Professor Kamilla Elliott
Professor of Literature and MediaCurrent Teaching
ENGL203 Victorian Literature
ENGL204 American Literature to 1900
ENGL208 Literature, Film, and Media
ENGL301 BA (Hons) dissertation
ENGL377 Literary Film Adaptations, Hollywood 1939
ENGL431 Literature and Film (MA)
ENGL427 Victorian Literature and Other Media (MA)
Also contributes lectures to ENGL100 (Introduction to English Literature) and ENGL101 (World Literature). Teaches Problem Based Learning modules for ENGL100.
Profile
Kamilla Elliott grew up in the UK, moving to the US after A levels. She received her B.A. in Mass Communications and Theatre from the University of Colorado in 1980 and pursued postgraduate studies in film at Boston University from 1981-82. After working in elder care and health research, she returned to academia in 1989, earning an A.L.M. degree through Harvard's adult education programme in 1991. From there, she entered Harvard University, where she completed a Ph.D. in English and American Literature and Language in 1996. She taught Victorian studies and interdisciplinary literature/film studies at the University of California at Berkeley from 1996-2004. During that time she published research on literature and film, including Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate (Cambridge UP, 2003).
At Lancaster University, she has continued to write and speak on intermedial adaptation theory and practice. Her most recent monograph, Theorizing Adaptation, was published by Oxford University Press in July 2020 (hardcover, paperback, and ebook). Other research addresses intersections between British fiction and the rise of mass picture identification from the late eighteenth century to 1918. Her monograph, Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction: The Rise of Picture Identification, 1764-1835, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2012. She is researching a sequel, British Victorian Fiction and the Rise of Picture Identification, 1836-1918.
Research Overview
My research interests lie in literature's relationship with other media, including painting, photography, theatre, film, television, and new media. Historically and nationally, my interests lie in British literature of the long nineteenth century, though I am interested in its relations with other periods and nations as well as other media.
Formerly Known As
Denman
Transforming Middlemarch: A Genetic Edition of Andrew Davies’ 1994 BBC Adaptation of George Eliot’s Middlemarch
01/01/2021 → 31/03/2023
Consultancy
Rethinking the Adaptation/Theorization Debate
01/02/2011 → …
Other
British Literature and the Rise of Picture Identification
01/01/2007 → …
Other
Literature, Adaptation, and New Media
01/01/1900 → …
Research
Childhood and Social Formation in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations
Invited talk
Adaptation and Medium Specificity
Invited talk
To Be Continued 3: Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptation
Participation in conference - Academic
Bite-sized Serialisation in the 21st Century
Invited talk
What and Where is Adaptation Studies Today?
Invited talk
Association of Adaptation Studies annual international conference
Participation in conference - Academic
(Re)Imagining Value: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Participation in conference - Academic
2nd virtual joint conference of the Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies
Participation in conference - Academic
To Be Continued 2: Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations
Participation in conference - Academic
Lars Elleström and Bottom-up Categorization
Invited talk
Challenging Karen Stereotypes
Invited talk
What and where is Adaptation Studies today?
Invited talk
Locating the Child in Adaptation Studies
Participation in conference - Academic
Theorizing Adaptation: or, Theorizing Adaptation as Adaptation
Invited talk
Unknown Portraits
Invited talk
Unfilmable Books
Invited talk
Bite-sized Ad-app-tation
Participation in conference - Academic
Ad-app-tation
Invited talk
Theorizing Adaptation
Invited talk
Naming Passport Photos
Invited talk
Unfilmable Books
Invited talk
Unfilmable Books
Invited talk
The Reception of Wuthering Heights
Invited talk
Ad-app-tation
Invited talk
Unfilmable Books
Invited talk
Adaptation and Illustration
Invited talk
Presented paper entitled 'Theorizing Adaptation in the Augustan Age'
Participation in conference - Academic
The Rhetoric of Media Relations
Invited talk
Refiguring Adaptation Studies
Invited talk
Unfilmable Books
Invited talk
Refiguring Adaptation Studies
Invited talk
Theorizing Adaptation/Adapting Theorization’
Invited talk
Dickens after Dickens
Invited talk
The progress of Victorian picture identification: A blessing or a curse?
Invited talk
Naming Authorial Faces
Invited talk
Facial Inscription in the Works of Charles Dickens
Invited talk
‘The Adaptation as Critic: Creative Critical Modes of Assessment in Adaptation Pedagogy’
Invited talk
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
The Art of Identification: Image and Identification
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Ad-app-tation and Perception--keynote
Invited talk
MA lecture/seminar series, 'Jekyll and Hyde Adapted'
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Public lecture: Ad-app-ting the British Literary Canon
Invited talk
Linnaeus University (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
Ad-app-ting the Canon
Invited talk
Authors and the World Symposium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Portraiture: Exchanges, Debates, Performances 1700-1840
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Adaptation and Figuration
Invited talk
Association of Adaptation Studies (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
Faces and Places: The Victorian Gentleman’s Progress
Invited talk
Adaptation and Theorization
Invited talk
Theories of Novel-to-Film Adaptation and Transcultural Adaptation
Invited talk
Film Adaptation: A Dialogue among Approaches
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Almost Alice: Tie-in Merchandise for Walt Disney’s and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Invited talk
Dickens Readers Day
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
7th annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, York University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Dickens, Early Film, and the 1912 Centenary
Invited talk
Unfilmable Books
Invited talk
The Transformation of Adaptation Studies, 2000-2011
Invited talk
Beyond Adaptation
Invited talk
“The Picture of Dorian Gray and the Rise of Mass Picture Identification”
Invited talk
Liberty and Its Histories: A Symposium with Quentin Skinner
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Theorizing Adaptation
Invited talk
SCMS Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Adaptation: A Dialogue Between the Sciences and Humanities
Invited talk
Literature Film Quarterly (Journal)
Editorial activity
Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance (Journal)
Editorial activity
Monstrous Media Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The Filming of the Shrew, 1908, 1929, and 1967
Invited talk
Gothic Portrait Identification
Invited talk
Unfilmable Books
Invited talk
Adaptation (Journal)
Editorial activity
Jim Welsh Prize for long-term excellence in adaptation studies
Prize (including medals and awards)
shortlisted for the Allan Lloyd Smith prize
Prize (including medals and awards)
- Creative-Critical Writing
- Gothic and Science Fiction
- Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance