Who's who
Camilla Peters
Senior Lecturer
Camilla is currently a senior lecturer in Film Studies at University College Falmouth. As a mature student she gained an honours degree in Humanities with the Open University while her four children were small. She then trained as a sculptor on a 4-year full time Fine Art course at University College Falmouth (1988-1992) followed by an MA in Women’s Studies at Exeter University (1994).
She taught drawing and sculpture on a part-time basis on the Foundation Course at Falmouth (1992 -1995) followed by a full-time post on the Visual Culture BA(Hons) programme teaching courses on cultural studies, post colonial studies, feminisms and art history until, as Programme Leader for the final two years, she oversaw its closure in 2001. She then applied to teach part-time on the Film Studies BA(Hons) course as well as taking up the two-year Associate Dean post (2001-2003).
Camilla currently works as a full-time lecturer on the Film Studies BA(Hons) course where her main areas of interest are the links between experience, theory and practice as developed in her own art practice and as it informs film history, reception and production. Areas of film specialism include the politics of film, documentary, film art, gender and film. Camilla has wide experience on committees and Learning and Teaching directives and is a practising artist having exhibited in Bristol, Exeter, Bath, Dartington and throughout Cornwall.
She is currently collaborating on the production of a limited edition of 20 art medals for the British Artists Medals Society (BAMS) and researching into the aesthetics and uses of home movies in mainstream film.
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