CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal and Contact Details:

Name: Kim Akass

Nationality: British

Education:

1999: MA in Film and Television Studies (Merit) University of Westminster, London. 1994: BA (Hons) in Film Studies (and English) 2:1 University of North London, London.

Professional Bodies and Teaching Achievements:

2001- SHEA fellowship (17753).

Employment History:

Sept 2019 Professor, Radio, Television and Film, Rowan University

Sept 2014 – Head of the Media Research Group and Senior Lecturer Film and TV (Creative Arts) August 2019 University of Hertfordshire School of Creative Arts, College Lane Hatfield Hertfordshire AL10 9AB

Sept 2011 – Lecturer Film and TV (Creative Arts) Sept 2014 University of Hertfordshire School of Creative Arts, College Lane Hatfield Hertfordshire AL10 9AB

Sept 2011 - Senior Research Fellow Film and TV Mar 2012 University of Hertfordshire School of Creative Arts, College Lane Hatfield Hertfordshire AL10 9AB

April 2011 – Managing Editor (EUscreen)

1 Oct 2011 Royal Holloway University of London Department of Media Arts Egham Hill EGHAM TW20 0EX

Jan 2010 – Visiting Lecturer (Television History) March 2011 Royal Holloway University of London Department of Media Arts Egham Hill EGHAM TW20 0EX

Sept 2009 - Visiting Lecturer (MA Television History and Practice) March 2010 Dept of History of Art and Screen Media Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX

Aug 2007 - Research Fellow (TV Drama), July 2010 Manchester Metropolitan University, MMU Cheshire, Crewe Campus, Crewe Green Road, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 5DU

2006- Director of Media Citizens. This is a company that specialises in the provision of online support for education and media literacy.

Jan-Apr Visiting Lecturer in Film Studies 2007 Royal Holloway University of London Department of Media Arts Egham Hill EGHAM TW20 0EX

2002-2006 Senior Lecturer in Film Studies Department of Humanities, Arts and Languages, London Metropolitan University 166-220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB.

1994-2002 Visiting Lecturer in Film Studies University of North London 166-220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB

2000-2001 Visiting Lecturer in Film Studies Royal Holloway University of London

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Publications:

Refereed Articles in Journals:

‘HBO and the Aristocracy of TV Culture : affiliations and legitimatising television culture, post-2007’ (with Janet McCabe), Mise au Point, ISSN 2261-9623 (2018)

The Show That Refused To Die: The Rise and Fall Of AMC’s The Killing, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 29.5 (2015).

INA journal article ‘Ce n’est pas de la télévision, c’est de la télévision de qualité : quand HBO redéfinit la TV’ (with Janet McCabe), INA Editions, 2014. ISBN: 978-2-86938- 226-8.

‘Motherhood and the media under the Microscope: The backlash against feminism and the Mommy Wars’ in Imaginations: Journal of Cross Cultural Image Studies, Special Issue on Motherhood, September 2013, ISSN - 1918-8439. 6343 words.

‘The Gendered Politics of a Global Recession: A News Media Analysis’ in Studies in the Maternal, Volume 4 Issue 2, October 2012. 7173 words.

‘Motherhood and Myth-making: Despatches from the front-line of the US mommy wars’, Feminist Media Studies Commentary and Criticism section, 12.1 March 2012. 1,700words

‘The Book of Ruth’, Popmatters onine journal: special edition on Six Feet Under (November 2011) 1,200words.

(2009) ‘Who Said Crime Doesn’t Pay’ Introduction to Dossier FoxCrime and the CSI franchise in Italy in Critical Studies in Television. 4.1 (Spring 2009): pp 84-86. Co- author Janet McCabe.

(2006) ‘Feminist Television Criticism: Notes and Queries,’ Critical Studies in Television. 1: 1 (Spring 2006): pp 108-120. Co-author Janet McCabe.

(2004) “Throwing the Baby Out with the Bath Water: Miranda and the Myth of Maternal Instinct on ” Feminist Television Studies: The Case for HBO. Ed. Lisa Johnson. The Scholar and Feminist Online. 3: 1 (Fall). Single authored. http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/hbo/mccabe_01.htm

Single authored: (Forthcoming) From Here to Maternity: Representations of Motherhood in the Media, (Bloomsbury Academic. London).

3 Chapters in Edited Books:

(2018) “Sex and the City: The Finales” in Finale: Considering the Ends of Television Series: From Howdy Doody to Girls. Douglas L Howard and David Bianculli (eds.), Syracuse University Press, Syracuse: New York. 2,500words.

