Professor Richard Hand
Professor in Theatre and Media Drama
Department of Drama and Music, Division of Drama
Contact details;
Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries,
University of Glamorgan,
Pontypridd. CF37 1DL. Wales, UK.
(0044) 01443 482862
email: rhand@glam.ac.uk
Room: A120
Academic Qualifications:
1984-87 Polytechnic of North London BA English First Class Honours
1987-88 University of Aberdeen M.Litt. Literature of Region and Nation British Academy Scholarship
1989-90 University of Leicester Postgraduate Certificate in Information Technology European Study Fund Scholarship
1990-97 University of Glasgow Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre Studies and English Literature “Self-Adaptation: the Stage Adaptation of Fiction by Novelists” British Academy Scholarship
1998-2001 University of Glamorgan Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Development (SEDA accredited)
Teaching Areas:
Theatre Directing; Popular Theatre; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; American Drama; French Drama; Radio Drama; Scriptwriting; European Film; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Western Theatre
Research Interests:
Adaptation (Cross-Media and Cross-Generic Transformations); Interdisciplinarity and Cross-Disciplinarity in Performance Media; Translation Studies; Horror Studies (Theatre, Film, Radio and Digital Games)
Research and Teaching Grants:
2006 Arts and Humanities Research Council Small Grant in the Performing Arts for Joseph Conrad research
2006 Society for Theatre Research grant for Grand-Guignol research
2006 Palatine grant for interdisciplinary teaching project on Frank Zappa
2005 British Academy Small Grant for Grand-Guignol research
2005 British Academy Overseas Grant supporting attendance at Conrad in Amsterdam Conference, University of Amsterdam
2005 Arts and Humanities Research Council Small Grant in the Performing Arts for Horror Film research
2004 Arts and Humanities Research Board Small Grant in the Performing Arts for Octave Mirbeau research
2004 Arts and Humanities Research Board Small Grant in the Performing Arts for American Radio Drama research
External and Consultative Roles:
2006 Referee and member of JISC Digitisation Project committee
2006 External Validator for MA by Research, University of Plymouth
2006 External Examiner for BA Communications, University of Lincoln
2006 External Examiner for Parida Manomaiphibul, PhD in Drama/Performance Practice “Performing Gender Discourses: Soap Opera and Female Identity in Thailand” (University of Exeter)
2005-present committee member of the British Library Archival Sound Recordings User Panel
2005-present External Examiner for MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media, Central School of Speech and Drama, London
2005 External Validator for MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media, Central School of Speech and Drama, London
2004-present: Producer/Writer (Radio Drama) Tinderbox Broadcast
Publications:
Authored Books
2006 Terror on the Air: Horror Radio in America, 1931-52, Jefferson: McFarland (AHRB-funded)
2005 The Theatre of Joseph Conrad: Reconstructed Fictions, London: Palgrave
2002 Grand-Guignol: the French Theatre of Horror (co-written with Michael Wilson), “Studies in Performance” Series, University of Exeter Press (AHRB-funded)
Edited Works: contributions
2006 “Conrad’s Drama in a World Theatrical Context” in Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, (ed. Wiedslaw Krajka) Columbia University Press (Chapter in book)
2005 “Theatres of Interactivity: Video Games in the Drama Studio”, Digital Gameplay: Essays on the Nexus of Game and Gamer (ed. Nathan Garrelts) McFarland (Chapter in book)
2005 “Aesthetics of Cruelty: Traditional Japanese Theatre and the Horror Film” in Japanese Horror Cinema (ed. Jay McRoy), “Currents in World Cinema” series, University of Edinburgh Press (Chapter in book)
2005 ‘“Lucretia” from Lucretia Borgia’ in The Methuen Book of Classical Monologues for Women, Chrys Salt (ed.) Methuen. (Translator)
2005 ‘“Gennaro” from Lucretia Borgia’ in The Methuen Book of Classical Monologues for Men, Chrys Salt (ed.) Methuen. (Translator)
2004 “Proliferating Horrors: Survival Horror and the Resident Evil franchise” in Horror Film: Marketing and Creating Fear, (ed. Steffen Hantke). University of Mississippi Press (Chapter in book)
