Dr Becca Voelcker

Staff details

Position

Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies

Department

Art

Email

b.voelcker (@gold.ac.uk)

Links

Website
beccavoelcker.com/about

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@BeccaVoelcker

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Centre for Art and Ecology

Global political cinemas; ecofeminism; colonial-capital-climate entanglements; Japan; diasporas; land.

Becca Voelcker writes on art, film, and visual culture, particularly in relation to politics and ecology. She earned her PhD at Harvard University in 2021, writing a global history of eco-political film. She has lived and worked in Britain, the US and Japan. Becca contributes to BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking, Film Comment Podcast and the collective mould.earth. Her writing has appeared in Screen, MIRAJ, Sight & Sound, Frieze, Film Comment, and Art Asia Pacific.

Academic qualifications

Harvard University, PhD: Film and Visual Studies with Secondary Field in Anthropology 2021
Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, Graduate Scholarship, Tokyo, Japan 2015
University of Cambridge (King’s College), MPhil: Screen Media and Cultures (Distinction) 2013
Goldsmiths College, University of London, BA Hons: Art Practice (First Class) 2012

Teaching and supervision

Areas of supervision for prospective doctoral students include: global political cinemas; ecofeminism; colonial-capital-climate entanglements; Japan; diasporas; land; artist moving image; documentary.

Fine Art Critical Studies

Publications and research outputs

Article

Insider/Outsider: Arlene Bowman’s Navajo Talking Picture Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2025. Insider/Outsider: Arlene Bowman’s Navajo Talking Picture. Transnational Screens, ISSN 2578-5273
Learning from Land Cinema: political pedagogy, plots and plantations Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2025. Learning from Land Cinema: political pedagogy, plots and plantations. Film Education Journal, 8(1), pp. 5-19. ISSN 2515-7086
Enough: Reading notes from media studies Vélez Serna, Maria A; Keilbach, Judith; Pabiś-Orzeszyna, Michał; Pape, Toni; Pedregal, Alejandro; ap Rhys, Iago; and Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2024. Enough: Reading notes from media studies. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, ISSN 2213-0217

Book Section

Cultivating Hinterland: What Lies Behind Agnes Denes’ Wheatfield? Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2023. Cultivating Hinterland: What Lies Behind Agnes Denes’ Wheatfield? In: Pamila Gupta; Sarah Nuttall; Esther Peeren and Hanneke Stuit, eds. Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment and Care. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 51-63. ISBN 9783031242427
Landscape Theory in Post-War Japanese Cinema: Fūkeiron in Adachi Masao’s A.K.A. Serial Killer Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2021. Landscape Theory in Post-War Japanese Cinema: Fūkeiron in Adachi Masao’s A.K.A. Serial Killer. In: Ludovic Cortade and Guillaume Soulez, eds. Penser l’espace avec le cinéma et la littérature. 10 New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 9781433176289

Broadcast

Becca Voelcker ar Rhaglen Ffion Dafis yn trafod Sinema'r Tir (Welsh language broadcast for BBC Radio Cymru) Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2025. Becca Voelcker ar Rhaglen Ffion Dafis yn trafod Sinema'r Tir (Welsh language broadcast for BBC Radio Cymru).
The Essay New Generation Thinkers 2024 Land Cinema Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2025. The Essay New Generation Thinkers 2024 Land Cinema.
BBC Radio 4: Thinking Allowed: Sight and Power Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2024. BBC Radio 4: Thinking Allowed: Sight and Power.

Conference or Workshop Item

Exhibition tour by Dr Becca Voelcker Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2025. 'Exhibition tour by Dr Becca Voelcker'. In: Sammy Baloji Exhibition tour by Dr Becca Voelcker. Goldsmiths CCA, United Kingdom 9 January 2025.
Three Conversations on Landmarks Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2024. 'Three Conversations on Landmarks'. In: AHRC Being Human Festival: Landmarks Late. Horniman Museum and Gardens, London, United Kingdom 7 November 2024.
Postwar Japan, nuclear politics, and Gojira Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2024. 'Postwar Japan, nuclear politics, and Gojira'. In: A Roaring 70th: Godzilla Film Season. Japan House London, United Kingdom 18 September 2024.

Professional Activity

Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Academic Research Grant Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2024. Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Academic Research Grant.
BBC New Generation Thinker Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2024. BBC New Generation Thinker.

Show/Exhibition

LAND CINEMA at the BARBICAN CENTRE Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2025. LAND CINEMA at the BARBICAN CENTRE. In: "Land Cinema at the Barbican", Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom, 5-26 November 2025.
Growing Food and Film: Japan and Mali Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2024. Growing Food and Film: Japan and Mali. In: "Karachi Biennale", Karachi, Pakistan, 27 October - 10 November 2024.

Other

The Greatest Films of All Time - Becca Voelcker for Sight & Sound (BFI) Voelcker, Becca ORCID logo . 2022. The Greatest Films of All Time - Becca Voelcker for Sight & Sound (BFI). Sight & Sound (BFI), London.

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