| Post: | Head of Department |
| Other posts: | Senior Lecturer in Art History |
| Location: | Arts A A128 |
| Email: | M.E.Clarke@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 3113 |
| UK: | (01273) 873113 |
| International: | +44 1273 873113 |
Biography
Biography
Dr Meaghan Clarke has degrees from the University of Guelph (BA Hons), the University of Carleton (MA), and the University of Sussex (DPhil). Dr Clarke was the recipient of a Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship (2002-2004).
Research
Dr Clarke is interested in gender, colonialism, institutions and interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture. She supervises AHRC collaborative doctoral projects with the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Royal Pavilion and Charleston Trust that explore colonial collecting, colour theory and artistic partnerships. She has recently delivered conference papers and chaired panels in the United States, Canada and the UK; these have included CAA, AAH, UAAC, NAVSA and CIHA conferences. Dr Clarke is pursuing projects which address Fashionability, Portraiture and Trans-nationalism. Her related project, entitled The Writing of Art History: Gender, Modernity and Professionalization examines the construction of the discipline at the end of the nineteenth-century.
Teaching
Dr Clarke has taught courses on nineteenth-century and twentieth century art, methodology, as well as interdisciplinary courses.
Dr Clarke teaches the following undergraduate courses:
First Year: Stories of Art/Sites of Art
Objects of Art
Communicating Art
Second Year: Methods and Approaches in the History of Art
Nineteenth Century Art and Society
Art in the Modern Era
Final Year: Origins of Modernism/Modernity in Context
Popular Print Culture
Pre-Raphaelitism
Representing Women
Dr Clarke also teaches postgraduate courses, including 'Objects and Methods' the core MA course. Dr Clarke has supervised MA dissertations on nineteenth-century art in Britain, France and North America, contemporary art (new media, post-colonial and gender theory) and museum studies.
Dr Clarke supervises the following DPhil students:
Dr T. Anderson, 'The Crown and the Jewel: Images of Royalty and Viceroyalty in the Making of Imperial India and Britain, AHRC Funded Doctorate, awarded 2006
C. Dixon, 'Laura Alma Tadema', awarded 2007.
C. Johnson, 'Images of Pre-Raphaelites in the media, 1930-1997', awarded 2008.
C. Wintle, 'Objects of Evidence: Issues of Colonial Collecting in Sussex 1870-1930,' AHRC Collaborative Doctorate.
A. Loske, 'The Decorative Scheme of the Royal Pavilion', AHRC Collaborative Doctorate.
D. Clarke, 'Creating the Artefact: Photography, Partnership and Identity at Charleston', AHRC Collaborative Doctorate
R. Froud, 'Richard Dadd'
Publications
Critical Voices: Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905, (Ashgate 2005).
'(Re)viewing Whistler and Sargent', RACAR (XXX:1-2, 2005).
"Bribery with sherry' and 'the influence of weak tea': Arbiters of Taste in the late Victorian and Edwardian Press", Visual Culture in Britain (6:2, 2005).
'New Woman on Grub Street: Art in the City,' in J. Spiers (ed.) Gissing in the City, Macmillan (2005).
'Translating nudus: Modernity and the British Academy's New Clothes', in C. Adlam and J. Simpson (eds) Critical Exchange: European Art Criticism of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Russia and Western Europe, Peter Lang (2009).
Previous publications and curatorial projects have encompassed Victorian art, criticism, and contemporary Canadian art.