Who's who
Dr Carolyn Shapiro Wyatt
Senior lecturer
Dr Carolyn Shapiro Wyatt, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Writing, has been lecturing at UCF for nine years on visual culture and communication, critical theory and in the history of modern art and design. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University, in New York. She lectured in New York in the English Department of Baruch College, City University of New York, for three years prior to her move to Cornwall.
Her lecturing at UCF has spanned many different programs, including the MA Creative Advertising; MA 20th Century Art and Design; MA Graphic Design; MA Fine Arts; BA(Hons) Illustration, BA(Hons) Film; BA(Hons) Advertising and BA(Hons) Textile Design.
Her primary research interests comprise psychoanalysis and deconstruction as critical practice, investigating the work of visual artists Matthew Barney, Sophie Calle and Tacita Dean, in particular. Other theoretical interests include discursive approaches to performance and performativity in contemporary visual culture. She has worked closely with several painters represented by the Cornwall 100 website, assisting them with their catalogue essays and critical approaches to their work.
Carolyn is part of the faculty research group at UCF investigating Collecting Practices in Cornwall, her own project comprising an oral history of Cornish miners' collections of gems and minerals.
She is currently supervising Matthew Lunt's doctoral dissertation on the work of the 1950s Cornish photographer Harry Penhaul, as read through the provocative theoretical framework of the Lacanian Marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek.
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