Dr Amy Holdsworth
- Senior Lecturer (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)
telephone: 01413305625
email: Amy.Holdsworth@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
Office hours: Wednesday 2-4pm
Research Interests
My research predominantly focuses on television theory and criticism but also engages with other interdisciplinary areas, including memory studies, disability studies and childhood studies. My work on the relationship between television, memory and nostalgia (which included research on serial drama, the family history documentary, nostalgia television, television archives and media museums) was published as a monograph by Palgrave in 2011. Alongside a continued interest in these areas I am currently working on a series of related projects and have specific interests in the following topics:
- Television and discourses of care
- Childhood, screen media and (inter)generational memory and nostalgia
- Screen media, childhood studies and disability studies
- The representation of dementia in television and film
- Television and autobiography
Biography
- 2009- : Lecturer in Film and Television Studies (University of Glasgow)
- 2008-9: Senior Lecturer in Television Studies (Leeds Metropolitan University)
- 2004-7: PhD Film and Television Studies (University of Warwick)
- 2002-3: MA Cultural Studies (University of Leeds)
- 1998-2001: BA (hons) Film and Literature (University of Warwick)
Supervision
I welcome applications from new PhD students interested in television theory, history and criticism. I am also interested in supervising students interested in memory, nostalgia, heritage and audio-visual texts and cultures or on childhood and children’s media.
- Brennan, Mhairi
Archiving the Referendum: The Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the BBC Scotland Television Archive - Castle, Kerr
Comfort TV - theorising the everyday use of TV as an apparatus for therapeutic reward, the restoration of identity, and other affects. - Gabriel, Robert
Socio-Economic Ideology in Contemporary ‘Tween’ Television Programming - Jenkins, Abigail
The Big Picture: Fat Women in Film and Television
Teaching
- Looking, Listening, 'Reading'
- Key Moments in the Development of Cinema and Television
- Television Analysis
- Contemporary Television Drama
- Television, Memory and the Archive
- Children's Television
Additional Information
Administration
- Level 1 convenor
- Dissertations convenor
External Responsibilities
- Chair of Northern Television Studies Research Group
- Editorial advisory board member for Screen (OUP) and Memory Studies (Sage)