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Will Brooker is Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at Kingston University, attached to the Kingston School of Art and its Department of Critical and Historical Studies. Since 2005 he has served as Head of the Film Department (4 yrs) and Director of Research in Film (4 yrs), and he was promoted to Professor in 2013. He currently teaches on the BA (Hons) Film Cultures, BA (Hons) Media & Communication, and the MA programmes in Film and Media, while supervising PhD researchers.
Education:
- BA (Hons) Film & English – University of East Anglia
- Postgraduate Diploma in Filmmaking – Goldsmiths, University of London
- MA Film & Television – University of Westminster
- PhD Cultural Studies – Cardiff University
Research & Scholarly Focus: Brooker interrogates how iconic cultural texts and personalities mutate across historical periods and media platforms. His monographs and edited collections centre on Batman, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Lewis Carroll’s Alice, and David Bowie, merging fan studies, audience ethnography, and close textual analysis to map processes of myth-making, nostalgia and participatory culture.
Publication Trends: Across the last fifteen works (2009-2023) Brooker moves from close readings of cult films and comics to broader considerations of trans-media memory, Bowie’s stardom, and retro-gaming nostalgia, signalling an enduring interest in audience affect, textual multiplicity, and the cultural afterlives of popular icons.
Current & Recent Projects: He continues to lecture internationally, contribute to edited volumes on Christopher Nolan and American SF cinema, and prepare new research on contemporary authorship and trans-media storytelling.