(2017) “Adieu Carmela Soprano! Lessons from the HBO Mobster Wife on TV Female Agency and Neoliberal (Narrative) Power” in Television Antiheroines : Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama, Milly Buonanno (ed.), Bristol Intellect: London 7,000words Co-author Janet McCabe.

(2011) ‘”Blabbermouth Cunts”; Or, Speaking in Tongues: Narrative Crises for Women in and Feminist Dilemmas’, in The Essential Sopranos Reader (University Press of Kentucky). 4,450words Co-author Janet McCabe. ISBN: 9780813130125

(2010) ‘What Has HBO Ever Done for Women?: Towards a New Feminist TV Criticism’, in Autorenserien: die Neuerfindung des Fernsehens / Auteur Series: The Re-invention of Television Ed Christoph Dreher, Stuttgart: Merz & Solitude Co-author Janet McCabe. ISBN: 978-3937982298

(2010) The Best of Everything: Dilemmas of the Working Girl in Mad Men in Mad Men: Dream Come True TV Ed Gary Edgerton, (I.B. Tauris). 177-193. 5,000words. Co- author Janet McCabe. ISBN: 978-1848853799

(2010) ‘Postscript: USA’ in Reading Little Britain: Yeah But No But Contemporary Television Comedy. Ed Sharon Lockyer, I.B.Tauris, pp 209-214. 1.600words. Single authored. ISBN: 9781845119393

(2008) ‘It’s Not TV, It’s HBO’s Original Programming: Producing Quality TV’ in Its Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era, Eds. Marc Leverette, Brian Ott and Cara Buckley, Routledge, 4,600words. Co-author Janet McCabe. ISBN: 9780415960380

(2008) ‘Six Feet Under – In Requiem,’ in The Essential HBO Reader. Eds. Gary R. Edgerton and Jeffrey P. Jones. University of Kentucky Press, pp 71-81, 3,000words Co-author Janet McCabe. ISBN: 9780813124520

(2008) ‘What Has HBO Ever Done For Women?’ in The Essential HBO Reader. Eds. Gary R. Edgerton and Jeffrey P. Jones. University of Kentucky Press, pp 303-314, 3,000words. Co-author Janet McCabe. ISBN: 9780813124520

(2007) ‘Married to the Mob: Separation and Divorce in The Sopranos,’ in After Intimacy: The Culture of Divorce in the West since 1789. Eds. Nicholas White and Karl Leydecker. Peter Lang.pp 257-275, 7,000words. Co-author Janet McCabe. ISBN: 978- 3-03910-1436

(2007) ‘CSI at the bfi …’ in Reading CSI: Crime TV Under the Microscope. Ed. Michael Allen. I.B. Tauris, pp 73 – 78. 1,700words. Single authored. ISBN: 978- 1845114282

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(2007) ‘Analysing Fictional Television Genres’, in Media Studies: Key Issues and Debates. Ed. Eoin Devereux. Sage Publications, pp 283 – 301, 6,240words. Co-author Janet McCabe. ISBN: 978-1412929837

(2006) ‘A Perfect Lie: Visual (Dis)Pleasures and Policing Femininity in Nip/Tuck,’ in Reading Makeover Television: Realities Remodelled. Ed. Dana Heller. I.B. Tauris pp 119-132, 5,520words. Co-author Janet McCabe. ISBN: 978-1845113308

(2006) ‘What Has Carmela Ever Done For Feminism?: Carmela Soprano and the Post- feminist Dilemma,’ in Reading The Sopranos: Hit TV from HBO. Ed. David Lavery. I.B. Tauris. pp.39-55. 6,774words. Co-author Janet McCabe. ISBN: 978-1845111212

(2006) “You Motherfucker: Al Swearengen’s Oedipal Dilemma” in Lavery, D. Ed, Reading Deadwood. (I.B. Tauris, July 2006) pp 22-33. 3,885words. Single authored. ISBN: 978-1845112219

(2002) ‘Beyond the Bada Bing!: Negotiating Female Narrative Authority in The Sopranos,’ in This Things of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos. Ed. David Lavery. Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press. pp.146-161. 7,998words. Co-author Janet McCabe. ISBN: 978-1903364444

Editorial Boards:

Founding member and co-editor, Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies (SAGE). Managing Editor of CSTonline.tv (www.cstonline.tv)

