Judith Buchanan
Judith Ruth Buchanan (born 1967), Professor of Literature and Film, is both a Shakespearean and a film scholar. She is Master of St Peter's College, Oxford and a member of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. She took up her appointment at St Peter's College, Oxford on 1 October 2019, succeeding Mark Damazer. She is both an academic and a creative practitioner and is Director of Silents Now. Through Silents Now she brings little-known works of silent cinema to contemporary audiences, working in collaboration with actors, musicians and dancers. She co-adapted, and acted as Shakespeare advisor to, the British feature film Macbeth directed by Kit Monkman (2018). She co-founded the York International Shakespeare Festival. She has provided expert voice-overs for silent cinema DVD releases for the British Film Institute and the Thanhouser Film Corporation. She sits, as a government appointment, on the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin, of the Elsinore Shakespeare Research Centre and of the global Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. At the University of Oxford she chairs the Board of the Cameron Mackintosh Drama Fund and the Electoral Board for the Cameron Mackintosh Distinguished Visiting Professor of Drama.
Previous positions
Between 1991 and 2000 Judith Buchanan was at Worcester College, Oxford. During this period, she was the Wilkinson Fellow and taught in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford.
Between 2000 and 2019 she was at the University of York where she taught in the English Department (2000-2011), was Director of the Humanities Research Centre (2012-2017) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (2017-2019).
Personal life
Professor Buchanan is married to Dr Kostja New. They have two children.
Selected works
• Buchanan, Judith (2005). Shakespeare on film. London: Pearson Longman. ISBN 978-0582437166.
• Buchanan, Judith (2009). Shakespeare on silent film: an excellent dumb discourse. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-87199-9.
• Buchanan, Judith (ed) (2013), The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship. Palgrave. ISBN 978-0230313842.
• British Film Institute DVD Play On!, with voice-over commentaries by Judith Buchanan (2016): https://shop.bfi.org.uk/play-on-shakespeare-in-silent-film.html#.XmNtai2cY_U
References
1. Publications: http://silents-now.co.uk/home/media-and-publications/publications/
2. Media: http://silents-now.co.uk/home/media-and-publications/media/
3. BBC Radio 4 documentary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0773ld6
4. Talks: http://silents-now.co.uk/home/talks/
5. International Movie Data Base Entry on Judith Buchanan: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7355138/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
6. Professor Judith Buchanan Elected Next Master of St Peter's College Oxford
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Preceded by Mark Damazer |
Master of St Peter's College, Oxford 2019 to present |
Incumbent |