Judith Buchanan


Judith Ruth Buchanan, Professor of Literature and Film, is both a Shakespearean and a film scholar. She is Master of St Peter's College, Oxford and a member of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. She took up her appointment at St Peter's College, Oxford on 1 October 2019, succeeding Mark Damazer. She is both an academic and a creative practitioner and is Director of . Through she brings little-known works of silent cinema to contemporary audiences, working in collaboration with actors, musicians and dancers. She co-adapted, and acted as Shakespeare advisor to, the British feature film directed by Kit Monkman. She co-founded the York International Shakespeare Festival. She has provided expert voice-overs for silent cinema DVD releases for the and the . She sits, as a government appointment, on the and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin, of the Elsinore Shakespeare Research Centre and of the global . At the she chairs the Board of the Cameron Mackintosh Drama Fund and the Electoral Board for the Cameron Mackintosh Distinguished Visiting Professor of Drama.

Previous positions

Between 1991 and 2000 Judith Buchanan was at Worcester College, Oxford. During this period, she was the Wilkinson Fellow and taught in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford.
Between 2000 and 2019 she was at the University of York where she taught in the English Department, was Director of the Humanities Research Centre and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Personal life

Professor Buchanan is married to Dr Kostja New. They have two children.

Selected works

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• Buchanan, Judith , The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship. Palgrave..
• British Film Institute DVD Play On!, with voice-over commentaries by Judith Buchanan : https://shop.bfi.org.uk/play-on-shakespeare-in-silent-film.html#.XmNtai2cY_U