Imogen Hart History of Art Department University of California, Berkeley 416 Doe Library Berkeley, CA 94720 [email protected]

Education PhD 2007 Department of History of Art, (AHRC-funded) Thesis: ‘Arts and Crafts Objects’ Passed without corrections Supervisors: David Peters Corbett and Jason Edwards External Examiner: Elizabeth Prettejohn MA 2002 Department of History of Art, University of York (AHRB-funded) Distinction BA 2001 Department of History of Art, University College London First Class Honours

Academic Employment 2015– Assistant Adjunct Professor, History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute of European Studies 2013–2015 Visiting Lecturer and Associate Specialist, History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley 2010–2013 Assistant Curator, Department of Exhibitions and Publications, Yale Center for British Art 2007–2010 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Research and Education, Yale Center for British Art 2006 Lecturer in History of Art, Newcastle University (fixed-term appointment)

Publications Books Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe, Seventeenth Century to Contemporary, co-edited with Claire Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). Supported by a Henry Moore Foundation Publication Grant Arts and Crafts Objects (Manchester University Press, 2010) Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867–1896: Aestheticism and Arts and Crafts, co-edited with Jason Edwards (Ashgate, 2010). Supported by a Historians of British Art Publication Grant Peer-reviewed articles ‘Craft, War, and Cultural Diplomacy: Modern British Crafts in the United States’, Winterthur Portfolio 53:2–3 (Summer/Autumn 2019) ‘The Darwinian Subject in Sculpture: George Frampton’s Peter Pan’, Journal of Victorian Culture 22:2 (2017)

1 ‘History Painting and its Critics, ca. 1870–1910’, Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide (Summer 2015), special issue ‘Change/Continuity: Writing about Art in Britain Before and After 1900’, ed. Martina Droth and Peter Trippi ‘The Politics of Possession: Edwin Long’s Babylonian Marriage Market’, Art History 35:1 (February 2012) ‘Material Culture and Mobility’, co-written with Edward S. Cooke, Jr., introduction to Material Culture Review special issue (Spring 2012) ‘On the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society’, BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History, ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. (June 2012). Book chapters ‘Sculpture and the decorative: Towards a more integrated mode of art history writing’, co- written with Claire Jones, in Imogen Hart and Claire Jones, eds, Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe, Seventeenth Century to Contemporary (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) ‘Sculpture and the decorative at the Scottish National War Memorial’ in Imogen Hart and Claire Jones, eds, Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe, Seventeenth Century to Contemporary (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) ‘Morris for art historians’ in Elizabeth Carolyn Miller and Jason D. Martinek, eds, Teaching William Morris (Farleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2019) ‘“Things in combination”: Exhibiting pots’ in Glenn Adamson, Martina Droth, and Simon Olding, eds, Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery (Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2017). Historians of British Art multi-author book prize, 2017; American Ceramic Circle annual book award, 2018. ‘Aestheticism meets Arts and Crafts: Decorative art on display’ in Lee Glazer and Linda Merrill, eds, Palaces of Art: Whistler and the Art Worlds of Aestheticism (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013) ‘History painting, spectacle, and performance’ in Angus Trumble and Andrea Wolk Rager, eds, Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2013) ‘The designs of William Morris’ in Elizabeth Prettejohn, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites (Cambridge University Press, 2012) ‘Time and the everyday in the work of William Morris’ in Wendy Parkins, ed., William Morris and the Art of Everyday Life (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) ‘The Victorian interior: A collaborative, eclectic introduction’, co-written with Jason Edwards, in Jason Edwards and Imogen Hart, eds, Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867–1896: Aestheticism and Arts and Crafts (Ashgate, 2010) ‘An “enchanted interior”: William Morris at Kelmscott House’ in Jason Edwards and Imogen Hart, eds, Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867–1896: Aestheticism and Arts and Crafts (Ashgate, 2010) ‘The Conder Room’ in Morna O’Neill and Michael Hatt, eds, The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901–1910 (Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, distributed by Yale University Press, 2010) ‘“The Arts and Crafts movement”: The Century Guild Hobby Horse, The Evergreen, and The Acorn’ in Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker, eds, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (, 2009)

