He joins the Center in the Fall of 2020.
Prof. Colin Burnett has won a Faculty Fellowship from Washington University's Center for the Humanities. This Fellowship, set for the Fall semester of 2020, will allow Prof. Burnett to pursue his research into James Bond and the modern media franchise.
Prof. Burnett's book project, “Serial Bonds: The Multimedia Life of 007,” will be the first to situate James Bond at a crucial hinge point in the history of modern serial culture. It argues that the Bond franchise ushered in the contemporary era of media franchising by innovating a story production regime that, for the first time, could ensure a consistent output of serialized series in multiple, high-profile media. Novelist Ian Fleming and numerous partners from the film, comics, and gaming industries modernized the franchise, laying the foundations for the current transmedia craze, even as they developed a multimedia storytelling form — until now, entirely unstudied — that differs markedly from the transmedia paradigm.
