Mark Jancovich

• Director of Research (2004-2007)
• Director of Admissions (2004-2007)
• Director of Research Students (2005-2006)
• Diretor of MA Programmes (2005-2006, second semester)
• Humanities Research Committee (2004-2007)

Mark Jancovich came to UEA in September 2004. He studied at Keele University, the University of Kent at Canterbury and Indiana University. He has taught at the Universities of Keele, Manchester, and Nottingham, where he founded the Institute of Film Studies. He is the co-editor of two book series; a founding member of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies; a member of several editorial and editorial advisory boards; and has been a member of research panel 2 of the AHRB, an subpanel of RAE 2008, and a member of the Executive of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association. He has been an external examiner at over ten different Universities and supervised numerous research students to the successful completion of their studies.

Mark also blogs on TV horror and fantasy at fantasticfilmtv.com.

Research interests - media and cultural theory; genre (particularly horror, pornography and the historical epic); audience and reception studies; and contemporary popular television. He is currently working on a history of American horror in the 1940s.

EXTERNAL GRANTS

SERIES EDITOR:

Film Genres (with Charles Acland, Concordia University) Berg Publishing. Books in the series include:

Catherine Driscoll, Teen Film (2011);
Keith Johnson, Science Fiction (2011);
James Walters, Fantasy (2011).

Inside Popular Film (with Eric Schaefer, Boston College) Manchester University Press. Books in this series include:

Joanne Hollows and Mark Jancovich, eds., Approaches to Popular Film (1995, see below); Harry Benshoff, Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (1996); Julia Hallam and Margaret Marshment, Realism and Popular Film (2000); Jacinda Read, The New Avengers: Feminism, Femininity and the Rape-Revenge Cycle (2000); Nicole Matthews, Comic Politics: Gender in Hollywood Comedy after the New Right (2000); Thomas Austin, Hollywood, Hype and Audiences: Selling and Watching Popular Film in the 1990s (2002); Aylish Wood, Technoscience in Contemporary Film, (2002); Rachel Moseley, Growing Up With Audrey Hepburn: Text, Audience, Resonance, (2003); Paul Grainge, ed., Memory and Popular Film (2003); Mark Jancovich, Antonio Lazaro-Reboll, Julian Stringer and Andrew Willis, eds., Defining Cult Movies: the Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste, (2003); Antonio Lazaro-Reboll and Andrew Willis, eds., Spanish Popular Film (2004); Andrew Willis, Stars: Hollywood and Beyond (2004); Steven Jay Schneider, ed., New Hollywood Violence (2004); Andrew Caine, Interpreting Rock Movies (2005); Gianluca Sergi, The Dolby Era: Film Sound in Contemporary Hollywood (2005) Robert Fish, Cinematic Countrysides, (2007) Kate Egan, Trash or Treasure: Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties (2007).