Dr Stevie Simkin 

Reader in Drama and Film 

Arts 

Email:

Stevie.Simkin@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+44 (0) 1962 827476 

Address:

Expertise

Violent film and censorship; critical viewing (stage and screen); contemporary popular Hollywood film; Shakespeare and early modern drama; critical and cultural theory, especially cultural materialism, new historicism & feminisms; research skills.

Publications

Books:

• A Preface to Marlowe (Longman 2000)
• Revenge Tragedy: A New Casebook, editor, (Palgrave Macmillan 2001)
• Analysing Texts: Christopher Marlowe (Palgrave Macmillan 2001)
• Early Modern Tragedy & the Cinema of Violence (Palgrave Macmillan 2006)
• Controversies: Straw Dogs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
• Controversies: Basic Instinct (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2012)
• Film Controversy and Censorship Since 1970, co-editor (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2013)
• Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale: from Pandora’s Box to Amanda Knox (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2013)

Selected essays:

Two refereed e-publications (2004) on representations of masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer at

• http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage11_12/Simkin_Gun.htm
• http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage11_12/Simkin_Wayne.htm

Selected Book chapters:

• ‘”The Burden is passed on”: Son Volt, Tradition and Authenticity’ in Pamela Fox and Barbara Ching (eds), Old Roots And New Routes: A Reader On Alt.Country Music And 'Alternative' Cultural Consumption (University of Michigan Press, 2009), pp. 192-221
• ‘Wake of the Flood: Issues in UK Film Censorship 1970-75’ in Edward Lamberti (ed.), The BBFC Centenary Book (forthcoming, 2012)

Other:

Co-editor with Julian Petley of Palgrave Macmillan’s Controversies series.

Research Interests

Early modern drama, especially politicised approaches to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; contemporary Hollywood film, esp. violent cinema and censorship.