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Dr Sara Gwenllian Jones - BA (Wales) MA (CNAA) PhD (Bristol)

Overview

Dr Sara Gewnllian Jones Position: Lecturer and 2nd Year Tutor Email: Gwenllian-JonesS@cardiff.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44 (0)29 208 76281
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Extension: 76281
Location: Room 1.38, Bute Building

Dr Sara Gwenllian Jones is a lecturer and 2nd Year Tutor at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.

Research Interests

My research interests centre around constructions, characteristics and uses of fictional worlds in cult television and computer games. I am currently preparing a research project on the processes of world-building in role-play computer games.

Teaching

BA Modules:

  • Cinema and Place
  • Telefictions
  • Writing with Light

Publications

Books
 

Cult Television, co-edited with Roberta Pearson (University of Minnesota Press: 2004)

Television, Cult and the Fantastic (Hodder/Arnold: forthcoming)

Articles:

'The Sex Lives of Cult Television Characters', Screen, Volume 43 number 1, Spring 2002

'Histories, Fictions and Xena: Warrior Princess', Journal of Television and New Media, Issue 4, December 2000

'Starring Lucy Lawless?', Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies, Volume 14, No.1, April 2000

'Madchen in Uniform: the story of a film', Perversions: the international journal of gay and lesbian studies, Issue 6, Winter 1995/96

'Sexing the soul: nuns and lesbianism in mainstream film', Perversions: the international journal of gay and lesbian studies, Issue 4, Spring 1994

Chapters:

'Excavating Gameworlds' in John Plunkett and James Lyons (eds.), Multimedia Histories (forthcoming)

'Vampires, Indians and the Queer Fantastic: Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark' in Deborah Jermyn and Sean Redmond (eds.), The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow (Wallflower Press, 2003)

'Web Wars: Online TV Fandom and Studio Censorship' in Mark Jancovich and James Lyons (eds.), Quality Popular Television, (BFI, 2003)

'Gender and British Television' in Toby Miller (ed.), Television Studies (BFI: 2002)

'Gender and Queerness: Xena: Warrior Princess' in Toby Miller (ed.), Television Studies (BFI: 2002)

'Phantom Menace: Killer Fans, Consumer Activism and Digital Filmmakers' in Xavier Mendik and Steven Jay Schneider (eds.), Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon (Wallflower Press: 2002)

'Histories, Fictions and Xena: Warrior Princess' (reprint of article for The Journal of Television and New Media) in Will Brooker and Deborah Jermyn (eds.), The Audience Studies Reader (Routledge: 2002)

Other publications:

Entries on 'Fantasy', 'Slash Fiction', 'Soap Opera', 'Television Narrative' and 'Serial Form' in David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan (eds.), The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Narrative Theory (Routledge: forthcoming 2005)

Entries in Roberta E. Pearson and Philip Simpson (eds.), The Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory (Routledge: 2001)

Editorial responsibilities:

Co-editor, Intensities: the Online Journal of Cult Media

Corresponding Editor, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies

Postgraduate Students

PhD Supervisions

I am currently supervising PhD research in the following areas:

  • online fan communities;
  • digital storytelling; and
  • reenactments of legendary sea voyages.

Biography

Dr. Sara Gwenllian Jones completed her Ph.D at Bristol University. She is co-editor, with Roberta Pearson, of Cult Television (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and the author of Television, Cult and The Fantastic (Hodder/Arnold: forthcoming)