Dr Matthew Melia
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- Department of Journalism, Publishing and Media
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- School of Arts
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer and Course leader of the Humanities Foundation Degree
About
I graduated in 2001 at the University of Aberdeen (Joint MA Hons English-Lit / History of Art) and was awarded my PhD from Kingston University ('Architecture and Cruelty in the Writings of Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet') in 2007.
I currently teach across film, media and English Literature and I am the Course Leader for the Humanities Foundation degree.
My current and ongoing research concentrates on the work of both Stanley Kubrick and Ken Russell. I co-edited The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the classic Summer Blockbuster (Bloomsbury); Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange (Palgrave, 2023 ); 'Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange' (Special edition of Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television) and edited ReFocus: The Films of Ken Russell (EUP, 2023 ). I am currently working on a monograph about Ken Russell's 1986 film Gothic. Forthcoming publications include an edited collection for Bloomsbury, The Jurassic Park Book (2023), a special edition of the journal Cinergie Il Cine e le Altre Arti, 'Franchising Jurassic Park' (2023).
My research (and teaching) is archive focused and I have a particular research interest in the both study of archives themselves and in the phenomena of the unmade and abandoned project. I am co-convener of the Special Interest Group (SIG) 'Archives and Archival Methods' (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies).
I have taught modules on British cinema and cult and transgressive film and literature and am interested in the tension between analogue and digital media as well as dead technology.
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Qualifications
- Joint MA (Hons) English Literature - History of Art (2.1) - University of Aberdeen (2001)
- PhD (Architecture and Cruelty in the Writings of Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet) - Kingston University (2007)
- PgCert (higher education teaching certificate) - Kingston University - 2010.