Judith Buchanan

Professor Judith Buchanan, Master of St Peter's College Oxford

Judith Ruth Buchanan (born 1967), is a British academic, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford and a member of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford.

Professional life[]

Between 1991 and 2000 Judith Buchanan was at Worcester College, Oxford. During this period she was the Wilkinson Research 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).

She is an academic Shakespearean and a film scholar who works also with the creative industries. She is Director of Silents Now, a project bringing works of silent cinema to contemporary audiences. She co-adapted, and acted as Shakespeare advisor to, the British feature film Macbeth directed by Kit Monkman (2018) and provided expert voice-overs for silent cinema DVD releases for the British Film Institute and the Thanhouser Film Corporation. She co-founded the York International Shakespeare Festival. 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.

She took up her appointment at St Peter's on 1 October 2019, succeeding Mark Damazer. 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. She sits on the Advisory Council for the Humanities Cultural Programme and is an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.

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

6. Marshall Commissioner

7. Elected Next Master of St Peter's College Oxford