Staff

Dr Ann Wilson
Lecturer
Media Communications
BIO

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:  VISUAL & MATERIAL CULTURE, ART HISTORY, DESIGN HISTORY 

Dr Ann Wilson lectures in visual culture and photography histories in the Media Communications department. Her main research interests concern the visual and material culture of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland, and her recent publications include the book The Picture Postcard: a new window into Edwardian Ireland (Peter Lang, 2021) and the chapters ‘Picture Postcard Politics: the expression of dissent via picture postcards in Edwardian Ireland’ in Rebellious Writing. Marginalised Edwardians and the Struggle for Symbolic Power (O’Hagan (ed) Peter Lang, 2020), ‘Harry Clarke: the Honan Chapel windows (1915-17)’, in Harry Clarke and Artistic Visions of the New Irish State, (Griffith, Helmers, Kennedy (eds) Irish Academic Press, 2018), and the papers ‘Image Wars: The Edwardian Picture Postcard and the Construction of Irish Identity in the Early 1900s’, in Media History, (2018) and ‘Constructions of Irishness in a collection of early 20th century picture postcards’ in the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, (2015).

 

LINKS:

Picture Postcard: A new window into Edwardian Ireland (2021) 

https://www.peterlang.com/document/1061474

 

RELATED COURSES:  

 

BA (HONS) CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA

BA (HONS) VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS

BA (HONS) PHOTOGRAPHY WITH NEW MEDIA