Full academic and professional record — christine.bates@mail.co.uk
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, as part of the DFG-funded Research Groups 'European Romanticism or Romanticisms in Europe?' and 'Models of Romanticism'. Jointly supervised at the University of York (2nd supervisor: Elizabeth Prettejohn).
Thesis: The Romantic Embodiment in Pre-Raphaelite Visual Art: An Analysis of Affinities Between Pre-Raphaelitism & British Romanticism. Supervisor: Johannes Grave.
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, USA. Supervisor: Dr Sophie Lynford, Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Collection.
Yale University and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, USA. Supervisor: Tim Barringer, Paul-Mellon Professor.
University of York, UK (Apr–Sep 2023). Supervisor: Elizabeth Prettejohn.
University of York — with distinction. Supervisor: Elizabeth Prettejohn.
Dissertation: New Woman, Gibson Girl, and Suffragette: The Woman Question at the Fin de Siècle in the Work of Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.
Friedrich Schiller University Jena — with distinction. Supervisor: Johannes Grave.
Dissertation: German Pre-Raphaelitism: Pre-Raphaelite Receptions in the Work of Heinrich Vogeler.
Dresden University of Technology — first class. Supervisor: Henrik Karge.
Dissertation: John Ruskins Modernitätsbegriff: Das Werk 'Modern Painters' als Wegbereiter einer viktorianischen Avantgarde.
Friedrich Schiller University Jena — DFG-funded research group 'European Romanticism or Romanticisms in Europe' (Prof. Johannes Grave). PhD project, editing academic papers, translations German/English, conference and workshop organisation, administrative duties.
Friedrich Schiller University Jena — DFG-funded research project 'Time and Rhythm in Pictures: An Aesthetic Concept and Its Implications from the Point of View of Reception Aesthetics' (Prof. Johannes Grave). Editing academic texts for publication; research on pictorial rhythm in Heinrich Vogeler's book illustrations for the Insel Verlag.
Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, Theological Faculty — DFG-funded research project 'Hearts of Flesh – Not Stone' (Prof. Martin Leiner). Copy editing academic papers for publication in English.
Philosophical Faculty, Friedrich Schiller University Jena — administration, accounting, processing.
Department of Mediaeval Art History, Dresden University of Technology — research, digitisation, technical support during lectures, examination assistance; prepared and led classes for first-year students on the compulsory course 'Introduction to Architecture', grading and exam preparation.
Art Library, Dresden State Art Collection — inventory, cataloguing, event coordination, customer service, research requests, and curating monthly showcase exhibitions.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany — art historical preparation of objects, valuation, research, digital marketing, sales, administration, customer service.
Oxford, UK — preparing and installing artworks for exhibitions, distribution of marketing material, research, administration, sales.
See the full Publications & Talks register → for articles, the co-edited volume, editorial and translation work, reviews, and conference papers.
Kunsthistorisches Institut Florence, in collaboration with the University of Jena and the University of York. Organised with Elisabeth Ansel, Hannah Baader, Costanza Caraffa, Johannes Grave and Richard Johns.
University of York, in collaboration with the University of Jena. Organised with Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave, Elizabeth Prettejohn and Richard Johns.
Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Organised with Johannes Grave, Elisabeth Ansel and Mira Claire Zadrozny.
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in collaboration with the University of York. Organised with Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave, Elizabeth Prettejohn and Richard Johns.
Advanced seminar for undergraduate and postgraduate students, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.