School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

I have worked at Portsmouth since 2003 and am Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies. My research interests lie in animation history and theory, Classical and Post-Classical Hollywood animation and British cinema and television animation, American and British graphic narrative forms; British and American comedy forms - sitcom and stand up comedy; and mainstream and independent American and British cinema. I teach and co-ordinate a number of units across SCAFM at undergraduate and postgraduate level in such areas as animation, comedy, graphic narratives and mainstream cinema and television.

Current Research

PhD Thesis^{[Back to top]}

Norris, V. (In preparation). Drawing on the British tradition: the mapping of cultural attitudes and identity and their intersection with comedy modes employed within British television animation. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth.

Publications^{[Back to top]}

Publication since 2008 [IR]

Book Chapters^{[Back to top]}

Norris, V. (Forthcoming). ‘C’mon Mum, Wednesday night is jihad night…’: ideas on regionalism, representation and comic narrative within BBC TV’s Monkey Dust. In J. F. Baillon (Ed.), Cinéma britannique: les années Blair’: CinémAction (pp. 00-00). Paris: Corlet/Télérama.

Norris, V. (2007). Interior logic: the appropriation of surrealism into popular American animation. In G. Harper & R. Stone (Eds.), The Unsilvered Screen: surrealism and cinema (pp. 72-89). London: Wallflower.

Conference Papers

Unpublished^{[Back to top]}

Norris, V. (Forthcoming). ‘C’mon Mum, Wednesday night is jihad night…’: ideas on regionalism, representation and comic narrative within BBC TV’s Monkey Dust. In J. F. Baillon (Ed.), Cinéma britannique: les années Blair’: CinémAction (pp. 00-00). Paris: Corlet/Télérama.

Norris, V. (2007). Interior logic: the appropriation of surrealism into popular American animation. In G. Harper & R. Stone (Eds.), The Unsilvered Screen: surrealism and cinema (pp. 72-89). London: Wallflower.

Membership of Editorial Boards^{[Back to top]}

Editorial board member: Animation Studies: Peer-reviewed on-line journal for Animation History and Theory.

Professional Memberships^{[Back to top]}

Science Fiction Research Association (from October 2006).