
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Email: kflanag@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.1110
Mail Stop: Honors College, MSN 1F4
Campus: Fairfax
Office: Horizon Hall 4117
Biography
Kevin M. Flanagan received his Ph.D. from the 麻豆国产 of Pittsburgh in 2015 in English/film studies (dissertation -聽The British War Film, 1939-1980: Culture, History, and, Genre). A book based on this project, called聽, was published in October 2019 by Palgrave.聽
In June 2016, he was a Guest Curator at the British Film Institute, where he co-programmed (with Matthew Harle) the "Architecture on TV" season. Flanagan and Harle's dossier on architectural programming on British television was published in聽Screen聽in 2018.
Flanagan contributed essays and an audio commentary to the critically acclaimed BFI blu-ray/DVD boxed set聽Ken Russell: The Great Composers聽(2016). Flanagan is editor of聽Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England's Last Mannerist聽(2009, Scarecrow Press) and has contributed essays to the聽Journal of British Cinema and Television,听Framework,听Critical Quarterly,听South Atlantic Review,听Adaptation, and many others. He contributed the "Videogame Adaptation" chapter to the聽Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies聽(2017, ed. Thomas Leitch) and has edited a special issue of聽Widescreen Journal聽on the same subject. He regularly reviews books for聽Choice,听Film & History, and the聽Journal of Popular Cinema and Television.
He has forthcoming essays in anthologies or edited books on Ken Russell's engagement with Frankenstein; videogame adaptations related to H.P. Lovecraft; interiority and London cinema in films by expatriate directors; an exploration on paternalism and bohemian in London youth cinema focused on聽The Party's Over聽(1965); and an analysis of the "magic" of uncanny spaces in聽The Wicker Man听(1973). Additionally, he has 10 entries in the forthcoming聽London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia聽(ed. Kevin A. Morrison).
He teaches courses in composition, rhetoric, and film.
Current Research
He is currently writing a book of biographical sketches of outside, eccentric, and polymath figures in Post-War British cultural life. He is also writing a book on uncanny spaces and landscapes in post-war British cinema and television.
As of Fall 2021, he is preparing pieces for conferences or workshops on competing visions of the "retreat to medievalism" in contemporary film and television; an exploration of generational conflict in films about the Malayan Emergency; and an analysis of the "magic" of uncanny spaces in聽The Wicker Man听(1973).
Selected Publications
Flanagan, Kevin M., War聽Representation in British Cinema and Television: From Suez to Thatcher, and Beyond聽 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Britain and the World Book Series.
Flanagan, Kevin M. 鈥淭he hosted architectural documentary on British television: Ian Nairn and the personalization of place,鈥澛Screen聽59.1 (Spring 2018): 114-121
Flanagan, Kevin M. 鈥淰ideogame Adaptation.鈥 In Thomas Leitch, ed.聽The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies聽(New York: Oxford UP, 2017), 441-454
Flanagan, Kevin M., ed.聽Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England鈥檚 Last Mannerist聽(Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press: 2009).
Courses Taught
ENGH 101 - Composition
ENGH 302 - Advanced Composition
ENGH 202 - Texts and Contexts - Novels and Films about Hollywood and Filmmaking
ENGH 372 - Introduction to Film
HNRS 240 - Reading the Past - The Cold War: Cultures & Legacies
Education
PH.D. - English/Film Studies, 麻豆国产 of Pittsburgh, '15
M.A. - English/Film Studies, North Carolina State 麻豆国产, '09
B.A. - Literary and Cultural Studies, College of William and Mary '06