Professor James Walters BA (Kent), MA, PhD (Warwick)

BA, MA, PhD

I completed my PhD at Warwick University before spending a year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Westminster. I joined the University of Birmingham in 2007 and was Head of American and Canadian Studies before becoming Founding Head of Film and Creative Writing in 2014.

At Birmingham, I have taught classes on film performance, Hollywood cinema, fantasy film, filmmaking practices, documentary, and television aesthetics. 

I welcome postgraduate applications in the areas of film and television, as well as potential co-supervisions across subjects and departments within the School of English, Drama and Creative Studies.

Find out more - our PhD Film Studies  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

My work is divided between film and television studies. I have written two monographs on aspects of screen fantasy, Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema and Fantasy Film, a BFI TV Classic on the series The Thick of It, and a recent monograph, Television and Repetition. I have co-edited the international collection Film Moments with Tom Brown and Television Performance with Lucy Fife Donaldson. My most recent book is Television and Repetition and I am currently completing the monograph Visions in the Frame: Mise en scene Between Film and TV. 

I have acted as external examiner for courses at King’s College London, University of Bedfordshire and Bath Spa University. I have delivered keynote addresses at University of Lisbon, King’s College London and University of St Andrews.