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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Angela Torresan.
angela.torresan@manchester.ac.uk
Director of MA 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: Everyday interactions between foreigners and long-term residents in a pacified favela in Rio de Janeiro, brings together my previous work with middle-class migration and a recent interest in processes of neo-liberal urban renewal and gentrification.
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.
Jolynna Sinanan.
jolynna.sinanan@machester.ac.uk
Lecturer in Social and Digital Anthropology.
Dr Jolynna Sinanan has conducted extensive fieldwork in Trinidad, Nepal, Australia and Cambodia and has published widely on digital and data practices, digital visual communication, intergenerational mobilities, work and gender. Her books include Social Media in Trinidad (2017, UCL Press), Visualising Facebook (with D. Miller 2017, UCL Press) and Digital Media Practices in Households (with L. Hjorth et al. 2021, Amsterdam University Press). Jolynna’s current research focuses on mobile media and mobile livelihoods in the Everest tourism industry.
Lorenzo Ferrarini.
lorenzo.ferrarini@manchester.ac.uk
Lecturer in Social and 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.
lorenzoferrarini.com
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. I first completed my BA in Social Anthropology at SOAS in 2004, and since then have accompanied my academic trajectory with training and working as a community arts and storytelling facilitator, with a particular focus on creative practices adopted from Theatre of the Oppressed, PhotoVoice and Participatory Video.
In 2017 I obtained my PhD in Anthropology Media and Performance (AMP) at the University of Manchester, one of the very first practice-based PhD programmes in Anthropology, 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.
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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Rachel Fox.
rachel.fox@manchester.ac.uk
Media Coordinator
I worked as an editor at ITV Granada and BBC News, with around 600 on screen credits, then moved onto camera work starting in 16mm film and then digital. I have worked on animations such as Bob the Builder and Postman Pat as well as on the world’s longest running TV soap opera Coronation Street. I offer technical support to the students at the GCVA as well as give away TV secrets of how to make a good film. I’m interested in popular culture, the queer scene and all things Manchester.