Judith Ruth Buchanan (born 1967) is a British academic specialising in Shakespeare and

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. Since October 2019, she has been

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. Since January 2023, she has been a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the

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Biography

In 1993-1994, during the course of her postgraduate studies in

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specialising in

Shakespeare in performance Millions of performances of William Shakespeare's plays have been staged since the end of the 16th century. While Shakespeare was alive, many of his greatest plays were performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men and King's Men acting companies a ...

at the

, Buchanan went as a

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to study film in New York, United States. She was awarded her Oxford

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(DPhil) in 1997, and held the Wilkinson Research Fellowship at Worcester College Oxford until 2000. In 2000, she moved to the

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as a

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in the Department of English. In 2011, she was made Professor of Film and Literature at York and Director of th
Humanities Research Centre
In 2017, she was appointed Dean of th
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
In 2016, Buchanan wrote and presented the

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documentar
An Excellent Dumb Discourse: Shakespeare in Silence
For the 2018 British feature film release o
Macbeth
she acted as co-adapter and Shakespeare advisor. She co-founded th
York International Shakespeare Festival
Until 2019, she directe
Silents Now
In October 2019, Buchanan became

of St Peter’s College Oxford. In January 2023, she was additionally made a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the

. Between 2019 and 2022, she was a government appointment on the

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. In 2022 she was made a Trustee of

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(Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). She is a member of the Oxford English Faculty and an

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of Worcester College Oxford.

Selected works

* * * Buchanan, Judith (ed) (2013), ''The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship''. Palgrave. .
Film Institute DVD ''Play On!'', with voice-over commentaries by Judith Buchanan (2016)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Buchanan, Judith Living people Shakespearean scholars British literary historians British women literary historians British mass media scholars British film historians Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford Academics of the University of York Masters of St Peter's College, Oxford 1967 births Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford