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Anna McCully Stewart

Doctoral Student in Literature - Anna's thesis is entitled ‘Reading Viz magazine: Class, masculinity and protest in North East print culture since Thatcher'.

Research Project Title:

Reading Viz Magazine: Class, Masculinity and Protest in North East Print Culture since Thatcher

 

Supervisors:

Dr Alex Niven, Dr Kirsten Macleod and Dr Mel Gibson (Northumbria) 

Contact Details:

Email: a.mccully-stewart2@ncl.ac.uk  

 

Research Interests:

  • Comedy
  • Zines, free presses and the material text
  • De and post-industrialisation 
  • The history and culture of North East England
  • Oral history 
  • Critical theory 

Brief Outline of Research Project:

My research provides the first in-depth scholarly study of the British magazine Viz (1979 -). It is a cultural history which situates Viz in the context of the social and economic immiseration of North East England from the 1970s onwards, arguing for its function as an embodiment of protest against deepening neoliberalism. Drawing on archival holdings and interviews, the project assembles a history of Viz as a radical phenomenon which shaped popular perceptions of class, region and gender. It also assesses Viz’s impact on twentieth-century periodicals, demonstrating that its emergence precipitated a series of seminal shifts in British magazine culture. 

Research Activities:

Academic Background:

  • MA Medieval Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland
  • BA English Language and Literature, Wadham College, University of Oxford
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