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Dr. Michele Pierson is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London’s Faculty of Arts & Humanities. She holds a BA (Hons) and PhD from the University of Melbourne. Before joining King’s in 2006, she was a Lecturer in Film at the University of Queensland and a Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa’s Department of Cinematic Arts (2008). Her research focuses on experimental and avant-garde cinema, institutional film histories, expanded cinema/performance intersections, and feminist film/media studies.
Her notable works include Special Effects: Still In Search of Wonder (2002) and Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs (2011, co-edited). She has published widely in journals like Discourse, Film History, and Millennium Film Journal, with recent contributions exploring avant-garde accessibility and Ken Jacobs’ legacy. Pierson teaches experimental cinema and feminist film studies, and has led initiatives like the 2017 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival seminar. She has received grants for projects such as archival research in the USA (2006-07) and accessibility studies in experimental film (2010).
Her research spans critical analyses of 20th-century experimental filmmakers, institutional film funding (e.g., BFI’s Experimental Film Fund), and intersections between film and performance. She actively engages in public lectures at institutions like the British Film Institute and the Goethe University Frankfurt.
