Amy Jane added themselves to the department Museum Studies and changed a position, an About section.
Amy Jane Just started new role as Research Associate within the school of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
Amy Jane started following the work of Katherine Bunning, University of Leicester, Museum Studies.
Amy Jane Currently employed as temporary cover (3 months) for the Programme Director of Distance Learning in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
Faculty Member, Museum Studies
Research Associate/Honorary Visiting Fellow
Thesis Title: From Revolution to Commie Kitsch: (Re)-presenting China in Contemporary British Museums
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Prof. Simon Knell
Prof. Susan Pearce |
About
My research interests include the representation of post-1949 Chinese art in contemporary British museums, propagandist art, the material culture of socialism, social and industrial heritage and the arts of Asia.
My doctoral research was Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
2005 - 2006
Member of the conference organisation committee, 'Material Cultures, Identities and Inclusion'
2005-2006
Member of the research seminar organisation team, School of Museum Studies
2005-2007
PhD Student Representative
2006-2008
Student Representative, Faculty of Arts Ethics Committee
2007-2008
Member of the Editorial Committee, Museological Review.
2009
Member of organising committee, Materiality and Intangibility, PhD symposium.
2006-2010
Moderator, The Attic, PhD student weblog.
Poster Presentations:
June 2006
'Displaying the Communist Other: Perspectives on the exhibition and interpretation of Chinese Cultural Revolution- era material culture'
Festival of Postgraduate Research, University of Leicester
Conference/seminar papers:
December 2008
Material Worlds, Leicester
‘Displaying the Communist Other.’
March 2007
School of Museum Studies Research Seminar Series
'China Displayed: "glittering curiosities" from the Celestial Kingdom in Victorian Britain'
March 2006/May 2007 and 2008
School of Museum Studies, Research Week
Research paper
Conferences attended:
December 2005
'Chinese People, Chinese Things', Brighton Pavilion.
February 2006
'Material Culture, Identities and Inclusion', University of Leicester.
April 2006
'The Museum: A World Forum', University of Leicester.
January 2007
'The Cold War Expo' Symposium, Victoria and Albert Museum.
January 2007
'Heritage of the Recent Past' colloquium, first in the series of 'Valuing the Historic Environment' colloquia, University of Leicester.
June 2008
NaMu, Workshop 5, University of Leicester.
1st September 2008
British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, University of Leicester.
21st November 2008
Cold War Culture, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
15-17th December 2008
Material Worlds: A Conference in Honour of Professor Susan Pearce, University of Leicester.
December 2009
Materiality and Intangibility, PhD symposium, University of Leicester.
Teaching and related experience:
I have designed and led tutorials, and acted as Second Examiner for oral examinations on the MA Museum Studies/Art Gallery Studies courses, School of Museum Studies. I have worked on developing and editing modules for the MA Interpretive Studies and MA Museum Studies programmes, by distance-learning.
