Ahmad Hayat

About

Dr. Ahmad Hayat is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A former international TV producer and Hollywood script analyst, Dr. Hayat produced the Kuwaiti docuseries The Judge Who Executed Saddam (2010) and the documentary film Kuwait The Light of The Eyes (2011) before serving as a script reader for Hollywood movie studios, Eclectic Pictures and The Hideaway Entertainment. His latest short film, Carving The Creative Vision, has won an award of excellence in BEA's Festival of Media Arts 2025. Dr. Hayat’s research focuses on the commissioning process of TV dramas with special interest in Arab and American programming. His research is published in prestigious academic journals, and he continues to investigate the storytelling procedures involved in the development of media products.

Work

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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Assistant Professor

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Ferrum College

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Assistant Professor

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The Hideaway Entertainment

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Script Reader

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Eclectic Pictures

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Script Reader

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Kuwait TV

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Producer

Kuwait

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Education

University of Salford

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Ph.D. in Media & Cultural Studies

University of Washington

United States of America
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Master of Communication, Digital Media

California State University, Fullerton

United States of America
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Bachelor of Arts, Radio-TV-Film

Publications

The Complex Count and the Curing of Toxic Masculinity in Dracula

The Works of Steven Moffat

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The Tennessee Circle Drill

WBIR+

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Making Originals Out of Adaptations: The Case of Fox's The Gifted

The Journal of American Culture

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Exploring Mental Disorders in the Serial Dynamics of Slasher Series on Cable TV

Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives

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Carving the Creative Vision

BEA Festival of Media Arts / WBIR+

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Thoughts on Recycling

Clean Valley Council's Green Film Festival

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Complex Slasher Characters in American Basic Cable Television

Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory

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Putting the serial in context: Comparing the storytelling processes of contemporary primetime Kuwaiti television dramas with American network dramas

Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives

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