Staff Profile:Dr Simone Knox

Name:

Dr Simone Knox

Job Title:

Lecturer in Television

Responsibilities:

• Senior Tutor
• Disability Representative 
• Research Seminar Series Co-Coordinator
• YouTube Coordinator  
• Visiting Students and Study Abroad
• Module convenor of Introduction to critical practice in television; Critical practice in television; Contemporary television drama; Contemporary documentary; Television analysis (MA by Research in Television Studies)

Areas of Interest:

My main research interests lie in the analysis of television and film, especially aesthetics and medium specificity, the audio-visual translation of film and television (dubbing and subtitling), the trans-national, representations of the body, and postmodernism. I am currently undertaking research exploring contemporary British television drama in relation to issues of aesthetics, self-reflexivity and medium specificity.

Postgraduate Supervision:

I welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students on such topics as the audio-visual translation of film and television (dubbing and subtitling), the medium specificity of film and television, aesthetics, the trans-national, British and American television drama, representations of the body, and postmodern film and television. I am currently lead supervisor for a thesis on the representation of suburbia in film and television, and co-supervisor for theses on Olga Malea's films, representations of race in contemporary US television drama, actor training for television, and representations of Native Americans in US television drama.

Research groups / Centres:

• Centre for Television Drama Studies

Publications:

• Knox, S. The Transatlantic Dimensions of the Timelord: Doctor Who and the Relationships between British and North American Television. In: O'Day, A. (Ed.). Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour, London: I. B. Tauris, forthcoming 2013.
• Knox, S. Masterpiece Theatre and British Drama Imports on US Television: Discourses of Tension, Critical Studies in Television, 7, 1, 2012, forthcoming.
• Adamou, C. and Knox, S. Transforming Television Drama through Dubbing and Subtitling: Sex and the Cities. Critical Studies in Television, 6, 1, 2011, 1-21.
• Adamou, C. and Knox, S. Live and Kicking: A Meta-Critical Discourse on Television and Television Studies. Science Fiction Film and Television, 3, 2, 2010, 271-285.
• Knox, S. Reading The Truman Show Inside Out. Film Criticism, XXXV, 1, 2010, 1-23.
• Knox, S. "Muito boa qualidade, de facto": Shooting the Past e o caso das séries dramáticas de qualidade da televisão britânica na era da televisão de qualidade americana. Trans. Tico, S. ["Rather good quality, in fact": Shooting the Past and the case of British Quality Television Drama in the age of AQTV]. In: Borges, G. and Reia-Baptista, V. (Eds.). Discursos e Práticas de Qualidade Na Televisão, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2008, 271-286.
• Knox, S. Five's Finest: The import of CSI to British television. In: Allen, M. (Ed.). Reading CSI: Crime TV Under the Microscope, London: I.B. Tauris, 2007, 183-197.
• Knox, S. Reading the ungraspable double-codedness of The Simpsons. Journal of Popular Film & Television, 34, 2, 2006, 72-81.
• Knox, S. "You seem to have me confused with a character in a fictional show": Identity issues of and within contemporary film and television. In: Simon, G. and Burkitt, K. (Eds.) Working Papers in Contemporary History & Politics, Number 30: Future of Identity, University of Salford: European Studies Research Institute, 2005, no pagination.

Teaching:

• Introduction to television studies
• Introduction to critical practice in television 
• Critical practice in television 
• Contemporary television drama
• Contemporary documentary
• Television analysis (MA by Research in Television Studies)
• Critical debates in film, theatre & television (MA by Research)
• Research methods (MA by Research)
• Dissertation supervision (BA and MA)

Affiliations:

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• Member of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Television Studies Sub-Section.

• Member of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)

• Member of the European Television History Network

• Member of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Germany.

Academic Awards:

• Student Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning Support, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Reading, 2009.
• School Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning, University of Reading, 2007.