Bloomsbury Video Library has been developed for students, teachers and researchers in consultation with academic and librarian experts.
We are proud to be working with an international, interdisciplinary range of scholars from our growing academic advisory board, including:
Christy Adair, Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at York St John University and Visiting Professor of Dance at the University of Bedfordshire
Caroline Alexander, Senior Lecturer in Fashion at Kingston University
Claire Battershill, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and the Department of English at the University of Toronto
Professor Michael Burden, Professor of Opera Studies, Oxford University
Oldřich Bureš, Professor of International Political Relations and European Studies and the Head of the Centre for Security Studies at the Metropolitan University Prague
Graeme Brooker, Professor of Interior Design at the Royal College of Art
Phillip Broomhead, Associate Professor of Dance, University of North Carolina. Phillip was a principal dancer in the Royal Ballet Company from 1980 to 1995.
Cara Caddoo, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
Gregory Camp, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland
Miranda Cuckson, Music Faculty, Mannes School of Music
Joselli Deans, Associate Professor of Dance, University of Utah
Julia Erickson, Associate Professor of Dance, Point Park University
Jennifer Fisher, Professor of Dance Studies, University of California Irvine. Jennifer is the founding Editor of Dance Major Journal.
Richard Gauvain, Associate Professor of Political Science at the British University in Egypt
Barbara Gentili, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Cardiff University
Colette Gordon, Lecturer of English at the University of Witwatersrand
Jim Grimshaw, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Carroll University
Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Gina Marchetti, Chair, Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute
Dr Charles Edward McGuire, Professor of Musicology, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Vida Midgelow, Professor in Dance and Choreographic Practices, University of the Arts London
Gerald Martin Moore, Professor of Voice/Director of Yale Opera, Yale School of Music
Shawna Ross, Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University
Gerard Samuel, Associate Professor & Head of Section: Dance, University of Cape Town
John Severn, Music/Opera Professor, Macquarie University
Tonia Shimin, Professor Emerita, Department of Theater and Dance, University of California Santa Barbara
Francesca Vella, Assistant Professor of Humanities (specialises in music and opera studies), Northumbria University
David Walsh, Associate Professor of Opera, Director of Opera Theatre at the University of Minnesota School of Music
Aaron Wyatt, Assistant Lecturer, Performance Classical, Monash University