Professor Deborah Cartmell

National Teaching Fellow 2010 As founding member of two associations, the British Shakespeare Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies, Deborah has put pedagogy at the core of her teaching and research. Her work has had an international impact in bringing together academics and teachers from all over the world from a range of academic fields, such as drama, economics, and film and media studies, to share good practice and extend the teaching of adaptations and Shakespeare. As editor of two international journals, Shakespeare and Adaptation, she continues to be at the forefront of cutting edge research that extends the boundaries of English studies in classrooms all over the world. In addition to developing the teaching of literature on screen within the English curriculum, at De Montfort University, nationally and internationally, she has also introduced a highly successful and innovative work placement learning opportunity within the Humanities Degree. One of her current projects is to extend her research and achievements in the undergraduate programme to MA level, raising awareness of the value of MA degrees by providing students with opportunities to participate in work related projects, such as journal editing, reviewing, and conference organisation. In the words of a colleague at the University of Delaware, "it would be impossible to name anyone who has had such a profound effect in so many different capacities - as teacher, scholar, editor, facilitator, organiser - on contemporary adaptation studies. Thanks to Deborah's work inside and outside the organisation she founded, she has over the past decade brought adaptation studies significantly closer to the goals she articulated: not only to organise conferences, but to disseminate ideas across disciplines, to challenge the boundaries of adaptation studies, to increase postgraduate work in the field, and to enlarge the place of the teaching of adaptation studies within the curriculum".