Dr Freya Gowrley

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Dr Freya Gowrley [email protected] Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art @Freya_Gowrley Visiting Lecturer, History of Art, University of Edinburgh https://flgowrley.wordpress.com/

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS I am an art historian specialising in the visual and material culture of Britain, North America, and the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. My research has a particular focus on issues relating to identity, gender, sexuality, and emotion; on bodies and weight; and on collage and its histories.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2019-21 Post-Doctoral Fellow in History, University of Derby, June 2019-June 2021. 2018-19 Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Yale University), November 2018-April 2019. 2017-18 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, September 2017-August 2018 (incl. 2-month interruption for short-term fellowships). 2017- Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art History, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, January 2017-present.

EDUCATION 2016 PhD, History of Art, University of Edinburgh (viva November 2015, awarded May 2016) Thesis: Gender, Craft & Canon: Elite Women’s Engagements with Material Culture in Britain, 1750-1830 Supervisor: Prof. Viccy Coltman Examiners: Prof. Chris Breward (University of Edinburgh) & Dr Elizabeth Eger (KCL) Funded by: Edinburgh College of Art Research Studentship 2011 MA, British Art (Awarded with Distinction), University of Warwick 2010 BA (Hons), History of Art (Awarded with 1st Class Honours), University of Warwick

PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Publications Monograph Forthcoming Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion. Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic (manuscript due September 2019, c.90,000 words).

Journal Articles 2019 ‘Representing Camp: Constructing Macaroni Masculinity in Eighteenth Century Visual Satire’, in E. M. Kugler & U. Klein, eds. Eighteenth-Century Camp, special issue of Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 (Spring 2019) (6,479 words). 2019 ‘Introduction’, with Katie Faulkner, in F. Gowrley and K. Faulkner, eds. Making Masculinity: Craft, Gender, and Material Production in the Long Nineteenth-Century, special issue of Nineteenth- Century Gender Studies, 14:2 (2019) (4,183 words). 2018 ‘Reflective and Reflexive Forms: Intimacy and Medium Specificity in British and American Sentimental Albums, 1780-1850’, Journal 18, 6 (2018) (6,284 words). 2018 ‘Craft(ing) Narratives: Specimens, Souvenirs, and “Morsels” in A la Ronde’s Specimen Table’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 31:1 (Fall, 2018), pp. 77-97 (8,030 words). Under Review ‘The Sister Arts: Needlework between Paint and Print in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain’. Under review at Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (c.8,337 words).

Essays in Books 2016 ‘Taste à-la-Mode: Consuming Foreignness, Picturing Gender’, in H. Strobel & J. Germann eds. Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 73-80 (6,863 words).

Journal Special Issue 2019 F. Gowrley and K. Faulkner, eds. Making Masculinity: Craft, Gender, and Material Production in the Long Nineteenth-Century, special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 14:2 (2019). 1

In Preparation Article ‘Anna Seward and the Poetics of Exchange: Creativity, Affect and Romantic Friendship in Responses to Llangollen Vale, With Other Poems’, to be submitted to Eighteenth-Century Studies, September 2019 (c.10,000 words). Article ‘Collage before Modernism? Periodization, Gender and the Production of Collage’, to be submitted to Art History in 2020. (c.10,000 words).

Non Peer-Reviewed Publications Essays in Books Forthcoming ‘Collage before Modernism’, in P. Elliott, Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage, (Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland Publishing, 2019) (c.5000 words).

Blog Posts 2019 ‘Fatness, Representation, and Writing Women’s History’, invited contribution for the Women’s History Network Blog (March 2019) (c.500 words). Forthcoming ‘Home Ties: Emotion and Sociability in the Eighteenth-Century Home’, invited contribution for the ‘Home Subjects’ blog. Submission due October 2019 (c.1,000 words).

Book and Exhibition Reviews Forthcoming ‘Review of Miniature and the English Imagination: Literature, Cognition and Small Scale Culture. By Melinda Alliker Rabb’, Review of English Studies. Submission due June 2019. Forthcoming ‘Review of Women’s Domestic Activity in the Romantic-Period Novel, 1770-1820: Dangerous Occupations, by Joseph Morrissey’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Submission due June 2019 (c.1,000 words). 2019 ‘Review of The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery. Edited by Robin Rounia’, Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 Book Reviews, 2019 (c.1,200 words). 2018 ‘Review: Art & Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons. By Heather McPherson’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 41:4 (2018), pp. 628-629 (827 words). 2017 Review of of ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites’ (National Museum of Scotland), British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Reviews (2017) (1,355 words). 2017 ‘Review of Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities, by Jonathon Shears & Jen Harrison’, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (2017) (1,141 words). 2015 Review of ‘Jean Etienne Liotard’ (National Galleries Scotland), British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Reviews (2015) (1,252 words). 2014 ‘Review: Romantic Women Writers, Revolution and Prophecy: Rebellious Daughters, 1789-1826. By Orianne Smith’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 37:4 (2014), pp. 557-558 (821 words). 2014 ‘Review of Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures/Women and the Material Culture of Death’, West 86th: Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture, 20:9 (May 2014), pp. 40-48 (3,327 words). 2012 Review of ‘Catherine the Great: An Enlightened Empress’ (National Museum of Scotland), British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Reviews (2012) (1,145 words).

