Professor Richard Dyer
Professor of Film Studies
Email richard.w.dyer@kcl.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 1158
Film Studies Department
King's College London
564N Norfolk Building
Strand Campus
London
WC2R 2LS
Research Interests
Entertainment and representation and the relations between them as well as currently more specifically music and film (including melodrama), Italian cinema (especially in its popular forms) and gay / lesbian / queer cultures.
Educational and Professional Background
Educated at St. Andrews University (MA) in French with German, English and Philosophy.
English at the University of Birmingham (PhD) in the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.
Visiting Professorships: Philadelphia (Annenberg School of Communications) 1985, Naples (Istituto Universitario Orientale 1987, Stockholm 1996, Copenhagen 2002, New York University 2003, Bergamo 2004, Stockholm 2006, Weimar 2009, Stockholm 2010, St. Andrews 2011-2.