'Pre-Raphaelitism in Motion: Between British Identity and Pan-European Translations'
Conference Romantic Circulations, Nordic Association of Romantic Studies, University of Oslo.
Publications & Talks
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Publications
Articles
- 'God's Gothic: Anna Blunden's Ruskinian Vision of Nature and Resistance', in Gothic Pre-Raphaelitism, ed. by Serena Trowbridge, Karl Merrick and Izabela Hopkins, University of Wales Press (forthcoming, 2028)
- 'Volcanic Haze and Industrial Gloom: Ruskin, Goodwin and the Aesthetics of Atmospheric Disruption', in Volcanic Materiality: Literature and Art in the Anthropocene, ed. by Dewey W. Hall, Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming, 2027)
- 'God is in the Detail: Reception and Revelation in Joseph Noel Paton's Dawn: Luther at Erfurt', Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 25/3 (forthcoming, 2026)
- With Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave and Mira Claire Zadrozny, 'Introduction', in Picturing the Romantic: New Perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts, Manchester University Press (2025), 1–16
- 'Imitation and Rehash of the Pre-Raphaelites: Transnational Receptions and Heinrich Vogeler's Invention of German Pre-Raphaelitism', The Pre-Raphaelite Society Review 33 (2024), 10–16
- 'Depicting and Remembering Prince Albert in the 21st Century: The Role of Youth and Germanness in the ITV Series Victoria', in Coburg in Europa: Albert und Victoria – Wege und Wirkungen, Prinz Albert Studies vol. 37, ed. by Franziska Bartl and Frank-Lothar Kroll, Duncker & Humblot (2024), 139–64
- With Mira Claire Zadrozny, 'Der begrenzte Blick: Potentialitäten der Rezeptionsästhetik im Geschichtsunterricht', in Bild – Macht – Geschichte, ed. by Frank Britsche and Lukas Greven, Wochenschauverlag (2023), 114–21
- 'New Woman in Disguise: The Art of Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale and the Woman Question at the Fin de Siècle', in Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain, ed. by Glenda Youde and Robert Wilkes, Peter Lang (2022), 51–85
- 'Heinrich Vogeler und die Rhythmusdebatte um 1900: Zur Konstruktion und Rezeption von Bildrhythmen in Heinrich Vogelers Jugendstilgraphiken für den Inselverlag', Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 47/2020 (2021), 217–44
Book
- With Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave and Mira Claire Zadrozny (eds), Picturing the Romantic: New Perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts, Manchester University Press (2025)
Catalogue entries
- With Gerd Spitzer, Anna Toepffer, Benedikt Ockenfels, Christin Neubauer and Silke Friedrich-Sander, catalogue entries in Ein bleibender Eindruck: Ludwig Richter als Lehrer, H. W. Fichter Kunsthandel (2023)
- With Thomas Kohl, Eduard Hildebrandt, Anna Toepffer and Christin Neubauer, catalogue entries in Thomas Kohl: Reisebilder, H. W. Fichter Kunsthandel (2022)
Editor & translation
- Editor: Alexander Simon, Emigration and German-National Colonisation of South America With Special Consideration of the Free State of Chile, Bayreuth 1850, translated from the German (forthcoming)
- Translation: Boris Roman Gibhard, 'Einzige Welle, allmähliches Meer': Rhythmus in Literatur und Kunst um 1900; West – Ost, Wallstein Verlag (2021)
Copy editing
- Davide Tacchini, Zeina Barakat, Iyad AlDajani and Martin Leiner (eds), Reconciliation and Refugees: The Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa I, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2022)
Reviews
- 'Der letzte Romantiker? Zur ersten Einzelausstellung des Werks von Albert Venus im Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlung Dresden', exhibition review, Gestern | Romantik | Heute (17 January 2023)
- 'Affinitäten einer heterogenen Romantik? Zur Ausstellung Caspar David Friedrich und die Düsseldorfer Romantiker im MdbK in Leipzig', exhibition review, Gestern | Romantik | Heute (6 December 2021)
- Review of Historische Feiern im 19. Jahrhundert by Frank Britsche, sehepunkte 20/9 (15 September 2020)
Conferences & lectures
Sep 2026
May 2026
'Traces of the Anthropocene: Eco-Critical Visions in Anna Blunden's God's Gothic'
Online seminar series Set in Stone, Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network.
Feb 2026
'Memories in Stone: Ruskinian Ecologies and Images as Climate Archives'
International Workshop Archives Unbound, Kunsthistorisches Institut Florence.
Nov 2025
'Echoes in Stone: British Art and the Long Durations of the Anthropocene'
North Light Art Centre, Leeds.
Mar 2025
'Across the Channel: The Pre-Raphaelite's Continental Legacy at the Fin de Siècle'
North Light Art Centre, Leeds.
Jan 2025
'Beyond Britain: Transnational Dynamics of Pre-Raphaelitism'
Guest lecture, Technische Universität Dresden.
Oct 2024
'Transnational Visions: The Impact of German Culture on Scottish Pre-Raphaelite Joseph Noel Paton'
Online seminar series Global Pre-Raphaelitism, Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network.
May 2024
'Curator Talk: Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale'
With Sophie Lynford and Rachael DiEleuterio, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, USA.
Mar 2024
'The Impact on and the Reception of Pre-Raphaelitism in German Art'
Online seminar series International Networks, Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network.
'Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale: A Pre-Raphaelite Artist and New Woman Advocate', Leeds Art History Group, Leeds.
Feb 2024
'Depicting and Remembering Prince Albert in the 21st Century'
Guest lecture, German British Societies Rhein-Main (Frankfurt am Main) and Rhein-Neckar (Heidelberg).
Sep 2023
'Debts to German Romanticism in Joseph Noel Paton's Dawn: Luther at Erfurt (1861)'
Binational workshop Rethinking British and European Romanticisms in Transnational Dimensions, Part II, University of York, UK.
Mar 2023
'The Romantic Embodiment in Pre-Raphaelite Visual Art'
Binational workshop Rethinking British and European Romanticisms in Transnational Dimensions, Part I, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
Jun 2022
'Rossetti's Romantic Architecture: On the Relations of Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Characteristics of Romanticism'
Conference British Romanticism and Europe, Monte Verità, Switzerland.
Dec 2019
'The Woman Question at the Fin de Siècle in the Work of Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale'
Conference Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Making Art, University of York.
Aug 2019
'Depicting Albert, Prince Consort: The Role of Youth and Germanness in the ITV Series Victoria'
Prince Albert Festival Conference What Was and What Remains? Queen Victoria and Prince Albert Now and Then, Coburg, Germany.
Jan 2018
'The Pre-Raphaelite Re-interpretation of van Eyck's Paternoster in the Arnolfini Portrait as a Symbolisation of Victorian Gender Constructions'
Conference Arnolfini Histories: Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait and Its Receptions, National Gallery, London.