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Yr Athro Neil Badmington

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BA (Exeter), MA, PhD (Wales)

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Ysgol Saesneg, Cyfathrebu ac Athroniaeth

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Badmington@caerdydd.ac.uk
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Rwy'n Athro Llenyddiaeth Saesneg ac rwyf wedi dysgu ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd ers 1999. Cefais fy addysg ym Mhrifysgol Caerwysg, Prifysgol California, a Phrifysgol Caerdydd. Fy rhagenwau i yw ef/hi.

Rwy'n Gyfarwyddwr Astudiaethau Llenyddiaeth Saesneg ac Ysgrifennu Creadigol.

Rwy'n awdur pedwar llyfr, golygydd dros ugain o gyfrolau, ac awdur nifer o draethodau. Rwy'n ysgrifennu'n rheolaidd ar gyfer y Times Literary Supplement. Cyhoeddwyd fy llyfr diweddaraf, Perpetual Movement: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, gan State University of New York Press ym mis Gorffennaf 2021 fel rhan o gyfres Gorwelion Sinema a olygwyd gan Murray Pomerance; Cyhoeddwyd argraffiad clawr meddal ym mis Ionawr 2022. Cliciwch ar 'Gyhoeddiadau' (uchod) i gael rhagor o wybodaeth fanwl am fy ngwaith.

Nid wyf yn defnyddio unrhyw fath o gyfryngau cymdeithasol personol, a fy nghyfeiriad e-bost Prifysgol Caerdydd yw'r unig un sydd gen i.

Diddordebau ymchwil

  • Ffilm, yn enwedig gwaith Alfred Hitchcock.
  • Ysgrifennu cyfoes, yn enwedig Americanaidd.
  • Theori feirniadol a diwylliannol ôl-strwythurol, gyda phwyslais ar waith Roland Barthes.
  • Beirniadaeth greadigol.
  • diwylliant ôl-fodern.

Rwy'n croesawu ymholiadau gan ddarpar fyfyrwyr PhD y mae eu cynlluniau'n gorgyffwrdd ag unrhyw un o'm diddordebau rhestredig.

Gweithgareddau academaidd

Fi yw golygydd sefydlu'r cyfnodolyn academaidd ar-lein Barthes Studies.

O 2013 tan 2018 roeddwn yn gyd-olygydd (yn gyntaf gyda David Tucker, yna gydag Emma Mason) o The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Cyhoeddwyd y cyfnodolyn hwn gan Oxford University Press for the English Association.

Rwyf wedi gweithredu fel Arholwr Allanol israddedig ac ôl-raddedig ym Mhrifysgol Caergrawnt, Prifysgol Durham, Prifysgol Sussex, Prifysgol Goldsmiths, Prifysgol Lancaster, Prifysgol Malta, Prifysgol Middlesex, a Phrifysgol Warwick.

Fel rhan o Gynllun Trosglwyddo Gwybodaeth Llywodraeth Cymru, rwyf wedi gweithio gyda Choleg Chweched Dosbarth Dewi Sant, Caerdydd, ar addysgu astudiaethau ffilm ac astudiaethau'r cyfryngau. Rwyf hefyd wedi gweithio gydag Ysgol Uwchradd Whitmore, y Barri, fel rhan o'u prosiect Aspire ar gyfer myfyrwyr sydd â diddordeb mewn ffilm.

 

Cyhoeddiad

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2009

  • Badmington, N. 2009. Blade Runner's blade runners. Semiotica 173, pp. 471-489. (10.1515/SEMI.2009.022)
  • Badmington, N. 2009. Babelation. In: Callus, I. and Herbrechter, S. eds. Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, pp. 60-72.
  • Badmington, N. 2009. L'encroyable Roland Barthes. In: Badir, S. and Ducard, D. eds. Roland Barthes en cours (1977-1980): Un style de vie. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, pp. 145-52.
  • Badmington, N. 2009. Introduction. In: Lavers, A. ed. Roland Barthes: Mythologies. London: Vintage, pp. ix-xiv.

