DrRobert Geal

Senior Lecturer in Film Media and Journalism

Faculty of Business, Arts, Social Sciences & Education

  • Senior Lecturer in Film Media and Journalism
    Faculty of Business, Arts, Social Sciences & Education
  • 01902 323521 (Work)
  • University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Literature/Film Association/Association of Adaptation Studies Only Connect Virtual Symposium, Towards an Ecocritical Adaptation Studies.
    1 Feb 2022
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis. The Centre for Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK.
    1 Nov 2021
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Virtual Conference, Watching Films about Fictional Pandemics: A Masochistic Illusion of Control over Uncontrollable Real-World Events.
    1 Jul 2021
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference, Traumatic Memory in Environmental Apocalypse Film, and Environmental Apocalypse Film as Traumatic Memory, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK.
    1 Jun 2021
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Encounters between East and West: Dualistic and Holistic Thinking in Ecological Aesthetics. Research Center for the Humanities & Social Sciences at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.
    1 May 2021
  • BROADCAST INTERVIEW
    ASLE Ecocast
    1 Dec 2020
    It’s the End of World as We Know It (and the Hero Survives): Robert Geal and the Psychoanalysis of Disaster Cinema. ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Ecocast Podcast.
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    'Surviving Environmental Apocalypse in Film "Lifeboats": Cinema, Psychoanalysis, and the Formal Structure of the Stories We Live By', Humanities on the Brink: Energy, Environment, Emergency, ASLE 2020 Virtual Symposium
    10 Jul 2020
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Adaptation
    4 May 2020 - 3 Jun 2020
    Anonymous peer review
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference, Canonical Reflexivity as Modernism and/or Postmodernism in Filmed Shakespearean Soliloquies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
    5 Sep 2019
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Grants Academy External Funding Workshop Series
    23 Apr 2019
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Kathryn Bigelow: A Visionary Director
    1 Mar 2019
    Conference
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference, ‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths’ (‘Macbeth’ 1.3.124): Film Adaptation’s Ostensible Objectivity, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    6 Sep 2018
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Invited Speaker: Film Futures Development Day, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, UK.
    16 Mar 2018
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Gothic, Ghastly, Corporeal and Creaturely: Tim Burton's Curious Bodies, Tim Burton’s Benevolently Monstrous Frankensteins, University of Wolverhampton, UK.
    9 Feb 2018
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Gothic, Ghastly, Corporeal and Creaturely: Curious Bodies in the Films of Tim Burton
    1 Feb 2018
    Conference
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference, Returning to Verona: Anomalous Foreknowledge in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Films, De Montfort University, UK.
    14 Sep 2017
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    30 years of Pixar Animation Studios Symposium, Animated Images and Animated Objects in the ‘Toy Story’ Franchise, King’s College London, UK.
    11 Sep 2015
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    10th Annual Association of Adaptations Studies Conference, From Barthesian and Bakhtinian to Benvenistene Authorship, University of London, UK.
    10 Sep 2015
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Jaws 40th Anniversary Symposium, ‘Jaws’, Epistemology and Adaptation, De Montford University, UK.
    12 Jun 2015
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Adventures in Textuality: Adaptation Studies in the 21st Century Conference, Suturing the Action to the Word: Shakespearean Enunciation and Cinema’s “Reality-Effect” in ‘Shakespeare in Love’ and ‘Anonymous’, University of Sunderland, UK.
    11 Apr 2013