DR CAROLYN SHAPIRO – Wunderkammer Online

DR CAROLYN SHAPIRO, SENIOR LECTURER

E: carolyn.shapiro@falmouth.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1326 211 077

Dr Carolyn Shapiro received her MA and PhD in Performance Studies from New York University (2004), and received a BA in Comparative Literature and History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. She taught in the English department at Baruch College, City University of New York, from 1996-1999, before moving to the UK in 1999. She has been lecturing in critical theory and history and cultural studies at Falmouth since 2002, across disciplines, including: BA(Hons) History of Modern Art and Design; MA 20th Century Art and Design; BA(Hons) Advertising; MA Creative Advertising; BA(Hons) Illustration, MA Authorial Practice; MA Communication Design; MA Graphic Design; BA(Hons) English and Creative Writing; and BA(Hons) Film Studies.

She currently holds the position of course coordinator for Critical Studies for BA(Hons) Illustration and as primary tutor for the theories and discourses module for MA Authorial Practice, and has been the primary tutor on the Visual Culture and Communication module for the MA Creative Advertising for 15 years. She is lead supervisor for Phd candidates Matthew Lunt, Louise Bell, and Jeanie Sinclair at Falmouth University. In October 2013, Carolyn received a substantial research and innovation grant from the Academy of Innovation and Research at Falmouth University to put on the international four day conference, Performing Objects, which took place across multiple venues between Falmouth and Penryn campuses, and included papers, performances, and workshops for both students and the general public. Coordinated with Performing Objects was the art exhibit “Felicitous Objects” at The Poly gallery, which Carolyn co-curated with Maria Christoforidou.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Research interests and expertise:

Critical theory, including psychoanalysis and deconstruction, and feminist, queer and post-colonial theory; cultural studies; semiotics; illustration and authorial practice; performance studies, including performance philosophy; philosophy of language; 20th century art and design; advertising and the consumer subject; social networking and subjectivity; object theatre (puppetry and automata); material culture, focusing on collecting and display practices.

Research topics:

The Auto-Icon of Jeremy Bentham
Bentham’s philosophy of language
Deconstruction in the visual arts (Matthew Barney
Sophie Calle
Tacita Dean
and others)
Visual troping of the Future Anterior
Wacky Packages: Consumer critique in the 1970s
Facebook as Autothanatography
Object Theatre and Object Oriented Ontology
philosophical theories on *automata*
Illustrating the Uncanny

External research websites:

Membership of external committees:

Member, International Society for Utilitarian Studies; member, College Art Association
Member, Falmouth Art Gallery

Article:

Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2018) Solicitations, or, Asking for it: The Violations of Anish Kapoor’s *Dirty Corner*. MAI Feminism, Autumn 2018 (2). ISSN 2003-1672
Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2016) After the Gold Rush: Make America Great Again. Disegno, 14. ISSN unknown (In Press) Item availability may be restricted.
Wyatt, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2012) Exquisite Pain. Benzanoe, 65.

Book Selection:

Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2020) Bentham’s Image: The Corpo-Reality Check. In: Bentham and the Arts. UCL Press, London. ISBN 9781787357389 (In Press)
Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2019) Historical and Philosophical Relations between the Uncanny and Illustration. In: A Companion to Illustration: Art and Theory. Blackwell Companions to Art History . Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 444-466. ISBN 978-1-119-18553-6 Item availability may be restricted.
Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2019) “Happiness, Dead and Alive: Object Theatre as Philosophy of the Encounter,” in the forthcoming book Second Nature: Comic Performance and Philosophy. In: Second Nature: Comic Performance and Philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield, London, UK. ISBN N/A (Submitted) Item availability may be restricted.

