Rate My Professor Stuart Richards

Dr Stuart Richards is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication, Media and Journalism, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities, at Adelaide University. He serves as Associate Director of the Creative People, Products and Places (CP3) Research Centre, contributing to collaborative research on cultural and creative industries. His research focuses on film festivals, adaptations, and queer screen media, with interests encompassing feminist and queer theory, film, and television. Richards has published extensively in prestigious journals including Continuum, Senses of Cinema, New Review of Film & Television Studies, Media International Australia, and Studies in Australasian Cinema. He reviews film and television for ABC North and West SA and co-curates the Adelaide Queer Film Festival, bridging academic scholarship with public engagement.

Richards is the author of The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn & Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), which examines the politics of queer film festivals, and Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror: Adaptations and Televisuality (Amsterdam University Press, 2024), analyzing gothic elements in televisual adaptations of Agatha Christie's works. He is co-author of the forthcoming Australian Queer Screens: Diversity and Social Change in Film and TV (2025). Notable journal publications include 'A queer feast of memories: using archives in festival research' (Continuum, 2025, with J. Pacella), 'Culture in practice' (Continuum, 2025, with S. Luckman et al.), 'Comradery and the arts: experiences of senior volunteers in a festival city' (Journal of Festival Studies, 2023, with J. Pacella and K. Munro), 'Films of the Queer Film Festival' (Senses of Cinema, 2023, with A. Damiens), and ''We need to keep making stuff, regardless of what the situation is': creativity and the film festival sector during COVID-19' (Arts and the Market, 2022, with J. Pacella). Additional contributions feature book chapters such as 'Adapting queer shorts to feature films: does size really matter?' (Queer/Adaptation, 2019, with W. Monaghan) and ''Is it better to speak or die?': adaptation and Elio's interiority' (Call Me by Your Name: Perspectives on the Film, 2024). His scholarship advances understandings of queer representation, festival dynamics, and screen adaptations, impacting cultural studies and creative industries discourse.