Professor Erica Anne Carter FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2025
- Honours
- FBA
- Subjects
- Media, performance and communications
- Sections
- Culture, Media and Performance
Summary
Erica Carter is Professor of German and Film at King’s College London and founding Chair of the UK German Screen Studies Network. She began her academic career at the University of Birmingham, researching across German and Cultural Studies before taking time out of the academy to co-found the translation cooperative Material Word.
After briefly running the talks programme at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Carter returned to academe in 1989. She has held posts at the Universities of Southampton, Warwick, and King's College London, and visiting positions at the University of the Witwatersrand, SA, the Free University Berlin, the University of Nottingham and the University of Florida, Gainesville. Carter has researched and published on German, Black British and colonial cinema, Afro-diasporic audiovisual heritage, Anglo-German and colonial cultural studies and cultural history.
She has lectured and programmed events at venues including the British Film Institute, Goethe-Institut London and Accra, Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin, and the British Museum.
Carter was Fellow in 2023-4 at the King’s College London Global Cultures Institute, where she co-led initiatives to safeguard Sudanese audiovisual and documentary heritage following the 2023 outbreak of war in Sudan.