Jenny Chamarette Read Bio Collapse
Jenny Chamarette is a writer, researcher, and curator. She is Co-Investigator on the interdisciplinary AHRC-funded project The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema and Senior Research Fellow in Art at the University of Reading in the UK. She has articles forthcoming in 2022 in Film Quarterly and MIRAJ (Moving Image Research and Art Journal) on Dwoskin’s disability techno-activism, crip sexuality, and cultural legacy. Her creative non-fiction memoir, Q is for Garden, on queerness and cultivation, was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize and longlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize 2021. Her next monograph, Museums and the Moving Image: Cinemuseology, Cultural Politics, Film is forthcoming with Bloomsbury in 2023. With Creative Director Gaylene Gould and The Space To Come, she is currently curating How Do You Feel Cinema?, a participatory research project for Research England, developing “feeling experiences” for film in collaboration with the British Film Institute and the University of Reading. She sits on the editorial boards of the Film Section for Modern Languages Open, MAI Press (an imprint of Punctum Books) and MAI: Journal of Feminism and Visual Culture.