2 ‘Petites revues Arts & Crafts: The Century Guild Hobby Horse, The Evergreen, et The Acorn’, trans. Évanghélia Stead, in Évanghélia Stead and Hélène Védrine, eds, L’Europe des Revues, 1880–1920 (Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2008) Reviews James Tissot: Fashion and Faith by Melissa E. Buron, caa.reviews (June 2020) The Art-Journal and Fine Art Publishing in Victorian England, 1850–1880 by Katherine Haskins and The Rise and Fall of the Printers’ International Specimen Exchange by Matthew McLennan Young, Victorian Studies 57:1 (Autumn 2014) Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The ‘Englishness’ of English Art Theory since the Eighteenth Century by Mark A. Cheetham, Historians of British Art Newsletter (Winter 2012/2013) The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857: Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public by Elizabeth A. Pergam, Victorian Studies 54:4 (Summer 2012) Interlacings: William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones by Caroline Arscott, Visual Culture in Britain 10:1 (July 2009) Beauty & Art 1750–2000 by Elizabeth Prettejohn, Visual Culture in Britain 8:1 (2007)

Prizes, grants and fellowships

Townsend Center for the Humanities Fellow, UC Berkeley (2019–2020) Nominated for the Teaching Excellence Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association twice (2017 and 2019) Henry Moore Foundation Publication Grant (2018) Townsend Center for the Humanities Conference Grant (2018) Henry Moore Foundation Conference Grant (2016) Historians of British Art Publication Grant (2009) Paul Mellon Centre Conference Grant (2005) Arts and Humanities Research Council Award to pursue a PhD (2002) Arts and Humanities Research Board Award to pursue an MA (2001) UCL First Year Prize for the highest examination results in History of Art (1999)

Conference papers

Feb. 2020 ‘Decolonizing the Arts and Crafts movement’, CAA Annual Conference Jan. 2020 ‘Race and the radicals: Victorian racial theory and the Arts and Crafts movement’, Modern Language Association Annual Conference June 2019 ‘Exhibiting the art of domestic life in the private/public Arts and Crafts house/museum’, Private Life conference, University of Edinburgh Apr. 2019 ‘Unity and diversity at the Scottish National War Memorial’, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference Mar. 2019 ‘Victorian House museums as cross-cultural collections’, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Annual Conference Feb. 2019 ‘Race and the British Arts and Crafts movement’, CAA Annual Conference Nov. 2018 ‘Arts and Crafts between the wars’, Victorian Futures, Victorian

3 Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States conference Sep. 2018 ‘Truth and beauty after William Morris’, Truth and Beauty: The Pre- Raphaelites and the Old Masters symposium, Legion of Honor, San Francisco Feb. 2018 ‘Inside out: Exhibiting decorative art between the wars’, CAA Annual Conference July 2015 ‘The Darwinian subject in Victorian sculpture’, The Arts and Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture conference, Birkbeck College, University of London May 2015 ‘The Exhibition of Modern British Crafts in the United States’, ‘In the Same Boat’: British and American Visual Culture during the Second World War conference, Yale University Apr. 2015 ‘Sculpture critics and evolutionary theory at the turn of the 20th century’, Association for Art History Annual Conference Feb. 2015 ‘Sculpture in the age of Darwin’, CAA Annual Conference Oct. 2011 ‘Aestheticism meets Arts and Crafts: Decorative art on display’, Palaces of Art: Whistler and the Art Worlds of Aestheticism conference, Freer Gallery of Art July 2008 ‘“Self-helpful Art Knowledge”: The industries of home decoration’, Artistry and Industry conference, University of Exeter Feb. 2008 ‘From “magnificent papers” to “whitewashed walls”: William Morris and his critics’, CAA Annual Conference July 2007 ‘Arts and Crafts little magazines’, The Modernist Atlantic conference, De Montfort University Nov. 2006 ‘Arts and Crafts little magazines’, L’image et les periodiques européens entre deux siècles (1880–1920), INHA Oct. 2005 ‘An “enchanted interior”: William Morris at Kelmscott House’, The Aesthetic Interior: Neo-Gothic, Aesthetic, Arts and Crafts conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London July 2004 ‘The Arts and Crafts Museum at the Manchester Municipal School of Art’, Visual Culture and Taste in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain conference, Centre for Visual Culture in Britain, University of Northumbria

