UCF Course Leader makes her own news

Fiona Hackney, Course Leader on MA 20^th Century Art & Design at University College Falmouth has contributed to a new book on Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940 edited by Ann Ardis and Patrick Collier and published by Palgrave Macmillan in November 2008.

The book is a collection of extended essays that were presented at Transatlantic Print Culture, a conference convened at the University of Delaware in 2007; Fiona's paper formed the basis of ‘Women are News': British Women's magazines 1919-1939,' chapter 7 in the book.

Ann Ardis, Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of English at Delaware University and Patrick Collier, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of English at Ball State University, organised the conference and have written the introduction to the book explaining how this collection of essays maps out the remarkable sea change that happened both in the UK and in America in literacy, print and visual design around the turn of the twentieth century.

"More newspapers, magazines and books were published annually than ever before and many of these were reaching wider - and different - groups of readers, as population growth and literacy rates soared in both countries," Ardis and Collier explain.

Fiona has contributed essays on magazines, gender and domestic practice to a number of publications including The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Homedressmaking (Berg, 1999) and, more recently, Use Your Hands for Happiness: Home Crafts and Make-do-and-Mend in British Women's magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, appeared in the Journal of Design History.

"My chapter explores the diverse representations of women in British women's magazines at a time when many struggled to be, in the words of journalist Margaret Lane, ‘wage earners and sweethearts,' holding down a job and managing a home; a dilemma that remains unresolved today," said Fiona. "Exploring the complex and shifting inter-relationship between society and culture is central to the work we do on MA 20^th Century Art & Design: Histories & Theories, and this essay contributes to that task."

The front cover of the book was designed by University College Falmouth MA Ilustration graduate Temujin Doran who was recently announced as one of five award winners of the European League of Institutes of the Arts E3 film project, Languages through Lenses, as part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

For further information about MA 20^th Century Art & Design: Histories & Theories at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/20centuryartdesign, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 214360.

University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.

This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012, that will be unique to the South West.

The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union, the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.

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