VISUAL CULTURE

Reader in Visual Culture, Middlesex University

QUALIFICATIONS

1997 – Graduate Diploma in History and Conservation of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens Architectural Association

1969 – MSc Political Sociology, London School of Economics

1968 – BA Honours Political Science, Sir George Williams University, Montreal

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

1990-to date – Middlesex University Senior Lecturer; Reader since 2003

1989-1990 – Thames Polytechnic, School of Humanities, Full Time Lecturer

1984-1989 – Development Planning Unit, University of London, Part-time Lecturer

1980-1989 – Architectural Association Graduate School, Senior Tutor

1982-1984 – University of Essex, Department of Sociology, Part-time Lecturer

1982-1983 – London School of Economics, Department of Social Policy, Part-time Lecture

1982-1985 – Centre de Sociologie Urbaine/CNRS Research Consultant

1981-1983 – University of Sussex, Graduate School of Planning, Part-time Lecturer

INTERNAL ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES 1999-2005

2002-2004 – Acting Programme Leader MA Architecture and Spatial Culture, MA Film and Visual Culture

2001-2002 – Staff Research Co-ordinator, Visual Culture and Media Academic Group

2000 -2002 – Member ADPA /Arts Faculty Research Committee

1998-2000 – Chair, Visual Culture and Media Academic Group

INTERNAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1999-2005

HAA 1901/1902: The History of Art, Architecture and Design, Introductory Module

HAA 1903: London

HAA 3201: Final Year Design Studios, Dissertation (Module Leader 2005-)

HAA 3307: Landscapes by Design (Module Leader)

HAA 3900: Final Year History of Art and Architecture Dissertation

VSC 4152: Landscape Histories, MA Architecture and Spatial Culture (Module Leader)

VSC 4904: Dissertation Module MA Architecture and Spatial Culture (Module Leader)

RELEVANT EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES SINCE 1999

2002-to date – Occasional Consultant to Canadian Film Series �Re-creating Eden�

2000-2001 – University of Edinburgh, Department of Architecture, �Landscape and Politics� Conference, member of the advisory panel

2000-2001 – External Examiner History and Conservation of Landscapes Parks and Gardens, Architectural Association

1990-2003 – The Architectural Association, Visiting Senior Tutor, Graduate Housing Programme and 1998-2000 History and Conservation of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens

1999-2003 – Occasional Reader, Garden History, Continuum Books, Manchester University Press

1999-to date – Department of Architecture, University of Alagoas, Brazil, External Assessor in Graduate Landscape Studies

1999-to date – London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust, Member: Schools Project Committee and Publications Committee

RESEARCH DEGREES SINCE 1999

As Director of Studies. PhD. Three to completion

As External Examiner. PhD. Two at the Univeristy of London and at the Architectural Association

GRANTS, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS SINCE 1999

January 2005 – Society of Architectural Historians. Senior Annual Meeting Fellowship.$1,000

Semester 2, 2003-2004 – Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington, D.C. Landscape and Garden Fellow

January 2003 – Middlesex University, School of Arts, Internal Funding. �Sadness and Gladness: the Films of Glasgow Corporation, 1917-1955�, �900.

July 2002 – Middlesex University, School of Art, Design and Performing Arts. Travel Grant towards Exploratory Study of the Cultural Significance of Quebec Convents, their Landscape, Buildings and Material Culture, �850

March 2002 – Molson Travel Fund in conjunction with the British Association for Canadian Studies (Prix du Qu�bec) �1,000 shared with Dr. Tanis Hinchcliff, Westminster University, London, towards Exploratory Study of the Cultural Significance of Quebec Convents, their Landscape, Buildings and Material Culture

July 2001 – Middlesex University, School of Art, Design and Performing Arts. Grant towards the translation of Henri Lefebvre: Selected Writings, London: Continuum Books, forthcoming, �2,000

March 2000 – AHRB British Academy, with Professor Eleonore Kofman, Nottingham Trent University. Research Facilities Grant, for travel and documentation, Henri Lefebvre: Selected Writings, London: Continuum Books, �2,300

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1999

2005 – Elizabeth Lebas, �Sadness and Gladness: the Films of Glasgow Corporation, 1922-1938 Part 1, Film Studies, Autumn. Also forthcoming in Leonardo Ciacci, a cura di Cinema e Fotographia per la Storia della Citta, Milan

2004 – Elizabeth Lebas, �From Beautification to Sustainability: the Inner City as Political Landscape�, in Mark Dorrian and Gillian Rose, eds. Landscape and Politics, London: Black Dog

2003 – Stuart Elden, Elizabeth Lebas and Eleonore Kofman, eds. Henri Lefebvre: Selected Writings, London: Continuum Books

2002 – Elizabeth Lebas, �The Cinematic Representation of Urban Renewal Between the Wars�, translated as �La rappresentazione filmata del rennovo urbana nell�Ingliterra degli anni trenta’ in Leonardo Ciacci a cura di, Il Cinema degle Urbanisti, Modena: Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica.(5,000 words, translated into Italian).

2000 – Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas, �Recovery and Re-appropriation in Lefebvre and Constant�, in Jonathan Hughes and Simon Sadler, eds., Plan and Non-Plan. Essays in Freedom and Participation in Modern Architecture and Urbanism, Oxford: The Architectural Press. pp 80-89

1999 – Elizabeth Lebas, �The Clinic, the Street and the Garden: Municipal Film-making in Britain Between the Wars�, in Myrto Konstantarakos, ed. Spaces in European Cinema, Exeter: Intellect. pp 138-151

1999 – Elizabeth Lebas, �The Making of a Socialist Arcadia: Arboriculture and Horticulture in the London Borough of Bermondsey After the Great War�, The Journal of Garden History, vol. 27, no.2. pp 219-237

FORTHCOMING

Elizabeth Lebas, �Everyday Life in the Work of Henri Lefebvre: an Experiment�, forthcoming 2006 in Paola di Cori, a cura di, Modernit� et vita quotidinani Rome.

In Progress

Elizabeth Lebas, �Glasgow our City: the Films of Glasgow Corporation 1938-1980�, Part 2

Elizabeth Lebas, � � Of Queens� Gardens�, Octavia Hill and the Beautification of Everyday Life�

Elizabeth Lebas. ��Of Queens� Gardens�. Octavia Hill and the Making of Civic Life�

Barry Curtis and Elizabeth Lebas eds. Revisionary Suburbia