Associate Professor Mary Roberts

The John Schaeffer Associate Professor of British Art

Selected academic honours, fellowships and grants

• 2009–10, The Clark Art Institute/Oakley Center for the Humanities Fellow, (Sept-June)
• 2008–09, Getty Scholar, Getty Research Institute, (Sept–June)
• 2009, University of Sydney, Bridging Support Grant
• 2008, Visiting Fellowship, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, (Feb–March)
• 2007, Faculty of Arts Research Seed Funding Scheme, University of Sydney
• 2003–2006, Discovery Grant, Australian Research Council ($270,000)
• 2006, CHASS, Overseas Conference and Travel Grant, University of Sydney
• 2006, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Research Support Grant
• 2005, Research Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Writing Fellowship
• 2003, University of Sydney, Faculty of Arts Research Seed funding Scheme
• 2003, The Australian Academy of the Humanities, Publications Subsidy Scheme,
• 2003, Overseas conference and travel grant, University of Sydney
• 2002, Early Career Researcher Grant Scheme, University of Melbourne
• 2001, Sesqui Research and Development Support Scheme, University of Sydney
• 2001, Overseas Conference and Travel Grant, University of Sydney
• 2000, Australasian Conference Travel Grant Scheme for Staff, University of Sydney
• 2000, Inaugural EDGC Release from Teaching Grant, ANU
• 2000, Visiting Intercultural Fellow, Richmond College, London
• 1999, Visiting Fellowship, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
• 1999, Australian Research Council Small Grant
• 1998, Australian Research Council Small Grant
• 1997, Australian Research Council Small Grant

Editorial board memberships

• 2002–present, Art History (Journal of the British Association of Art Historians), External Advisory Committee Member

Research interests

• European, especially British, art of the Nineteenth Century
• Gender, Orientalism, the history and culture of travel
• Ottoman art in the Nineteenth Century and cultural exchange with European artists

Publications

Books

• 2007, Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature, Duke University Press, Durham
• 2005, Edges of Empire. Orientalism and Visual Culture, co-edited with Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Blackwells Press, Oxford
• 2002, Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography, co-edited with Jill Beaulieu, Duke University Press, Durham and London
• 2000, Refracting Vision. Essays on the writings of Michael Fried, co-edited with Jill Beaulieu and Toni Ross, Power Publications, Sydney

Books in preparation

• 2010, The Poetics and Politics of Place: Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism, co-edited with Reina Lewis and Zeynep Inankur, Pera Museum, Istanbul, 2010
• Artistic Exchanges in nineteenth-century Istanbul, (research and writing in progress)

Book essays in preparation

• 2010, “Embodying memories of travel”, Oriental Erotics: The Middle Eastern Body, Visual Culture and Modernity, eds. Joan Del Plato and Julie Codell, Ashgate, Aldershot
• 2010, “Divided Objects of Empire”, Imperial Artists. The Art of Transculturation, ed. Julie Codell, Ashgate, Aldershot
• 2010, “Genealogies of Display”, The Poetics and Politics of Place: Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism, co-edited with Reina Lewis and Zeynep Inankur, Pera Museum, Istanbul

