Kelli Fuery

Dr. Kelli Fuery is a Professor at Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Chapman University. Her expertise spans Contemporary Visual Culture, Film Theory, and Psychosocial and Cultural Theory.

Her research investigates the mediation of reality through visual culture, focusing on power dynamics, knowledge structures, ethics, and the aesthetics of emotional experience. She integrates psychoanalytic theory, critical philosophy, and feminist phenomenology into her work.

Her recent publications, including the edited collection Film Phenomenologies: Temporality, Embodiment, Transformation (2024), emphasize cinematic temporality, embodiment, and transformation. These works engage with thinkers like Merleau-Ponty, Barad, and Bachelard, while exploring topics such as trauma, affect, and new materialism.

Dr. Fuery serves on the Editorial Board of Film-Philosophy and is the Special Issues Editor for Film Matters. She has mentored student-run issues of Film Matters and contributed to journals like Psyche On Campus and The American Journal of Psychoanalysis.