Academic Journal Papers
2006 “Escape with Joseph Conrad! The Adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Fiction on American Old Time Radio”, Conradiana 38:1, 17-58 (Refereed Article)
2005 ‘Reanimating Peyton Farquhar: The Adaptations of Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” in The Ambrose Bierce Project Journal 1: 1 (Fall 2005) http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/caw43/bierce/journal1hand.html (Refereed Article)
2004 Lucretia Borgia and Ruy Blas in Victor Hugo: Plays, Claude Schumacher (ed.) Methuen. (Translator)
2004 “Spindoctors, Soccer and Shakespeare: Staging a Contemporary Henry V” in a special issue (Shakespeare and Popular Culture) of College Literature 31:4 (October 2004), 60-71 (Refereed Article)
2004 “Dissecting the Gash: Sexual Horror in the 1980s and the Manga of Suehiro Maruo” M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 7.4 (October 2004) http://www.media-culture.org.au/0410/05_horror.php (Refereed Article)
2003 ‘“Loving and Killing: the two great adventures in life”: Maurice Tourneur’s 1919 screen version of Joseph Conrad’s Victory’, Conradiana 35:3, 52-64 (Refereed Article)
2002 “Producing Laughing Anne”, Conradiana 34:1-2, 43-62. (Refereed Article)
2001 “Conrad and the Reviewers: The Secret Agent on Stage”, The Conradian 26:2, 1-67. (Refereed Article)
2001 ‘Staging an “Unbearable Spectacle”: The World Premiere of Joseph Conrad’s Laughing Anne’, Studies in Theatre and Performance 21:2, 109-117. (Refereed Article)
Reviews in Academic Journals
2005 “The Wye Plays by David Ian Rabey” in Cyfrwng: New Wales Journal 2 (2005), 118-119
2005 “Le Diable dans le vaudeville au dix-neuvième siècle by Henri Rossi” in French Studies LIX: 3 (July 2005), 409-10
2001 “Post-reunification Fassbinder: Reception and Creation: a Review of Fassbinder’s Germany: History, Identity, Subject by Thomas Elsaesser” in Film-Philosophy 5: 42 (December 2001)
1994 “Censorship of the Arts and Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Robert Justin Goldstein” in Theatre Research International 19:3 (1994), 275
Forthcoming Publications:
2006 (forthcoming) “Mixing the Masks of Comedy and Tragedy: The Popular Theatres of Joseph Conrad’s Fiction” in Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts, Katherine Baxter and Richard J. Hand (eds.), Amsterdam: Rodopi (Chapter in book and co-editor)
2006 (forthcoming) “Transatlantic Terror: French Horror Theatre and American Pre-Code Comics” (with Michael Wilson), Journal of Popular Culture (Refereed Article)
2007 (forthcoming) “Ever-Proliferating Horrors: Survival Horror and the Resident Evil franchise” Videogames and Cinema (ed. Matt Bittanti), Videoludica: Game Culture Series, Videoludica 2007 (Chapter in book; commissioned revision of Horror Film: Marketing and Creating Fear essay)
2007 (forthcoming) “Frank Zappa and Musical Theatre: Ugly Ugly O’phan Annie and Really Deep, Intense, Thought-Provoking Broadway Symbolism” (with Paul Carr), Journal of Musical Theatre (Refereed Article)
2007 (forthcoming) “Horror, History and Homage: Ulli Lommel’s The Tenderness of Wolves” in Caligari’s Grandchildren: Contemporary German Horror Film (ed. Steffen Hantke) Scarecrow Press (Chapter in book)
2007 (forthcoming) “Paradigms of Metamorphosis and Transmutation: Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein and John Barrymore’s Jekyll and Hyde” in Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Transmutations in Horror Film, Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoy (eds.) Manchester University Press (Chapter in book and co-editor) (AHRC-funded)
2007 (forthcoming) Octave Mirbeau: Selected Plays, “Studies in Modern France” Series, Cardiff: University of Wales Press (AHRB-funded)
2007 (forthcoming) This Troublesome Theatre: London’s Grand-Guignol and the Performance of Horror (co-written with Michael Wilson) “Studies in Performance” Series, University of Exeter Press (British Academy-funded)
2007 (forthcoming) Victory: The Play and Reviews – A Critical Edition “Joseph Conrad Studies Series”, Amsterdam: Rodopi. (AHRC-funded)
2008 (forthcoming) Silent Horrors: The Gothic in Early Cinema, “Gothic Studies” Series, Cardiff: University of Wales Press
Practice-Based Research Activities;
These are projects which can be tied-in to specific research projects and outcomes, including publications.
