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Cassie Brummitt
Assistant Professor in Film and Television Studies, Faculty of Arts
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Biography
My upcoming monograph, entitled 'From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World', traces the development of the Harry Potter franchise in the 2010s. My research and teaching interests lie in contemporary franchising, media marketing and promotion, the cinema exhibition industry, and adaptation.
Teaching Summary
Global media franchises
Creative and cultural industries
Marketing, promotion and paratexts
Recent Publications
CASSIE BRUMMITT and KIERAN SELLARS, 2019. ’Friends? Always.’: Queerbaiting, Erasure, and Ambiguity in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. In: JOSEPH BRENNAN, ed., Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities University of Iowa Press. 108-111
CASSIE BRUMMITT, 2016. Pottermore: Harry Potter, Transmedia Storytelling and Authorship Midwest Quarterly. 4, 110-129
Future Research
Monograph: From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World: The Transfiguration of a Franchise (Edinburgh University Press, to be released in autumn 2025)
Edited collection: Fright Nights: Live Horror Events with Kieran Foster (contracted with Edinburgh University Press, due to be published 2027)
Book chapter: "Hello, Clarice: Adaptation and Industry Logics in Clarice (2020)" in an upcoming edited collection on horror legacy sequels
Book chapter: "Disinterring Johanna Ter Steege" in an upcoming edited collection on unmade films
Book chapter: "VOD Killed the Radio Times?: TV Listings Magazines as Industry-Audience Intermediaries" in an upcoming media studies handbook, Media Studies Now
CASSIE BRUMMITT and KIERAN SELLARS, 2019. ’Friends? Always.’: Queerbaiting, Erasure, and Ambiguity in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. In: JOSEPH BRENNAN, ed., Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities University of Iowa Press. 108-111
CASSIE BRUMMITT, 2016. Pottermore: Harry Potter, Transmedia Storytelling and Authorship Midwest Quarterly. 4, 110-129