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Adelaide Mcginity-Peebles
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Arts
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Biography
In 2021, I began my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project, "Figurations of the Arctic in Russian Cinema, 2010 - Present". In 2020, I obtained my PhD in Russian Studies from the University of Manchester, and my PhD thesis examined representations of the provinces in recent Russian film. From this research, I have contributed articles to scholarly publications including Film Studies, The Oxford Research Encylopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Communication, Slavic and East European Journal, and The Routledge Companion to European Cinema. Prior to this, I gained an MA in French and Francophone Studies from UCL (Distinction) and a BA in French and Russian from the University of Manchester (First Class with Distinction in Spoken French and Spoken Russian).
Research Summary
My Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project, "Figurations of the Arctic in Russian Cinema, 2010-Present" investigates how the Arctic is imagined in cinema produced within and outside of the Russian… read more
Current Research
My Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project, "Figurations of the Arctic in Russian Cinema, 2010-Present" investigates how the Arctic is imagined in cinema produced within and outside of the Russian Arctic. It also examines how Russian Arctic film and film industries construct the region's relationship to the broader Arctic, which has concurrently experienced a filmmaking boom. It therefore aims to contribute to the scholarship on the Arctic, Russia, transnational cinema, Indigenous Studies, and the environmental humanities more broadly.
Past Research
My PhD research focused on representations of the provinces in contemporary Russian cinema, and I was awarded my PhD from the University of Manchester in 2020. I have published aspects of this research in Film Studies, The Routledge Companion to European Cinema, Slavic and East European Journal and The Oxford Research Encylopedia in Race, Ethnicity and Communication.
Future Research
I am interested in Indigenous filmmaking and creative industries, world cinema, and transnational film theory.