Dr Felicity Colman   BA(Design) BA(Art History) MA(Visual Culture) PhD(Art/Screen)

Felicity Colman lectures on questions of political aesthetics in relation to world cinemas, histories of world film theory, censorship and media theory, commodity cultures (including television), avant-garde and experimental screen media. She is engaged in research into various theories of epistemological modes of address – by creative praxis and by creative theory. Felicity's research and teaching draws on world cinemas, with a focus on art, experimental, independent, indigenous, militant, documentary and feminist work from around the globe. Felicity has published on aesthetics, gender issues, and contemporary art and cinema practices, with specific reference to Gilles Deleuze and Fèlix Guattari, in journals including Angelaki: The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Women: A Cultural Review, Reconstruction, and The Refractory.

Felicity is the author of Deleuze and Cinema (2011 Berg) and editor of Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers (Acumen Publishing 2009), co-editor of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (Cambridge Scholars Press 2007). She has a number of monographs forthcoming, including Contemporary Film Theory (Wallflower Press), and books on Screen Affect, Robert Smithson, Screen Manifestos, and Bergson & Cinema.

Felicity is also working on a number of collaborative projects, including a co-authored book on television theory and media theory, feminist theory, and anti-theory for screen. Felicity is also engaged in a practice based project using photography and digital video, titled Sun.

Prior to lecturing at Manchester Metropolitan University, Felicity taught visual cultural theory, and screen techniques to filmmakers, art students, art teachers, and theory students at Universities and art colleges in Australia, including the University of Melbourne, Swinburne University, Prahran, Melbourne, and at the Centre for Ideas at The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Felicity also worked in the contemporary arts industry in Melbourne for several years, as a facilitator of artist run galleries, including STRIPP gallery in Fitzroy, Melbourne. In 2001, Felicity was the recipient of a Smithsonian Scholar (Internship) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

Felicity holds the following research degrees:
BA(Design) Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
BA(Art History) University of Queensland
MA(Visual Culture) Monash University
PhD(Art/Screen)University of Melbourne

Research Supervisions:
Felicity is available to supervise students for MA and PhD research in the areas of experimental film, film & media philosophy, political screen theory, feminist film & media, censorship in film & media, critical art and screen theory, film sound, teen cinemas, and other related topics.

Professional Activities:

Editorial Board Member for Deleuze Studies | The English Research Institute, MMU. ISSN 1752-5624 http://www.eri.mmu.ac.uk/deleuze/ed_board.php

Editorial Board Member for Body Space & Society. ISSN 1470-9120 http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/non_ie.html

Editorial Board Member of Fibre Culture: internet: theory + criticism + research ISSN: 1449 - 1443 http://journal.fibreculture.org/about.html

Editorial Board Member of Transformations. Fully refereed theoretical humanities journal, ISSN 1444-3775 http://transformations.cqu.edu.au/journal/editorial_board.shtml

Editorial Board member for The Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media. Fully refereed ISSN: 1447-4905 , http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/

Reviewer for M/C Journal: A Journal of Media & Culture. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

2010-2013 External Examiner for MA FIlm & Video Production, University of West London, London, UK.

Member of the AHRC (UK) Peer Review College 2010+