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Dr Freya Gowrley

Lecturer in History of Art/Liberal Arts, University of Bristol 

I am Lecturer in History of Art/Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol. I specialise in art and objects from the early modern period to the late nineteenth century.  

Research

My research focuses on the relationship between identity and visual and material culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America, exploring this connection through research on the home, the collaged object, and the body. 

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Publications

My monograph, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion, c.1750-1840, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic in 2021. It is the first book to explore the role of emotions and social relations in the material culture of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century home. I have also published articles in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century StudiesAphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830Journal 18, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and I have co-edited a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies on craft and masculinity. 

Media and 

Consultancy

I have shared my research through appearances on podcasts such as History Hack, Art & Stuff, and Sew What? and as a consultant on the exhibition, Cut & Paste: 400 Years of Collage, held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2019. 

Blog Posts

Latests posts from my blog, flgowrley.wordpress.com. 

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