Michele Pierson is a Melbourne based film scholar.

She taught in the Film Studies Department at King’s College London
from 2006 to 2025. Since publishing a book on special effects,
her research has focused on experimental film. She is co-editor of
Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs (OUP 2011) and author of
The Accessibility of the Avant Garde: Views from Experimental Cinema
(forthcoming from OUP 2027).

Michele has hosted conversations with artists and writers
and introduced experimental films at arts venues such as
the Barbican, BFI, Eye Filmmuseum, e flux, ICA London,
Pompidou Centre, and Whitechapel Gallery.