Fellow 2022-2023 CHRISTINE CORNEA
I am an Associate Professor with the Department of Film, Television, and Media, at the University of East Anglia. My teaching and research has broadly been concerned with the cultural significance of popular cinema and television genres. Recent work has specifically revolved around questions of race, gender/sexuality, screen performance, industrial aesthetics and practices in film and television.
While I have previously drawn upon both historical and theoretical traditions, current work has also focused upon interdisciplinary approaches to research. I have explored all of these areas in recent journal articles, book chapters, and edited collection publications as well as in my teaching at PhD, MA and BA levels. I am a Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy and recent winner of a UEA Engagement Award (2020).
I am currently a named Investigator on a large-scale transdisciplinary project (Sept 2019 - March 2022), supported by a recently successful UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund award. My outputs for this project include a series of 12 short films (of varying length, from 2mins-21mins), developing training materials for participatory filmmaking, reports, conference and research seminar papers, and forthcoming journal articles. I have supervised numerous student dissertations at UG and MA levels, and have been the primary supervisor for 12 PhD students who have successfully graduated and moved onto careers in academia and related research posts. I have also undertaken a number of external roles, including: Member of Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College, Programme Committee member for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Specialist Reviewer for the German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD), Reviewer for Carnegie Trust PhD grant proposals, External Examiner for UG courses at the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film and Television, at the University of Bristol, External Examiner for 6 PhD theses. Alongside my research, teaching, and administrative duties, I am also the Director of the annual Green Film Festival @UEA, which is a cross-Faculty event open to academics and general public (see website: https://www.ueagreenfilmfestival.co.uk/). I originated this annual festival in 2016 and it has since grown to become an annual highlight event in the university calendar.