Conference organization

Sep. 2018 British Art and the Global, international conference, UC Berkeley: co-organizer with David Peters Corbett. Co-sponsored by the Center for British Studies, UC Berkeley; the History of Art Department, UC Berkeley; the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley; and the Centre for American Art, Courtauld Institute of Art Dec. 2017 Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain, editorial workshop for seven contributors to the Sculpture and the Decorative book project. Sponsored by the Center for British Studies, UC Berkeley Apr. 2016 Sculpture and the Decorative, session, Association for Art History Annual Conference: co-chair with Claire Jones. Supported by a conference grant from the Henry Moore Foundation Feb. 2016 ‘The Unity of the Arts’: Writing about Fine and Decorative Art Together, conference session, CAA Annual Conference: chair

4 Feb. 2011 Seeing through the Medium, Historians of British Art-sponsored shorter session, CAA Annual Conference: co-chair with Catherine Roach Feb. 2010 Architecture and Performance, graduate student symposium, Yale Center for British Art: organizer Nov. 2009 The Arts and Culture in Victorian Britain, North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Meeting, Yale University: Conference Committee Feb. 2009 Natural Dialogues: Art, Science, and Material Culture, graduate student symposium, Yale Center for British Art: organizer Apr. 2008 The Power of Beauty: Aesthetics, Politics, Morality, graduate student symposium, Yale Center for British Art: organizer Oct. 2005 The Aesthetic Interior: Neo-Gothic, Aesthetic, Arts and Crafts, international conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London: co-organizer with Jason Edwards. Supported by a conference grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Invited lectures, roundtables and research seminars

Dec. 2020 ‘William Morris’s Strawberry Thief’, Lansdowne Visiting Speaker, Roundtable on Victorian Material Culture, University of Victoria Sep. 2020 ‘Women and house museums: May Morris and Dorothy Walker at Kelmscott Manor and Hammersmith Terrace’, Material Culture Lunch Group, Yale University Mar. 2020 Respondent: Eric Falci, ‘Modernist Genres’, Townsend Fellows Meeting, UC Berkeley Sep. 2019 ‘Victorian house museums’, Townsend Fellows Meeting, UC Berkeley Feb. 2019 ‘History of British Art now’, Historians of British Art roundtable with Tim Barringer, Julie Codell, Jongwoo Jeremy Kim and Mary Roberts, CAA Annual Conference Sep. 2018 ‘British Art in a global context’, roundtable with Tim Barringer, Melissa Buron and Jason Rosenfeld, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco June 2018 ‘Sculpture, decoration and evolutionary theory’, research seminar, University of Birmingham May 2018 ‘Sculpture after Darwin’, guest lecture, Summer Theory Institute, University of York Oct. 2015 ‘Transatlantic Arts and Crafts’, public lecture, History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley Mar. 2012 ‘The homes of William Morris’, gallery talk, Yale Center for British Art Feb. 2012 ‘Edwardian militancy’, Material Culture Lunch Group, Yale University Oct. 2010 ‘Interiors on display in Victorian Britain’, Material Culture Lunch Group, Yale University Oct. 2010 ‘What to do with a William Morris wallpaper: The Arts and Crafts experiment’, public lecture, Yale Center for British Art Mar. 2010 ‘The power of beauty: Edwin Long’s Babylonian Marriage Market (1875) and its audiences’, research seminar, University of Leicester Mar. 2010 ‘Edwin Longsden Long’s The Babylonian Marriage Market (1875)’, work-in- progress talk, Nineteenth Century Colloquium, Yale University

