Karen Alexander

Karen Alexander is currently a senior tutor in the RCA’s Curating Contemporary Art department with responsibility for the work-based pathway (Inspire). Previously that she worked as a film curator and freelance consultant on film exhibition and distribution. Karen’s areas of interest are representation, gender, identity and independent cinema and she has contributed to several books on film including British Cinema of the 90s (1997), Women and Film: Sight & Sound Reader (1999), and If Looks Could Kill (2008). From 1998 – 2006 she worked at the British Film Institute, with responsibility for the strategic marketing of BFI Distribution and Archive cinema releases.