Job title
Principal Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies
Job responsibilities
Joint Honours in Humanities Programme Leader.
Ben is currently on the module team for three undergraduate modules: ‘Approaches to Media & Culture’ (Level 1); ‘Theorising and Researching Media & Culture’ (Level 2); and ‘Cultural Policy’ (Level 3). He also contributes to the MA in Media and Globalization.
Research, scholarly and professional interests
Ben is interested in cultural theory and a range of topics which can be explored through cultural theory: cultural policy, pleasure, film comedy and food. He is also interested in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
Information for prospective research students
Ben has supervised PhD theses on British ‘mid-Atlantic’ cinema of the 1970s and 1980s; on the western and existentialism; and on the celebrity voice in animated film. He would be happy to hear from prospective students interested in undertaking research in the broad field of cultural theory, especially in the areas of cultural policy, food, comedy or Bakhtin.
