About
Kate is the author of Trash or Treasure? Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties (MUP, 2007), Cultographies: The Evil Dead (Wallflower, 2011), and (with Martin Barker, Tom Philips and Sarah Ralph) Alien Audiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is also the co-editor of Cult Film Stardom (with Sarah Thomas, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), And Now for Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python (with Jeffrey Weinstock, EUP, 2020), and Researching Historical Screen Audiences (with Jamie Terrill and Martin Smith, EUP, forthcoming). She is currently working on practice-based research focused on the Dirt in the Gate cinema events and their audiences at the Shelley Theatre, Bournemouth, and planning and developing further research on audience memories of horror film and television.
Kate is the author of Trash or Treasure? Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties (MUP, 2007), Cultographies: The Evil Dead (Wallflower, 2011), and (with Martin Barker, Tom Philips and Sarah Ralph) Alien Audiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is also the co-editor of Cult Film Stardom (with Sarah Thomas, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), And Now for Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python (with Jeffrey Weinstock, EUP, 2020), and Researching Historical Screen Audiences (with Jamie Terrill and Martin Smith, EUP, forthcoming). She is currently working on practice-based research focused on the Dirt in the Gate cinema events and their audiences at the Shelley Theatre, Bournemouth, and planning and developing further research on audience memories of horror film and television.
Qualifications
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Professional Affiliations
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Employment
Kate began working at Northumbria in May 2020, after working for twelve years as lecturer and then senior lecturer in film studies at Aberystwyth University. Between 2003 and 2004, she was a research assistant on the ESRC- funded The International Lord of the Rings Audience Project (run by Professor Martin Barker and Professor Ernest Mathijs). Between 2016 and 2019, she was external examiner for the BA Film and Television Studies programme at Northumbria University, and, between 2009 and 2012, external examiner for the MA Film Studies programme at London Metropolitan University. |
Institutional Roles
Convener of the Moving Image, Popular Media and Culture Research Group, Department of Arts |
PhD Supervision
Kate has previously supervised 12 PhD Students to completion: As First Supervisor:
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Modules Taught
MI4009 Introduction to Television Studies MI5013 Hollywood Cinema MI6002 The Modern Horror Film MP5019 Researching Audiences |
Public Engagement
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Recent Conferences & Talks
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Recent Publications
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Peer Review
Kate has acted as a peer reviewer for journals such as Horror Studies, Media History, Participations, Journal of Popular Television, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and Feminist Media Studies. Kate has also peer reviewed monographs and proposals for Bloomsbury, Edinburgh University Press, and Palgrave Macmillan. |