VISUAL CULTURE

Professor of the History of Art, Middlesex University

EXTERNAL COMMITTEES

2004- – Member of the AHRB Peer Review College

2004- – Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Publications Committee

1999-2002 Examinations Board, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (External Examiner, MA in the History of Art)

1994-1997 Humanities Research Board of the British Academy, HRB Research Committee, Chair of Panel 5 (Visual and Performing Arts)

1994- – Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation (University of Amsterdam), International Advisory Board

1993- – British National Committee, CIHA (Commité International d’Histoire d’Art)

1993-1998 Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Advisory Council

1992 – - University Funding Council (UFC) Research Grading Exercise, Art History Panel

1980s – Member of committees and advisory panels for the Council for National Academic Awards, the Arts Council of Great Britain, and the Greater London Arts Association

EDITORIAL

1995- – A series of art history books for Routledge co-edited with Jon Bird, by Carol Duncan (Civilising Rituals: inside public art museums, 1995), Jo-Anna Isaak (Feminism and Contemporary Art: the revolutionary power of women’s laughter, 1996), Griselda Pollock (Differencing the Canon: feminist desire and the writing of art’s histories, 1999), Adrian Rifkin (Ingres Then and Now, 2000)

1993- – International Editorial Advisory Board, Modernism and Modernity (Johns Hopkins University Press)

1990- – International Editorial Advisory Board, Women: a Cultural Review (Oxford University Press)

1983-1992 – Editorial Board, Art History (Blackwells)

1979-1989 – Co-founder, co-editor, Block journal (Middlesex University)

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

2001 – Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize

1996 – The Paul Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery

1995 – British Council Travel Award

1992-1993 – Leverhulme Research Fellowship

1991 – Kreeger-Wolf Distinguished Professorship, North Western University

1990 – Yale Center for British Art Visiting Fellowship

1996, 1994, 1992, 1990, 1988, 1987 – Kress/Getty CAA Travel Awards

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2004 – ‘Augustus’s Sister: Gwen John: Wholeness, Harmony and Radiance’, catalogue essay in Gwen John and Augustus John, eds. David Fraser Jenkins and Chris Stephens. Tate Publishing, 1-85437-543-1 (accompanying an exhibition at Tate Britain)

2003 – ‘A Strange Alchemy: Cornelia Parker’, interview/article, Art History, v.26 n.3, June. Also published in Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art, ed. Gill Perry, Blackwell, 1-405-11202-61

2003 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Tate Publishing, British Artists Series, 80pp., 1 85437 4877

2002 – ‘The Mother-Daughter Plot’, Art History vol. 25 no. 1 Febr., 0141-6790

2002 – ‘Messing About in Boats: E. J. Gregory’s Boulter’s Lock (R.A. 1897)’, Oxford Art Journal, October, 0142-6540

2000 – Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, 0 300 08350 5, 336pp, 150 ills

2000 – ‘English Modernism in the Cultural Field’ in (eds) David Peters Corbett and Lara Perry, Modernities and Identities in English Art, 1860-1914, Manchester University Press, 0 7190 5520 2

1999 – ‘Olympias Töchter’ [Olympia’s Daughter], Texte zur Kunst 34, June, pp 86-101, 0940-9596

1999 – ‘Vanessa Bell: Studland Beach, Domesticity and Significant Form’, Representations 65, Winter, pp 63-92, 0734-6018

1998 – ‘Sexuality and/in Representation’ [1984] reprinted in (ed) Donald Preziosi, The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 0-19-284242-0

1997 – ‘The Popular Culture of Kermesse’, Modernism/Modernity, vol 4 no 2, April 1997 [special Wyndham Lewis issue] pp 67-120, 1071-6068; also in (ed) Terry Smith, In Visible Touch: Modernism and Masculinity (Sydney: Power Institute), 0-909952-29-9

1996 – Future/Natural, coedited with George Robertson et al, Routledge, 0 415 07014 7

1996 – The Block Reader in Visual Culture, coedited with George Robertson et al, Routledge 0 4125 13989 9 (includes ‘May Stevens: an Introduction’ from Block 5, 1981)

1996 – ‘Feminism and Art’ in The Dictionary of Art, v10 pp 877-883, Macmillan 1-884446-00-0

1995 – ‘A Lost Lewis: the Mother and Child of 1912’, Wyndham Lewis Annual, Bath Institute of Education and the Wyndham Lewis Society, pp 2-11, 0142 6214

1995 – ‘Feminism, Art History and Sexual Difference’ from Genders n3 Fall, 1988, pp 92-128 (translated in Kritische Berichte vol 18 no 2 1990), republished in Terry Lovell (ed) Feminist Cultural Studies (2 vols), Edward Elgar 1 85278 767 8

1994 – Traveller’s Tales: narratives of home and displacement, co-edited with George Robertson et al, Routledge 0 415 07015 5

1994 – ‘Men’s Work: Masculinity and Modernism 1905-1915’, Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations, eds Norman Bryson et al, pp. 42- 82 Weslyan University Press 0 8195 6267 (first published in Differences, v4 n3 Fall 1992). Published in German in ed Beate Söntgen, Rahmenwechsel: Kunstgeschichte als feministische Kulturwissenschaft, Akademie Verlag 1996, 3 05 002855 6

1994 – Féminisme et histoire de l’art: une affaire a suivre’, in Féminisme, art et histoire de l’art, eds Stéphanie Wapler et al, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts 2 84056 009 7

1994 – ‘The Impossible Object?’ (commissioned as one of a series of contributions on ‘The Object in Art History’) the Art Bulletin, September, v LXXVI n 3 pp 404-7

1993 – Mapping the Futures: local cultures, global change, co-edited with Jon Bird et al, Routledge 0 415 07017 1

1993 – ‘Now and Then: the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound’ , Akten des XXVIII Internationalen Kongresses für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, 15-20 Juli 1992; published also in an adapted version in the Oxford Art Journal, v16 n2 1993 pp 55-61

1993 – ‘The Left-Handed Marriage: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’ in Significant Others, eds Whitney Chadwick and Isabelle de Courtivron, Thames and Hudson 0 500 01566 X

1989 – ‘Art History Differently’, review essay on Griselda Pollock’s Vision and Difference, New Formations no 7

1988 – The Spectacle of Women: imagery of the suffrage campaign 1907-1914, Chatto and Windus, London; University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 334 pp 150 ills, 0 7011 2952; 0226 80245 0

1987 – ‘Nancy Spero: Images of Women and ’”la peinture feminine”, catalogue essay for Nancy Spero, retrospective exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, pp 5-19

VISITING LECTURES at institutions in the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Germany, Australia, Canada and the USA

BROADCASTS for Channel 4 ‘Voices’, BBC ‘Late Show’, Radio 4 ‘Kaleidoscope’, Radio 3 ‘Third Ear’, BBC World Service ‘Meridian’

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