Participant Info
- First Name
- Freya
- Last Name
- Gowrley
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- f.l.gowrley@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- University of Edinburgh
- Website URL
- https://flgowrley.wordpress.com/
- Keywords
- art history, material culture studies, eighteenth-century studies, nineteenth-century studies, gender, sexuality, emotion, identity, collage
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
My research focuses on visual and material culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America. I am Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and I was awarded my PhD in Art History from the University in 2015. I am currently revising my doctoral thesis for publication as a monograph exploring the role of emotions and social relations in the material culture of the eighteenth-century home, as well as working on my postdoctoral research project on collage made between 1660 and 1912. I have held research fellowships at Yale Center for British Art; the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library; the Huntington Library; and the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin). In 2019 I will be a Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Postdoctoral Fellow.
- Recent Publications
My monograph, Domestic Space in Late Georgian Britain: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion, c.1750-1840, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury. I have a book chapter ‘Taste à-la-mode: consuming foreignness, picturing gender’ in the edited volume Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe (J. Germann & H. Strobel, eds. Ashgate Publishing, 2016), and my article ‘Craft(ing) Narratives: Specimens, Souvenirs, and “Morsels” in A la Ronde’s Specimen Table’ is forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. I have also recently submitted articles on gendered representations of needlework in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and Sontagian campness in macaroni prints. Finally, I am in the process of co-editing (with Dr Katie Faulkner of the Courtauld Institute of Art) a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies on craft and masculinity in the long nineteenth century.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @Freya_Gowrley
- Country Focus
- Britain & North America
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Book History, Gender, Material Culture, Sexuality, Women
