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Dr Nicola Mann

Professor of Communications and Visual Cultures
Head of Department of Communications & The Arts

Contact:
Email: nicola.mann@richmond.ac.uk
School: School of Communications, Arts & Social Sciences
Research centre: International Visual Arts and Cultures

About

Nicola joined the School of Communications, Arts, and Social Sciences in September 2012. Informed by urban culture studies and community activism, her current research considers dominant visualisations of London鈥檚 Heygate council estate in light of recent regeneration efforts. Through analysis of television shows including听Top Boy听(Channel 4), Nicola addresses the ways in which the estate is mythologized in popular visual culture as a racially- and politically-charged site that deserves to be demolished. She is currently working on a proposal to publish this research in the same monograph as her PhD thesis, which focuses on popular representations of Chicago鈥檚 Cabrini Green public housing neighborhood. The book will draw parallels in the visual treatments of both sites in order to problematize the intersection between race- and class-based codes and cultural discourses.

Until recently Nicola worked as a freelance Coordinator for the Arts Council of England-funded organization, The Happy Museum Project (HMP). She continues to liaise with the HMP and recently co-organized a popular conference with Dr. Annita Ventouris, titled: 鈥業ncreasing Happiness and Wellbeing through Arts Participation & Play.鈥 Over the last two years, Nicola has worked on a series of collaborations related to her interest in social arts practice with Charlotte Bonham-Carter (Course Leader, MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise, Central Saint Martins). These include panel sessions at the 2014 Association of Art Historians conference and the 2016 College Art Association conference in Washington DC. They will publish a volume based on the AAH session with Palgrave Macmillan in 2016, titled 鈥楻hetoric, Social Value and the Arts: But How Does it Work?鈥

The University of Rochester, New York, awarded Nicola her PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies in 2011. She also has an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art.

Research interests

  • Visual Culture
  • Popular Culture
  • Urban Regeneration
  • Cultural Studies
  • The Social Value of the Arts
  • Museum Education.

Taught programmes:

  • MA Art History and Visual Culture
  • MA Visual Arts Management and Curating
  • BA Art History and Visual Culture
  • BA American Studies

Taught Modules

  • AVC 7100 鈥 Research Methods
  • AVC 7105 鈥 Visual Cultures
  • VAM 7100 鈥 Research Methods
  • VAM 7105 鈥 Arts Education
  • AVC 4205 鈥 Introduction to Visual Culture
  • AVC 5400 鈥 British Art & Architecture
  • AMS 5400 鈥 American Television Drama
  • AVC 6296 鈥 Snr Seminar 1 in Art History and Visual Culture

Publications

  • Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts: But How Does it Work?, co-editor with Charlotte Bonham-Carter, (Palgrave Macmillan Pivot, Summer 2016)
    , ed. Nicola Mann and Victoria Pass, Issue 15, (March 2011)

Book Chapters:

  • 鈥From SuperOther to SuperMother: The Journey towards Liberty鈥 in Engaging the Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture, ed. Elyce Rae Helford, (University of Mississippi Press, 2016).
  • 鈥Performing Cultural Authenticity in CBS鈥檚听Good Times鈥, in听The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World, ed. Dr. Russell Cobb, (Palgrave Macmillan, U.K.: 2014).
  • 鈥Don鈥檛 Believe the Hype: The Death and Resurrection of Chicago鈥檚 鈥楬ood in the American Visual Imagination, Habitus of the 鈥楬ood, ed. Dr. Hans Skott-Myhre and Chris Richardson, (Bristol, U.K.: Intellect Press, 2012: 271-298).

Articles:

  • 鈥A Disconnected Community? (Re)visioning the Heygate Council Estate through Digital Activism鈥, Between Texts and Cities, Writing Visual Culture, eds. Daniel Marques Sampaio & Michael Heilgemeir, (May 2015)
  • 鈥Criminalizing the 鈥楬ood鈥, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, (38.6, May/June 2011: 19-26).
  • 鈥From Pathways to Portals: Getting to the Root of a Public Housing Community鈥, in Communicative Lands, Community Landscapes, Brock Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, (May 2011)
  • 鈥From Pathways to Portals: Getting to the Root of a Public Housing Community鈥, in Community Building and Social Networks, Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, (April 2011)
  • 鈥Criminalizing the 鈥楬ood: The Death of Public Housing in the American Visual Imagination鈥, Cross-Cultural Poetics: Streetnotes, ed. Blagovesta Momchedjikova, (Spring 2010)
  • Co-organizer with Dr Annita Ventouris: 鈥Increasing Happiness and Wellbeing through Arts Participation & Play鈥 conference, 六合彩现场直播, The American听International University in London, March 18 2016.
  • Co-organizer with Charlotte Bonham-Carter: 鈥The Institutionalization of Social Practice鈥 panel, College Art Association 104th Annual Conference,听Washington, D.C. February 3 2016.
  • Co-organizer with Dr Susan Pell: 鈥Re(V)isioning the Urban Imagination: The Art and Politics of Redevelopment鈥 conference听六合彩现场直播, the American International University in London. 2014
  • 鈥A Disconected Community? (Re)visioning the Heygate Council Estate through Digital Activism鈥, Crime & Deviance in 20th听Century Britain conference,听University of Lincoln, U.K. 2014
  • Session Organizer with along with Charlotte-Bonham Carter: 鈥But How Does it Work? Clarifying the Rhetoric Surrounding Social Value in the Arts鈥, Association of Art Historians Conference, RCA, London, U.K. 2014
  • 鈥From SuperOther to SuperMother: The Journey towards Liberty鈥 at the inaugural IVAC conference, 六合彩现场直播 University, London. 2014
    Symposium participant and presenter, 鈥淪ustainability and the City: America and the Urban World,鈥 Salzburg Seminar American Studies Association (SSASA), Austria 2013
  • 鈥Making Sense of Visual Culture鈥 conference, Roundtable participant, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, USA. 2011听听
  • 鈥The Death of the Projects in the American Visual Imagination鈥, European Social Science History Conference, Ghent, Belgium. 2010
  • 鈥Portal: A Journey through the Subterranean World of Cabrini Green Forest鈥, Greenscapes: Landscapes of Myth and Imagination Conference, Brock University, St. Catharine鈥檚, Ontario, Canada. 2009
  • 鈥Portal: A Journey through the Subterranean World of Cabrini Green Forest鈥, Mobility and Creativity Conference, University of Surrey, U.K. 2009
  • 鈥Criminalizing the 鈥楬ood: The Death of Public Housing in the American Visual Imagination鈥, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. 2008
  • 鈥Criminalizing the 鈥楬ood: The Death of the Projects in the American Visual Imagination鈥, Crime Cultures Conference, University of Portsmouth, U.K. 2008
  • 鈥Tripping the Light Fantastic: Representing the Teenage Twilight鈥, Constructed Light, Constructed Meanings Graduate Conference, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA. 2008
  • 鈥Tripping the Light Fantastic: Representing the Teenage Twilight鈥, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies Conference, University of Rochester, N.Y., USA. 2008
  • 鈥Notes from the Underground: A Journey through the Subterranean World of Daniel Roth鈥檚听Cabrini Green Forest鈥, Contestations, Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 2007