Staff Profile

Dr Hazel Donkin
Contact Dr Hazel Donkin (email at hazel.donkin@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
Dr Hazel Donkin completed her postgraduate studies in photography and French Surrealism at Northumbria University in 2010 and joined Durham University as a lecturer.
Dr Donkin teaches on undergraduate modules in the history of art and visual culture. She contributes to the MA in Visual Culture in the department of Modern Languages and Cultures and runs MELA 45230 Critical Curatorship, the work placement module for that programme: https://www.dur.ac.uk/cvac/postgraduatestudy/masters/
Dr Donkin is a member of the steering committee of CVAC (the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture). She is the Secretary for Art on the University College SCR Executive. She is a Fellow of University College and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Dr Donkin's research interest is in the field of Surrealism. She would welcome applications from potential PhD candidates interested in all areas of Surrealism.
Supervises
Selected Publications
Journal Article
- Hudson, Martyn & Donkin, Hazel (2019). TESTT Space: groundwork and experiment in a complex arts organisation. Arts and the Market 9(2): 188.
- Donkin, H. (2017). André Breton and Vladimir Mayakovsky: Poeticizing politics and politicizing poetry. Dada/Surrealism 21(1): 12.
- Donkin, H. (2013). Surrealism and (un)Happy Families: Banalite (1930). re·bus 6.
- Donkin, H. (2012). Ties that Bind Hans Bellmer's 'Tenir au Frais' to Heinrich von Kleist. History of Photography 36(4).
Chapter in book
- Donkin, H. (2016). Screams: Women in Post-war Surrealist journals. In Intersections:Women Artists/Surrealism/Modernism. Allmer, P. Manchester University Press.
Report
- Donkin, H., Hudson, M. & Arnold, L. (2019). TESTT: Experimenting, Inspiring, Changing.