imelda Whelehan, ed. Jans Baetens and Mark Lits. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2004
• '"To die would be an awfully big adventure”: the enigmatic timelessness of Peter Pan’s adaptations’ with Imelda Whelehan, Cadernos de Tradução, Brazil, 2003
• 'Shakespeare: the Two Cultures’, Theatre Studies, 2002
• Othello and Race: I iii’, Talking Shakespeare, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Michael Scott, Palgrave, 2001
• 'Zeffirelli and Shakespeare', The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen, ed. Russell Jackson, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• 'The Way Forward for English’ (with Julian North), CCUE, 2000.
• 'The Shakespeare on Screen Industry’, Adaptations, ed. Cartmell and Whelehan, Routledge, 1999.
• 'Reading and Screening Ophelia', The Shakespeare Yearbook, 1998.
• 'Shakespeare on Screen', The Year's Work in English Studies, 1998.
• 'Shakespeare on Screen', The Year's Work in English Studies, 1997.
• 'Shakespeare: the Histories', The Year's Work in English Studies, 1997.
• ‘The Henry V Flashback: Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare’, Pulping Fictions: Consuming Culture Across the Literature/Media Divide, ed. D.Cartmell, I.Q. Hunter, H. Kaye, I. Whelehan, Pluto, 1996.
• with K. Millard, ‘Not Letting the Side Down: Negotiating Cultural Differences in White Readings of Afro- American Literature’, in Imagining and Representing America, ed. P. Davies, Keele Univ. Press, 1996.
• ‘Shakespeare: the Histories’, The Year’s Work in English Studies, 1996.
• with I.Whelehan, ‘Through a Painted Curtain: Laurence Olivier’s Henry V', War Culture, ed. P.Kirkam and D. Thoms, L&W, 1995.
• Changing Places: Heads of English Reflect on the Current State of English’, CCUE, Winter, 1994.
• 'Bright with Occasional Showers: the outlook for English Studies’, THES, Dec. 17, 1993.
• 'Buildings’, The Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A.C. Hamilton, 1991 (Routledge)
• ‘Beside the Shore of Siluer Streaming Thamesis: Spenser’s Ruines of Time, Spenser Studies, VI, 1986
• Reviews for Early Theatre, Early Modern Literary Texts, The Bulletin for the Society of Renaissance Studies, The Times Higher Educational Supplement, The Times Educational Supplement    

iv. Conference Papers

International / Plenary Lectures

• ‘Jane Austen and the biopic’, ‘The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship’, University of York, March, 2010.
• ‘Becoming Jane’,  ‘Adaptation and Appropriation’, University of Bayreuth, February, 2010 
• ‘Screening Austen’s Women: 1940 – 2008’, ‘ Echoes of the Past: Women, History, and Memory in Film and Fiction’, University of Newcastle, June 2009
• ‘Adaptations and the Coming of Sound’, ‘Cultures of Translation: Adaptations in Film and Performance’, Cardiff, June, 2008.
• Theatricality in Early 20^th Century Adaptations of Hamlet’, ‘Shakespeare and Cervantes’, University of Alicante, November, 2006
• ‘Savages of the Human Race Watching the Pictures’, (with Imelda Whelehan), University of Paris’, Lorrient, June, 2006
• The Novelisation: the Case of Peter Pan’, University of Louvain-la-Neuve, November, 2003
• ‘Revising Genre and Identity in Recent British Costume Films, Heritage Movies and Classic TV Serials’, University of Giessen, Germany, May 8 – 10, 2003
• 'Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet’, Plenary Lecture, July, 2004., ‘Cultural Studies at Sheffield University, Sheffield, 2002
• Hamlet and the Shakespeare on Screen Industry’, Plenary Lecture, Hamlet on Screen’, Shakespeare’s Globe, London, 2001.
• 'Othello', Plenary Lecture, The English Association, University of Leicester, January, 1998
• Hamlet on Screen', Plenary Lecture, The English Association, University of Leicester, January, 1997   

Selected Conference Papers / Sessions

• ‘Early 20th Century Writing about Film’, ‘Modernism and Visual Cultures’, November, 2008.
• ‘Sam Taylor’s Taming of the Shrew’, Scaena (Anglia Ruskin), invited paper, July, 2008.
• Organised the 4th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, British Film Institute, 09/09
• Co-organised Children’s Film and Literature, De Montfort University, 1/03/10
• 'Anti-theatricality in Adaptations of Hamlet’, The World Shakespeare Congress (Brisbane), Invited paper, July, 2006
• 'Adapting Children’s Literature’, E.S.S.E., The University of London, August, 2006.
• Co-organised the 1^st Literature on Screen Association Conference, De Montfort, September, 2006.
• Co-organised the 2^nd British Shakespeare Association Conference in Newcastle, September 2005 (chair: ‘Shakespeare in the Marketplace’)
• Hosted the British Academy Shakespeare Lecture, 2005.
• Fin de Siècle Adaptations of Shakespeare’, Shakespeare International Conference, Stratford, August 2004.
• Co-organised ‘Shakespeare Across Ages and Stages’, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, May, 2004.
• Organised, ‘Preparing Students for the Workplace’, LTSN Conference, De Montfort University, October 17^th, 2003 and delivered paper ‘Students in the Workplace’
• Organised, the first British Shakespeare Association Conference’, De Montfort University, August 29th – 31st, 2003.
• 'Shakespeare and the Institution’, Chair, British Shakespeare Association Conference, De Montfort University, August 29^th – 31^st , 2003.
• 'Shakespeare and Comedy’, seminar, Shakespeare International Conference, Stratford, August, 2002.
• Chair, ‘After Theory’ conference, De Montfort University, 2001.
• Co-organised and chaired, ‘Shakespeare, Authenticity and Adaptation’, De Montfort University, 2000.
• 'Adaptations’ chair, ESSE conference, Helsinki, 2000.
• 'Othello I ii: the scene of racism’, ‘Shakespeare on Screen Centenary Conference’, Malaga, 1999.
• 'Screening Ophelia', Debrecen, Hungary, September, 1998.
• 'Othello and the Discourse of Racism', Scaena, St. Johns, Cambridge, August, 1997.
• 'Adaptations: The Way Forward for English?', C.C.U.E., Loughborough, September, 1996.
• 'Hamlet on Screen', Peterborough Arts Centre, February, 1996.
• 'Negotiating Cultural Differences in White Readings of Afro-American Literature', American Studies Conference, De Montfort University, 1995.
• Research papers at a number of universities.   

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