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Carolyn Shapiro
Carolyn Shapiro was one of the organizers of the 12th Annual Illustration Research Symposium, held online 14–15 July 2022, sponsored by Falmouth University. She is associate professor of visual culture and has been teaching at the Falmouth College of Art, University College Falmouth and Falmouth University successively since 2002. She received her Ph.D. in performance studies in 2004 from New York University. Carolyn is based in the Illustration programme at the Falmouth School of Art and in postgraduate research at Falmouth University, where she is an active Ph.D. thesis supervisor. Her research is interdisciplinary and reads visual and textual culture through deconstructive, feminist and psychoanalytic frameworks. Research interests include: illustration and philosophy; performance studies; eighteenth-century visual and textual culture, including the philosophy of Jeremy Bentham; the Uncanny in literature and visual culture; folk horror; and contemporary semiotics and tropologies. Carolyn has been published by Intellect Publishing; Wiley Blackwell; UCL Press; Rowman & Littlefield; MAI Feminism and by the journal History of the Present/Duke University Press. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Illustration.
Contact: Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth University, 25 Woodlane, Falmouth TR11 4RH, UK.
