Dr Holly-Gale Millette

Holly-Gale practices Visual Display as Social Intervention. She has been producing work and teaching based on this since 2018.

She has taught the Visual Language of Display (2018 - ) and Research Methods (2012 - 2018) at WSA; Research Methods, Historiography and Archival Practices at Sussex (2017 – 2018); and Critical Theory, History Cultural Studies, Theatre History, and Research for City University, the University of East Anglia, and Royal Holloway, University of London.

Dr HollyGale Millette is Lecturer (B) in Intersectional Identity Cultures at Winchester School of Art (WSA) University of Southampton. Her research is in Intersectional Identity Cultures. Deliberations on the transitional and the intersectional nature of social class are consistently present in all her work.

Her part-time PhD (2004 – 2011) specialised in late Victorian and Edwardian transatlantic performances of intersectional identity cultures. Following this and from 2012, her research focus broadened to include the intersectional identities found in the space, place and politic of the Modern Period - specifically, masculinities, class, Thatcherite (1970 – 1990) politic and neoliberal trauma. Between 2015 – 2020 her work shifted to consider the intersectional in Contemporary Gothic formulations. This work was underpinned by an interest in the post-human, the monstrosity of the contemporary socio-politic, dark tourism, the return of the repressed in urban landscapes, and the unquiet and/or unsettled ghosts of capitalism.

Other interests and publications since 2010 have been to do with performativity, celebrities and fans, oral histories and life-writing, and display. She has had her own 'Researching in the Archives' consultancy since 2011 and has trained and volunteered in Archives and in Archival practices (notably, Oral History and Interviewing) since 2017.

Prizes

• International Exchange Studentship - New York University (2003)
• Society of Theatre Research Small Award (2005)
• The Una Ellis-Fermor Award for Scholarship in Irsih Writing (2006)
• Chugging” from the Apron: Victorian Liberalism, Ethical Economies and Neo-Liberal Entrepreneurialism in Boucicault’s The Poor of New York /The Streets of London (2012)