Dr Carolyn Shapiro

Senior Lecturer

School of Communication Design and School of Art

MA Creative Advertising and BA/MA Illustration

Falmouth University

Education

Certification, University of the Arts London, PhD Supervision course, 2009

Ph.D., Performance Studies, 2004; M.A. Performance Studies, 1993

Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY,

The School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Summer 1995

B.A. Comparative Literature, and History of Art , Cum Laude, May 1987

The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Awards

The Michael Kirby Award for most Distinguished Dissertation, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 2004

The Michael Kirby Dissertation Fellowship, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 1999

Performance Studies department grant for the School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, 1995

Graduate Assistantship, Department of Performance Studies,

September 1993 May 1995

Tisch School of the Arts Award for Academic Excellence, May 1994

Professional Experience

Invited Guest Lecturer, The Bentham Project, Faculty of Law, University College London, March 2015; June 2018

Senior Lecturer, MA Creative Advertising, School of Communication Design, Falmouth University, 2002-present

Course Coordinator, Critical Studies, BA Illustration, Falmouth University

2013-present.

Conference Coordinator, “Performing Objects”, and international conference at Falmouth University on Object Theatre and Object Oriented Ontology, 17-20 October 2013.

Senior Lecturer, MA Authorial Practice; MA Twentieth Century Art and Design; MA Graphic Design

Falmouth University, 2002-present

Associate Lecturer, BA English and Creative Writing; BA Film Studies; BA Advertising 2011-2012, Falmouth University

Adjunct Lecturer, English Department, Baruch College, City University of New York, 1996-1999

Administrative Coordinator,Journalism and Business Journalism Programs, Baruch College, City University of New York, 1995-1999

Presentations

On Objects. In: "On Objects," sponsored by The Forum for European Philosophy, 31 January 2017, Wolfson Theatre, London School of Economics.

Nature as Neighbour: Landscape’s Relation to the Human in Studio Ghibli Films. In: Language, Landscape and the Sublime, 29-30 June 2016, Dartington College, Devon.

Dirty Corner’s Elicitations and, “Myth Today,” today. In: Society for European Philosophy, August 23-26, 2016, Regent's University, London.

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.

Performing Objects/Performing Philosophy. In: Performance Philosophy, April 1-12, 2015, University of Chicago.

“On the Future Anterior in Visual Art,” presentation given to the Falmouth School of Art staff research seminar, 17 November, 2014

"(Per)happiness, Performative Language and the Figure of Automaton: reading the deconstructive wedge of Felicific Calculus", 13th conference for the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, August 20-23, 2014

“Teaching the 80s, or why Advertising students need to learn about Madonna and Damien Hirst,” paper presented as part of “Exploring and Remaking Critical Studies of Advertising,” at the International Communication Association conference, London, June 17-20 2013

Invited guest speaker, Theory-Practice Roundable discussion, Performance Studies International, Stanford University, CA, June 26-30, 2013

“Farther Uses of the Dead to the Living”: Reading the Felicity of the Body in Jeremy Bentham’s Auto-Icon—12th conference for the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Stern School of Business, New York University, 8-11 August 2012

“Disability as Deconstruction: Reading the Prosthetic in the work of Matthew Barney,” Cornwall Disability Research Network 6th Annual Conference, Cornwall College, St Austell, 28 October 2011.

Paper proposal accepted: “Matthew Barney’s Theatre of the Crypt: A Deconstruction of Architecture’s Fraternal Body”, Derrida Today conference in Sydney, Australia, July 2008.

Early papers

“Felicitous Thanatography,” Modern Language Association, Toronto, December 1997

“Performance and Instrumentality in the Work of Jeremy Bentham,” Performance Studies International, Atlanta, GA, April 1997

“Birthing the Nation: The Production of History at the Philadelphia SesquiCentennial World Fair,” Silver Anniversary Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Philadelphia, PA, April 1995

“Directing Action: The Lesbian Avengers, Performativity, and Performance,” Performance Studies International, New York University, March 1995

“Intravenal Song and the Inscription of the Queer Body: WE ARE ALL HIV+,” Seizing the Moment, University of Texas, March 1994

“Miralda’s Honeymoon Project: Performing a New/Old World Order,” Inside and Out, University of Minnesota, April 1993

Publications

“Historical and Philosophical Relations between The Uncanny and Illustration,” forthcoming chaper in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Illustration, ed. Alan Male.

“After the Gold Rush—‘Make America Great Again,” Designo:The Quarterly Journal of Design no. 4, Spring 2017.

“Nature as Neighbor: Landscape’s Relation to the Human in Studio Ghibli Films,” June 2014,

Review, Sophie Calle’s “Exquisite Pain”, Benzanoe, Summer 2011

“A Dynamic Orchestration of Space,” catalogue essay, Judy Buxton exhibition, New Millenium Gallery, St. Ives, April 2008.

“Directing Action,” High Performance, Summer 1995.

“Diamanda Galas,” review of performances at the Village Gate and The Kitchen, 1993, Women and Performance, v. 6, no. 1, #11, 1993.

Current scholarly activity

  • Member, College Art Association
  • Member, Connected Creative Communities Research Group, University College Falmouth; project: Collecting and Display Practices of Cornish Miners’ on The Lizard, Cornwall
  • Lead Supervisor, Matthew Lunt, PhD, Falmouth University: Harry Penhaul and the Encounter of the Real; internal PhD committees: Viva member for Ann Roberts; internal confirmation committee member, Jemma Anderson
  • Ongoing research on Jeremy Bentham’s philosophy of language
  • Ongoing research on manifestations of the Uncanny in the history of illustration
  • Ongong research on deconstruction and the visual arts
  • Ongoing research on “Wacky Packages”—childrens’ critiques of advertising in 1970s American popular culture