Dr Adelaide McGinity-Peebles

Dr Adelaide McGinity-Peebles (FHEA) is a Lecturer in Film and Television Studies in the Department of Communications, Drama and Film at the University of Exeter. Her research focus is on contemporary Arctic, post-Soviet, and Indigenous film and media.  She gained her PhD (funded by the AHRC and President's Doctoral Scholarship) from the University of Manchester in 2020. In 2021, she was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for her project 'Figurations of the Arctic in Russian Cinema, 2010-Present'. In 2025, she was awarded a UKRI Network Plus Fellowship for her project 'Russian Arctic Media: Contemporary Indigenous Media Avocacy in the Russophone Far North'. She is currently completing a monograph titled Russian Arctic Cinema: Figurations of the Russophone North in Contemporary Film, under contract with Edinburgh University Press. More broadly, she has published on the topics of ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and the environment in Arctic, post-Soviet, and Central Asian film and media. 

You can see Adelaide's ORCID profile here.