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Articles

Book sections

  • Badmington, N. 2022. How the Words Appear (Review of Laurence Simmons, Zizek Through Hitchcock [Palgrave, 2021]). In: Gottlieb, S. ed. Hitchcock Annual: Volume 25., Vol. 25. Columbia University Press, pp. 213-221.
  • Badmington, N. 2022. Foreword. In: Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edition (by Catherine Belsey). Oxford University Press, pp. xvii-xviii.
  • Badmington, N. 2021. Brief scenes: Roland Barthes and the essay. In: Aquilina, M. ed. The Essay at the Limits: Poetics, Politics and Form. London and New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 49-62.
  • Badmington, N. 2021. Approaching posthumanism. In: Sampanikou, E. D. and Stasienko, J. eds. Posthuman Studies Reader: Core Readings on Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Metahumanism., Vol. 2. Posthuman Studies Basel: Schwabe Verlag, pp. 167-174.
  • Badmington, N. 2017. Preface. In: Bennett, P. and McDougall, J. eds. Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth: Hard Times Today. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies Routledge, pp. xv-xvi.
  • Badmington, N. 2017. Bored with Barthes: ennui in China. In: Badmington, N. ed. Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes. Routledge, pp. 101-121.
  • Badmington, N. 2014. General introduction. In: Badmington, N. ed. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume I. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers London: Routledge, pp. 1-6.
  • Badmington, N. 2014. Chronological table. In: Badmington, N. ed. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume I. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers London: Routledge, pp. xiii-xix.
  • Badmington, N. 2014. SpectRebecca. In: Badmington, N. ed. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume IV. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers London: Routledge, pp. 233-249.
  • Badmington, N. 2013. Kültürel Çalışmalar ve Post-İnsan Bimleri. In: Hall, G. and Birchall, C. eds. Yeni Kültürel Çalışmalar : Kuramsal Serüvenler. Kitap, pp. 379-395.
  • Badmington, N. 2011. Posthumanism. In: Booker, M. K. and Ryan, M. eds. The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. Volume III: Cultural Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 1212-1216.
  • Badmington, N. 2010. The 'Inkredible' Roland Barthes. In: Badmington, N. ed. Roland Barthes: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory., Vol. 2. London: Routledge, pp. 371-9.
  • Badmington, N. 2010. Posthumanism. In: Clarke, B. and Rossini, M. eds. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. Routledge, pp. 374-384.
  • Badmington, N. 2009. Babelation. In: Callus, I. and Herbrechter, S. eds. Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, pp. 60-72.
  • Badmington, N. 2009. L'encroyable Roland Barthes. In: Badir, S. and Ducard, D. eds. Roland Barthes en cours (1977-1980): Un style de vie. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, pp. 145-52.
  • Badmington, N. 2009. Introduction. In: Lavers, A. ed. Roland Barthes: Mythologies. London: Vintage, pp. ix-xiv.
  • Badmington, N. 2007. I ain't got no body: Lyotard and Le Genre of posthumanism. In: Margret, G. ed. Gender After Lyotard. State University of New York Press, pp. 27-45.
  • Badmington, N. 2006. Cultural studies and the posthumanities. In: Hall, G. and Birchall, C. eds. New Cultural Studies. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 260-272.
  • Badmington, N. 2005. Posthumanism. In: Malpas, S. and Wake, P. eds. The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory. Routledge, pp. 240-241.
  • Badmington, N. 2004. Roswell High, alien chic, and the in/human. In: Davis, G. and Dickinson, K. eds. Teen TV: Genre, Consumption and Identity. BFI, pp. 166-176.
  • Badmington, N. 2001. Jean Baudrillard. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge, pp. 42-42.
  • Badmington, N. 2001. Ernesto Laclau. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge, pp. 257-258.
  • Badmington, N. 2001. Metanarrative. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 280-280.
  • Badmington, N. 2000. Mirror stage. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 283-283.
  • Badmington, N. 2000. Parole. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 320-321.
  • Badmington, N. 2000. Posthumanist (com)promises: diffracting Donna Haraway's Cyborg through Marge Piercy's Body of Glass. In: Badmington, N. ed. Posthumanism. Readers in Cultural Criticism Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 85-97.
  • Badmington, N. 2000. Disclosure's disclosure. In: Lay, F. and West, R. eds. Subverting masculinity: hegemonic and alternative versions of masculinity in contemporary culture. Rodopi, pp. 94-105.
  • Badmington, N. 1995. Cruising the information superhighway: Computer-mediated communication, cultural landscapes, and the struggle over meaning. In: Gidley, M. and Lawson-Peebles, R. eds. Modern American Landscapes. Amsterdam: VU University Press, pp. 275-291.

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Ymchwil

Diddordebau ymchwil

  • Ffilm, yn enwedig gwaith Alfred Hitchcock.
  • Ysgrifennu cyfoes, yn enwedig Americanaidd.
  • Theori feirniadol a diwylliannol ôl-strwythurol, gyda phwyslais ar waith Roland Barthes.
  • Beirniadaeth greadigol.
  • diwylliant ôl-fodern.