Conference or Workshop Item:

Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2017) Illustration, Performativity and the Explicit Body of Marie-Antoinette in Eighteenth-Century French Pornographic Pamphlets. In: Illustrating Identity/ies, 8-10 November, 2017, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France. (Unpublished)
Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2017) On Objects.In: “On Objects,” sponsored by The Forum for European Philosophy, 31 January 2017, Wolfson Theatre, London School of Economics.
Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2016) Dirty Corner’s Elicitations and, “Myth Today,” today. In: Society for European Philosophy, August 23-26, 2016, Regent’s University, London. (Unpublished)
Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2016) Nature as Neighbour: Landscape’s Relation to the Human in Studio Ghibli Films. In: Lanugage, Landscape and the Sublime, 29-30 June 2016, Dartington College, Devon.
Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2016) Deconstructive Tendencies in Bentham’s Philosophy of Language: Reading the (per)Happiness in Felicific Calculus. In: The Bentham Project Seminar Series, 11 March 2016, Faculty of Laws, University College London. (Submitted)
Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2014) Performing Objects/Performing Philosophy. In: Performance Philosophy, April 1-12, 2015, University of Chicago. (Unpublished)
Shapiro, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2014) (Per)happiness, Performative Language and the Figure of the Automaton: reading the deconstructive wedge of Felicific Calculus. In: Well-Being Reconsidered: the International Society for Utilitaran Studies, 19-22 August 2014, Yokohama University.
Wyatt, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2012) “Farther Uses of the Dead to the Living”: Reading the Felicity of the Body in Jeremy Bentham’s Auto-Icon. In: International Society for Utilitarian Studies, 8 – 11 August 2012, Stern School of Business, New York University, USA.
Wyatt, Carolyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-8111 (2011) Reading the work of Matthew Barney: Disability as Deconstruction. In: Disability and The Arts, 28 October 2011, Cornwall College, St Austell.

Current research students:

Matthew Lunt, PhD, Harry Penhaul and the Answer of the Real; Louise Bell, PhD, Hidden Fractures: Plymouth Illustrated Within its Repairs; Jeanie Sinclair, PhD, ‘We came for the parties’: art community, sound and place in postwar St Ives.

Previous student supervision:

Gemma Anderson, PhD confirmation committee; numerous MA degrees (MA 20th Century Art and Design; MA Creative Advertising)

Research degrees examined:

Internal examiner for the PhD confirmation of Gemma Anderson, Falmouth University; Internal examiner at the viva of Ann Robertson, Falmouth University; numerous MA degrees examined (at least 150); Internal Examiner, Jason Cleverley, 2017; Francesca Williams, forthcoming, 2018.

My completed research degree supervision lies with the MA courses at Falmouth University, where I have supervised and examined approximately 20 MA theses in the MA 20th Century Art and Design program, and well over 100 MA Creative Advertising degrees.

Number of research degree examinations:

120

Exhibition:

Scott, Linda (2011) Ghosts Of Gone Birds. [Exhibition]

TEACHING

Areas of teaching:

Critical Theory (Structuralism)
Post-Structuralism
Psychoanalysis)
Expository Writing
Semiotics
Advertising and the consumer subject
Performance Studies
History of Modern Art and Design
Critical theory of graphic design
Gender Studies
Modernism/Postmodernism
Social Networking and Subjectivity
Cultural Studies
Dissertation Supervision
Film Studies

Courses taught at Falmouth University:

BA(Hons) Illustration
MA Creative Advertising
BA English (with Creative Writing)
MA Authorial Practice

PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT

Social, community and cultural engagement:

Conference coordinator, “Performing Objects,” October 17-20 2013, Falmouth University, in collaboration with The Performance Centre, The Poly, Falmouth Gallery, Kneehigh Theatre

Engagement with professional associations and societies:

The Bentham Project, University College London

Professional/scholarly development:

Course: Delegate, Performance Philosophy symposium, The Sorbonne, 2014
Course: Invited Panelist, Performance Studies International, Stanford University, 2013
Course: Presenter, International Communications Association, London, 2013
Course: Illustr4tio (https://illustrationetwork.wordpress.com/), 2017

EXAMPLES OF PRACTICE

‘Sunset Strip’, Falmouth, Cornwall

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