Peter Humm
Head of Department of English & Performance Studies
Tel: 020 8331 8782
Email: p.humm@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 237
Office Hours
Monday 2 - 3 pm
Tuesday 12 - 1 pm
Wednesday 12 - 1 pm
Qualifications
M.Phil American Studies - University of Sussex
BA in English Studies - University of East Anglia
My role as Head is to oversee the academic direction of the department, developing an innovative curriculum and fostering the quality of learning and teaching, research and professional development.
We now run three degree programmes in English, Creative Writing and Drama, which encourages a continuing dialogue between theoretical and practice-based studies and between English and other disciplines. Our commitment to developing students' creative as well as critical skills in poetry, fiction, play-writing and drama production in turn helps develop imaginative ways of teaching.
I have worked as a specialist subject assessor for HEFCE and the Quality Assurance Agency both in English and in Communication and Media Studies.
I am currently an external examiner at London College of Communication, University of the Arts.
I have been closely involved in setting up the Department's summer school for students from Ohio State University.
Teaching Areas
I have taught and designed courses in a wide spectrum of subjects - American and Latin American Studies, Modern English Fiction, Film Studies and Documentary Photography, Film and Television. I have also taught practice-based courses in television film-making and photography.
Research Interests
My research has combined theory and practice in, for example, studies of the impact of new technologies on television documentary, the formal relation between television and new fiction, editing a New Accents collection on the teaching of English and directing, photographing and editing my owen short documentary film 'Leathers' - a tribute to the iconic power of the black leather jackert.
Publications
Reading the Lines: Television and New Fiction in Re-reading English, Methuen, 1982
Camera Eye/Private Eye in American Crime Fiction, Macmillan, 1987
The Masculine Fiction of William McIlvaney in Popular Fiction: gender and Narrative Pleasure, Unwin Hyman, 1988
Waiting for a Child in Infertility, Pandora, 1989
Teaching Difference/Teaching Differently in Diaglogue and Difference, Routledge, 1989
Real TV: Camcorders, Access and Authenticity in The Television Studies Book, Arnold 1998
Co-editor with Paul Stigant and Peter Widdowson, Popular Fictions, Methuen
Co-editor with Peter Brooker, Dialogue and Difference, 1989