Dr Annebella Pollen

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Annebella Pollen

arts research University of Brighton

a.pollen@brighton.ac.uk

Dr Annebella Pollen is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Design, Director of Historical and Critical Studies for the Faculty of Arts and a Trustee of the Design History Society.

Annebella holds a first class BA in Visual Culture, a PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Distinction) and an MA in Design History and Material Culture (Distinction), all from the University of Brighton where she has lectured since 2005 in the History of Art and Design.

Annebella's AHRC-funded PhD thesis, 'Identity, Memory, Compassion and Competition: Mass-Participation Photography and Everyday Life', was completed at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London, 2010. This research developed innovative new methodologies for the interpretation of amateur photographs using a vast collection of prints held at the Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex, as a central case study. This work has been disseminated through national and international conference papers and public talks. It has also been published in a range of forms including website content, book chapters and scholarly journal articles. 

Annebella was formerly a Research Fellow for the University of Brighton-funded project 'Methodological Innovations: Using Mass Observation', co-ordinated by Mark Bhatti and Louise Purbrick. This 2009-10 venture established an international, interdisciplinary research network and a lively JISC discussion list to debate and share approaches to the use and interpretation of everyday life documents. Outcomes included two method and methodology workshops, a national conference, an accompanying exhibition in Brighton Fringe Festival and a scholarly article in History Workshop Journal.

Other research appointments include a funded six month post at the Royal Pavilion, Museums and Galleries, Brighton, 2007, to explore the hidden histories and love lives of objects for an exhibition entitled 'On the Pull' (February - August 2008). This work included investigating Victorian insulting valentine cards, flirtatious messages on the back of Edwardian postcards, and handmade love tokens exchanged between soldiers and their sweethearts during the Boer War. This research has resulted in exhibition content, public talks, conference papers, museum profession reports and a journal article for Photography and Culture. Interviews related to this research have appeared in publications as diverse as Picture Postcard Monthly, Collector's Weekly (USA) and the Daily Mail.

 

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