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Thursday 4 January, 2001
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Three new professorial
appointments announced
Three new professorial appointments were approved by the
University's Council at its latest meeting on 20 December,
2000.
Dr Martin
Barker has been appointed to the position of Professor
of Film and Television at the Department
of Theatre Film and Television Studies. Dr Barker has
worked in the fields of media and cultural studies for 31
years and undertaken research into film audiences for action-
adventure movies, most notably the reception of Cronenberg's
Crash in 1996-7. He has also co-authored a book on the history
of adaptations (including 17 film, TV and cartoon versions)
of J F Cooper's Last of the Mohicans. Dr Barker comes to Aberystwyth
from the University of Sussex at Brighton
Elan Closs
Stephens has been appointed Professor
Communication and Creative Industries at the Department
of Theatre Film and Television Studies. A member of
staff at UWA since 1975, she was the Director and Head of
the Drama Department between 1990 and 1994. A former Vice-Chairman
of the Welsh Language Board and a member of the BBC's Broadcasting
Council for Wales, she is the current Chair of the S4C Authority,
a body which administers £78m of public funds annually for
the creation of a television serivce in Welsh.
Professor
Martin Alexander has been appointed to the position
of Professor in International Relations
at the Department of International Politics.
Currently Professor of Contemporary History and Politics at
the Univesrity of Salford, he has published extensively on
19th and 20th Century France and is advisor to Amnesty International's
" Algeria- Watch" monitor. In 1991-92 he was a Visiting Professor
at the US Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, and for
4 years from 1994, Head of the Department of Politics and
Contemporary History at the University of Salford.
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