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Dr

Elisa Adami

Research Fellow and Editor Afterall

Central Saint Martins

  • Research Fellow and Editor Afterall
    Central Saint Martins
  • University of the Arts London, Afterall, Central Saint Martins, The Granary, 1 Granary Square, London, N1C 4AA, United Kingdom

TEACHING INTERESTS

I teach writing sessions and lead editing surgeries for PGR students throughout the year.

 

The writing sessions are organised around two thematic clusters: 

 

  1. 'Writing With/Against the Archive' explores different forms and modes of writing archival research, including: positionality and embodied forms of writing; methods of close reading and sensorial attunement; fiction, speculative narratives and critical fabulation. Archive is understood in the broadest sense: it could be a collection of documents housed in a physical building, a body of literature, a set of images or ideas, a group of objects or a repertoire of gestures etc. Responding to writing prompts, participants are asked to write in situ with the opportunity of reflecting on, sharing and receiving peer feedback on their writing.
  2.  'Writing In Between Languages' explores multilingual writing or writing in translation. Language is understood in an expanded sense: including dialects, vernaculars, creoles and patois, sign languages, non-verbal languages, graphic or visual languages, and embracing different levels of linguistic proficiency. Responding to writing prompts, participants are asked to write in situ with the opportunity of reflecting on, sharing and receiving peer feedback on their writing.

 

I also occasionally teach on MA CCC, MRes Exhbition Histories and MA Performance: Screen. 

 

In the past I have developed webinars on the theme of 'Decolonising Archives' for UAL Short Courses.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

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  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Decolonsing Eastern Materiality [through the artefacts and art objects of the 19th century Qajar, Iran]
    18 Mar 2021
    Taatizadeh, Niloofar
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Against Obliteration: An Investigation into the Colonial Overwriting of Palestinian Land and Language, and Palestinian Practices of Rewriting as Resistance
    Mattar, Mira
  • COURSE DEVELOPED
    Along the Archival Grain: Writing With/Against the Archive
  • COURSE DEVELOPED
    Sharing Practices: Editing
  • COURSE DEVELOPED
    Speaking in Tongues: Multilingualism, Translation & Decolonising Languages