Dr Jane Webb
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Head of the School for Cross-faculty Studies
Biography
Jane gained her PhD in 2004 in social history and material culture, having initially trained in art history and anthropology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Teaching
Jane is a passionate teacher and for over twenty years has taught material culture and creative thinking to designers, artists and art and design historians. She was Director of Studies at Manchester School of Art (Manchester Metropolitan University) for the Design Department and has come to us from her role as Deputy Head of Wolverhampton School of Art, University of Wolverhampton.
Research
The process of visual and material practice form an important part of Jane鈥檚 research methodologies. She works with makers and making, archives, historical geographies and collections of dress and other objects to imaginatively explore individual histories of personal experience.
Publications
- 2023 鈥淪oft Murmurings: Sensing Inherited Memories in Collections of Dress鈥� Atkin, S., Kealy-Morris, E., and Slater, A. (eds.) Memories of Dress: recollections of material identities, London: Bloomsbury.
- 2016 鈥淩ed鈥� in Steele, V. Bloomsbury Fashion Photographic Archive. Bloomsbury Online.
- 2016 鈥淐olour Walk鈥� in Cocchiarella, F., Haley, D. and Vargas, V. R. (eds) Fruitful Futures: Imagining Pomona Gaia Project, Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, p. 61.
- 2014 鈥淎 stitch in time: historical authenticity and site-specific textiles鈥� with Kettle, A. in Macbeth, P. and Barber, C. (eds.) Outside: activating cloth to enhance the way we live. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 59-80.
- 2013 鈥淭riangulation: working towards a practice of collaboration鈥� with Gates, D. and Kettle, A. in Ravetz, A., Felcey, H. and Kettle, A. (eds.) Collaboration Through Craft. Oxford: Berg, pp. 45-58.
- 2011 鈥淭he Essential Line: John Flaxman and Neoplatonism in early Nineteenth-century Manufactures鈥� in Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design series ed. Prof. Leslie Atzmon. Parlour Press: Indiana, pp. 131-166.