Centre for Adaptations
The international Centre for Adaptations brings together academics from Drama, English, Film Studies and New Media.
It hosts the journal, Adaptation (Oxford University Press) and the book series, Screen Adaptations (Methuen and Norton), organises workshops across universities in Europe and America, offers lectures during an annual cultural events week, and manages the annual Association of Adaptation Studies conference (which has taken place in Leicester, Atlanta, Amsterdam, London, Berlin and Istanbul).
The MA in Adaptations| is offered through the Centre which also recruits students for the PhD / MPhil / MA by Research degrees.
The Director of the Centre for Adaptations is currently Dr Deborah Cartmell.
“The new journal, Adaptation and the new Association of Adaptation Studies is a most welcome development in an area that has been for so long under-represented in academic circles. As a practitioner, I find it rather thrilling to be the object of scholarly investigation!" - Andrew Davies - Screenwriter and novelist.
Related websites
Association Of Adaptation Studies
|Oxford Journals: Adaptation|
Conference news
28 February 2012, De Montfort University
This one-day conference offers delegates the opportunity to participate in talks ranging from heritage cinema, historical documentaries and docudramas to new-media developments and convergences in the representation and remediation of history.
Book online: Full Price| | Concessions|
Draft programme 20 Feb 2012 (MS Word)|
Visible and Invisible Authorships
27-28 September 2012, University of York
A two-day international conference inviting reflection on the relationship of acts of authoring to the ongoing lives of adapted texts.
For further details visit the York University website|
Previous conferences and events
For more information visit our previous conferences and events| page.