Jennifer McHugh

Dr Jennifer McHugh is a lecturer in design at University of Southampton, UK. Her research interests include graphic design and printing dissent, illustration as narrative graphic framing, critical images in design/media practice, digital interface and ‘safety/safekeeping’ data infrastructures policies, examining practices of securing vulnerable artefacts within heritage institutions across cloud systems, open platforms and collective solidarity initiatives. Interdisciplinary themes include geographies of identity, critical/cultural heritage and politics of display. Jennifer has worked in areas of migration and community cohesion, indigenous land rights and museums of popular art, postwar eastern European graphic design under censorship, circulation in artist-designer networks and archives of graphic art and design.
