Teaching Adaptations

This volume looks at the ways in which adaptations can and have been taught by leading academics in the field of Adaptation Studies from all over the world. While aware that Shakespeare and canonical literature remain the mainstay of adaptation study in English, Teaching Adaptations addresses the challenges and appeal of teaching popular fiction and culture, video games and new media content, which serve to enrich the curriculum, as well as exploit the changing methods by which English students read and consume literary and screen texts. The volume is structured to appeal to both those who are considering teaching adaptations for the first time as well as those who are familiar with key perspectives in adaptation criticism.

Deborah Cartmell is Professor of English at De Montfort University, UK. She is co-editor of Adaptation and Shakespeare, founder and former Chair of the Association of Adaptation Studies and is currently editing the Bloomsbury History of Adaptation series.

Imelda Whelehan is Research Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Visiting Professor at De Montfort University. She is co-Chair of the Association of Adaptation Studies and co-editor of Adaptation. Her long collaboration with Deborah Cartmell has resulted in a number of collections, including Adaptation: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text (1999), The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen (2007) and the co-authored Screen Adaptation: Impure Cinema (2010).