About

I earned my PhD in Film & Television Studies at the University of Warwick. My thesis examines the vid, a form of amateur/fan video art made from television and film sources that constructs creative and critical analyses of existing media. I have published articles in Feminist Media Studies, CineAction, and on the Critical Studies in Television blog, as well as contributed chapters to an edited collection on Doctor Who, and the forthcoming Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored (Palgrave, 2017). I am also a research assistant and visiting tutor at Birmingham City University.

Research interests

My research interests include television history, the vid and other fanworks, amateur historiography, archival practice, and the representation of women in science fiction.

I organised the Paratextual Media and Memory symposium, held on 4 July 2016.

Teaching history

At Warwick:

• FI106, Film History (seminar tutor, Fall 2016)
• FI205, Television History and Criticism (module convenor, Spring 2016)
• FI108, Theories of the Moving Image (seminar tutor, Spring 2015)
• FI102, The Hollywood Cinema (seminar tutor, Spring 2014)
• FI102, The Hollywood Cinema (seminar tutor, Spring 2012)

At Birmingham City University:

• MED5127, Celebrity Culture (module co-convenor, Spring 2016)
• MED5104, Managing Media Projects and Dissertations (tutor and marker/grader, Spring 2016)

Publications

• Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘The Home Media Archive and Vernacular Historiography.’ Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored. Edited by Jonathan Wroot and Andy Willis. London: Palgrave, forthcoming.

• Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘To Watch Wonder Woman.’ Feminist Media Studies 15.5 (2015): 900-903.

• Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘The Popular Electronic: Doctor Who and the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop.’ In Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Edited by Melissa Beattie, Ross P. Garner, Una McCormack. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. 172-182.

• Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘Telling the (Wrong) Story: The Disintegration of Transcultural Communication and Narrative in The Fall.’ CineAction 80 (2010): 30-37.

Selected papers and presentations

• '"What We Vid in the Shadows": Curating a Vampire Vidshow for VidUKon 2016.' International Vampire Film and Arts Festival Academic Symposium. Sighisoara, Romania. 25-29 May 2016.

• ‘The Vid Form and Representing Star Trek (2009)’. Millburn House Symposium. University of Warwick: 27 May 2015.

• ‘Breaking Wanted in Three-and-a-Half Minutes’. The Digital In Depth symposium. University of Warwick: 30 May 2014.

• ‘The Collection as Archive in Star Trek Vids’. Researching Film and Television Through the Archive symposium. University of Warwick: 9 November 2012.

• ‘The Fanvid as Critical Biography.’ Writing Lives: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Uses of Biography. University of Warwick: 25 May 2012.

• ‘Performing Fan Readings of Archival Bodies: Memory and Star Trek.’ Invited Lecture, Literature in a World Context Research Group. University of Aberdeen: 18 April 2012.

• ‘Decoding the Captions: Relations of Audio and Video Sources in Fanvids.’ High and Low: Ninth Annual English Postgraduate Conference. University of Dundee: 9 June 2011.

• ‘Voguing 300: Fanvids, Digital Technology & Amateur Critical Analysis.’ Can You Digit: Cinema & the Digital, University of Toronto Graduate Students Colloquium. Toronto: 25-26 March, 2010.

• ‘Firefly: Between the Noir Frontier to the Final Frontier.’ Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association annual conference, Boston: 5-7 November 2009.

• ‘The Commercial Electronic: Stockhausen, the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop and Doctor Who.’ Whoniversal Appeal: Postgraduate Conference on Doctor Who, Cardiff: 14-16 Nov 2008.

Qualifications

• PhD Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick, UK (2015)
• MA Communication & Culture, York University, joint degree with Ryerson University, Canada (2010)
• BA (Hons) Film (Cinema and Media Studies), York University, Canada (2008)

Select awards and funding

• Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (2011-2015)
• University of Warwick Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2010-2013)
• SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (2009/10)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2008/09)