Rosamund Davies
Job title
Senior Lecturer, Media Writing; Link Tutor, FdA Professional Writing, North West
Department
Communications & Creative Arts
Biography
Rosamund Davies has a background of professional practice in the film and television industries. Her current research interests focus on cross art-form practice in the context of media convergence and new media platforms and business models in the creative industries. Her recent visual media work explores the intersection between narrative and archive as cultural forms.
Research/scholarly interests
Co-investigator on Patina (Personal Architectonics Through INteractions with Artefacts), a multi-disciplinary project funded by EPSRC/AHRC, which aims to revolutionise the design of technologies for supporting research. The project is led by the University of Bristol in collaboration with the universities of Brighton, Greenwich, Newcastle, Southampton and Swansea. These technologies will provide the means to capture, record, and replay the researcher's activities and support intuitive archiving, sharing and publication of interactions with research objects. The design of the technologies will draw on theoretical frameworks of space developed from studies of research spaces as diverse as libraries, museums, homes and archaeological fieldwork sites.
Research Interests
- Screenwriting, visual narratives, alternative narrative structures and strategies
- Cross art–form and cross-genre practice and the wider context of media convergence
- New media platforms and business models in the creative industries.
Selected publications
Visual media
2007: Index of Love www.indexoflove.net (only browse this page with firefox) – mixed media work investigating the aesthetic of the database as a structuring form for narrative and of memory. In: Signals 5 Festival of Visual Arts.
Forthcoming: art.work.life – digital archive/narrative work in collaboration with the Women's Art Library (MAKE).
Recent journal articles
Davies, R. (2010) Screenwriting strategies in Marguerite Duras’s script for Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1960). Journal of Screenwriting, 1(1), pp. 149–73. ISSN 1759-7137.
Davies, R. (2008) Narrating the Archive and Archiving Narrative. In: International Journal of the Book, 5.
Winner of the 2008 International Award for Excellence.
Recent conference papers
Davies, R. 2010. Don’t look now: a case study in adapting prose narrative for the screen. In: Screenwriting Research: History, Theory and Practice. University of Copenhagen, September 2010.
Davies, R. 2010. Adapting the Sims: strategies of writing and reading in new narratives. In: Rewriting, Remixing and Reloading: Adaptations Across the Globe. Centre for British Studies, Berlin, 30 September–1 October.
