Dr Iris Kleinecke-Bates

Biography	Qualifications •MA in English and American Literature (University of Warwick) •PhD in Film and Television Studies (University of Warwick) Summary Iris Kleinecke-Bates is a lecturer in Film and Television Studies. She teaches and researches in television, media, film, and cultural studies. Her research specialism are in period drama, adaptation, memory and nostalgia, television studies, with a particular interest in the intersection of identity and material object reality. Iris has published on period drama, adaptation, representation of the past, memory and nostalgia, and more recently on material cultures of television. In 2016 she organised a 2-day conference titled 'Material Cultures of Television' at the University of Hull, and subsequently published on, and edited, a special edition in the Journal of Popular Television on this subject. She is currently working on a monograph about post-apocalyptic realities across different media forms. Iris is a member of the editorial board for Open Screens, the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access online journal of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (https://www.openscreensjournal.com/). She is also a member of the editorial board for Multiplay, the network for multidisciplinary research on Digital Play and Games (https://multiplaynetwork.org/). Previous publications: Museums of Civilisation: Memory Spaces and Curating in Post-Apocalyptic visual fictions. In: Videogames and Nostalgia, Routledge. Forthcoming Building the End of the World: Post-Apocalyptic visual fictions of the 21st century. Monograph. Palgrave. Forthcoming. Journal of Popular Television Volume 7, Issue 2, 2019: Special Issue: ‘Material Cultures of Television’. Edited Iris Kleinecke-Bates ‘Television style/stylish television: Mad Men, tele-vision and the fashioning of the self’ (2019), article, Journal of Popular Television, 7:2, p. 217–34. ‘Material cultures of television’ (2019), article, Journal of Popular Television 7:2, p. 121-125. Victorians on Screen: The Nineteenth Century on British Television (2014), 1994-2005, monograph, Palgrave Book Review, published in the Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, (September 2011). Dianne F. Sadoff (2009), Victorian Vogue: British Novels on Screen. University of Minnesota Press. ‘Flog It!; Nostalgia and Lifestyle on British Daytime Television’ (2010). Article, published in Televising History, ed. by Ann Grey and Erin Bell. Basingstoke: Palgrave, MacMillan. ‘Imagining Victoriana: Bleak House and the case of British television’ (2009). Article, published in Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities, ed. by Rachel Carroll/ London: Continuum. ‘Heritage, History and Gardening: The Victorian Kitchen Garden (BBC/Sveringes Television 2, 1987) and the Representation of the Victorian Age as Cultural Homeland’. Article, published in Visual Culture in Britain, 10:1, March 2009. ‘Representations of the Victorian Age: Interior Spaces and the Detail of Domestic Life in Two Adaptations of Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga’ (2006). Article, Screen, Vol 47, no. 2 (Summer).
Research Interests	Film Studies, Television Studies, media, representation, material culture, memory and nostalgia, aesthetics, textual analysis, Iris is interested in representations of the past, and notions of nostalgia and memory, as well as aspects of material culture in relation to this. Her more recent work has focused more specifically on television materialities, particularly in the context of identity and the construction and expression of selfhood. Her most current research is on post-apocalyptic realities across different media forms, including film, television, literature, and computer games.
Teaching and Learning	Iris teaches and researches mainly in the areas of television, film, media and cultural studies. In her own research she is particularly interested in representations of the past, and notions of nostalgia and memory, as well as aspects of material culture studies in relation to this. Her most recent work has focused more specifically on television materialities, particularly in the context of identity and the construction and expression of selfhood. She is currently engaged in a new research topic on post-apocalyptic worlds and environments across different media, including film, television, literature, and video games.
Scopus Author ID	57192277905
PhD Supervision Availability	Yes
PhD Topics	Dr Iris Kleinecke-Bates welcomes applications for postgraduate supervision in her specialist areas of expertise. She is currently supervising postgraduate work on Wandavision, trauma, and nostalgia, on found footage horror, and on adaptation.