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS Lifetime grant capture: £155,232.88

Major Research Fellowships 2019-21 Post-Doctoral Fellowship in History, University of Derby (2 years, £62,604) 2018 Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Postdoctoral Fellowship, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Yale University) (6 months, £8,000) 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (10 months, £12,500)

Short-Term Research Fellowships 2019 Short-Term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library (2 months, $5,000) (declined) 2019 Short Term Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia & Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1 month, $2,000) 2019 Short Term Research Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library (1 month, $1,750) 2019 Short Term Fellowship, The Wolfsonian Museum (Florida International University) (1 month, funding for return travel to Florida, accommodation, and stipend) 2019 Visiting Scholarship, University of St Andrews Library (1 month, £1,500) 2017 Short Term Research Fellowship in the Humanities, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (1 month, $3,000) 2017 Diane and Trevor Morris Short-Term Research Fellowship in Art History, Huntington Library (1 month, $3,000) 2016 Short-Term Research Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library (1 month, $1,750) 2016 Visiting Scholar Award, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University (1 month, $1,664)

Scholarships, Grants and Awards 2019 Terra Foundation for American Art Research Travel Grant ($8,365) 2019 Émilie du Châtalet Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Women’s Caucus ($500) 2019 Conference Bursary, Women and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century (£50) 2018 Devolved Researcher Fund, Edinburgh College of Art (awarded for the establishment of the Collage Research Network, £2000) 2018 BAVS ECR Conference Bursary, for BAVS 2018 Conference ‘Victorian Patterns’ (£100) 2018 Susan Manning Workshop Grant, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (awarded for the conference Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Collected and Composite Forms, £535) 2018 Devolved Researcher Fund, Edinburgh College of Art (awarded for the conference Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Collected and Composite Forms, £2,749) 2017 Research Support Grant, Scottish Society for Art History (£250) 2017 BSECS Events Funding Scheme, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (awarded for the conference Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Collected and Composite Forms, £250) 2017 Conference Funding, Dada and Surrealism Research Group, University of Edinburgh (awarded for the conference Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Collected and Composite Forms, £200) 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Writing Competition, University of York, History of Art Department. Shortlisted for Campus Workshop, 31 May-1 June 2017, travel and accommodation funded. 2016 Research Funding Award, British Association for Victorian Studies (£500) 2016 Research Travel Grant, Design History Society (£740) 2016 Stephen Copley Research Award, British Association for Romantic Studies (£300) 2016 Research Travel Grant, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University ($1,587) 2015 Devolved Researcher Fund, Edinburgh College of Art (awarded for the University of Edinburgh’s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar Series (£755) 2015 Researcher Led Initiative Fund, The University of Edinburgh (awarded for the University of Edinburgh’s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar Series (£605) 2014 Postgraduate Travel Award, The Birmingham Eighteenth-Century Centre with the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (£200) 2014 Postgraduate Research Expenses Grant, The University of Edinburgh (£200) 2013 Research Support Grant, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (£800) 2011 Edinburgh College of Art Research Studentship, The University of Edinburgh (£13,500 p.a.)

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS Invited Presentations 2019 ‘Rethinking Collage’s Histories’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (24 September 2019). 2017 ‘Lost Objects & Loss Objects: Intersections of Absence and Presence in Eighteenth-Century Material Culture’, International Society for Cultural History 2017 Conference - Senses, Emotions and the Affective Turn: Recent Perspectives and New Challenges in Cultural History, Umeå University (26-29 June 2017).

2017 ‘Collage before Modernism: Art, Intimacy, and Identity in Britain and North America, 1700-1912’, Yale Center for British Art Lunchtime Seminar (8 May 2017). 2016 ‘The Sister Arts: Needlework between Thread, Paint, and Print in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, History of Art Research Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh (25 February 2016). 2015 ‘Home as archive’, Activating Archives! Feminism, Performance and the Materials of Art History, University of St. Andrews (7 October 2015). 2013 ‘Collecting the souvenir’, Collaborators: The Role of Collectors, Critics, Curators in Artistic Practice c.1780-1914, Humanities Research Centre, University of York (26 June 2013). 2013 ‘A temple to travel: the ‘grand tour’ souvenir and the construction of feminine identity in the aesthetic programme of A la Ronde, Devon’, British women travellers in Lyons in the Eighteenth Century: looking at a changing city from a female perspective, Lyons History Museum and ENS Lyons (5-6 April 2013).

