Christine Finn
Dr Christine Finn
MA (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), FSA
Visiting Fellow in ArchaeologyDepartment of Archaeology and Anthropology |
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Background
After working in print and TV journalism in the 80s, I received a Reuter
Journalist Research Fellowship to Oxford in 1990, and returned there to train
as an archaeologist. I received my BA (1995) from St Hilda's College, Oxford,
and my DPhil (1999) from Queen's. I spent 1997/8 at the Department of English,
Trinity College, Dublin on a Scatcherd EU Scholarship.
I was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford (1999-2003), and Writer in Residence
at the JB Priestley Archive, Bradford University (2003-2005) before coming to Bristol in 2005.
Research Interests
I am an archaeologist with research interests in historical archaeology, contemporary archaeology and the history of archaeology. I have carried out
research into the material culture of computing, the past in contemporary arts, and the life and works of archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes. I am currently carrying out a study of the
'contemporary archaeology' of Rome, parts of which I am publishing online through Stanford University. I am also currently completing a travelogue of America exploring technology and material culture.
Teaching
I teach on the MA Archaeology for Screen Media, on the MA Historical Archaeology of the Modern World, and also contribute to a postgraduate unit on archaeology and heritage.
Monographs
in prep. Techxistence: Travels in America's Technologies.
in prep. Woman in Time: a life of Jacquetta Hawkes.
2004. Past Poetic: Archaeology in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.
2001. Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley. MIT Press
Edited Volumes
2003. Ancient Muses: Archaeology and the Arts. University of Alabama Press (edited with J. Jameson and J.E. Ehrenhard)
2002. Outside Archaeology: Material Culture and Poetic Imagination. Oxford: Archaeopress/British Archaeological Reports (edited with Martin Henig)
Selected Papers
in prep. Distributed Contexts and Archaeological Dialogues. Paper in preparation (with Dan Hicks)
2005. Artifacts of Occupation. In Materialising the Military (edited by B. Finn and B. Hacker). London and Washington, DC: Science Museum and Smithsonian.
2004. Maybe art or artefact: Cornelia Parker and the body behind glass. Archaeological Review from Cambridge
2004. Jacquetta Hawkes. New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2004. White Horse Hill: a study of oral history and popularity. In Uffington Hill Fort (Oxford Archaeological Unit and Oxford University).
2003. Capturing the Wanderer: Archaeology and the filming of The English Patient. In Jameson et al (eds) Ancient Muses
2003. Poetry and Archaeology: the transformative process. In Jameson et al (eds) Ancient Muses
2003. Bits and Pieces: a mini-survey of computer archaeology. Industrial Archaeology Review
2001. Mixed Messages: Archaeology and the Media. Public Archaeology
2000. Ways of Telling: Jacquetta Hawkes as film-maker. Antiquity
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