About

Richard is co-founder of the Queer Television Reading GroupLink opens in a new window and a member of the Centre for Television HistoriesLink opens in a new window, both based in the Department of Film and Television Studies at Warwick.

Teaching

Richard 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', 'Hollywood Cinema: History, Theory, Industry', and 'Television History and Aesthetics'.

Research

Queer Domesticities in British Situation Comedies

Richard's doctoral research was 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.

Publications

Books

• Queer Domesticities in British Situation Comedies (under contract with Bloomsbury). Expected publication: 2026.

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 Lavery, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (forthcoming).
• Review of The Early Years of Television and the BBC by Jamie MedhurstLink opens in a new window, Twentieth Century British History, 34 (2023)
• 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)

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.

Conferences and events

Conference and event organisation

• 'Carry On Conferencing; or, Carry On and/as history'Link opens in a new window, University of Warwick, 30 May 2024 [organiser]
• 'Publishing Television Histories’, online event hosted by the Centre for Television Histories at the University of Warwick (12 July 2021) [co-organiser]
• Department of Film and Television Studies [Digital] Research Day, University of Warwick, 13 May 2020 [co-organiser]

Papers delivered

• 'Light entertainment television as camp national heritage', Television Histories in Development, Centre for Television Histories, University of Warwick (February 2024)
• 'PhD Roundtable' [contributer], Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference 2021 (August 2021)
• ‘Queer domesticities in British situation comedies’, Department of Film and Television Studies [Digital] Research Day, University of Warwick (May 2020)

Other events

• Q & A [chair], Can't Stop Carrying OnLink opens in a new window, The Albany, Coventry, 30 May 2024

Other roles

• Administrator – Centre for Television Histories (2020-)
• PhD (Year 1; Year 3+) representative/Chair – Department of Film and Television Studies Postgraduate Student-Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) (2019-2020; 2021-2023)

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