Category: Book

Dr Sarah Cardwell joined the University of Kent in 2000 as Lecturer in Film and Television Studies. Whilst at Kent, Sarah launched the study of television in … Read more

Head of Comedy and Popular Performance, Dr Olly Double, has written the foreword for All Puns Blazing, a new Penguin publication from Geoff Rowe and … Read more

Coinciding with the return of Love Island to our television screens (and complementing that programme’s tragi-comic portrayals of male-female relationships), Nigel Mather’s Sex and desire … Read more

Dr Hans Maes, Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Art at the School of Arts, along with, Dr Katrien Schaubroeck, University of Antwerp, have … Read more

Alumna Laura Lexx, who studied Drama in the School of Arts, has published a book entitled Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football’s Most Sensible Heartthrob (Two Roads … Read more

Dr Olly Double, Reader in Drama, has just published a chapter in a new collection entitled Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent (Palgrave, … Read more

Dr Olly Double, has had his recent book Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up (Bloomsbury, 2020), reviewed on the influential comedy websites … Read more

Alumna Laura Lexx, who studied Drama in the School of Arts, has just won a book deal to publish her imaginary diary about being married to … Read more

Jamie Brown, a School of Arts alumnus who completed a BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre, has published a play-text entitled Back to the Classroom. After … Read more

Dr Olly Double, Reader in Drama, has just published a new book entitled Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up (Bloomsbury, 2020). In … Read more