Professor Deborah Cartmell

Deborah Cartmell is Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research, and currently writing a monograph, Adaptations at War. She is founder and co-editor of two international journals, Adaptation (Oxford University Press) and Shakespeare (Routledge), series editor of the Bloomsbury Adaptation Histories, founder and former chair of the Association of Adaptation Studies and founding trustee of the British Shakespeare Association. She received the Jim Welsh Award for Excellence in Adaptation Studies in 2016.

Professor Cartmell has supervised a number of PhD students who are now in successful professional and academic careers in the UK, US, Australia and Indonesia and welcomes PhD applications in Shakespeare and Adaptation Studies.

Professor Deborah Cartmell is Director of the Centre for Adaptations.  She is currently co-editing the international journals, Shakespeare (Taylor & Francis, 2005-) and Adaptation (Oxford University Press, 2008-).  She is a founding member and secretary/treasurer of the Association of Adaptation Studies and former Secretary of the Council for College and University English.

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Recent publications include A Companion to the Biopic,  co -ed with Ashley Polasek (Blackwell, 2020), Adaptations in the Sound Era: 1927-37 (Bloomsbury 2015) and Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader, co-ed with Peter J. Smith (Arden, Bloomsbury, 2018).

• Adaptations
• Shakespeare
• Jane Austen
• Children’s Literature

• Shakespeare
• Renaissance
• Poetry
• Children’s Literature
• Literature and Film
• Jane Austen
• Edmund Spenser

BA (University of Toronto), PhD (University of York, UK)

I have recently taught on modules in adaptations, Shakespeare and children's literature. 

Jim Welsh Award for Excellence in Adaptation Studies, 2016.

Fellow of the English Association, 2011.

National Teaching Fellowship, 2010.

Strategic Reviewer, AHRC

• Elected Secretary, Council for College and University English, 2011- 2015
• Chair and Founder of the Association of Adaptation Studies (registered as a Charity, January, 2010), 2008-10
• Secretary and Treasurer of the Association of Adaptation Studies, 2010-
• Appointed to the AHRC Peer Review College, 2009
• Trustee, British Shakespeare Association, 2008 - 11

Recent Keynotes

• ‘Shakespeare, Adaptation and Marketing’, University of São Paulo, November, 2019
• 'Marketing Adaptation', Univesity of Birmingham, October 2019
• ‘Adaptation and the Marketing of Shakespeare in Classical Hollywood’, University of Cyprus, November, 2017
• ‘Stars’, TU Braunschweig, July 2017
• ‘Star Adaptations’, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, May 2017
•  Hollywood Queens and Friendship, Krakow, October, 2016

• Adapting Snow White, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, April, 2015

• ‘The Shakespeare Talkies’, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, November 2014

• ‘The Country House in Britain’, University of Newcastle, June, 2014.

1st Supervisions

1. Peter Lewis
2. Ana Laura Weinberg

2nd Supervisions

1. Alice Payne

I have supervised 17 PhD students to completion. They have gone into careers in publishing and academic posts in the UK, US and Australia.

• Higher Education Academy Award
• Leverhulme Academic Collaboration grant, £42,500, ‘Association of Literature on Screen’, 2006- 2009.

• Fellow of the English Association, 2011
• Awarded National Teaching Fellow, Higher Education Academy, 2010
• External Assessor, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2008, 2011
• External Assessor, City University of New York, 2010, University of Texas, 2007
• Chair and Founder of the Association of Adaptation Studies (registered as a Charity, January, 2010), 2007-10
• Appointed to the AHRC Peer Review College, 2010 

I am currently developing an Impact Case Study on Adaptations and Curriculum Change.