Series editor, with Janet McCabe, for ‘Reading Contemporary Television’, I.B. Tauris. Titles: Reading The Sopranos: Hit TV From HBO (ed David Lavery, 2006); Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By (ed David Lavery, 2007); Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts It In a Box (ed Merri Lisa Johnson, 2007); Reading Makeover Television: Realities Remodeled (ed Dana Heller, 2007), Reading 24: TV Against the Clock (ed Steven Peacock, 2007), Reading C.S.I.: Crime TV Under the Microscope (ed Michael Allen, 2007). Reading Lost (ed Roberta Pearson 2008), Queer TV (Samuel A. Chambers 2009), Reading Little Britain: Yeah But No But Contemporary Television Comedy (ed Sharon Lockyer 2010). Mad Men: Dream Come True TV (ed Gary Edgerton, 2010). Loving : The Complete Series in Focus (ed Dana Heller, 2013). New Dimensions of Doctor Who (ed. Matt Hills, 2013). Reading Asian Television Drama: Crossing Borders and Breaking Boundaries (ed. Jeongmee Kim , 2013).

Edited Books:

(2012) Reading Ugly Betty (I.B. Tauris. London) 90,000words. Co-editor Janet McCabe.

(2007) Contemporary Quality TV: American Television and Beyond. I.B. Tauris. London. 105,000words. Including co-written ‘Introduction: The Quality TV Debate’

5 6,044words pp. 1-11; and ‘Sex, Swearing and Respectability: Courting Controversy, HBO’s Original Programming and Producing Quality TV’ 7,500words pp. 62-76. Co- editor Janet McCabe. ISBN: 9781845115104

(2006) Reading Desperate Housewives: Beyond the White Picket Fence. I.B. Tauris. London. 80,000words. Including, co-written introduction, ‘Airing the Dirty Laundry: Introduction’ pp. 1-14, 5,051words; and single authored, ‘‘Still Desperate After All These Years: The Post-Feminist Mystique and Desperate Housewives’ pp. 48-58, 4,054words. Co-editor Janet McCabe. ISBN: 1845112202

(2006) Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television. I.B. Tauris. London. 80,000words. Including, co-written, ‘Preface,’ pp. xxv-xxxi. 2,310words; and dialogue with McCabe, ‘What Is A Straight Girl To Do: Ivan’s Serenade, Kit’s Dilemma,’ pp. 143-156. 5,141words. Co-editor Janet McCabe. ISBN: 978-1845111793

(2005) Reading Six Feet Under: TV To Die For. I.B. Tauris. 70,000words. Including, co- written, ‘“Why do people have to die?” “To make contemporary television drama important, I guess”: Introduction’, pp.1-18. 5,550words; and single authored, “Mother Knows Best: Ruth and Representations of Mothering”, pp 110-120. 4,364words. Co- editor Janet McCabe. ISBN: 978-1850438090

(2004) Reading Sex and the City: Critical Approaches. I.B. Tauris. London. 90,000words. Including, co-written ‘Welcome to the Age of (Un)Innocence: Introduction’ pp. 1-14, 5,000words; ‘Ms Parker and the Vicious Circle: Female Narrative and Humour in Sex and the City’ pp. 177-198, 8,600words; and ‘Carried Away in Manhattan’ pp. 234-236, 600words. Co-editor Janet McCabe. ISBN: 1850434239 (2008) translated into Korean. Publisher: Editions W. (2005) translated into Russian. Publisher: Ad-Marginem Press: http://www.ad- marginem.ru/ (2004) translated into Japanese. Publisher: Asahi Shuppansha.

Conference and Research Presentations:

Keynote speaker. Research seminar, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. 11 April 2018.

Keynote speaker. ‘Wentworth is the New Prisoner’, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. 5- 6 April 2018.

Featured speaker. ECREA Television Studies section conference, University of Malaga, “The Future of European Television: Between Transnationalism and Euroscepticism”. 15- 17 of November 2017.

Organiser (with School of Humanities) : An International Conference, 5-7 September 2017.

6 Invited speaker. Cross-currents: Gender and Transnational Broadcasting Workshop, Bournemouth University, ‘Motherhood, Transnational Television and Cultural Specificity’. 6-7 July 2017.

Keynote speaker. Approaches to Contemporary Television: Moving Images, Multiple Screens Seminar Series, University of Westminster, ‘HBO and its Legacy’ (with Dr Janet McCabe). 1 June 2017.

Keynote speaker. Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento (AIM) Annual Conference, Universidade do Minho - Instituto de Ciências Sociais, ‘From Revolution to Resolution: Motherhood, Maternity and Media Representation’. 10-13 May 2017.