5 Oct. 2009 ‘The sculpturality of Arts and Crafts objects’, Material Culture Lunch Group, Yale University June 2009 ‘Picturing power: Controversial Victorian paintings in the Royal Holloway Collection’, gallery talk, Yale Center for British Art Nov. 2008 ‘Lessons in design: The Arts and Crafts Museum at the Manchester Municipal School of Art’, research seminar, Yale Center for British Art Oct. 2008 ‘Performing the Stations of the Cross’, Material Culture Lunch Group, Yale University Sep. 2008 ‘Looking at Arts and Crafts objects’, gallery talk, Yale Center for British Art Mar. 2008 ‘“The Breath of the Snow”: Living with the seasons in late-19th-century Britain’, Material Culture Lunch Group, Yale University

Teaching and Mentoring

University of California, Berkeley Courses Art and the Modern Interior, seminar course, Fall 2015, Spring 2018, Spring 2021 Art and Evolution, seminar course, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2020 Victorian Orientalisms, seminar course, Spring 2020 The Arts and Crafts Movement, seminar course, Fall 2019 Introduction to Modern Art, lecture course, Fall 2018 Victorian Art and Beauty, seminar course, Fall 2018 The Good Life: Leisure, Art, and the Senses (co-taught with Diliana Angelova), seminar course, Fall 2016 Transatlantic Modernisms (co-taught with Lauren Kroiz), seminar course, Fall 2014 Visual Culture and British India, seminar course, Spring 2014 Whistler to Whiteread: Art in Britain since 1875, lecture course, Fall 2013 PhD supervision 2017– Mathilde Andrews: Qualifying Exam Committee; Dissertation Committee Undergraduate mentoring: Honors Theses supervised 2020 Holly Ulicki, ‘The Organic: American Arts and Crafts Architecture in California and the Extended Influence of its Ideals’, 2020 2016 Mathilde Andrews, ‘Winslow Homer’s Women and Evolutionary Theory’ 2015 Tulasi Johnson, ‘Disease, Morbidity, and the Dark Feminine: Representations of the Occult and Feminine Death in the Work of Gabriel von Max’ 2015 Tristan Brody, ‘Meta-Imagery and Homosexual Identity in Francis Bacon’s Later Work’ Undergraduate mentoring: research apprentices 2020–2021 Samantha McGinnis, Rachel Sanchez, Constance Villalvazo, Chesa Wang 2019–2020 Madison Brooke, Karissa Hernandez, Samantha McGinnis, Chesa Wang 2018–2019 Larissa Cope, Mai Yang Vang, Chesa Wang

6 Yale University Great Exhibitions: Art in Britain, 1848–1914, seminar course, Fall 2009

University of Birmingham Critical Approaches, postgraduate seminar course, Spring 2007

University of Bristol Theories of Art, lecture course, Spring 2007

Leeds Trinity and All Saints College Women and Art in Victorian Society, postgraduate seminar course, Spring 2007

Newcastle University Preliminary Studies in the History of Art, lecture course, Spring 2006 Supervisor for all undergraduate students writing History of Art dissertations, Spring 2006

University of York Image and Word: 19th- and 20th-Century Interactions between the Visual Arts and Writing, seminar course, Autumn 2004 Theory and Historiography, seminar course, Spring 2004

Curatorial experience

St. Ives Abstraction, co-curator, Yale Center for British Art, 2013 Connections, co-curator, Yale Center for British Art, 2011 Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London, co-curator, Yale Center for British Art, 2009

Service Service to the field 2020– William Morris Society in the United States: Board of Directors 2018– External review board of the journal Aspectus Reviewer for publishers including Bloomsbury Academic, Oxford University Press, Manchester University Press, Routledge Reviewer for journals including Art History, British Art Studies, Immediations, Journal of Modern Craft, Journal of Victorian Culture, Journal of Women’s History, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, Victorian Studies

University service 2016– Center for British Studies: Executive Committee

History of Art Department 2015–2017, 2019–2020 Undergraduate Committee 2015–2017, 2020 Undergraduate Faculty Advisor

7 2017–2020 Annual Departmental Newsletter Editor 2019–2020 Lecture Committee

Professional affiliations

Association for Art History; CAA; Historians of British Art; Historic Interiors Group; William Morris Society in the United States

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