Dr Judith Carmel-Arthur

Adjunct Assistant Professor of English for Academic Purposes

Originally from California, Dr. Carmel-Arthur is an American-born Art and Design historian. She has degrees in Fine Art: Sculpture & Painting from California State University Humboldt (B.A. (Hons), Architectural History from Southern Illinois University (B.A. (Hons), the History of Art (M.A., Courtauld Institute, University of London), and a Ph.D. in Design History from Kingston University, where her research was supervised by Pro Vice Chancellor, Professor Penny Sparke. She was also a Research Student at the Warburg Institute, University of London. Dr. Carmel-Arthur also holds two certificates in EFL (Cambridge) and Adult teaching.

Her doctoral thesis is an investigation into the post-World War II, company and product identity reconstruction of the German-Jewish industrial ceramics manufacturer, Rosenthal. It incorporated chapters focused thematically on identity discourses, including: the presence of myth-biography in traditional approaches to scripting the history of industrial ceramics family firms; aryanisation and nazification of Jewish-owned German ceramics manufacturers during the 1930s; design, product and company image reconstruction through mechanisms of trade and retail display and exhibition; the mobilisation of museum-centred display and exhibition discourses, specifically in relation to the presence of Rosenthal artefacts in the Victoria & Albert Museum ceramics collection; and the infusion of sculptural, fine art and celebrity discourses into the post-war industrial ceramics design agenda.

Courses Taught

ENG 115 Principles of Academic Writing
ENG 212 Principles of Academic Research
MGT 220 Research & Writing for Management

Publications

Assistant Editor, E. Hardouin-Fugier & E. Grafe, French Flower Painting of the 9th Century(1988)
Has contributed over sixty articles to: The Sunday Times Magazine, Routledge Encyclopaedia of Postmodernism, Macmillan/Grove Dictionary of Art.
Bill Wilson, Graphic Design, Exhibition Catalogue. Orleans Gallery, Richmond-upon-Thames (2000)
Bauhaus (2000)
In 2000, together with the National Electronic & Video Archive of the Crafts (NEVAC), (University of the West of England, Bristol), she received the national Arts & Humanities Research Board Research Grant for an investigation into ‘Methodologies for the Industrial Crafts’. This work explored the co-operation of Rosenthal ceramics with the Royal College of Art’s Ceramics Department under David Queensberry, as a case study in the application of oral history and discourse analysis to the history of industrial ceramics.
Frank Lloyd Wright Interiors (2001)
Frank Lloyd Wright, California Textile Houses (2002)
With Richard Bryant, Carlo Scarpa, Gipsoteca Canoviana, Possagno. Opus 22. Edition Axel Menges (2002)
Three chapters included in: ed. Jeffrey Howe, The Homes we live in, a history of American domestic architecture (2002)
With S. Buzas, et.al., Four Museums (2004)

Conferences, Presentations and Proceedings

Delegations include the research paper ‘NEVAC Taxonomies and the Industrial Crafts’ at the Exchange Online Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol (2000).