Kevin M Flanagan

Assistant Professor

Composition: British film and television, adaptation studies, composition, British cultural studies, film and television directors, media history, arts documentary

Kevin M. Flanagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 in English/film studies (dissertation - The British War Film, 1939-1980: Culture, History, and, Genre). A book based this project, called War Representation in British Cinema and Television: From Suez to Thatcher, and Beyond, is under contract with Palgrave (part of the “Britain and the World” series). Flanagan is also under contract to edit Edgar Wright: Interviews for the University Press of Mississippi's longstanding "Conversations with Filmmakers" series of books.

In June 2016, he was a Guest Curator at the British Film Institute, where he co-programmed (with Matthew Harle) the "Architecture on TV" season. Flanagan and Harle's dossier on architectural programming on British television was published in Screen in 2018.

Flanagan contributed essays and an audio commentary to the critically acclaimed BFI blu-ray/DVD boxed set Ken Russell: The Great Composers (2016). Flanagan is editor of Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England's Last Mannerist (2009, Scarecrow Press) and has contributed essays to the Journal of British Cinema and Television, Framework, Critical Quarterly, South Atlantic Review, Adaptation, and many others. He recently contributed the "Videogame Adaptation" chapter to the Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies (2017, ed. Thomas Leitch) and has edited a special issue of Widescreen Journal on the same subject. He regularly reviews books for Choice, Film & History, and the Journal of Popular Cinema and Television.

He recently completed a book chapter on "consumptive horror" under Reagan and Thatcher, and is currently writing on London films about interiority and inner space made by non-English or expatriate directors.