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| Name | Grace Lees-Maffei |
| Academic title(s) | Professor Dr |
| Institute | University of Hertfordshire |
| Department | Creative Arts |
| Function | Professor of Design History |
| Short biography | Grace Lees-Maffei is Professor of Design History in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire where she is Research Group Leader of the TVAD Research Group which works on relationships between text, narrative and image. She is also Programme Director for the Professional Doctorate in Heritage (DHeritage) in the School of Humanities and Chair of the University’s Researcher Development Working Group. |
| Recent publications | Grace’s published work is available in The Design History Reader (Berg 2010), Writing Design: Words and Objects (Berg 2012), Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design (Bloomsbury Academic 2013), Design at Home: Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945 (Routledge 2013), Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things (Bloomsbury 2014), Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization (Berghahn, 2016), Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), and in journals including Design Issues, Design and Culture, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Women’s History Review, Modern Italy and the Journal of Design History. |
| Role in Tensions of Europe | |
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| Additional research interests | Design, design history, national identity, networks, globalisation, domesticity, mediation, methodology, historiography |