Dr Stevie Simkin

Biography

Dr Stevie Simkin is Reader in Drama.

Areas of 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, 2013)
• 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, 2014)

Selected essays

• "Actually evil. Not high school evil": Amanda Knox, sex and celebrity crime' in Celebrity Studies Volume 4 Issue 1, 2013 (forthcoming) 

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.), Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age (BFI/Palgrave, 2012) 

Other

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