The Teaching and Technical Staff involved in running the courses at the Granada Centre
Rupert Cox.
rupert.cox@manchester.ac.uk
GCVA Director
My regional specialism is Japan: I conducted fieldwork in the Kansai area, Kyushu, Tokyo and Okinawa. Some of my research interests include Zen art, art practice as ethnographic research, visual and sensory studies, the political ecology of military systems, soundscape studies and sound art practice.
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Jolynna Sinanan.
jolynna.sinanan@manchester.ac.uk
Director of MA in Visual Anthropology
I am a digital and visual anthropologist, with thematic areas in intergenerational mobilities, work and gender. I have conducted extensive fieldwork in Trinidad, Nepal, Australia and Cambodia and my current research focuses on the Everest tourism industry and includes a photographic study of development, environmental and social change.
Andrew Irving.
andrew.irving@manchester.ac.uk
Professor of Anthropology
My regional specialisations are Kampala, Uganda and New York, USA. I do research on experiences of illness, death and dying (especially from HIV/AIDS), in relation to the aesthetic appreciation of time, existence, and otherness; I am also interested in phenomenology, art, performance and creativity, time, comparisons of personhood, religious change, gender and urban experiences.
Angela Torresan.
angela.torresan@manchester.ac.uk
Lecturer in Visual Anthropology
My area of studies ranges from indigenous politics, through transnational migration to postcoloniality (Brazil, Portugal). The research project I’m currently developing, Emerging Urban Convivialities, brings together my previous work with middle-class migration and a recent interest in processes of neo-liberal urban renewal and gentrification.
Lorenzo Ferrarini.
lorenzo.ferrarini@manchester.ac.uk
Lecturer in Visual Anthropology
My research interests include hunting, perception, the senses, visual anthropology, sound, phenomenology and embodiment. I worked on donso hunters in Burkina Faso, West Africa, looking at their relationship with a changing environment and embodied knowledge. I make documentary films, photography and sound recordings.
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Andy Lawrence.
andrew.lawrence@manchester.ac.uk
Part-Time Senior Lecturer in Visual Anthropology
I make documentary films on subjects relating to anthropology and experiment with new methods and technologies for filmmaking as research. I am interested in the uncertainty that surrounds momentous life changing experiences. I have made films about childbirth, death, adolescence, old age, adventure and identity in the UK, India and Peru.
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Alexandra D’Onofrio.
alexandra.donofrio@manchester.ac.uk
Lecturer in Visual Anthropology
I am a visual anthropologist, documentary film director and community arts facilitator with a particular focus on creative practices adopted from Theatre of the Oppressed, PhotoVoice and Participatory Video. I worked on experiences of illegal crossings in the Mediterranean combining theatre, storytelling, photography, documentary filmmaking and animation as co-creative research methods with a group of Egyptian men. I am particularly interested in exploring the existential spaces between imagination, memory and experience in the context of migration and critical events.
Chris Wright.
christopher.wright-4@manchester.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Visual Anthropology
I am a visual anthropologist and an artist who is interested in creatively bringing those two fields together. I have done research in the Himalayas, the south Pacific, and with First Nations in the US around issues of media use and visual sovereignty, senses of place, and the potential for visual anthropology to address ecological concerns. I have published widely on anthropology and contemporary art and focus on encouraging anthropologists to explore a really wide range of experimental and collaborative practices.
Neil Spencer Bruce.
neil@spencerbruce.com
Guest Lecturer
My research interest and sound art practice focuses on soundscape, perception and expectation, sound design, field recording, sound preservation and immersive audio. My interest lies in sonic storytelling around soundscapes of isolation, infrastructure, decay and liminal edgelands spaces. I specialise in spatial field recording and building and designing immersive soundscape simulators, which have been used on a number of large scale EPRSC projects.
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