Dr Richard Dhillon

About

Teaching

Richard is a Sessional Tutor in the Department of Film and Television Studies. He has taught on a range of modules within the Department including 'Film and Television Analysis', 'Film and Television Criticism', 'Television History and Criticism', 'Queer Screens', ‘British Screens’, 'Hollywood Cinema: History, Theory, Industry', and 'Television History and Aesthetics'.

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Research

Richard’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of British screen histories and queer studies, with particular interests in British television histories, queer media studies, and post-war popular British cinema. His doctoral research – supervised by Professor Rachel MoseleyLink opens in a new window and Professor Karl SchoonoverLink opens in a new window, and funded by the Department of Film and Television Studies at Warwick – explored a queer seam at the heart of British prime-time television during the 1960s and 1970s, manifest in both the form and content of situation comedy. Richard is currently developing a post-doctoral project on British light entertainment television.

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Selected publications

Books

Monograph

• Queer Domesticities in British Situation Comedies (London: Bloomsbury, in preparation)

As editor

• Carry On and/as History (London: Palgrave Macmillan, in preparation)

Journal Articles

• 'Domesticity and masculinity in Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em'Link opens in a new window, Journal of Popular Television, 8:3 (2020), 327–347.

Book Reviews

• Review of Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom by Grace LaveryLink opens in a new window, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 45.1 (2024), 219-220.
• Review of The Early Years of Television and the BBC by Jamie MedhurstLink opens in a new window, Twentieth Century British History, 34.2 (2023), 387-388.
• Review of Heroes in Contemporary British Culture: Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change by Barbara Korte and Nicole FalkenhaynerLink opens in a new window, Critical Studies in Television, 17.2 (2022), 223-224.

Other

• 'Reinvigorating and Reinventing Stardom conference report'Link opens in a new window, blog post for Performance and Stardom. British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies: Special Interest Group (2019)
• ‘The Scold’s Bridle’, in A History of Women in 100 Objects, ed. by Maggie Andrews and Janis Lomas (Stroud: The History Press, 2018), pp. 59–61.

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