Tag: Vanessa Brown

  • The Academic Minute for 2016.09.05-09.09

    The Academic Minute for 2016.09.05-09.09

    Academic Minute from 9.05 – 9.09 Monday, September 5th James Kimble – Seton Hall University Who was the real Rosie the Riveter? Most of my scholarship involves domestic propaganda and the way it helps to construct a rhetorical community even as it fosters depictions of an enemy or Other. The discourse of the World War…

  • Vanessa Brown, Nottingham Trent University – Why Fashion Models Don’t Smile

    Vanessa Brown, Nottingham Trent University – Why Fashion Models Don’t Smile

    Why don’t fashion models smile? Vanessa Brown, senior lecturer in the school of art & design at Nottingham Trent University, explores this question. Vanessa’s research is focused around visual culture and the relationships between identity and the potential meanings of everyday designed objects within modernity. For example, femininity, feminism and the image of the ideal…

  • This Week On The Academic Minute (2016.09.05)

    This Week On The Academic Minute (2016.09.05)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2016.9.5 Monday, September 5th James Kimble of Seton Hall University determines who is the real Rosie The Riveter. Tuesday, September 6th Frank McAndrew of Knox College details why high school never ends. Wednesday, September 7th Vanessa Brown of Nottingham Trent University examines why fashion models don’t smile. Thursday, September 8th…