Essays, articles and book chapters

• 2009, “Visual Elaborations: Fausto Zonaro’s ‘Ottoman’ self-portraits”, Crossing Cultures. Conflict, Migration, Convergence, ed. Jaynie Anderson, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
• 2007, “The Politics of Portraiture behind the Veil”, Art and the British Empire, eds. Tim Barringer, Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham, Manchester University Press, Manchester
• 2007, “Karşıt Noktalar: Said, Sanat Tarihi ve 19. yy’da Osmanlı Kimliğinin Yeniden İcadı” / “Counterpoints: Said, Art History and the Reinvention of Ottoman Identity in Nineteenth-century Istanbul”, Oryantalizm. Edward Said Anısına/ Orientalism. In Memory of Edward Said, İstanbul Büyükşehir, İstanbul
• 2006, “Harem Portraiture: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann and the Egyptian Princess Nazli Hanım”, Global/Local: Women’s Art of the Nineteenth-century, eds. Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland, Ashgate
• 2005, “Cultural Crossings: sartorial adventures, satiric narratives and the question of indigenous agency in nineteenth-century Europe and the Near East”, Edges of Empire Orientalism and Visual Culture, co-edited with Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Blackwells Press, Oxford
• 2002, “Contested Terrains: Women Orientalists and the Colonial Harem”, Orientalism's Interlocutors Painting, Architecture, Photography, co-edited with Jill Beaulieu, Duke University Press, Durham and London
• 2002, “Inhabiting Tradition: Barbara Campbell’s Inflorescent”, Flesh Winnow, eds. Barbara Campbell and Laura Ginters, Power Publications, Sydney
• 2002, “Pasts present: Recent Developments in the study of nineteenth-century British Art”, Art Monthly Australia, No. 151, July
• 2000, “Difference and Deferral: The Sexual Economy of Courbet’s ‘Femininity’”, Refracting Vision . Essays on the writings of Michael Fried, co-edited with Jill Beaulieu and Toni Ross, Power Publications, Sydney
• 2000 (with Jill Beaulieu and Toni Ross), “An Interview with Michael Fried”, Refracting Vision. Essays on the writings of Michael Fried, co-edited with Jill Beaulieu and Toni Ross, Power Publications, Sydney
• 2000, “Strategic Inversions: women’s harem literature and the politics of looking”, Art Journal of Australia, Vol. 1, No. 2
• 2000, “Being Drawn. Barbara Campbell’s Inflorescent”, Eyeline, Autumn/Winter
• 1997 (with Dr Jill Beaulieu), “Courbet’s Corporeal Realism: The Phenomenological Body and the Anti-theatrical tradition”, Body, ed. Anthony Bond, Bookman Press, Melbourne
• 1997, Twelve catalogue entries on British and French Orientalist paintings for Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee, ed. Roger Benjamin, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Exhibition December 1997–February 1998, Thames and Hudson
• 1997, “Decorum. by Helen Nicholson”, Art and Australia, Vol. 34, No. 3, March
• 1995, “Critical Reflections: the 1995 AAA Conference”, Art Monthly, November
• 1995, “Reading Matisse”, Art in Australia, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring
• 1995 (with Dr Jill Beaulieu), “Matisse: An Interview with Roger Benjamin”, Art in Australia, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring
• 1995 (with Dr. Jill Beaulieu), “On Modernism: An Interview with Richard Shiff”, Art Monthly, July
• 1993, “Masquerade as Disguise and Satire in Two Travellers’ Tales of the Orientalist’s Harem”, The Olive Pink Bulletin. Anthropology, Race, Gender, Vol. 5, No. 1
• 1990, “Imaginary Feminine”, Editions, 6, February

Selected symposia and conference sessions convened

• 2008, Symposium co-convenor, “Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism”, (International Symposium organized in Conjunction with the exhibition “The Lure of the East. British Orientalist Painting”), Pera Museum, Istanbul, 27–28 November
• 2008, Session co-convenor, “Self-Portraiture and Inscriptions of the Artist”, 34th AAH Annual Conference, Tate Britain and Tate Modern “LOCATION: the Museum, the Academy and the Studio”, 2–4 April
• 2005, Session convenor, “Empires/Modernities”, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference
• 2003, Session co-convenor, “Writing Feminist Art Histories”, College Art Association Conference, New York
• 2001, Session co-convenor, “Women, Art and the Politics of Identity”, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
• 1998, Symposium co-convenor, “The Oriental Mirage: Orientalism in Context” in conjunction with the exhibition “Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee”, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• 1997, “Other Voices, Other Contexts – Reinterpreting Orientalism”, Art Association of Australia Conference
• 1995, Session convenor, “Post-colonial approaches to Visual Culture”, Art Association of Australia Conference
• 1993, Session co-convenor, “Responses to Recent Critical Art Histories”, Art Association of Australia Conference

