Dr Alex Fletcher
Visiting TutorOverview
I am a lecturer and critic based in London.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- PhD (Kingston University) Dissertation title: ‘Compilation and Critique: The Essay as a Literary, Cinematographic and Videographic Form’ (2018)
- MA Aesthetics and Art Theory (Kingston University) (2013)
- BA Fine Art, (Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London) (2010)
Teaching
I currently teach on the MA Film Practice (online).
Courses
- MA Film Practice (Online)
Research
Research Interests and Projects
My research interests include experimental cinema and artists’ moving image; archival and documentary practices; world cinema and global modernisms; photography and media theory; critical theory and Marxism; post- and de-colonial theory; the politics of art and labour. My writing has appeared in various publications, including Art Monthly, Sight and Sound, Film International, Radical Philosophy, Third Text, Philosophy of Photography, and Historical Materialism.
Professional Engagement
I am an editor of the journal Philosophy of Photography; a co-convenor of the seminar series Marxism in Culture; and a co-leader of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) special interest group on the ‘Essay Film’.
Recently, I started the Photoecologies Study Group with Rowan Lear and Noa Levin. We are currently in the process of organising a series of online seminars, where scholars and artists from a range of backgrounds are invited to share their current research, approaching photomedia as an environmental, elemental and energetic assemblage.