Judith Buchanan
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Judith Ruth Buchanan (born 1967) is a British academic specialising in Shakespeare and film studies. Since October 2019, she has been Master of St Peter's College, Oxford. Since January 2023, she has been a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
Biography
In 1993-1994, during the course of her postgraduate studies in early modern literature specialising in Shakespeare in performance at the University of Oxford, Buchanan went as a Fulbright Scholar to study film in New York, United States. She was awarded her Oxford Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in 1997, and held the Wilkinson Research Fellowship at Worcester College Oxford until 2000.{{Cite web |title=Prof Judith Buchanan {{!}} St Peter's College Oxford |url=https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/people/prof-judith-buchanan |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.spc.ox.ac.uk}} In 2000, she moved to the University of York as a lecturer in the Department of English.{{cite web |title=Prof Judith Buchanan |url=https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/people/prof-judith-buchanan |access-date=16 February 2023 |website=St Peter's College Oxford |publisher=University of Oxford}}{{cite web |title=Judith Ruth Buchanan |url=https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/judith-ruth-buchanan |website=York Research Database |access-date=16 February 2023}} In 2011, she was made Professor of Film and Literature at York and Director of the [https://www.york.ac.uk/hrc/ Humanities Research Centre].{{cite web |date=29 May 2019 |title=Professor Judith Buchanan elected next Master of St Peter's |url=https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-judith-buchanan-elected-next-master-st-peters |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013051511/https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-judith-buchanan-elected-next-master-st-peters |archive-date=13 October 2019 |accessdate=15 September 2019 |website=St Peter's College |publisher=University of Oxford}} In 2017, she was appointed Dean of the [https://www.york.ac.uk/about/departments/arts-humanities/ Faculty of Arts and Humanities].{{cite web |date=9 October 2017 |title=University appoints new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities |url=https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2017/campus/professor-judith-buchanan/ |access-date=16 February 2023 |website=University of York |language=en}}
In 2016, Buchanan wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 documentary [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0773ld6 An Excellent Dumb Discourse: Shakespeare in Silence]. For the 2018 British feature film release of [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4717422/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1 Macbeth], she acted as co-adapter and Shakespeare advisor. She co-founded the [http://yorkshakes.co.uk York International Shakespeare Festival]. Until 2019, she directed [https://silents-now.co.uk Silents Now].
In October 2019, Buchanan became Master of St Peter’s College Oxford.{{cite web |date=7 June 2019 |title=Professor Judith Buchanan elected as Master of St Peter's |url=https://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/about/news/professor-judith-buchanan-elected-master-st-peter%E2%80%99s |accessdate=15 September 2019 |website=Worcester College |publisher=University of Oxford}} In January 2023, she was additionally made a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.{{Cite web |title=University Officers {{!}} University of Oxford |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/university-officers |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.ox.ac.uk |language=en}}
Between 2019 and 2022, she was a government appointment on the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission. In 2022 she was made a Trustee of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art).{{Cite web |last=Fabrique |title=Professor Judith Buchanan — RADA |url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/about-us/governance-advisors/professor-judith-buchanan/ |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.rada.ac.uk |language=en-gb}} She is a member of the Oxford English Faculty and an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College Oxford.{{Cite web |title=Our People - Worcester College |url=https://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/about/our-people?_sft_department=honorary-fellows}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |last1=Buchanan |first1=Judith |title=Shakespeare on film |date=2005 |publisher=Pearson Longman |location=London |isbn=978-0582437166}}
- {{cite book |last1=Buchanan |first1=Judith |title=Shakespeare on silent film: an excellent dumb discourse |date=2009 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-87199-0}}
- Buchanan, Judith (ed) (2013), The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship. Palgrave. {{ISBN|978-0230313842}}.
- [https://shop.bfi.org.uk/play-on-shakespeare-in-silent-film.html#.XmNtai2cY_UBritish Film Institute DVD Play On!, with voice-over commentaries by Judith Buchanan (2016)]
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Category:Shakespearean scholars
Category:British literary historians
Category:British women literary historians
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Category:British film historians
Category:Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford
Category:Academics of the University of York