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Senior Lecturer
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+44 (0)1224 272488
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j.stewart@abdn.ac.uk
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University of Aberdeen
Department of German
King's College
Old Aberdeen
AB24 3UB
Senior Lecturer
MA PhD (Glasgow)
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I was appointed to my present post in 1998. Before that, I completed an MA in German and Sociology at the University of Glasgow, where I then wrote my doctoral thesis on the Austrian architect, Adolf Loos. I also studied in Graz, Vienna and Tuebingen.
I am a member of the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Modern Thought, and sat on the curatorial board of Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen's Centre for Contemporary Art from 2005-2010.
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My main research interests are in Visual Culture: in modern architecture; in the sociology and philosophy of space, architecture and communication, with a particular geographic focus on Berlin and Vienna; and in the sociology of art and globalization, with a focus on energy and the oil industry.
I have published two monographs: Fashioning Vienna (Routledge 2000) and Public Speaking in the City (Palgrave MacMillan 2009).
I am currently supervising doctoral work on: 'Rebuilding Berlin: Regeneration and Resistance'; 'The Ethics of the Photographic Medium: An Analysis of the Revisionist Criticism of Photographic Realism in Relation to the Ethical Role of the Artist'; 'Subverting the Failures of Documentary and Photojournalism and Creating New Dialogues through Collaborative Practice'; 'Teaching in the Gap between World and Plaything: From Cosmopolitan Solidarity to Exilic Education in Children's Museums'
I am also the Lead Supervisor on a new interdisciplinary Research Project, 'Translating Cultures', which draws together staff from German, French, Hispanic Studies, Film and Visual Culture, Music, Museum Studies and Sociology. The project carries with it a number of funded places for PhD students and for students who would like to complete a Masters Degree in Visual Culture or Comparative Literature.
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My current research project looks at Cultural Responses to the Dilemmas of the Hydrocarbon Age. This project takes up the theme of urban modernity in a new context, relating it to questions about energy. As currently conceived, it has three interrelated strands, spanning the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. First, the project sets out to map sociological and cultural theoretical approaches to energy. Second, it investigates the place of the arts in 'energy cities', and the flow of cultural capital between these cities. Third, it traces artistic and cultural responses to energy security, energy transition, and energy conservation, showing how such responses shape our understanding of these matters. In this way, they play a role in constructing the ethical and legal framework that circumscribes the actions of individuals, governments and other institutions seeking answers to the 'dilemmas of the hydrocarbon age'.
As part of this project, I curated, together with Zeigam Azizov, an exhibition on OilScapes held at Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen.
Works by Zeigam Azizov, Peter Fend, Melik Ohanian, Aga Ousseinov and Owen Logan explore connections between oil, geopolitics and visual culture with particular emphasis on connections between the environment and mobility. Featuring an audio collage with voices from the University of Aberdeen's Lives in the Oil Industry oral history archive.
The show also includes a film series - OilScapes/Film - artists' talks and a workshop.
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2011 British Academy Small Research Grant to undertake archival work in Berlin (‘The Energetic Imperative: Wilhelm Ostwald’s Contribution to the Sociology of Energy’) (£1400)
2010 ARHC Beyond Text Student Initiative. Funding for conference on ‘The Forgotten Voices of the Avant-Garde [Supervisor]
2009 University of Aberdeen College of Arts and Social Sciences Research Project Award for ‘Translating Cultures’ (Eight three-year PhD studentships over two years) [Principal Investigator and Team Leader] (£60,000)
2008 AHRC Beyond Text Student Initiative. Funding for conference on ‘Resistance and Complicity’ and for associated online journal. [Supervisor]
2004 British Academy Small Research Grant to undertake archival work in Vienna and Berlin and secure illustrations (£1900)
2003 Carnegie Research Grant to undertake archival work in Berlin (£1,700)
2003 Austrian Cultural Institute funding for Continuities and Discontinuities in Austrian Culture Conference(£12,000)
2002 AHRB Research Leave (£12,035) for the period February 2003-June 2003.
2002 Austrian Cultural Institute funding for Fashion Symposium (£1,351)
2001 Austrian Cultural Institute funding for Blueprints Conference (£3,000)
2001 British Academy Small Research Grant to undertake archival work in Vienna (£774)
1999 Carnegie Research Grant to undertake archival work in Berlin (£750)
1997/98 Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship (£15,000)
1995 Junior Research Fellowship, IFK, Vienna
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My main teaching interests are in Visual Culture, Austrian and German Cultural History, and Comparative Literature.
I am Programme Co-ordinator for the MLitt in Visual Culture, and teach on a number of options on the programme, including:
I also contribute to the MLitt in Comparative Literature and Modern Thought.
I am Programme Co-ordinator for a new undergraduate programme in Literature in a World Context, and teach on a number of modules, including:
In the German Department, I teach language at all levels, and a number of Honours courses, including: :
I also teach options on the undergraduate programme in Film and Visual Culture, on 'The Politicization of the Aesthetic', and on 'Scandalous Art: Vienna 1900', which focuses on the relationship between fine art and film.
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Member of the Advisory Board for the Austrian Studies Yearbook, published by W.S. Maney under the aegis of the MHRA (2001-present)
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Austrian Studies (US) (2012 – 2015)
Member of AHRC Peer Review College (2012 – present)
Secretary and Treasurer of the Scottish Conference of University Teachers of German (SCUTG) Feb 2002 - May 2005)
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