Stuart Romeo-Richards

Stuart's research focuses on film festivals, adaptations and queer screen media. He is the author of The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn & Politics (2016), Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror: Adaptations and Televisuality (2024) and co-author of Australian Queer Screens: Diversity and Social Change in Film and TV (forthcoming). His research has been published in journals, such as Continuum, Senses of Cinema, New Review of Film & Television, Media International Australia and Studies in Australasian Cinema. He is Associate Director of the Creative People, Products and Places (CP3) Research Centre. He is also the co-curator of the Adelaide Queer Film Festival. Prior to joining the University of South Australia in 2019, he taught screen, media and cultural studies subjects at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University. He reviews film and television for ABC North and West SA. Cultural and creative industries, Feminist and queer theory, Film and Television

[2025] Luckman, S., Jaworski, K., Ghosh, R., Kosmina, B., Richards, S., Stratton, J., & Pacella, J. (2025). Culture in practice. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 39(1), 1-12. [2025] Pacella, J., & Richards, S. (2025). A queer feast of memories: using archives in festival research. Continuum, 39(1), 117-133. [2025] Kelly, P., Romeo-Richards, S., Taylor, S., & Howard, C. (2025). My Formative Queers: Stories of the Music Videos that Made Us Queer. Senses of Cinema, (115). [2025] Romeo-Richards, S. (2025). Secretly Watching 'Secretly'. Senses of Cinema, (115). [2023] Richards, S., & Damiens, A. (2023). Films of the Queer Film Festival. Senses of Cinema, 106, 1-14. [2023] Richards, S., Pacella, J., & Munro, K. (2023). Comradery and the arts: experiences of senior volunteers in