What did it mean to be human in the 15th and 16th centuries? What were the stakes of looking at and representing human bodies in art? Artists in Northern Europe […]
This course is about the representation of love in the European Middle Ages. Through exploring art, visual and material culture, this class will consider critical interventions in premodern art histories […]
Dr Jess Bailey is an art historian researching gender and sexuality in Medieval through 16th century European visual and material culture. She foregrounds the representation of the human body, violence, […]
This course is about women who worked in Premodern Europe from artists to midwives; authors to sex workers. It critically considers how certain forms of bodily labour and creative practice […]
This course introduces students to key issues in the relationship between art and society in sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Through close study of visual and material culture, it will […]
Contemporary representations of people in the later stages of life, from anti-ageing face cream advertisements to road signs depicting bent human bodies, imply that ageing is unwelcome, unpleasant, and a […]
This course will introduce students to design practices that stand self-consciously outside the mainstream of consumer driven design and which instead seek to employ socially and environmentally responsible practices that […]
The course considers the representation of different bodies in French art from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of the topics explored in this course include queer bodies, skin […]
BiographyI am a first-year PhD by Distance student currently living in Osaka, Japan. My research focuses on women’s religious practices in early modern Japan, primarily Edo period (1603-1868) pilgrimage to Mount […]
Biography
Topics in Popular Music introduces various themes and theoretical frameworks with which to approach the study of popular music. With American popular music of the late 19th and 20th centuries […]
In this course students will learn to apply theories and approaches relevant to popular music studies via in-depth study of particular artists, eras, genres and/or styles, etc. in popular music […]
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