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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 and Film and Screen:
Year 1
Culture and Modernity: Introducing Cultural Studies (core module)
Culture and Identity
Year 2
Cultural Theory and Politics (core module)
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)
Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:
Member of Society of Animation Studies (SAS)
Teaching Specialism:
Animation theories, histories and cultures - Experimental animation - Film and philosophy - Cultural theory - Continental philosophy - Cultural politics of friendship
Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:
Publications:
(Forthcoming 2011, ed.) _Reading Ranciere_ (co-edited with P. Bowman). London and NY: Continuum.
(2009) The torsion of politics and friendship in Derrida, Foucault and Ranciere [online], Borderlands e-journal 8(2) (Jacques Rancire on the Shores of Queer Theory, ed. M. ORourke and S. Chambers). Available at: http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol8no2_2009/stamp_torsion.htm
(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/index.php/f-p/issue/view/12
(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 (2005- ):
(2010) Movements that are drawn... The rhetoric, materiality and disciplinarity of the line in animation. Paper presented at 'Film-Philosophy III', University of Warwick, 15-17 July.
(2010) No sense in this situation: targeting animation in _The House of Osama Bin Laden_. Paper presented at 'Animation Deviation', University of the West of England, Bristol, 13 July.
(2010) Lines of convergence: the rhetoric, materiality and disciplinarity of the line in defining animation. Paper presented at 'Animation Evolution', 22nd International Conference of Society of Animation Studies, Edinburgh College of Art, 9-11 July.
(2010) No sense in this situation: the politics of remediated animation in _The House of Osama Bin Laden_. Paper presented at symposium on animation, Arts University Institute at Bournemouth, 30 March.
(2009) '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'. Paper at inaugural meeting of the South-West Philosophy Network, University of the West of England, Bristol, 28 January.
(2008) 'Stupidity, in Theory - or, why reading Ranciere matters for cultural studies'. Paper presented at research seminar on the work of Jacques Rancire, Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures, Roehampton University, 21 May.
(2006) 'Violating animation'. Paper presented at 'Counter-Movements: Institutions of Difference', University of Portsmouth, 24th-25th July.
(2005) 'A Peculiar Relation: Derrida and the cultural politics of friendship,' Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy, University of Wales Aberystwyth, January.
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:
'Animation Theories' - I am researching animation theory 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.
'Histories of Experimental Animation' (1955-75) - I am particularly interested in the emergence of computer animation/graphics in Europe and the US, and the aesthetic, industrial, political and philosophical experimentations that intervened and (re)directed this emergence.
'Using wikis to promote independent learning' - During 2008-9 academic year I experimented with 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 Group for Film-Philosophy, an open access journal - http://www.film-philosophy.com/
Member of Editorial Board for 'Journal of Visual Culture' (Sage)
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: 19 July 2010.
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