Esther McManus

Central Saint Martins

The social life of ‘The Book’: 600 years of making and reading 'The Book of Margery Kempe'

Esther McManus is the Practices Tutor for Print Production on the BA Graphic Communication Design course at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London): a role that examines both the practice and theory of publication, bridging classroom, workshop, library and archive. Her teaching foregrounds print’s historical role in the production and distribution of knowledge, informed by her background in printmaking.

Outside of the classroom, she makes comics that explore personal & collective relationships to history. Her current practice-based research explores visual/narrative representations of scholarly (and particularly archival) research, to demystify the processes for audiences beyond the academy.