• Lecturer in Fine Art and Design Praxis, Liverpool Hope University

I am currently Academic Lead for Visual Arts at Liverpool Hope University. My BA (Hons) degree and MA were both in American Studies with a particular focus on classical Hollywood cinema and Modernist photography.

In my PhD from the University of Liverpool (2010) I explored the war photography of Surrealist Lee Miller and later published a monograph based on my postdoctoral research. My research has focused on various aspects of Miller's work especially her representations of women in war, her Surrealist interpretation of the London Blitz and analyses of Miller's photographs of Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps as modern memorials. I have also published on British documentary film and fan culture.

Latest publications:

Hilditch, L. (forthcoming Autumn 2024) Review of Lee Miller in Print, in Cedric van Dyke, ed. Journal of European Periodical Studies.

Hilditch, L, ed. (2022) Lee Miller's Surrealist Eye: New Insights. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

BELIEVE IT! Lee Miller's Second World War Photographs as Modern Memorials in Terry Phillips and Andrew Frayne, eds. 'Arts and Artefacts: Memory and Guilt in 20th Century Europe', Journal of War and Culture Studies, 2018, 11:3, 209-222.

Hilditch, L. (2017) Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War: From Vogue to Dachau. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

• –present Lecturer in Fine Art and Design Praxis, Liverpool Hope University

• 2010 University of Liverpool, PhD / Art History

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