2005 The Train of Terror! An experiment in the re-creation of live radio drama, University of Glamorgan/GTFM Radio broadcast and webcast (writer, director)
2003 The Ultimate Torture and Chop-Chop, University of Kent at Canterbury PARIP symposium (co-writer, director)
2003 Situation and Impulse: Richard Foreman and the Hysteric-Ontological Theater, a week long performance research project with undergraduates and postgraduates at the University of Glamorgan (project leader)
2003 No Life Preserver, a Richard Foreman text, University of Glamorgan (director)
2003 Henry V University of Glamorgan (director)
2003 Chop-Chop, Politics of Translation Conference, University of Glamorgan (co-writer, director)
2002 The Ultimate Torture At the Border, International French Cultural Studies Conference, University of Glamorgan (co-writer, director)
2002 Performance and Paranoia: Comic books and TV in 1950s USA, a week long performance research project with undergraduates and postgraduates at the University of Glamorgan (project leader)
2002 Henry V Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (director)
2001 Adaptation of R. W. Fassbinder’s Petra von Kant: an image of sickness, Glamorgan International Festival (writer, director)
Practice-Based Research Activities – Forthcoming
2007 (February) Lucretia Borgia Gatehouse Theatre, London, International Victor Hugo Festival (translator and director)
Selected Writing, Directing and Performing
2006 Footsteps, Random Films, G. H. Evans (director), Winner of Best Film at Swansea Film Festival (actor)
2005 The Final Kiss, Thrillpeddlers Shocktoberfest, San Francisco (co-writer)
2004 The Final Kiss and Kiss of Blood, Grand Guignol Theater, University of Kentucky (co-writer)
2004 The Beast, Thrillpeddlers Shocktoberfest, San Francisco (co-writer)
2003 Tics Wallace Co-op, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne, Australia (co-writer)
2003 Euthanasia and The Final Kiss, Phantasmagoria Halloween Horror Theater, Eureka Springs, Arizona (co-writer)
2002 Do It Yourself, performed by Independent Company, London Pub Theatre (writer)
2001 The Final Kiss performed by Instant Classics in London Festival of Unusual Theatre (writer)
2001 “War” monologue performed by Andrew Pullen in Man I Was, Swansea Grand Theatre (writer)
Conferences:
2006 “Stay Tuned for Tricks, Treats and Terror”: Halloween and Horror Radio in the Golden Age of American Live Broadcasting’ International Halloween Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University
2006 “Paradigms of Metamorphosis and Transmutation: Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein and John Barrymore’s Jekyll and Hyde” Popular Culture Association of America, Southwest/Texas Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2006 “Multi-disciplinary perspectives on the British Library’s Archival Sound Recordings project” Panel presentation (with Phil Butler, Rachel Cowgill, Celia Duffy, Deb Price), Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts Conference, Dartington College
2006 ‘“Ugly Orphan Annie and Really Deep, Intense, Thought-Provoking Broadway Symbolism”: The Musical Theatre of Frank Zappa’ (with Dr Paul Carr) Song, Stage, Screen Conference, University of Portsmouth
2006 ‘“Twist ‘n frugg in an arrogant gesture”: Frank Zappa and the Musical-Theatrical Gesture’ (with Dr Paul Carr), Second International Conference on Music and Gesture, the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
2006 ‘“Stuff That Is Not Normal”: Frank Zappa, Halloween and Horror’ (with Dr Paul Carr) International Halloween Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University
2005 ‘A “Grim and Weird” Play: Basil Macdonald Hastings’ adaptation of Conrad’s Victory’ Conrad in Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam
2004 “Labyrinths of the Taboo: Theatrical Journeys of Eroticism and Death in Parisian Culture” Symposium on the Theatrical Aesthetics of Eroticism and Death, University of Aberystwyth
2003 “Practice as Research: Grand-Guignol” Performance of play, accompanying papers and panel discussion (with Michael Wilson) PARIP Symposium (Performance as Research in Performance), University of Kent at Canterbury
2003 ‘“Escape with Joseph Conrad!” American radio adaptations of Joseph Conrad’s fiction, Annual Popular Culture Conference’, Popular Culture Association and American Popular Culture National Congress, New Orleans
2002 “Transatlantic Terror! French Popular Theatre and American Pre-Code Comics” (with Michael Wilson), Popular Culture Association of America, Southwest/Texas Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2002 ‘“Loving and Killing: the two great adventures in life”: Maurice Tourneur’s 1919 screen version of Joseph Conrad’s Victory’, American Popular Culture Conference at Albuquerque, New Mexico
2001 “Conrad’s Drama in the European Theatrical Context” International Conrad Conference, Lublin, Poland
Conference Contributions: panel chair
2002 “Contemporary Horror” panel chair, Popular Culture Association of America Conference at Albuquerque, New Mexico
2001 “Conrad and Cinema” panel chair, International Conrad Conference, Lublin, Poland
