Dr Suzanne Speidel PhD

About

I am passionate about film and literature and also about my interdisciplinary research in adaptation studies. I am currently researching film adaptations of the works of E. M. Forster, with a particular emphasis on screenplays, screenwriting and acts of creative collaboration.

As a lead in UK collaborative partnerships, I enjoy working closely with our colleagues at UCEN (The Manchester College), at The Sheffield College, at the Trafford and Stockport College Group and at the RNN Group. I am proud of my teaching in Film Studies and of the work done in SCII by our dedicated course teams.

My research includes:

• ‘Letters from Page to Screen and Back Again: Jane Austen’s Lady Susan and Whit Stillman’s Two Versions of Love and Friendship,’ in Persuasions Online, Volume 40, Issue 2, 2020
• ‘Lux Presents Hollywood: films on the radio during the golden age of broadcasting,’ in Routledge Companion to Adaptation, Dennis Cutchins, Katja Krebs, Katja and Eckart Voigt (eds.) (London, Routledge: 2018)
• ‘“Scenes of marvellous variety:” the work-in-progress screenplays of Maurice,’ in Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2014

Specialist areas of interest

• Film adaptation, in particular film adaptation within British cinema contexts, film adaptations of twentieth century novels and adaptation theory
• European cinemas, in particular German cinema and German cinema since reunification

Teaching

Sheffield Creative Industries Institute

College of Social Sciences and Arts

Subject areas

• English, History and Creative Writing; Film and Theatre; Journalism and PR

Courses taught

• BA Film Studies

Modules

• Film Analysis;
• Screen Storytelling;
• Must-See TV;
• Film Dissertation.

Research

• Humanities Research Centre
• Culture and Creativity Research Institute

I am currently working on a monograph on adaptations of the works of E. M. Forster, with a particular emphasis on archival research, screenwriting and acts of creative collaboration.

My publications include:

‘Letters from Page to Screen and Back Again: Jane Austen’s Lady Susan and Whit Stillman’s Two Versions of Love and Friendship,’ in Persuasions Online, Volume 40, Issue 2, 2020

‘Lux Presents Hollywood: films on the radio during the golden age of broadcasting,’ in Routledge Companion to Adaptation, Dennis Cutchins, Katja Krebs, Katja and Eckart Voigt (eds.) (London, Routledge: 2018)

‘Fantasy, fallacy and allusion: reconceptualizing British landscapes through the lens of children’s cinema,’ in British Rural Landscapes on Film, Paul Newland (ed.) (Manchester, Manchester University Press: 2016)

‘“Scenes of marvellous variety:” the work-in-progress screenplays of Maurice,’ in Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2014

“Film Form and Narrative” in Introduction to Film Studies, Jill Nelmes (ed.) (Abingdon, Routledge fourth edition: 2007; revised fifth edition: 2012)

“Post-impressionism” and the cinema: how we are 'made to see' in Conrad's Victory,’ in Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts, Katherine Baxter and Richard Hand (eds.) (Aldershot, Ashgate: 2009)

"The Ending is Out There" in The X-Files and Literature, Sharon Yang (ed.) (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Press: 2007)

''Times of Death in Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Agent' and Alfred Hitchcock's 'Sabotage', in The Classic Novel: From Page to Screen, Robert Giddings and Erica Sheen (eds.), (Manchester, Manchester University Press: 2000)

Publications

Postgraduate supervision

I have supervised the following PhDs to completion:

• ‘Representing autism as a discourse within ableist economies of doubt.’
• ‘Reflections on UK Comedy’s Glass Ceiling: Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms.’
• ‘Virginia Woolf and cinema : Adaptations of Mrs Dalloway.’
• ‘The in-between : Film adaptation, Irish cinema and diaspora.’

I particularly welcome interdisciplinary proposals in film and literature; and film, television and radio.