Dr Michael Stewart (BA, MPhil, PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication in the Media Communication & Performing Arts Division. He is also a member Culture in Society Research Centre.
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I have degrees from Moray House Edinburgh, Glasgow University, the Open University and ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ, and have been a lecturer in film, media and cultural studies at QMU since 2000. Before this, I was a lecturer and tutor at Liverpool John Moores University and Glasgow University. I am secretary of the Scottish Media and Communication Association, and I’m a member of the Melodrama Research Consortium. I am on the editorial board of Film Criticism. I have peer reviewed for various film, media and culture journals, and am currently a peer reviewer for European Journal of Cultural Studies; Images: The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; and Cogent Arts and Humanities. I am a Panel B member of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities’ Cohort Development Fund.
Affiliations/Memberships to Other Organisations:
- Secretary of the Scottish Media and Communication Association. Member of the Melodrama Research Consortium.
Research/Knowledge Exchange Centre Membership:
My primary research interest is film melodrama, and, alongside and related to this, genre and adaptation. My main focus is on film family melodramas – feature films about families, family relations and identities; films which include more pathos than action. I have published work on this subject in various journals, for example Cinema Journal, Journal of British Cinema and Television and Critical Studies in Television.
I also recently edited an international collection of essays on contemporary film and television melodrama – Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). I welcome applications from PhD candidates with interests in film melodrama, film genre, film adaptation, European film, and globalised art film.
Film, media and cultural studies; narrative; genre; melodrama; realism; textual analysis; qualitative methods in film, media and cultural studies. I have led and taught on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules at three different UK universities, always in the area of film, media and cultural studies. At QMU, from 2004-2016, I was the programme leader of the BA (Hons) Film and Media, and before that, programme leader of the BA (Hons) Media and Culture.