Professor Hilary Radner has joined the Department to develop the Visual Culture major, which has recently moved from the Department of Media, Film and Communication to the Department of History & Art History. She has published two monographs, and five co-edited volumes as well as numerous articles and book chapters on topics ranging from film melodrama, through makeup, fashion photography and women’s magazines to, more recently, topics about New Zealand cinema and culture, and the history of French cinema. Her 2011 books include Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture (Routledge) as author and New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past (Intellect/U. of Chicago) as co-editor.
Mark Stocker continues as Programme Co-ordinator in Art History and Theory. He has recently had articles accepted by the British Numismatic Journal and the Sculpture Journal, and one of his essays will appear in The Art of Transculturation, edited by Julie Codell (Ashgate, due 2012). He recently visited the UK, where he exposed an alleged art crime to startled students and staff at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, and he also reviewed ‘Modern British Sculpture’ for the Burlington Magazine. He intends to step down as editor of the Journal of New Zealand Art History following the publication of the current volume (32), which will be the tenth under his editorship.
Erika Wolf recently published an essay on Shigeyuki Kihara in “Pacific Arts.” Her essays and translations appeared in the accompanying publication for “A Hard, Merciless Light. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939” (on view at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, until August). She is publishing a book on the Soviet poster artist Viktor Koretsky that will appear in conjunction with an exhibition at the University of Chicago later this year. She is also editing a catalogue and collection of source documents in conjunction with an exhibition of the Soviet painter Aleksandr Deineka at the Fundacion March, Madrid that opens in November.
Dr Judith Collard has received a UORG grant to research the topic ‘Matthew Paris as a Natural Philosopher’. This is part of a larger project on Matthew Paris and his Books. She has published the following articles in Interpreting Francis and Clare of Assisi: from the middle ages to the present, edited by Constant Mews and Claire Renkin, and Journal of Medieval History. She was one of the coordinators of the 2011 ANZAMEMS conference at Otago University in February, that attracted scholars from Poland, Britain, Ireland, Canada and the USA, as well as from Australia and New Zealand.
David Maskill