Dr Richard Dhillon
Sessional Tutor (Film and Television Studies)
Honorary Research Fellow (Institute of Advanced Study)
Email: richard.a.dhillon@warwick.ac.uk
Office hours: please email for an appointment
About
Richard completed his PhD in the Department of Film and Television Studies at Warwick in 2024, where he previously gained an MA (for Research); he also holds degrees in History from the Universities of Birmingham (MA) and Worcester (BA).
Richard is a convener of the Centre for Television HistoriesLink opens in a new window and co-founder of the Queer Television Reading GroupLink opens in a new window, both based in the Department of Film and Television Studies at Warwick.
Teaching
Richard is a Sessional Tutor in the Department of Film and Television Studies. He has taught on a range of modules within the Department including 'Film and Television Analysis', 'Film and Television Criticism', 'Television History and Criticism', 'Queer Screens', 鈥楤ritish Screens鈥�, 'Hollywood Cinema: History, Theory, Industry', and 'Television History and Aesthetics'.
Research
Richard鈥檚 primary research interests lie at the intersection of British screen histories and queer studies, with particular interests in British television histories, queer media studies, and post-war popular British cinema. His doctoral research – supervised by Professor Rachel MoseleyLink opens in a new window and Professor Karl SchoonoverLink opens in a new window, and funded by the Department of Film and Television Studies at Warwick – explored a queer seam at the heart of British prime-time television during the 1960s and 1970s, manifest in both the form and content of situation comedy. Richard is currently developing a post-doctoral project on British light entertainment television.
Selected publications
Books
Monograph
- Queer Domesticities in British Situation Comedies (London: Bloomsbury, in preparation)
As editor
- Carry On and/as History (London: Palgrave Macmillan, in preparation)
Journal Articles
- , Journal of Popular Television, 8:3 (2020), 327–347.
Book Reviews
- , Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 45.1 (2024), 219-220.
- , Twentieth Century British History, 34.2 (2023), 387-388.
- , Critical Studies in Television, 17.2 (2022), 223-224.
Other
- , blog post for Performance and Stardom. British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies: Special Interest Group (2019)
- 鈥楾he Scold鈥檚 Bridle鈥�, in A History of Women in 100 Objects, ed. by Maggie Andrews and Janis Lomas (Stroud: The History Press, 2018), pp. 59–61.
Teaching
2025-2026
FI110 Screen Technologies (Spring Term)
FI263 British Screens (Spring Term)
