Beccy Collings

Beccy Collings joined the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities in 2014.  She holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia (‘Shedding Light on Dark Comedy: an examination of humour and aesthetics in British Dark Comedy television’), a BA (hons) in History and an MA in Media, Culture and Identity from Roehampton University, and a PGCE (Post-compulsory Education and Training).

Since 2005 she has worked variously in Further and Higher Education as a Lecturer at Truro College (Classical Civilisation and History), Associate Tutor for University of Plymouth Colleges (Foundation Degree History, Heritage and Archaeology), and Associate Tutor for the University of East Anglia (School of Film, Television and Media Studies).

Beccy’s main research areas focus around television and film aesthetics, and she is particularly interested in the use and representation of the human body and physicality in film, television, and celebrity culture (especially within television comedy, professional wrestling, Action films and the Adult Film industry).

Her PhD research examined how dark comedies on British television borrow (and subvert) the aesthetics of genres associated with graphic portrayals of human physicality and pathologised behaviour, deriving humour from displays of the fragile integrity of the human body and mind.

Beccy is currently the Teaching Director of the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities, and co-Course Director of the MA in Medical and Health Humanities.  She has previously held the roles of Course Director for the Humanities Foundation Year programmes, Deputy Plagiarism Officer for the Foundation Year, and Peer Assisted Learning Officer in the School of Film, Television and Media.