Stephanie Hartle BA (Hons), MA
Senior Lecturer
- Department of Media Arts and Communication
- Art Design and Media Research Centre
- Culture and Creativity Research Institute
Summary
Currently I lead the BA (Hons) Photography course at Sheffield Hallam. My undergraduate teaching focuses on the diffuse nature of contemporary photographic practice and its relationship to other mediums, disciplines and visualising technologies.
I am the co-editor of Visual Activism in the 21st Century Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World (Bloomsbury, 2022).
About
Currently I lead the BA (Hons) Photography course at Sheffield Hallam. I also have Collaborative Course Leader roles for our partnerships with The Sheffield College (FdA Photography) and Trafford College Group (BA Contemporary Photographic Practice).
My undergraduate teaching focuses on the diffuse nature of contemporary photographic practice and its relationship to other mediums, disciplines and visualising technologies.
My research involves examining the intersection between aesthetics and politics, including strategies of re-enactment and re-staging in contemporary art practice. Recently, my specific focus has been the case study of Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave, centred around an examination of Walter Benjamin's concept of 'left-wing melancholy' as an approach to the critique of capitalism. This area of research has developed to consider more closely the increasingly significant role of the 'visual' in visual activism.
Senior Lecturer
Specialist areas of interest
Visual Culture
Teaching
Department of Media Arts and Communication
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Courses taught:
BA (Hons) Photography
Research
Link 1 - https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/c3riimpact/visual-activism-in-the-21st-century-art-protest-and-resistance-in-an-uncertain-world-thursday-1st-september-2022-09-00-17-30/
Link 2 - https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/c3riimpact/from-valley-to-fishtail/
Publications
Conference papers
Hartle, S. (2018). Landscape and trauma in Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave. In Northern Light: Critical Approaches to Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography, 2 July 2018 - 3 July 2018.
Book chapters
Hartle, S. (2023). Ecological entanglements: Embodied surfaces and screens in the work of Victoria Lucas. In Disturbed Ecologies: Photography, Geopolitics, and the Northern Landscape in the Era of Environmental Crisis. (pp. 123-142).
Hartle, S., & White, D. (2022). Introduction to the Anthology. In Visual Activism in the 21st Century Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World. Bloomsbury Publishing
Hartle, S. (2022). Digging up the Left-Wing Corpse? Visual Activism and Melancholia in Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave. In Visual Activism in the 21st Century Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World. Bloomsbury Publishing
Books
White, D., & Hartle, S. (Eds.). (2022). Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World (Bloomsbury Academic, Pub. 25 Aug 2022). (First). LONDON: Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/visual-activism-in-the-21st-century-9781350265073/
White, D., & Hartle, S. (Eds.). (2022). Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World (Bloomsbury Academic, Pub. 25 Aug 2022). (First). LONDON: Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/visual-activism-in-the-21st-century-9781350265073/
White, D., & Hartle, S. (Eds.). (2022). Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World (Bloomsbury Academic, Pub. 25 Aug 2022). (First). LONDON: Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/visual-activism-in-the-21st-century-9781350265073/
Exhibitions
Hartle, S., Robinson, S., White, D., & Harrison, T. (2018). Exhibition: Yorkshire Artspace – Proximity and Distance. [Exhibition: Landscape Photography]. Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield, UK.
Presentations
Hartle, S., & White, D. (2022). Introduction to conference. Presented at: - VISUAL ACTIVISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY: ART, PROTEST AND RESISTANCE IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD, Sheffield Hallam University
Hartle, S. (2020). ‘To Weave the Mirror's Magic Sights’: Mimesis and Posthumanism in the Virtual Selfie. Presented at: "Mirror, Mirror: Perceptions, Deceptions, and Reflections in Time"
Hartle, S. (2017). Digging up the Left-Wing Corpse: Reenactment andMelancholia in Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave. Presented at: The Left Conference : Photography and Film Criticism, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017
Other publications
White, D., & Goldie, C. (2018). International Conference – Northern Light: critical approaches to proximity and distance in northern landscape photography.