Keynote speaker. Colloque International ’Women and Popular Culture(s) in The Anglophone Worlds: 1945-2015’ Université de La Rochelle, FLASH, ‘Motherhood, Maternal Representation and Popular Culture’. 4-5 May 2017.

Keynote speaker. AFECCAV Conference, Bordeaux, (with Dr Janet McCabe). 6-8 July 2016

Organiser - ‘Elstree Study Day’ - symposium to generate a funding bid for the Elstree Archive Project (with Howard Berry). 8 June 2016.

Motherhood and Culture, Maynooth University, Ireland, ‘From Northern Europe to North America: The Changing Face of Motherhood in the adaptation of Forbrydelsen to The Killing. 15-17 June, 2015.

Keynote speaker. Norwegian Federation of Film Societies, ‘In Search of the Mother on HBO’. 4-5 October 2014.

‘Cult TV: TV Cultures’ – Workshop participation – Northampton University, 8-9 April 2014.

Keynote speaker. Sex and the City Ten Years On: Landmark Television and its Legacy, ‘The Legacy of Outlaw Mothering and Sex and the City’, 4 April 2014.

Organiser (with School of Humanities) ‘Doctor Who: Walking in Eternity’ international conference 3-5 September 2013.

11 June 2013 – Organiser of symposium ‘Academics Into Industry’, University of Hertfordshire.

Console-ing Passions, De Montfort University, Leicester, ‘The Gendered Politics of a Global Recession’, 23-25 June 2013.

Television For Women International Conference, University of East Anglia, ‘Miranda Hobbes: The Mother of All Mothers, 15-17 May 2013.

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Keynote speaker. AMES Management Committee, (Association for Media Education for Scotland), "Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond", May 2013 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

SCMS annual conference, Chicago, March 2013 - invited panel member for digital publishing.

SCMS annual conference, Chicago, March 2013 - panel speaker ‘Austerity Parenting’,

Keynote speaker. Congress "qu'est-ce qu'une télévision de qualité?", Sorbonne, Paris, Quality TV conference 11-14 September 2012 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Featured speaker. ‘What has HBO done for Contemporary Television’? Research Seminar Birkbeck, University of London, 28 March 2012.

Featured speaker. ‘From Here to Maternity – Motherhood in the Media. Women’s Media Studies Network (MeCCSA) event, University of Winchester, 21 October 2011.

Featured speaker. ‘Towards Pervasive Media Makefest’ at Nottingham University Tuesday 14 September 2010. Presentation on online and hard copy journals.

'The Television Series: Methodologies and New Directions. A Franco-British Workshop.' Friday 9 – Saturday 10 April 2010. ISCC, PARIS. A member of the advisory board and contributing to the roundtable discussion regarding research methodologies and future directions.

Keynote speaker. ‘What has HBO done for Women?: Towards a New Feminist TV Criticism’. City University London Seminar Series. 25 March 2010 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Keynote speaker. ‘What Has HBO Ever Done for Women?: Towards a New Feminist TV Criticism’, Remediate: Revolution der Audiovisionen: Eigenschaften und Produktionsweisen von ‘Quality-TV Serien’. Symposium an der Merz Akademie, Stuttgart. 24 January 2010 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Featured speaker. 'Why do people have to die?' ' To make contemporary television drama important, I guess': Six Feet Under and the Art of Living Well, Afterlives Symposium, Birkbeck University of London, 4 December 2009 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Featured speaker. ‘It’s Not TV. But is it a Classic?’. Making and Remaking Classic Television, University of Warwick, 20 March 2009 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Keynote Speaker. ‘Textual Analysis in Transition’. ‘it Has Happened Before It Will Happen Again’: The ‘Third’ Golden Age of Television Fiction conference, The Point Hotel, Istanbul, 8-10 October 2008.

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Featured speaker. “‘Blabbermouth Cunts’: The Sopranos and the Feminist Dilemma”. The Sopranos: A Wake, Fordham University, 22-25 September 2008 (with Dr Janet McCabe)..

