University of Glamorgan

Prof Richard Hand

Professor of Theatre and Media Drama
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

Tel +44 (0)1443 668606
Room: CA409

Qualifications

1984-87 Polytechnic of North London – BA English First Class Honours

1987-88 University of Aberdeen – M.Litt. Literature of Region and Nation British Academy Scholarship

1989-90 University of Leicester – Postgraduate Certificate in Information Technology European Study Fund Scholarship

1990-97 University of Glasgow – Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre Studies and English Literature
“Self-Adaptation: the Stage Adaptation of Fiction by Novelists” British Academy Scholarship

1998-2001 University of Glamorgan – Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Development (SEDA accredited)

About

Main teaching areas:

Theatre History, Theory and Practice; Film

Research

Research interests:

Adaptation, Horror Studies, European Theatre, Radio Drama, Popular Culture

Current research activity:

Adaptation, Horror Studies, European Theatre, Radio Drama, Popular Culture

Selected Publications

Selected publications:


Authored Books

2002 Grand-Guignol: the French Theatre of Horror (co-written with Michael Wilson), “Studies in Performance” Series, University of Exeter Press (AHRB-funded)

2005 The Theatre of Joseph Conrad: Reconstructed Fictions, London: Palgrave

2006 Terror on the Air: Horror Radio in America, 1931-52, Jefferson: McFarland (AHRB-funded)

2007 London’s Grand-Guignol and the Theatre of Horror (co-written with Michael Wilson) “Studies in Performance” Series, University of Exeter Press (British Academy-funded and Society for Theatre Research-funded) Nominated for Society for Theatre Research Book Award 2007 (Final Shortlist)

Edited Works

2007 “Paradigms of Metamorphosis and Transmutation: Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein and John Barrymore’s Jekyll and Hyde” in Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Transmutations in Horror Film, Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoy (eds.) Manchester University Press (Chapter in book and co-editor) (AHRC-funded)

Edited Works: contributions

2004 Lucretia Borgia and Ruy Blas in Victor Hugo: Plays, Claude Schumacher (ed.) Methuen. (Translator)

2004 “Proliferating Horrors: Survival Horror and the Resident Evil franchise” in Horror Film: Marketing and Creating Fear, (ed. Steffen Hantke). University of Mississippi Press (Chapter in book)

2005 “Aesthetics of Cruelty: Traditional Japanese Theatre and the Horror Film” in Japanese Horror Cinema (ed. Jay McRoy), “Currents in World Cinema” series, University of Edinburgh Press (Chapter in book)

2005 “Theatres of Interactivity: Video Games in the Drama Studio”, Digital Gameplay: Essays on the Nexus of Game and Gamer (ed. Nathan Garrelts) McFarland (Chapter in book)

2005 ‘“Lucretia” from Lucretia Borgia’ in The Methuen Book of Classical Monologues for Women, Chrys Salt (ed.) Methuen. (Translator)

2005 ‘“Gennaro” from Lucretia Borgia’ in The Methuen Book of Classical Monologues for Men, Chrys Salt (ed.) Methuen. (Translator)

2006 “Conrad’s Drama in a World Theatrical Context” in Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, (ed. Wiedslaw Krajka) Columbia University Press (Chapter in book)

2006 “Horror, History and Homage: Ulli Lommel’s The Tenderness of Wolves” in Caligari’s Grandchildren: Contemporary German Horror Film (ed. Steffen Hantke) Scarecrow Press (Chapter in book)

2007 “Horror, History and Homage: Ulli Lommel’s The Tenderness of Wolves” in Caligari’s Grandchildren: Contemporary German Horror Film (ed. Steffen Hantke) Scarecrow Press (Chapter in book)

Academic Journal Papers

2001 “Conrad and the Reviewers: The Secret Agent on Stage”, The Conradian 26:2, 1-67. (Refereed Article)

2001 ‘Staging an “Unbearable Spectacle”: The World Premiere of Joseph Conrad’s Laughing Anne’, Studies in Theatre and Performance 21:2, 109-117. (Refereed Article)

2002 “Producing Laughing Anne”, Conradiana 34:1-2, 43-62. (Refereed Article)

2003 ‘“Loving and Killing: the two great adventures in life”: Maurice Tourneur’s 1919 screen version of Joseph Conrad’s Victory’, Conradiana 35:3, 52-64 (Refereed Article)

2004 “Spindoctors, Soccer and Shakespeare: Staging a Contemporary Henry V” in a special issue (Shakespeare and Popular Culture) of College Literature 31:4 (October 2004), 60-71 (Refereed Article)

2004 “Dissecting the Gash: Sexual Horror in the 1980s and the Manga of Suehiro Maruo” M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 7.4 (October 2004) http://www.media-culture.org.au/0410/05_horror.php (Refereed Article)

2005 ‘Reanimating Peyton Farquhar: The Adaptations of Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” in The Ambrose Bierce Project Journal 1: 1 (Fall 2005) http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/caw43/bierce/journal1hand.html (Refereed Article)

2006 “Escape with Joseph Conrad! The Adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Fiction on American Old Time Radio”, Conradiana 38:1, 17-58 (Refereed Article)

2007 “Frank Zappa and Musical Theatre: Ugly Ugly O’phan Annie and Really Deep, Intense, Thought-Provoking Broadway Symbolism” (with Paul Carr), Studies in Music Theatre 1:1 (Refereed Article)

Professional Memberships

FRSA (Fellow of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce)

UCU

Author’s Licensing and Collecting Society

External representation

Selected Media Appearances

2007 BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour (“Noël Coward’s The Better Half) (4 October 2007)

2008 Bridge FM radio (“Sweeney Todd and Horror Film”) (8 February 2008)

2008 West Coast Live radio (US) “Interview with Richard Hand and Performance Extract of Noël Coward’s The Better Half” (22 March 2008)

2008 KALW radio (US) Open Air “An Interview with Richard Hand and Eddie Muller: Noël Coward’s The Better Half” (25 March 2008)

Selected Reviews

2007 “A Still Potent Voice in the Art of Darkness: a Review of Zdislaw Najder’s Joseph Conrad: A Life” in the Times Higher Education Supplement (5 October 2007)

Consultancy

2008 Panel Member, Planning Committee “British and French Visions of Contemporary European Theatre Festival”, French Institute UK

2008 External Validator for BA Performance on Stage and Screen, Sheffield Hallam University

2006 Referee and member of JISC Digitisation Project committee

2006 External Validator for MA by Research, University of Plymouth

2006-present External Examiner for BA Communications, University of Lincoln

2005-present committee member of phase one and phase two the British Library Archival Sound Recordings User Panel

2005-present External Examiner for MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media, Central School of Speech and Drama, London

2005 External Validator for MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media, Central School of Speech and Drama, London