Dr Fan Carter
Faculties, departments and locations
- ΞΆΓάΘ¦ School of Art
- Department of Critical and Historical Studies
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Head of Department
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am the Head of Department for Critical and Historical Studies in ΞΆΓάΘ¦ School of Art. I have taught in art schools and universities across the fields of art and design history, media cultures and histories since 1991 and have held posts at the universities of Winchester, Portsmouth and Wolverhampton. Before taking up the role of Head of Department in 2020, I was the school director for learning and teaching in Arts, Culture and Communication.
Qualifications
- DPhil, Sussex.
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2015.
- BA, History of Art, Architecture and Design, UEA.
Domains
Courses taught
I have a long standing research interest in the relationships between commercial cultures, gendered practices and visual media. My publications are in the areas of magazine studies, consumer culture, celebrity culture and reality TV programming. My doctoral study of teenage girls' magazines and their readers in the 1990s looked at the ways in which magazine cultures were positioned within and contributed to broader debates pertaining to sexual morality and gender identities. I am currently working on a cultural history of young women's magazines in the 1960s, looking at the interrelationship between femininity, consumer culture and new models of subjectivity. The project draws across archive material of magazines and marketing promotions as well as oral histories of readers and journalists from the period.
Publications
The pursuit of pleasure and politics: women's magazines and women's enfranchisement
Andrews, Maggie and Carter, Fan (2020). In: Conboy, Martin, (eds.) and Bingham, Adrian, (eds.), The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 3: Competition and Disruption, 1900 -2017. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press
A Taste of Honey: Get-ahead femininity in 1960s Britain
Carter, Fan (2016). In: Ritchie, Rachel, (eds.), Hawkins, Sue, (eds.), Phillips, Nicola, (eds.) and Kleinberg, S. Jay, (eds.), Women in magazines: research, representation, production and consumption. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 183-200
What's Luff got to do with it? Teenage magazines, sexuality and regulation in the 1990s (too much, too young? teenage magazines, sexuality and regulation)
Carter, Fan (2014). In: Andrews, Maggie, (eds.) and McNamara, Sallie, (eds.), Women and the media: feminism and femininity in Britain, 1900 to the present. London, U.K.: Routledge, pp 231-243
Between ephemera and posterity: the commemorative magazine issue
Carter, Fan (2011). In: Andrews, Maggie, (eds.), Bagot Jewitt, Charles, (eds.) and Hunt, Nigel, (eds.), Stroud, U.K.: The History Press, pp 82-86
'Who let the dogs out?' Pets, parenting and the ethics of lifestyle programming
Carter, Fan and Andrews, Maggie (2008). In: Palmer, Gareth, (ed.), Exposing lifestyle television: the big reveal. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, pp 39-48
It's a girl thing: teenage magazines, lifestyle and consumer culture
Carter, Fan (2005). In: Bell, David, (eds.) and Hollows, Joanne, (eds.), Ordinary lifestyles: popular media, consumption and taste. Maidenhead, U.K.: Open University Press, pp 173-186