Dickinson Invited to Speak about Ruskin Bicentenary at multiple May events

Dr Rachel Dickinson is Principal Lecturer in English/Interdisciplinary Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Rachel will be giving the Mary Frith Annual Lecture, Hallamshire&District GWSD, about ‘Ruskin’s influence on spinning and textiles’ (11th  Sheffield).

She will be an invited academic contributor to Harewood House’s Why Craft Matters symposium on ‘Craft as a political ideology – two hundred years since Ruskin’ (17th Leeds). You can find out more about this event here.

She is also an invited expert on Wikipedia-edit-a-thon about Ruskin’s under-acknowledged female colleagues organised by Keep it Complex at Whitworth (19th Manchester). You can find out more about this event here.

The Festival Co-ordinator is Dr Rachel Dickinson, Principal Lecturer in English/Interdisciplinary Studies. She has published on Ruskin, and has given invited lectures about him in Canada, France, Italy, the UK and the USA. She is Director for Education of Ruskin’s Guild of St George.

Rachel will also be involved in the short-listing of the John Ruskin Prize in May (shortlisting takes place 20-21 May, following close of entries on 12 May).  Tim Brennan is also short-listing, and both are also on the final judging panel (11 July). Professor Tim Brennan is Head of Art at the Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University.