CURRICULUM VITAE
FULL NAME
DATE OF COMPLETION
CURRENT POST
Richard Butt
24/10/2013
Dean, Arts, Social Sciences and Management,
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
QUALIFICATIONS:
BA Hons Film and Media Studies and English
Studies (first class) Stirling University &
University of California, Berkeley,1990
PhD Open University and Queen Margaret
University College, Edinburgh, 1996.
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL
AND/OR LEARNED BODIES
Association of Adaptation Studies
EMPLOYMENT
2013- present Dean, School of Arts,
Social Sciences & Management
2012
Acting Dean, School of Arts,
Social Sciences & Management
2010-2012
Head of Division: Media,
Communication & Performing Arts
2003-2010
Head of Subject: Media,
Communication & Sociology
2000-2003
Senior Lecturer, Department of
Media, Communication &
Sociology
1993-2000
Lecturer,
Department
of
Communication & Information
Studies
TEACHING
Courses/ modules taught (subject and
level)
BA (Hon) Film and Media; BA (Hon) Media:
Screen Adaptation, level 4
Film and Psychology, level 4
Film and Television Documentary, level 4
Cinema and Modernity, level 4
World Cinema, level 3
Film and Creativity, level 2
Narrative and Representation, level 1
MSc in Public Relations:
Communication Theory and Semiotics
External examiner appointments
Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds (19992003)
Falkirk College of Further and Higher Education
(1999-2003)
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Involvement in subject review, validation,
professional accreditation
RESEARCH
Main research interests
Key publications
Convenor, Validation Panel, BSc International
Hospitality
and
Tourism
Management,
Kathmandu; Convenor, Validation and Review
Panel, MSc Physiotherapy, 2010; Internal Panel
Member, BSc Nursing, Saudi-Arabia, 2007;
Convenor, Validation and Review Panel, MSc
Pain; MSc Physiotherapy, 2006, QMU;
Convenor, Validation Panel, MSc Diabetes,
2005, QMU;
Screen Adaptation; Authorship; History of
Scottish media.
Butt, R. (2014) ‘Melodrama and the Classic
Television Serial’ in Stewart, M. (ed) Melodrama
in Contemporary Film and Television, Palgrave
(forthcoming).
Butt, R. (2012) ‘British Television and the Classic
Novel Adaptation’ in Cartmell, Deborah (ed.) The
Blackwell Companion to Literature, Film and
Adaptation, Blackwell.
Stewart, M. & Butt, R. (2011) ‘We Had It
Coming: Hypothetical Docudrama as Contested
Form and Multiple Fantasy’, Critical Studies in
Television, Spring 2011.
Butt, R. (2010) ‘Looking at Tartan in Film:
History, Identity and Spectacle’ in Brown, I. (ed.)
From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture,
History and Myth, Edinburgh University Press.
Butt, R. (2007) ‘Scottish Mass Media in the
Twentieth Century’ in Finkelstein, D. & McCleery,
A. (eds.) The Edinburgh History of the Book in
Scotland, Vol. 4, Edinburgh University Press
Butt, R. (2006) ‘Literature and Screen Media,
1918 to date’ in Brown, I et al. (eds.) The
Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Volume
Four: Modern Transformations: New Identities
(from 1918) Edinburgh University Press.
Consultancy / commercialisation /
productions
‘Website Streaming Video and Exhibition Show
Reel for Tourism Incorporating a Homecoming
East Lothian Legacy Theme’. East Lothian
Council. £2,000, 2009.
‘The Films of Scotland Documentaries’,
http://sites.scran.ac.uk/films_of_scotland/
Multimedia website on the work of The Films of
Scotland Committee. Millennium Commission
and Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
(SCRAN). c. £6,000, 2003.
‘The Films of Scotland Committee and John
Grierson'. Project co-ordinator of the Films of
Scotland Consortium (QMU, Scottish Screen
Archive, and the Grierson Archive). Resources
for Learning in Scotland, the New Opportunities
Fund, the National Library of Scotland, and
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
(SCRAN). £10,000, 2000.
Conference Papers
Butt, R. (2012) ‘Borrowing the little people:
questions of agency in adaptations of Mary
Norton’s The Borrowers’, 7th Annual Association
of Adaptation Studies Conference, University of
York, September 27-28.
Butt, R. (2010) ‘Melodrama and the Classic
Television Serial’, Melodrama in Contemporary
Film and Television: A One Day Symposium,
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 29th
October 2010.
Butt, (2010) ‘Adapting Temporality: Serialised
Adaptations of Serial Fiction’, 5th Annual
Association of Adaptation Studies Conference,
Centre for British Studies, Berlin, 30 September 1 October, 2010
Butt, R. (2010) ‘Treasure Island: The Ambivalent
Romance of Regression’, Children’s Film and
Literature: A 1-Day Conference, Centre for
Adaptations, De Montfort University, 1 March
2010
Butt, R. (2009) ‘Ivanhoe and Kidnapped: The
Aesthetics of the Classic Adventure Serial’, 4th
Annual Association of Adaptation Studies
Conference, British Film Institute, London, 24-25
September 2009
Butt, R. (2008) ‘Leaving Home: The Non-English
Language Adaptations of Robert Louis
Stevenson’ 3rd Annual Association for Literature
on Screen Conference, University of
Amsterdam, 25-26 September.
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
Director, Edinburgh Filmhouse Board of
Directors, 2001-2009.
Trustee, Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh, 2013-