Judith Buchanan

Judith Ruth Buchanan (born 1967), Professor of Literature and Film, is both a Shakespearean and a film scholar. She is Master of St Peter's College, Oxford and a member of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. She took up her appointment at St Peter's College, Oxford on 1 October 2019, succeeding Mark Damazer. She is both an academic and a creative practitioner and is Director of Silents Now. Through Silents Now she brings little-known works of silent cinema to contemporary audiences, working in collaboration with actors, musicians and dancers. She co-adapted, and acted as Shakespeare advisor to, the British feature film Macbeth directed by Kit Monkman (2018). She co-founded the York International Shakespeare Festival. She has provided expert voice-overs for silent cinema DVD releases for the British Film Institute and the Thanhouser Film Corporation. She sits, as a government appointment, on the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin, of the Elsinore Shakespeare Research Centre and of the global Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. At the University of Oxford she chairs the Board of the Cameron Mackintosh Drama Fund and the Electoral Board for the Cameron Mackintosh Distinguished Visiting Professor of Drama.

Professor Judith Buchanan, Master of St Peter's College Oxford