ProfessorMary Roberts
Professor of Art History & Nineteenth Century Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Professor of Art History & Nineteenth Century StudiesFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: British and Ottoman art
Summary of opportunity:
Mary Roberts is the John Schaeffer Professor of Art History. She specializes in nineteenth-century British and Ottoman art with particular expertise in Orientalism, the history of artistic exchanges between the Ottoman Empire and Europe and the culture of travel. Her books include: Istanbul Exchanges. Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-century visual culture (University of California Press, 2015), Intimate Outsiders. The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature (Duke, 2007) and four co-edited books: The Poetics and Politics of Place. Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism (Pera Museum and University of Washington Press, 2011) Edges of Empire. Orientalism and Visual Culture (Blackwells, 2005), Orientalism’s Interlocutors, (Duke, 2002) and Refracting Vision. Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried (Power Publications, 2000/2012).
Opportunity synopsis:
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
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION“Embroidered Exotica:” Chinese Silk Shawls, Fashion, and the Feminine, 1800-1930
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAugustus Earle: Global Citizen
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBetween movement and suspension: The chinikhana in the Mughal empire during the 16th and 17th century
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPascal Coste in North Africa and Iran: Books, Buildings, Networks
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONTranslating Ruins: Photography of Cultural Heritage and the Project of Armenian Cultural Modernity, 1860-1904