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Emeritus Professor Andrew Tudor

Biography

I began my academic life at the University of Leeds as a student in chemical engineering, but then moved into sociology in which subject I graduated in 1965. After four years teaching at the University of Essex I joined the Department of Sociology at the University of York in 1970, becoming successively Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor in that department. I was Head of the Sociology department for six years from 1988 to 1995.

Throughout this period I attempted to persuade anyone who would listen that York needed to develop a department of film and television, and in 2006, much to my delight, I became Head of this new Department of Theatre, Film and Television. In October 2010, with the department's move into the new building, I handed over the reins to my colleague Professor Andrew Higson.

After a further two-and-a-half years teaching part-time I finally retired (to the Scottish highlands) in April 2013, though I fully intend to remain in close touch with the Department and with the University which has been the locus of my working life for over forty years.

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Professor Andrew Tudor
School of Arts and Creative Technologies
University of York
York
YO10 5GB