Dr Karen Randell

Dr Karen Randell is principal lecturer in Film and programme leader for Film and Television. She studied at the University of Southampton where she gained a BA (Hons) in English Literature and an MA in Film Studies. In 2005 she was awarded her PhD from the University of Southampton on War Trauma and Hollywood film (World War I and the Vietnam War) which was supervised by Dr Michael Hammond and Dr Linda Ruth Williams.

Karen teaches across the undergraduate degree on Culture and Film, Film History,
World Cinema and Contemporary Cinemas. She supervises dissertation students and
teaches the level 3 option unit, 'Visualising War'.

Karen enjoys parties, travel, going to the cinema and reading trashy novels. 

Her research interests include images of trauma, Lon Chaney, the war genre, post 9/11 popular culture and issues of gender. Karen is currently working on an edited volume with co-authors Dr. Anna Froula (ECU, USA) and Dr. Jeff Birkenstein (St. Martins, USA): Re-framing 9/11: Popular Culture and the War on Terror (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) and an anthology on the work of Terry Gilliam (forthcoming Wallflower/Columbia UP, 2011). She is also working on a monograph, Visualizing War, on images of trauma after World War I and an edited collection, Women and World Cinema with Dr. Eylem Atakav (UEA).

Karen is published in Screen (Summer 2003), Film History (2005) and Art in the Age of Terrorism, Graham Coutler-Smith ed., (London: Holberton Publication: 2005).

She is co-author of Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies (Wallflower Press: 2005) with Dr. Jacqueline Furby (SSU) and The War Body on Screen (Continuum, NY: 2008) with Dr. Sean Redmond (U. Victoria, NZ).

Karen has presented papers at many international conferences in the USA and Australia and has undertaken research at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand in 2009 on New Zealand film and World War I.