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Dr Will Kitchen

Visiting Tutor, Bournemouth Film School | Online Tutor, MA Creative WritingMA, PhD, FHEA
Email me: wkitchen@aub.ac.uk

Overview

Will Kitchen has taught Film, Media and Creative Industries at the University of Southampton, the University of Chichester and Arts University Bournemouth.

He is the author and editor of several books, including Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work (Bloomsbury, 2025), ReFocus: The Films of Lindsay Anderson (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Romanticism and Film: Franz Liszt and Audio-Visual Explanation (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Along with Professor Anja Louis (Sheffield Hallam University) he is co-editing a special edition of the journal Discover Global Society (Springer Nature) on "Transnational Pop Culture and Work".

He is a member of the Executive Committee for the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies and the Environment and Sustainability Committee at Arts University Bournemouth.

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Contact:

Name: Dr Will Kitchen he/him
Email: wkitchen@aub.ac.uk

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • PhD Film Studies (University of Southampton)
  • MA Film Studies (University of Southampton)

Teaching Qualification

  • ODT Postgraduate Teacher Training 1 & 2 (University of Southampton, 2019)
  • FHEA, PREP D2 (University of Southampton, 2022)

Teaching

I have taught courses in Creative Writing and Animation Production at AUB, in addition to Film Studies, Film and Cultural Management (University of Southampton) and Media and Communications (University of Chichester).

Courses

Research

Research Interests and Projects

Current projects:

"Transnational Pop Culture and Work" (Discover Global Society, Springer Nature, 2026), edited by Anja Louis and Will Kitchen

AHRC funding bid: Pop Culture and Leadership, Sheffield Hallam University, PI: Professor Anja Louis, Will Kitchen

Professional Engagement

Executive Committee, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (2024-)

Environment and Sustainability Committee, Arts University Bournemouth (2024-)

Member of the College of Reviewers, South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (2023)

Insecure Contracts Officer, University of Southampton UCU (2022)

Awards and Prizes

Notable awards/prizes

  • Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship, University of Southampton (2016)

Memberships

Advance HE Membership

  • Fellow (FHEA)

Professional Memberships

  • British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
  • Network for Educational Enhancement Consultants
  • British Philosophical Association
  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies