Dr Fan Carter
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Across departments
- School of Arts
Head of School of Arts
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am Head of School of Arts at Kingston School of Art.
I have taught in art schools and universities across the fields of art and design history, media cultures and histories since 1991 and held posts at the universities of Winchester, Portsmouth and Wolverhampton before joining Kingston University.
I am a cultural historian and my research interests focus on the relationships between gender and consumer culture. I am currently working on a book mapping the history of Honey magazine and consumer culture in the 1960s.
Qualifications
- DPhil, Sussex.
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2015.
- BA, History of Art, Architecture and Design, UEA.
Domains
I have a long standing research interest in the relationships between commercial cultures, gendered practices and visual media.
My publications are in the areas of magazine studies, consumer culture, celebrity culture and reality TV programming.
My doctoral study of teenage girls' magazines and their readers in the 1990s looked at the ways in which magazine cultures were positioned within and contributed to broader debates pertaining to sexual morality and gender identities.
I am currently working on a cultural history of young women's magazines in the 1960s, looking at the interrelationship between femininity, consumer culture and new models of subjectivity. The project draws across archive material of magazines and marketing promotions as well as oral histories of readers and journalists from the period.
Publications
The pursuit of pleasure and politics: women's magazines and women's enfranchisement
Andrews, Maggie and Carter, Fan (2020). In: Conboy, Martin, Bingham, Adrian, (eds.), Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press [Published]
A Taste of Honey: Get-ahead femininity in 1960s Britain
Carter, Fan (2016). In: Ritchie, Rachel, Hawkins, Sue, Phillips, Nicola, Kleinberg, S. Jay, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: Routledgepp 183-200 [Published]
What's Luff got to do with it? Teenage magazines, sexuality and regulation in the 1990s (too much, too young? teenage magazines, sexuality and regulation)
Carter, Fan (2014). In: Andrews, Maggie, McNamara, Sallie, (eds.), London, U.K.: Routledgepp 231-243 [Published]
Between ephemera and posterity: the commemorative magazine issue
Carter, Fan (2011). In: Andrews, Maggie, Bagot Jewitt, Charles, Hunt, Nigel, (eds.), Stroud, U.K.:pp 82-86 [Published]
'Who let the dogs out?' Pets, parenting and the ethics of lifestyle programming
Carter, Fan and Andrews, Maggie (2008). In: Palmer, Gareth, (eds.), Aldershot, U.K.:pp 39-48 [Published]
It's a girl thing: teenage magazines, lifestyle and consumer culture
Carter, Fan (2005). In: Hollows, Joanne, Bell, David, (eds.), Maidenhead, U.K.:pp 173-186 [Published]