Selected conference and seminar papers

• 2009, “Networks and Relays”, Getty Research Institute Symposium “Walls of Algiers: Reconsidering the Colonial Archive”, May
• 2009, “Enacting Artistic Identities: an inquiry into Ottoman and Orientalist Self-portraiture”, Northwestern University, Department of Art History, May
• 2009, “Restless Invention: Istanbul Photography”, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, April
• 2009, “Artistic Exchanges in 19th-century Istanbul”, Getty Research Institute Scholar lecture, March
• 2009, “Convergences and collisions: Art Networks in nineteenth-century Istanbul”, Getty Research Institute session “Networks and Boundaries”, College Art Association, Los Angeles, 25 February
• 2008, “Genealogies of Display”, International Symposium “Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism” organised in conjunction with the exhibition “The Lure of the East”), Pera Museum, Istanbul, 27–28 November
• 2008, “At the Margins of British Orientalism”, Symposium “Orientalism Revisited” held in conjunction with “The Lure of the East. British Orientalist Painting”, Tate Britain, 13 June
• 2008, Invited keynote, “Crossing Boundaries, Testing Limits: Edward Said and Nineteenth-century Visual Culture”, Symposium “Framing the Other: Thirty Years after Orientalism”, Courtauld Institute of Art, Convenors: Melanie Vandenbrouck and Aliya de Tiesenhausen, 26 April
• 2008, “Cross-cultural processes of becoming: the self-portraits of Fausto Zonaro, William Holman Hunt and Şeker Ahmed Paşa”, Session “Self-Portraiture and Inscriptions of the Artist”, 34th AAH Annual Conference, Tate Britain and Tate Modern “LOCATION: the Museum, the Academy and the Studio”, 2–4 April
• 2008, Speaker and participant, “Orientalism: An Informal Colloquium”, Yale Center for British Art, 25 March
• 2008, “Transgressive Invention: Princess Nazlı in the Photographers’ studio”, Nineteenth-Century Reading Group, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, 19 February
• 2008, “Divided Objects of Empire”, Session “Art and Transculturation: Colonial Artists, Borders and Encounters”, Chair: Professor Julie Codell, 96th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Dallas, 20–23 February
• 2008, Invited speaker for panel discussion at the opening of two exhibitions “The Lure of the East” and “Pearls to Pyramids”, Yale Center for British Art, 6 February
• 2008, “Visual Elaborations: Constructing Identity in Late Ottoman Self-Portraiture, 1870–1922”, Cultural and Artistic Exchange in the Making of the Modern World, 1500–1900, 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA) “Crossing Cultures. Conflict, Migration, Convergence”, University of Melbourne, 13–18 January
• 2007, “The photographic experiments of a nineteenth-century Ottoman-Egyptian princess”, Gender and Cultural Studies Seminar Series, University of Sydney, 4 May
• 2006, “Counterpoints: Said, Art History and the Reinvention of Ottoman identity in nineteenth-century Istanbul”, International Symposium in Memory of Edward Said “Orientalism”, Istanbul Büyük Şehir, December
• 2006, “Commodification and Collaboration: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann and Princess Nazlı Hanım”, The International Association for Cultural Studies Conference “Ottoman Women Sell Books”, Crossroads, Bilgi University, Istanbul, July
• 2006, “Fragments and Frames”, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney, September
• 2006, “Intimate Outsiders. The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature”, Nation/Empire/Globe, Interdisciplinary Research Cluster, University of Sydney, April
• 2005, “Artistic Exchanges in Istanbul and Cairo”, Richmond, The American International University, London
• 2005, “Modernizing Images of Empire”, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference “Empires/Modernities”, Sydney, December
• 2005, “Elite Ottoman Women and artistic patronage in Istanbul, 1869–1875”, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney
• 2004, “Sartorial Adventures and Satiric Narratives”, Richmond, The American International University, London
• 2003, “Exotic Inversions. Egyptian Royal women and the Orientalism debate”, Session “Writing Feminist Art Histories”, College Art Association Conference, New York
• 2002, “Art and the British Empire”, 25th Anniversary Conference Yale Center for British Art “Histories of British Art: Where Next?” New Haven, 31 October–2 November
• 2002, “Harem Patronage in 19th-century Constantinople”, Masterclass with Professor Mary Sherriff, Art Gallery of New South Wales
• 2002, “The Portable Seraglio”, Symposium “Occidents Will Happen”, Tate Gallery, London
• 2001, “The Exotic West: Cross-dressing and Cultural Identity”, Visiting Scholars Program “Sleight of Sight: Perception, Representation, Illusion”, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University
• 2001, “The Politics of Portraiture behind the Veil”, Conference “Art and the British Empire”, Tate Britain, London, Convenors: Tim Barringer and Geoff Quilley
• 2000, “Mary Adelaide Walker and her Harem Patrons”, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference “21st Century Modernism? Critical Reflections on Art History Today”, Brisbane
• 2000, “Fashioning an Ottoman Self-image: Ottoman Palace Patronage of Orientalist Painters”, Visiting Fellows Seminar, Richmond, The American International University, London
• 1999, “Indigenous presence: Patronage of Portraits in Ottoman Culture”, Visiting Scholars Program “Transcultural Art: Representation and Exchange in Africa, Asia and Oceania”, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, Convenors: Roger Benjamin and John Clark
• 1998, “Contested Terrains: Women Orientalists and the Colonial Harem”, “The Oriental Mirage. Orientalism in Context”, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• 1998, “John Frederick Lewis and the British Orientalists”, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• 1997, “Dis-orienting the colonial gaze: Women Travel Writers and the Colonial Harem”, SASSC Conference “Western Conceptions of the Orient”, University of Sydney
• 1996, “Victorian Women’s Travel Writing”, Women’s Studies Seminar Series, Australian National University
• 1994, “Michael Fried and his feminist sources”, Visiting Scholar Program, University of Queensland

Current Classes

• ARHT5904 Cross Cultural Art