Invited speaker. Issues of TV Fiction Exchange: US Acquired Programming and the Re-Branding of UK’s Channel 5. The global screen: present and future of the television Triennale di Milano, 2-3 April 2008 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

“‘I was marrying sisters … that was my choice’: and the Post-Feminist Choice”. Feminism and Popular Culture conference, Newcastle University, 29 June - 1 July 2007 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Invited speaker. ‘Reading Women’s TV Fictions’. Television and Soap Opera conference, University of Navarra, Spain, 9-10 June 2007 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Invited speaker. ‘It’s Not TV. It Was HBO’. TV Futures Symposium, Roehampton University. 2 June 2007 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Co-organiser of TV Fiction Exchange: Local/Regional/National/Global. An International Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cheshire Sept. 5-8, 2006

Keynote speaker. ‘Samantha Jones as Post-Feminist Clown: Humorous Performance, Post-Feminism, Sex and the City.’ MeCCSA Women’s Media Studies Network event. DeMontfort University. 10 March 2006 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Invited speaker. ‘So Maybe, I Judged You Just A Little Bit: Towards a New Feminist TV Criticism’, The Media Studies Conference, British Film Institute. Friday 8 July 2005 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Invited speaker. ‘So Maybe, I Judged You Just A Little Bit: Towards a New Feminist TV Criticism.’ Research Seminar. Roehampton University. Wednesday 8 December 2004 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

‘“You Wake Up One Day and Your Baby’s Stolen a Foot” Dialogue and Female Discourse in Six Feet Under’, for a panel ‘HBO: Gender, Desire and Sexuality’. Cultural Studies Association, second annual conference at Northeastern University in Boston May 5 to 9, 2004 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Featured speaker. ‘Miranda and the Mommy Myth in Sex and the City’, American Popular Culture Research Seminar, London Metropolitan University, Wednesday 28 April, 2004.

‘”You Wake Up One Day and Your Baby’s Stolen a Foot” Dialogue and Female Discourse in Six Feet Under’, American Quality Television: An International Conference, Trinity College Dublin, April 2004 (conference co-hosted by London Metropolitan University and Trinity College Dublin) (with Dr Janet McCabe).

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‘Beyond the Bada Bing: Female Narrative Authority in The Sopranos’. University of North London Research Group, February 2003 (with Dr Janet McCabe).

Miscellaneous:

Athena Swan Representative (Equality and Diversity), School of Creative Arts.

UCU Representative, School of Creative Arts.

Member of Scientific Committee ECREA Television Studies section.

Member of Scientific Committee "Women and Popular Culture in the Anglophone Worlds" - WeArePopCult: Women and Popular Cultures in the Anglophone Worlds.

Member of Steering Committee of AHRC funded project – Northampton University. ‘Cult TV: TV Cultures Network’ - 18 month project.

Head of the Media Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire (2012-present)

Regular Blogger for CSTonline. CSTonline.tv

Contributor to TV Worth Watching. An American website run by TV critic and academic David Bianculli. http://www.tvworthwatching.com/

Regular Contributor - Letters to the editor – Evening Standard - Guest curator for In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, 16-20 May 2011, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2011/05/18/breaking-hard-do-sex- and-city-endings ‘Breaking up is Hard to do’” Sex and the City: The Ending(s).

Guest curator (with Janet McCabe) for in Media Res: A Media Commons Project, 20- 25 April 2008 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/theme- week/2009/16/mad-men-april-20-25-2009 ‘Why Women don’t Get Ahead in Advertising’.

Guest curator (with Janet McCabe) for In Media Res: A MediaCommons Project 25 June 2007 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/videos. ‘You Got Choices. I Got a Lawyer’.

Columnist for Flow TV (http://www.flowtv.org/) online television journal (co-written with Janet McCabe):

‘I was marrying sisters … that was my choice:’ Big Love, Post-Feminist Choice, Scripted Lives and Judging Women. 19 July 2007.

‘Adieu to The Sopranos; What Next for HBO?’ 18 May 2007.

10 ‘Bigoted Brother, Forgotten Sisters’ 5 April 2007.

‘Not So Ugly: Local Production, Global Franchise, Discursive Femininities, and the Ugly Betty Phenomenon’ 26 January 2007.

‘More Food for Thought’ 3 November 2006.

External Examiner:

October 2017 – External Examiner for MRes, University of Nottingham.

September 2013 – 2015 Film and TV, University of Derby.

2006- 2010 Extra Mural Film and Media BA at Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX.

