Shelley Galpin

I currently teach a range a modules in the field of digital humanities, as well as supervising UG and PG dissertations on a range of subjects. I completed my PhD at the University of York in 2020, and since this time I have taught at numerous UK HE institutions in the fields of Screen Studies, Media and Communications and the Creative Industries. Prior to this, I worked for several years in the FE sector, where I taught English and Media Studies.

Areas of interest
Period drama
Screen adaptations of literature
Screen audiences
Young people and screen texts

Selected publications
Teenage Audiences and British Period Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
Bridgerton: The Progressive Period Pastiche, Screen Storytelling: The Works of Shonda Rhimes, ed. by Anna Weinstein (forthcoming)
Leaning In or Opting Out? Women’s Choices in Little Women and Mary Queen of Scots, Feminist Media Studies (September 2021)
Harry Potter and the Hidden Heritage Film: Genre Hybridity and the Power of the Past in the Harry Potter Film Cycle, The Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol. 13, issue 3, 2016.
Auteurs and Authenticity: Adapting the Brontës in the Twenty-First Century, The Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol. 11, issue 1, 2014.