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Personal Profile For Dr Richard Stamp
Senior Lecturer: Media and Cultural Studies. School of Humanities and Cultural Industries.
BA(Hons) [Reading], MA [Warwick], PhD [Warwick].
Personal Statement:
I teach the following modules in Cultural Studies:
Year 1
Culture and Modernity: Introducing Cultural Studies
Culture and Identity
Year 2
Cultural Theory and Politics
Popular Cinema and Culture
Film and Philosophy
Year 3
The Cultural Politics of Friendship
Cartoon Time: Thinking through Animation
Love and Desire in Contemporary Cultures
Professional Qualifications:
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Certificate (2005)
Teaching Specialism:
cultural theory; cultural politics of friendship; 'film-philosophy'; animation cultures and histories
Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:
Publications:
(forthcoming 2009, ed.) parallax 52 (September), 'Jacques Ranciere: in disagreement'.
(2007) '"Another exemplary case": Zizek's logic of examples,' in Bowman, P. and Stamp, R., eds. _The Truth of Zizek_. London and New York: Continuum.
(2007, ed.) _The Truth of Zizek_, co-edited with P. Bowman. London and New York: Continuum.
(2007, ed.) Film-Philosophy, 11.1 - available online at http://www.film-philosophy.com/
(2003) 'Our Friend Zizek'. Film-Philosophy, vol. 7 no. 28 (September). Available at: http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol7-2003/n29stamp
(2001) '"Do not forget the very thing that will make you lose your memory": Blanchot's "Desastre" and the Holocaust.' In: Stone, D., ed. _Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust_. Atlanta, GA and Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(2000) 'The Discretion of Dying: Blanchot and the Death of Bataille.' In: Crowley, M., ed. _Dying Words: The Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers_. Atlanta, GA and Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Research papers (2004- ):
'What does a close-up sound like?', respondent to keynote address at 'A Close Up on Close-ups', Screen Research @ Bristol, Department of Drama: Theatre, Film and Television, University of Bristol, 5 March 2009.
'Ranciere's lesson', research paper at inaugural meeting of the South-West Philosophy Network, University of the West of England, Bristol, 28 January 2009.
'Stupidity, in Theory - or, why reading Ranciere matters for cultural studies' - paper presented at research seminar on the work of Jacques Rancière, Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures, Roehampton University, 21 May 2008.
'Violating animation,' Counter-Movements: Institutions of Difference,
University of Portsmouth, 24th-25th July 2006.
'A Peculiar Relation: Derrida and the cultural politics of friendship,' Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy, University of Wales Aberystwyth, January 2005.
'"What has become of the real structure of the political?": Notes on situating a cultural politics of friendship,' The Politics of Friendship, Monash University and the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Menzies Centre, London, 9-10 September 2004.
'Enter the "inter": Deconstruction, cultural studies and the architecture of inter-disciplinarity,' The Philosophy of Architecture / The Architecture of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Bradford, 9-11 July 2004
'"We scare because we care." How monsters make friends in animated feature films,' Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Budapest, 10-12 May 2004.
'Text, interpretation, signification: On musical "sense-making" and the "senses of sense,"' The Senses, London College of Music and Media, Thames Valley University, 6 February 2004.
Book Reviews:
Esther Leslie, Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde. In: Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 2 (3), 2003.
Gordon Shrigley, peripher / insignificance. In: Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 2 (1), 2003.
Published translations:
Jean-Luc Nancy, 'The Unsacrificeable' (with S. Sparks). In: Jean-Luc Nancy, _A Finite Thinking_. Ed. Simon Sparks. Stanford University Press, 2004.
Jean-Luc Nancy, 'The Free Voice of Man.' In: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy, _Retreating the Political_. Ed. Simon Sparks. Routledge, 1997.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 'In the Name of...' In: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy, _Retreating the Political_. Ed. Simon Sparks. Routledge, 1997.
Current Scholarship:
Research projects:
'Peculiar Relations: the cultural politics of friendship' - This project examines the approaches to friendship in contemporary cultural studies, philosophy and sociology/social theory. It is linked to my Level 3 Cultural Studies module: CU3020 Cultural Politics of Friendship (Semester 2).
'Thinking through animation' - I am also researching animation as part of a project on the role and importance of the animated image in contemporary popular cinema and discourses of film studies. This will also result in a series of conference papers, publications and a new module on animation studies.
'Using wikis to promote independent learning' - During 2008-9 academic year I have been trialling new blog and wiki software on the BSU virtual learning environment, with the help of students from all three undergraduate years, but especially my 3rd year 'Cultural Politics of Friendship' class.
External Examiners:
BA/BSc Cultural Studies, Roehampton University (2004-8).
Other External Roles:
Member of Editorial Board for 'Journal of Visual Culture' (Sage)
Member of Editorial Group for Film-Philosophy - www.film-philosophy.com/
Reader for 'Body and Society' (Sage)
Recent Professional Updating:
Award for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - with particular focus on the relation of research and teaching in the Humanities.
Last Updated: 09 June 2009.
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