Dr Alice Andrews

Alice's research is concerned with questions of dis/ability, response-ability, and practices of self in complex systems

Staff details

Dr Alice Andrews

Position

Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, Programme Leader Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Art History

Department

Visual Cultures

Email

a.andrews (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Arts and Humanities Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee

My research and pedagogy is orientated around Critical Disability Studies, Ableism Studies, Deconstruction, Daoist and Buddhist thought, and how these articulate with various practices of self. Addressing the question of response-ability within complex systems, my teaching and scholarship explore how theories, philosophies, myths, and socio-political narratives articulate with situated, material, and embodied creative actions. I am currently working on a monograph addressing capacities for ease within diseased times, and the role of everyday creative and artistic practices for enabling forms of personal and collective responsibility that resist centring the human.

Academic qualifications

  • PG Certificate in the Management of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Goldsmiths, University of London 2014
  • PhD Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London 2012
  • MA Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths University of London 2007
  • BA Hons Fine Art Painting, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton 2003

Teaching and supervision

I have supervised PhD projects that engage with the following research areas: health and illness, communicability of pain, critical disability studies, performance art, mental health activism, autobiography, autotheory and critical autoethnography.

I am the Programme Lead for the Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Art History, where I convene the core module Histories of Art Lecture series and Histories of Art Laboratory. I also convene the 3rd Year BA module Autobiographies. Previously, I have taught on the 1st year Core Modules Modernities and Introduction to Art History (Lectures and Laboratory), as well as the 3rd Year BA Module Sexual Poetics. I supervise MA Contemporary Art Theory Dissertation projects, and MRes Visual Cultures Research Projects.

I teach across the following programmes:

Featured publications

2020: Autoimmune actions in the ableist academy: A crip response.
In: Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh, eds. Ableism in Academia: Theorising experiences of disabilities and chronic illnesses in higher education. London: UCL Press, pp. 103-123. ISBN 9781787354975

2012: Articulating Pain: Writing the Autoimmune Self. In: EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and Jen Tarr, eds. Painscapes: Communicating Pain.
n: EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and Jen Tarr, eds. Painscapes: Communicating Pain. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 83-105. ISBN 9781349952717

2009: Enduring Death: The Hauntings of Literature and Art. Parallax, 17(4), pp. 124-127. ISSN 1353-4645
Parallax, 17(4), pp. 124-127. ISSN 1353-4645

2008: Autoimmune Illness as a Death-drive: An Autobiography of Defence Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, 44(3), pp. 189-203.
Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, 44(3), pp. 189-203.

Grants and awards

AHRC Doctoral Award
Arts and Humanities Doctoral funding, 2007

Publications and research outputs

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Conference or Workshop Item

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Conferences and talks

2012: Andrews, Alice. 2012. 'Treating (with) Autoimmunity II'
In 3rd International Derrida Today Conference. University of California, United States

2012: Andrews, Alice. 2012. 'Treating (with) Autoimmunity'
In: Derrida Konferenz Frankfurt. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany March 14-16 2012

2006: Andrews, Alice. 2010. 'The Autoimmune Death Drive: Freud, Derrida and the ethics of the biopolitical'
In: Freud After Derrida. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada 6 - 9 October 2010.

2010: Andrews, Alice. 2010. 'Autoimmunity, Illness and the Ethics of the New'.
In: 2nd Derrida Today International Conference. Goodenough College, London, United Kingdom 19 - 21 July 2010.

2010: Andrews, Alice. 2010. 'Derrida, Autoimmunity and the Technical Animal'
In: Zoontotechnics (Animality/Technicity). Cardiff University, United Kingdom 12 - 14 May 2010.

2009: Andrews, Alice. 2009. 'Reading Derrida’s “No Apocalypse"'.
In: Laboratory: Methods of Interart Studies. InterArt, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 16 - 18 November 2009.

2009: Andrews, Alice. 2009. 'The Futures of Autoimmunity'.
In: Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk. Cardiff University, United Kingdom 2 - 3 July 2009.

2008: Andrews, Alice. 2008. 'The Inscription of an Autoimmune Body'.
In: Writing in a Post Derridean Era. Vaxjo University, Sweden 23 - 25 October 2008.