Fionna Barber
Principal Lecturer, Contextual Studies
Telephone : 0161 247 1940
Email : f.barber@mmu.ac.uk
Office : Righton Building / Room 110
Fiona Barber is Principal Lecturer for Contextual Studies in the Manchester School of Art. Her research interests are contemporary and twentieth century Irish visual culture, issues of nation, memory and identity and gender performativity in twentieth century modernism.
She welcomes research enquiries in all these areas.
Qualifications
MA Social History of Art, University of Leeds, 1981
BA History of Art, University of Sussex, 1979
Professional activities
Visiting Professor in Critical Theory, Kunst Institut Trondheim, Norway, 2004-2005
Membership of Social History Society, British Association of Irish Studies
Membership of Association of Art Historians
Current External Examining
Bradford School of Art, Theoretical Studies, 2007-
Open University, The Art History Residential School, 2007–
X-Ray Room, Former Hospital, Maze Prison