Conference and Seminar Presentations 2019 ‘Collage before Modernism? Periodization, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Women’s Collage’, in ‘Making Women: Creative Constructions & Material Knowledge’, International Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies Conference (Edinburgh, 14-19 July 2019). 2019 ‘“Joineriana”: the fragmentary form across eighteenth-century culture’, Small Things in the Eighteenth Century, University of York (6-7 June 2019). 2019 ‘Collage before Modernism? Periodization, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Women’s Collage’, Women and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of Sheffield (8 March 2019) 2019 ‘Inheriting Strawberry Hill: Shared Practices and Shared Spaces’, Text, Artefact, Identity: Horace Walpole and the Queer Eighteenth Century, Strawberry Hill & St Mary’s University, Twickenham (15-16 February 2019). 2019 ‘Pledges of an highly-prized friendship’: Anna Seward, Portraiture, and the Poetics of Exchange’, Constructions of Love and the Emotions of Intimacy, 1750-1850, University of Warwick (9 February 2019). 2018 ‘Publishing Wilkes’s ‘Villakin’: Reading, Reception and Reputation at Sandown Cottage’, Reading the Country House, Manchester Metropolitan University (17-18 November 2018). 2018 ‘Reflective and Reflexive Forms: Intimacy and Medium Specificity in British and American Sentimental Albums, 1780-1850’, Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Collected and Composite Forms, University of Edinburgh (18-19 April 2018). 2018 ‘Collage, Masculinity, and Modernism: Gendered Art Histories 1780-1912’, IASH Work in Progress Seminar, University of Edinburgh (10 January 2018). 2017 ‘A Literary Inheritance: Romantic family histories and textual afterlives in the commonplace books of Ellen Warter’, Sibylline Leaves: Chaos and Compilation in the Romantic Period, Birkbeck College (20-21 July 2017). 2016 ‘A Literary Inheritance: Romantic family histories and textual afterlives in the commonplace books of Ellen Warter’, Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar Series, IASH, University of Edinburgh (26 May 2016). 2016 ‘Object Biographies: Romantic family histories and textual afterlives in the commonplace books of Ellen Warter’, Association for Art History Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh (8 April 2016). 2015 ‘Anna Seward and the poetics of exchange: Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems’, Difficult Women in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680-1830, University of York (27-28 November 2015). 2014 ‘Domestic tourism, the country house, and the making of respectability in the travel journals of Caroline Lybbe Powys’, Travel and the country house: places, cultures and practices, University of Northampton (15-16 September 2014). 2013 A temple to travel: The Grand Tour souvenir in the collections of Jane and Mary Parminter at A la Ronde, Devon’, Seminar in the History of Collecting, The Wallace Collection, London (25 November 2013). 2013 ‘Eloquent objects: the souvenir in the aesthetic programme of A la Ronde, Devon’, Emotional Objects: Touching Emotions in Europe, 1600-1900, Institute of Historical Research, London (11- 12 October 2013). 2013 ‘Accomplished Recluses’: Self-fashioning and the Material Culture of the Gift at Plas Newydd, Llangollen’, Politeness and Prurience: Situating Transgressive Sexualities in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of Edinburgh (2-3 September 2013).

2013 The aesthetics of judgment: whiteness, classicism and the portrayal of marriageability’, in Painted Gladiatrices: Women, Art and the Eighteenth-Century Social Arena, Association for Art History Annual Conference, University of Reading (11-13 April 2013). 2012 ‘Taste a-la-mode: the consumption of foreignness in the long eighteenth century’, in Conflicting Art Histories: Dialogues of Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century British Culture, Association for Art History Annual Conference, Open University (30 March 2012).

EVENT ORGANISATION Conferences & Workshops 2019 Disrupting Narratives: New Perspectives on Collage, University of Edinburgh (PGR/ECR Collage Research Network event, 27 July 2019) 2018 Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Collected and Composite Forms, University of Edinburgh (international conference, 18-19 April 2018). 2018 Collage in History, Practice and Theory IASH, University of Edinburgh (PGR/ECR workshop, 17 April 2018). 2014 Towards a Fusion of Art History and Material Culture Studies, University of Edinburgh (workshop with Prof. Michael Yonan (University of Missouri), 25 April 2014). 2013 Politeness and Prurience: situating transgressive sexualities in the long eighteenth century, University of Edinburgh (international conference, 2-3 September 2013). 2012 Art & Science, Association for Art History Summer Symposium, Linnean Society, London (28-29 June 2012).

