Carol Adlam is Associate Professor at the Nottingham School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, and in 2021-22 was a Visiting Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge in 2021-22. She is Creative Lead of the nineteenth-century Russian crime fiction multi-media adaptation project Lost Detectives: Adapting Old Texts to New Media (2019-) at the University of St Andrews. She is also a member of the Design Research Centre and the Artistic Research Centre at NTU, and sits on the Board of Directors of the ACE-funded NPO Writing East Midlands.
Carol is a highly experienced university teacher and researcher with over thirty years' experience, with research interests in text/image interaction, narrative storytelling, adaptation of neglected literary histories, Russian and East European literary and art histories, eighteenth-century British India, and in women's histories. She has worked for The Universities of Cambridge, Exeter, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Warwick, and has held residencies at The National Archives, the National Army Museum, Nottingham Museums and Galleries, and the University of St Andrews (Writer-in-Residence, 2021).
Carol is also an award-winning writer and artist, working in graphic novels (writing and illustrating), graphic journalism, script writing (audio, graphic novels, gaming), short stories (The Mogford Prize longlisted), and visual storytelling. Her recent books include The Russian Detective (Penguin/Jonathan Cape, 2024), Girton Time (Beam Editions, 2023), Thinking Room (Djanogly Gallery, 2018; Winner of the World Illustration Awards for Research and Knowledge Communication), as well as several graphic anthologies with award-winning novelist and podcast drama writer Helen Cross. Clients include The Guardian and Delayed Gratification: The Slow Journalism Magazine. She is represented by TheBKS Agency.
