Film and Literature Scholar with Focus on American Cinema
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University of AdelaideDr. Joy McEntee serves as a Lecturer in the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film at the University of Adelaide, bringing together expertise in both classical drama and modern cinema. Her academic journey began with a PhD from Monash University, where she explored revenge themes in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and twentieth-century American film. Her current teaching and research portfolio focuses on three main areas: Stanley Kubrick's filmography, American film studies, and literature-to-screen adaptation. As a faculty member, she teaches comprehensive courses in American literature and film, with particular emphasis on adaptation studies. Her scholarly work bridges historical dramatic traditions with contemporary cinema, demonstrating the evolution of storytelling across different media. Beyond her regular teaching duties, she contributes to academic discourse through her research on gender studies and Stanley Kubrick's works, establishing herself as a respected voice in film studies and adaptation theory.