Nick Boalch

Nick Boalch's Vanity Page

Hi!

I'm a research student in the Spanish Department of the School of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Durham. In addition to my research and teaching, I am a Tutor and President of the SCR at St Aidan's College, the Staff Treasurer of Durham Student Theatre, the Producer for WitTank and the Executive Producer for Captain Theatre.

My temperament is Idealist, my role variant is Counselor. Ideologically I'm a Neo-Marxist, an Internationalist, and a Pacifist. Politically I'm on the left: I'm a Socialist, a Left-libertarian and a Republican (here's my political compass) and a member of both the Green Party and Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds. In life stance I'm a Bright, and my own particular worldview is Absurdist. I like dogs more than cats.

Be happy,

Research

My research is in translation and visual culture, particularly theatre, film, TV and comics. For my PhD I am attempting to set out an internally consistent translation theory that engages with the combination of semiotic systems present in these media which is, at present, poorly understood. (This is, believe it or not, less poncey than it sounds.)

I also have an ongoing interest in virtual culture, particularly its intersections with the visual and the development of new paradigms of communication and information exchange online.

Teaching

I teach parts of the following undergraduate modules:

• Introduction to Hispanic Studies (1H)
• Introduction to Hispanic Texts (1H)
• Hispanic Media & Culture (2H)
• Spanish Language 2B (2H)

(In other words, you have been warned.)

I have a separate page with some resources for students on these modules, including some illustrated timelines of Spanish history. Also, all materials for them in duo are freely accessible to guest users.

Theatre

I also do lots of theatre: mainly I get away with this as a practice-based constituent of my research. Currently I'm working on rather like a shark's production of Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World, which will be showing in Durham in June, and on the Fringe transfer of DULOG's Assassins.

During the last couple of years, I have produced:

• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Captain Theatre)
• Pains of Youth (Captain Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe 2006)
• A Company of Wayward Saints (Another Country Productions)
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (DULOG)
• Love Loves Love (Captain Theatre)
• Scaramouche Jones: or The Seven White Masks (Captain Theatre)
• 175 (Captain Theatre)
• The Public (Dona i ocell, also translated and directed)
• Assassins (DULOG)

and stage managed:

• A Dream Play (Aidan's College Theatre)
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (DULOG)
• The Fix (DULOG)
• Cabaret of Death (Another Country Productions)
• The Merchant of Venice (THIS Theatre Company)

If you were to conclude from this that I spend too much time doing plays, you would be 100% correct.

Other Things

• My photos
• alt.books.tom-holt Frequently Asked Questions (now defunct, retained for historical interest)
• Durham University Computing Society PGP Keysignings
• Sitemap for nick.frejol.org

    Nicholas Boalch (nick.boalch@gmail.com)
Last updated: 2nd February 2008 (v. 1.5)