Visual Culture
The Visual Culture cluster is home to the internationally renowned MA Visual Culture: Creative Practices and Cultural Institutions, a unique multi-disciplinary postgraduate course established around the belief that visual literacy and the impact of visual forms of thinking and working now play a significant role in our contemporary society.
The cluster is composed of academics, curators, practitioners, museum educators and consultants with research expertise across a range of historical, theoretical and practice-led forms of inquiry. In the last few years staff have published in literature, visual culture studies, critical theory, and cultural studies, been invited to give plenary addresses and lectures internationally and exhibited and curated in cultural institutions worldwide.
Related MA programmes include English Literature, Cultural and Critical Studies, and since 2010, Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture.
As an international research environment with MA and PhD students from Britain, the USA, continental Europe, Africa, South America and South East Asia, it is an intellectual and professional context in which postgraduate students conduct research in the study of Visual Culture, in various contexts such as
- museum display
- gallery curation
- the visual and material culture of the city
- contemporary visual arts
- popular culture and socially engaged art practice
- art and science
- new technologies and media
Colleagues in this research area across the university include
