Dr Mary Roberts
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BA Sydney PhD Melbourne |
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| Phone | 9351 4213 | |||
| FAX | 9351 4212 | |||
| Location | Room 230 R C Mills Building map |
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The John Schaeffer Senior Lecturer in British Art
Previous distinctions and awards
- 2000 Visiting Intercultural Fellow, Richmond College, London, September.
- 1999 Yale Center for British Art Visiting Fellowship, July, Yale University.
Editorial Board Memberships
- 2002 – 2007 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
- Development of Ottoman art in the Nineteenth Century and cultural exchange with European artists
Publications
- [Books]Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature, Duke University Press, Durham (Forthcoming)
- [Books]Edges of Empire. Orientalism and Visual Culture, (co-edited with Jos Hackforth-Jones), Blackwells Press, Oxford, (In press, 2005)
- [Books] Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography,co-edited with Jill Beaulieu, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2002
- [Books] Refracting Vision. Essays on the writings of Michael Fried, co-edited with Jill Beaulieu and Toni Ross, Power Publications, Sydney 2000.
- [Chapters]“The Politics of Portraiture behind the Veil”, eds. Tim Barringer, Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham, Art and the British Empire, Volume 1, Identities, Manchester University Press, Manchester, (In Press, 2004)
- [Chapters]"Harem Portraiture: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann and the Egyptian Princess Nazli Hanim", eds. Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland, Studio, Space and Sociality: New Narratives of Nineteenth-century Women Artists, Ashgate (In Press, 2005)
- [Chapters]“Cultural Crossings: sartorial adventures, satiric narratives and the question of indigenous agency in nineteenth-century Europe and the Near East”, in Edges of Empire, (In Press, 2005).
- [Chapters] "Mirroring the self/challenging the other: Ottoman women as portrait patrons in nineteenth-century Constantinople," eds. Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland, Studio, Space and Sociality: New Narratives of Nineteenth-century Women Artists, Ashgate,2003.
- [Chapters] "Contested Terrains: Women Orientalists and the Colonial Harem" in Orientalism's Interlocutors,2002.
- [Chapters] "Inhabiting Tradition: Barbara Campbell's Inflorescent", Flesh Winnow, eds. Barbara Campbell and Laura Ginters, Power Publications, Sydney, 2002
- [Chapters] "Difference and Deferral: The Sexual Economy of Courbet's 'Femininity'" in Refracting Vision Power Publications, Sydney, 2002.
- [Chapters] “An Interview with Michael Fried” (with Jill Beaulieu and Toni Ross) in Refracting Vision (as above).
- [Chapters] (with Dr Jill Beaulieu), "Courbet's Corporeal Realism: The Phenomenological Body and the Anti-theatrical tradition", Body, ed. Anthony Bond, Bookman Press, Melbourne, 1997, pp 109-118.
- [Articles] "Pasts present: Recent Developments in the study of nineteenth-century British Art", Art Monthly Australia, No. 151, July 2002, pp. 15-18
- [Articles] "Strategic Inversions: women's harem literature and the politics of looking", Art Journal of Australia, (volume 1, number 2, 2000) pp. 31-41.
- [Articles] "Being Drawn. Barbara Campbell's Inflorescent", Eyeline, Autumn/Winter, 2000, p.52.
- [Articles] Twelve catalogue entries on British and French Orientalist paintings for The Oriental Mirage: Visions of the East From Delacroix to Klee, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Exhibition December 1997 - February 1998, Thames and Hudson, 1997.
- [Articles] "Decorum. by Helen Nicholson", Art and Australia, Vol. 34, No. 3, March 1997, p 414.
- [Articles] "Critical Reflections: the 1995 AAA Conference", Art Monthly, November, 1995, pp. 31-32.
- [Articles] "Reading Matisse", Art in Australia, Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 1995, pp. 49-50.
- [Articles] (with Dr. Jill Beaulieu), "Matisse: An Interview with Roger Benjamin", Art in Australia, Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 1995, pp. 46-48.
- [Articles] (with Dr. Jill Beaulieu), "On Modernism: An Interview with Richard Shiff", Art Monthly, July, 1995, pp. 7-9.
- [Articles] “Masquerade as Disguise and Satire in Two Travellers’ Tales of the Orientalist’s Harem”, The Olive Pink Bulletin. Anthropology, Race, Gender, Volume 5 (1), 1993, pp. 23-29. (by invitation from the Editor Professor Julie Marcus)
- [Articles] “Imaginary Feminine”, Editions, 6, February, 1990, pp. 18-19.
- [Catalogue Essays] 1997 'Courbet's Corporeal Realism: The Phenomenological Body and the Anti-theatrical tradition', with Dr Jill Beaulieu, ed. Anthony Bond, Body, Bookman Press, Melbourne, pp. 109-118.
- [Journal Articles] 2000 'Being Drawn. Barbara Campbell's Inflorescent', Eyeline, No. 42, Autumn/Winter,
- [Journal Articles] 1997 'Decorum. by Helen Nicholson', Art and Australia, Vol. 34, No. 3, March, p. 414.
- [Journal Articles] 1995 'Critical Reflections: the 1995 AAA Conference', Art Monthly, November, 31-32.
- [Journal Articles] 1995 'Reading Matisse', Art in Australia, Vol. 33, Number 1, Spring, pp. 49-50.
- [Journal Articles] 1995 'Matisse: An Interview with Roger Benjamin', with Dr. Jill Beaulieu, Art in Australia, Vol. 33, Number 1, Spring, pp. 46-48.
- [Journal Articles] 1995 'On Modernism: An Interview with Richard Shiff', with Dr. Jill Beaulieu, Art Monthly, July, pp. 7-9.
- [Entries] 1997 Twelve catalogue entries on British and French Orientalist paintings for The Oriental Mirage: Visions of the East From Delacroix to Klee, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Exhibition December 1997 - February 1998, Thames and Hudson.
Current Classes
- ARHT5904 Cross Cultural Art




