Dr Katie Crosson

Katie Crosson is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Curation on the project 'Women's Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible'.

She recently completed her Techne (AHRC) funded PhD 'Replay for Today (1970-1984): Revisiting Play for Today at Fifty' at Royal Holloway, University of London and the British Film Institute. Her thesis re-conceptualises BBC1's Play for Today as a strand rather than a canon of plays, paying attention to its overlooked aspects, including uses of the sentimental mode; depictions of sexual violence against women; and the construction of a kind of 'negative joy' that fuses form and content to reframe injustice affectively and discursively. The thesis explores aesthetic and personified exclusions of the canon from a feminist perspective. 

Upon completion of her PhD, she worked at Royal Holloway as a Visiting Lecturer in Film, Television and Media Studies. She has also worked at the University of Warwick as a Research Assistant on the 'Ghost Town' project within the Film and Television Department. She holds an MA in Film and Screen Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in Film Studies from Warwick. 

Her research explores critical approaches to curation, including practices of decanonisation; feminist screen theory; realism(s) and emotion; film and television histories, especially in relation to marginalisation; representations of violence against women on-screen; and the relationship between aesthetics and ideology.

In 2020, she guest curated the collaborative exhibition 'Play for Today at 50' with the BFI and the BBC, and co-programmed the Southbank season of the same name. Her work has been published by BFI Features, BFI Publications, BBC Histories and Critical Studies in Television.