Dr Richard Dhillon
Sessional Tutor (Film and Television Studies)
Honorary Research Fellow (Institute of Advanced Study)
Email: richard.a.dhillon@warwick.ac.uk
Office hours: please email for an appointment
About
Richard completed his PhD in the Department of Film and Television Studies at Warwick in 2024, where he previously gained an MA (for Research); he also holds degrees in History from the Universities of Birmingham (MA) and Worcester (BA).
Richard is a convener of the Centre for Television HistoriesLink opens in a new window and co-founder of the Queer Television Reading GroupLink opens in a new window, both based in the Department of Film and Television Studies at Warwick.
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'.
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.
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.
Teaching
2026-2027
FI210/FI353 Queer Screens (Autumn Term)