Seminars & Lectures 2015-16 Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh (January 2015-June 2016) http://edinburgh18thcentury.weebly.com/ [programme ongoing]. 2013 The First Sexual Revolution, public lecture by Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala (University of Oxford), St. Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh (2 September 2013).

Conference Sessions 2019 ‘Material Culture and Identity: Synergies, Insights, Exclusions and Legacies’, Roundtable Session, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (Edinburgh, 14-19 July 2019). Organised with Dr Kate Smith (University of Birmingham), Dr Leonie Hannan (Queen’s University Belfast), Professor Viccy Coltman (University of Edinburgh) & Dr Sarah McCleave (Queen’s University Belfast). 2019 ‘Making Women: Creative Constructions & Material Knowledge’, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (Edinburgh, 14-19 July 2019). Organised with Dr Serena Dyer (University of Hertfordshire), Dr Madeleine Pelling (University of York), & Ryna Ordynat (Monash University). 2019 ‘Modern(ist) objects? The objet trouvé in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’, Association for Art History Annual Conference (4-6 April 2019). Organised with Dr Molly Duggins, National Art School, Sydney. 2016 ‘The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture’, Association for Art History Annual Conference (7-9 April 2016). Organised with Dr Sarah Laurenson, National Museum of Scotland. 2012 ‘Conflicting Art Histories: Dialogues of Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century British Culture’, Association for Art History Annual Conference, Open University (30 March 2012). Organised with Prof. Viccy Coltman, University of Edinburgh.

CURATORIAL/EXHIBITIONS EXPERIENCE 2019 Consultant, Love Line Edinburgh (14-21 February 2020). Consulting with curators on the material culture of love. 2018 Consultant, Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (July-October, 2019). Consulted on selection of art works for exhibition; undertook collection visits; wrote exhibition catalogue essay on collage made before 1900.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Edinburgh (2012-2019) 2017- Visiting Lecturer, History of Art Department  From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (re)invention of Scotland in visual and material culture (MSc- level co-taught course, 5 2-hour seminars, 2017)  From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (re)invention of Scotland in visual and material culture (4th year honours course, 12 2-hour seminars, 2017-2018)  Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum (3rd year honours course, 12 2-hour seminars, 2017-2018)  History of Art 2 (2nd year pre-honours core course, 8 1-hour lectures, 2017-2019)  Analytical Project Supervision (3rd year honours core course, 2018)  Work Placement Project Supervision (3rd year honours course, 2018) 2016-17 Teaching Assistant, Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies  Visualising Scotland (2nd year pre-honours course, 16 1-hour seminars) 2015-17 Undergraduate Seminar Tutor, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture  Architectural History 1 (1st year pre-honours course, 11 1-hour seminars) 2013-15 Guest Lecturer, University of Ohio/University of Edinburgh  Historical Linguistics & Cultural History Summer School (4 2-hour seminars) 2013 Guest Lecturer, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology  Eighteenth-Century Cultures (MSc core course, 1 2-hour seminar) 2012-17 Undergraduate Seminar Tutor History of Art Department  History of Art 2 (2nd year pre-honours course, 11 1-hour seminars)

Teaching Award Nominations 2016 Edinburgh University Students’ Association Teaching Award Nomination Category: Best Overall Teacher 2014 Edinburgh University Students’ Association Teaching Award Nomination Category: Best Overall Teacher

ACADEMIC SERVICE AND CITIZENSHIP Research Network Participation Co-chair and co-founder, Collage Research Network (https://collageresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/)

Manuscript Review 2018- Routledge, Visual Studies List 2017- Women’s History Journal 2016- Liverpool University Press 2016- Wilkie Collins Journal

Disciplinary Service 2018- ECR Representative, Association for Art History Doctoral and Early Career Researcher Network Project Board. 2010-12 Student Members Committee Member, Association for Art History.

Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Citizenship 2018 Invited Speaker, Association for Art History Careers Day 2018, University of Glasgow (6 December 2018). 2018 Invited Speaker, ECA Research Successes Forum, ‘Fellowship Applications’, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (16 October 2018). 2018 Invited Speaker, ECA Research Successes Forum, ‘Fellowship Applications’, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (22 January 2018). 2017- Co-organiser, Edinburgh Humanities PG & ECR Writing Group. 2010 Staff-Student Liaison Committee Member, History of Art Department, University of Warwick.

Widening Participation 2016-17 Lecturer, The Sutton Trust Summer School (History stream), University of Edinburgh, 5-7 July 2016 & 3-6 July 2017.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2018-) Association for Art History (2010-) British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2014-) Collage Art Association (2018-) Design History Society (2015-) Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 (2016-)

SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter I have over 5500 followers on my professional twitter handle, @Freya_Gowrley. Blog I maintain a blog discussing my research on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century visual and material culture at flgowrley.wordpress.com, which receives around 200 unique monthly readers.