[ecrea] PhD studentships at University of Reading

The Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of 
Reading is part of the South Wales and West Doctoral Training 
Partnership which offers funded PhD scholarships to UK and EU students 
across a consortium of nine universities. We welcome proposals related 
to the themes outlined by the DTP:     - Cultural Transmission, 
Translation and Migration
    - Visual and Textual Aesthetics and Materialities
    - Environmental and Regional Pasts and Futures
    - Politics, Policies and Values
    - STEMM Subjects and Objects
    - Conflict and Post-Conflict
Students will be co-supervised across institutions in the consortium. 
The application system opens on 3rd December, and the closing date for 
applications is 18th January. More information can be found here: 
https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/about/sww2/

The Department of Film, Theatre & Television at Reading offers 
specialist supervision in the areas of film, theatre and television and 
supports a variety of interdisciplinary and practice-based doctoral 
projects. Our Minghella Studios feature a digital cinema, two theatres 
and an experimental performance space, a digital sound 
stage/multi-camera television studio, editing rooms, audio 
post-production spaces and a sound studio and we work with a range of 
local and national theatre companies and arts organisations. The 
University hosts several important archives, including those of Samuel 
Beckett and Stephen Dwoskin. The department is currently engaged in 
three major funded research projects, on Intermediality and the history 
of Brazilian Cinema, the histories and legacies of Harold Pinter, and 
the legacies of Stephen Dwoskin.
Our research focuses particularly on stage and screen performance and 
production in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Academic staff 
specialise in the following areas:

Film: The analysis and histories of cinema, including work on 
mise-en-scène, alternative cinema and artists’ film, new digital and 3D 
forms, US film culture and film style, realism and world cinema, cinema 
and intermediality, landscape in film and ecocriticism.
Theatre: Beckett’s drama for stage and screen, twentieth and 
twenty-first-century British, Irish and European theatre and 
performance, performance analysis, gender and performance, theatre 
companies, directors and working practices, diasporic performance, 
political theatre and multimedia and interdisciplinary 
practice-as-research allied to written scholarship.
Television: British and US TV drama and documentary, contemporary 
television, popular and youth television and new media, transnational 
television and film.
For more information, see 
https://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/meet-the-team/ftt-meet-the-team.aspx

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