Rwy'n croesawu ymholiadau gan ddarpar fyfyrwyr PhD y mae eu cynlluniau'n gorgyffwrdd ag unrhyw un o'm diddordebau rhestredig.

Treuliais ddegawd cyntaf fy ngyrfa yn gweithio'n helaeth ym maes ôl-ddyneiddiaeth a oedd yn dod i'r amlwg ar y pryd, ond nid wyf wedi ysgrifennu gair am y pwnc ers 2010 ac ni fyddaf yn gwneud hynny rhwng nawr a diwedd fy ngyrfa.

Prosiectau ymchwil (presennol a gorffennol)

Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n gweithio ar y canlynol:

  • Dan arweiniad Barthes – prosiect creadigol-beirniadol hyd llyfr sy'n cymryd gwaith Roland Barthes fel ei dywysydd.
  • Cyfrol 10 o Astudiaethau Barthes Bydd hwn yn cael ei gyhoeddi ar 12 Tachwedd 2024 a bydd yn rhifyn arbennig o'r enw 'Preparations', wedi'i olygu gan Kate Briggs a Sunil Manghani.
  • Traethawd ar The Birds gan Hitchcock. 

Mae'r prosiectau a gwblhawyd yn ddiweddar yn cynnwys:

  • Llyfr o'r enw Perpetual Movement: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope for the Horizons of Cinema series a olygwyd gan Murray Pomerance ar gyfer SUNY Press, Efrog Newydd. Dyma'r astudiaeth gyntaf o Rope i gael ei chyhoeddi yn Saesneg, ac mae'n gwneud defnydd gwreiddiol helaeth o ddeunyddiau archifol a gedwir yn Archif Warner Bros. yn Los Angeles ac yn Llyfrgell Margaret Herrick, Beverly Hills. Cyhoeddwyd y llyfr yn galed ym mis Gorffennaf 2021 ac mewn clawr papur ym mis Ionawr 2022.
  • Gweld drwodd i gyhoeddi ail rifyn Catherine Belsey's Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction. Roedd Kate yn gwneud ei newidiadau olaf i'r llyfr hwn pan gafodd ei chludo i'r ysbyty ddiwedd 2020; Bu farw ym mis Chwefror 2021. Ar gais ei theulu, fe wnes i gwblhau'r testun i'w gyhoeddi gan ddefnyddio dwy ffynhonnell: ffeil o gyfrifiadur Kate a theipysgrif gydag anodiadau wedi'u hysgrifennu â llaw a ganfuwyd ar ei desg. Cyhoeddwyd y llyfr gan Oxford University Press ym mis Awst 2022.
  • Traethawd ar Anthony Adverse gan Mervyn LeRoy ar gyfer casgliad o'r enw Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town, wedi'i olygu gan Murray Pomerance ac R. Barton Palmer ar gyfer Gwasg Prifysgol Rutgers.
  • Traethawd ar Rope Alfred Hitchcock ar gyfer casgliad o'r enw Re-Viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives, a olygwyd gan Robert E. Kapsis ar gyfer Bloomsbury/BFI.
  • Adolygiad o bopeth Roland Barthes ac eithrio chi (cyfieithwyd i'r Saesneg gan Joe Milutis) ar gyfer y Times Literary Supplement. Cyhoeddwyd y darn hwn yn y papur ar 20 Hydref 2023. Cyhoeddwyd fersiwn ar-lein fel 'Cyrraedd y Tortoise' ar yr un diwrnod.
  • Adolygiad o Évocations et Incantations gan Roland Barthes dans la tragédie grecque ar gyfer y Times Literary Supplement. Cyhoeddwyd y darn hwn yn y papur ar 23 Mehefin 2023. Cyhoeddwyd fersiwn ar-lein fel 'Rehearsing His Lines' ar yr un diwrnod.
  • 'Roland Barthes in English: A Guide to Translations'. Mae'r adnodd cyfeirio mynediad agored 12,000 o eiriau hwn yn rhoi manylion yr holl gyfieithiadau Saesneg o waith Roland Barthes.

 

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Biography

I was born and grew up in the small town of Abergavenny in the Welsh borderlands. After attending my  local comprehensive school, I became the first person in my family to attend university when I went to Exeter to study American and Commonwealth Arts (1990-94). A year abroad at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1992-93 introduced me for the first time to critical and cultural theory, and I went on to study for an MA and PhD in this field at Cardiff University (1995-98), under the supervision  of Catherine Belsey. On completing my PhD in late 1998, I was appointed to the department.

