Faculty Member, School of Art and Design
Senior Lecturer, History and Theory of Design and Applied Arts
School of Art and Design
Thesis Title: Modern Living? Domestic Advice Literature and Design Discourse in Post-War Britain
Prof Tim Putnam
About
Grace Lees-Maffei BA MA(RCA) PhD FHEA researches the mediation of design and philosophies of design to consumers, through advice literature, corporate literature, advertising and magazines and she is particularly concerned with issues of demotic design, domesticity and gender.
Grace has been teaching in higher education since 1995 and is an active member of the design history community, as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Design History (2002-8), as a Trustee of the Design History Society (1998-2002) and regular convenor and invited chair for various conference strands. She coordinates the tVAD research group, is a practising PhD supervisor (qualified, University of Hertfordshire assessed Research Degree Supervision course), and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Grace Lees-Maffei is interested in supervising research on the following themes:
* History and historiography of design, applied arts and crafts of all periods and especially the 19th-21st centuries
* The mediation of design in documentary sources such as magazines, advertising, corporate literature and advice
* The everyday and domesticity
* The consumption of design, fashion and taste
Grace is co-convenor for Writing Design: Object, Process, Discouse, Translation, the 2009 Design History Society Annual Conference, hosted by the tVAD research group at the University of Hertfordshire 3-5 September 2009. http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/tvad/event030909.html
Contact Information
http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/tvad/lees-maffei1.html
School of Art and Design
Faculty for the Creative and Cultural Industries
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield
Herts AL10 9AB
UK
