Janet Wolff

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  • Professor Emerita, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures.

    Sociology of art and culture; visual and cultural studies; gender and culture;  modernism and modernity; aesthetics and cultural critique.

    Co-editing (with Mike Savage) special issue of John Rylands Bulletin, ‘Arts and the city: cultural institutions in Manchester, 1800-2010’ (2013 publication) Currently working on a book which combines family history, cultural history, memoir and visual imagery. Planning a book about 19th and 20th century Manchester, focusing on links between cotton, chemistry and the visual arts.

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