Education and qualifications

1995-98: PhD, Cardiff University. (British Academy Studentship.) Supervisor: Catherine Belsey.

1994-95: MA in Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University. (British Academy Studentship.)

1992-93: University of  California, Santa Cruz. (Junior Year Abroad scheme.)

1990-94: BA in  American and Commonwealth Arts, University of Exeter. Class I. Winner, Exeter  Literary Society Prize, 1994. Winner, David Henderson Award, 1994.

1982-89: King Henry VIII Comprehensive School, Abergavenny.

Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol

2009-15: Reader in English Literature, Cardiff University
2005-9: Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University
2001-5: Lecturer (B) in English Literature, Cardiff University
1999-2001: Lecturer (A) in English Literature, Cardiff University

Pwyllgorau ac adolygu

I am the founding editor of the journal Barthes Studies and a member of the editorial/advisory panels of:

I am a member of the Northern Theory School and an advisor to the Critical Posthumanism Network.

I have assessed research grant applications externally for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) and the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Belgium). In 2008, I was appointed expert étranger for a panel of the Agence d'évaluation de la recherche de l'enseignement supérieur (AERES) assessing the quality of research at University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, University of Paris XIII-Villetaneuse, and University of Paris-Dauphine.

Meysydd goruchwyliaeth

I welcome applications or informal queries relating to PhD supervision in research areas which overlap with my own:

  • Contemporary fiction, especially American.
  • Film, particularly the work of Alfred Hitchcock.
  • Poststructuralist critical and cultural theory, with an emphasis upon the work of Roland Barthes.
  • Postmodern culture.

I am supervising or have supervised the following PhD theses:

  • Of Zoogrammatology.
  • Spectral-Scopics: Gazing at Ghosts in Women’s Supernatural Fiction, 1950-Present.
  • Roland Barthes and English-Language Poetry, 1970-1990.
  • Corporeal Ontology: Merleau-Ponty, Flesh and Posthumanism.
  • Ill Seen Ill Said: Trauma, Representation and Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's Post-war Writing.
  • Deadly Light: Machen, Lovecraft and Evolutionary Theory.
  • Untimely Aesthetics: Shakespeare, Anachronism and Presence (co-supervision with Dr Melanie Bigold).
  • The Literature of Replenishment: The Novels of Umberto Eco and J.M. Coetzee and John Barth's Definition of Postmodernist Fiction.
  • The Posthuman Science Fiction of J.G. Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut.
  • The Animal in Differance: Tracing the Boundaries of the Human in Post-Darwinian Culture.

Prosiectau'r gorffennol

  • 2017 Rodolfo Piskorski da Silva, O Zoogrammatology. (Wedi'i ariannu'n llawn gan Coordenacao de aperfeicoamento de pessoal nivel superior, llywodraeth ffederal Brasil.)  
  • 2016 Callie Gardner, Roland Barthes a barddoniaeth Saesneg Avant-Garde, 1970-1990. (Cyllid AHRC.)  
  • 2014 Jessica George, Deadly Light: Machen, Lovecraft a Theori Esblygiadol
  • 2014 Angus McBlane, ymgorfforiad yn y 'cnawd': Cyfrif ôl-ddynol critigol o ymgorfforiad. 
  • 2014 Dywedodd Rhys Tranter, Sick Seen Sick: Trauma, Representation and Subjectivity  yn ysgrifennu Samuel Beckett ar ôl y rhyfel. (Cyllid AHRC.)
  • 2013 Étienne Poulard, Estheteg Annhymig: Shakespeare, Anachroniaeth a Phresenoldeb. (Cyllid AHRC; cyd-oruchwylio gyda Melanie Bigold.)  
  • 2012 Erica Brown Moore, yn ymarfer y ôl-ddyniaethau: anifeiliaid esblygiadol, peiriannau a'r ôl-ddynol yn ffuglen J.G. Ballard a Kurt Vonnegut.
  • 2010 James Aubrey, Llenyddiaeth Ailgyflenwi: Nofelau Umberto Eco a J.M. Coetzee a Diffiniad John Barth o Ffuglen Ôl-fodernaidd.
  • JessicaMordsley, Yr anifail mewn Differance: Olrhain Ffiniau'r Dyn mewn Diwylliant Ôl-Ddarwinaidd (Cyllid AHRC.)