Miscellaneous: 2019 – reviewer for Bloomsbury Publishing 2018 – reviewer for Palgrave McMillan 2017 – reviewer for AHRC funding applications board 2016 – reviewer for Media Communication Journal 2016 – reviewer for University of Michigan Press 2015 – recipient (as part of the Film and TV Department) of University of Hertfordshire’s Vice-Chancellor’s award for Excellence in Engagement with Business, Industry and the Professions 2015 – reviewer for Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 2013 – present reviewer for Continuum publisher 2011 – present reviewer for Manchester University Press – TV studies series 2011 – present reviewer for ‘Gender and Popular Culture’ series for I.B. Tauris 2011 – present reviewer for Sexualities 2011 – present reviewer for Celebrity Studies journal 2010 – present Regular Reader/Reviewer for Feminist Media Studies 2010 - Reader/Reviewer for Journal of Homosexuality 2007 – Guest Lecturer on American TV drama course at Brunel University, London March 2007. 2001- Reader for Journal of Gender Studies. 1990 – Outstanding Student Award at City and East London (Access course).

Book Reviews:

Feminist Art and the Maternal by Andrea Liss, (University of Minnesota Press 2009). For Feminist Media Studies.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (BFI TV Classics) by Steve Cohan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). For Critical Studies in Television (Vol 4.2, Autumn 2009).

Into the Vortex: Female Voice and Paradox in Film by Britta Sjogren

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Research Grants and Awards:

June 2016 – Recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research. University of Hertfordshire.

September 2013 – Organiser of ‘Doctor Who: Walking in Eternity’ international conference 3-5 September 2013 (£1,500 grant received from UH Arts).

£600 from the University of Hertfordshire Research Skills Staff Development Fund to run a day-symposium entitled ‘Academics into Industry’. The money paid for outside speakers to come into College Lane to speak about their AHRC funded projects with commercial partners.

Media and Communications Research Committee (Project: Six Feet Under), London Metropolitan University 2004, £800 + teaching relief.

Media and Communications Research Committee (Project: Sex and the City), London Metropolitan University, 2003, £700 + teaching relief.

Media Experience:

• Interviewed for The Independent, BBC News (website), BBC 3 Counties breakfast show and Drive Time, Czech Public Radio and Raptly.tv for The Game of Thrones: An International Conference, held at University of Hertfordshire 6-8 September 2017. • Regular contributor to BBC 3 Counties radio ‘Drive time with Roberto Perrone’ and the Breakfast Show - Various interviews including Game of Thrones, Dad’s Army (film), Poldark, end of TV shows, Moorside, etc. • Guest on Showbiz Panel on BBC 3 Counties radio Friday afternoon 5-7. • Television interview for Norwegian TV documentary series – HBO (2013). • Podcast: Interviewed for a Cultural Studies podcast by Prof Toby Miller (2013). • Magazine: Interviewed for Portugese Magazine on Sex and the City: The Movie. • Magazine: Interviewed for Croatian Magazine, (reprinted November 2009) on Sex and the City: The Movie. • Radio: Interviewed for The Last Word, Matt Cooper show on Irish radio station Today FM on Sex and the City: The Movie, 27 May 2008. • Television: Interviewed for CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s flagship news programme) on Sex and the City: The Movie, 26 May 2008. • Newspaper: Interviewed by Portugese journalist on Sex and the City: The Movie, 21 May 2008. • Television: Interviewed for Channel 5 News on Sex and the City: The Movie, 19 May 2008. • Newspaper: Interviewed (on Sex and the City), The Guardian, 16 April 2008.

12 • Newspaper: Interviewed (on Sex and the City), The Irish Independent, 17 March 2008. • Radio: Interviewed (on Desperate Housewives), The Lori & Julia Show, FM107, Talk Radio, Minneapolis/St. Paul, 26 February 2007. • Radio: Interviewed (on Six Feet Under), Flipper, Swedish National Radio, Wednesday 22 February 2006. • Radio: Interviewed (on Sex and the City), BBC Radio Bristol, Friday 19 March 2004. • Radio: Interviewed (on Sex and the City), BBC Radio Leeds, Friday 19 March 2004. • Newspaper: interviewed (on Sex and the City) in LA Daily News, Sunday 22 February 2004. • Newspaper: interviewed (on Sex and the City) in The Guardian, February 2004, • Radio: Interviewed (on Sex and the City) The Lori & Julia Show, FM107, Talk Radio, Minneapolis/St. Paul, February 2004. • Radio: Interviewed by Jenni Murray (on Sex and the City) for Woman’s Hour, Radio 2, 3 February 2004. • Television: Discussion on the end of Sex and the City, on ‘Richard and Judy’, Channel 4, 3 February 2004.

Blogs: Regular Contributor to TV Worth Watching: http://www.tvworthwatching.com/AuthorDetails.aspx?authorId=51

Regular Contributor to CSTonline.net: https://cstonline.net

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