Fellow 2022-2023 JULIET SIMPSON
Juliet Simpson (MA St Andrews, DPhil. University of Oxford) is Full Professor of Art History (Modern and Contemporary), Chair of Cultural Memory and Research Director for the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University, UK.
She is a specialist in long nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art and visual culture, with a particular focus on fin-de-siècle art and cultural memory, word and image interactions, art and the emotions, pre-modern art historiography and afterlives of Gothic and Northern Renaissance visual cultures on which she has taught, lectured and published extensively. Recent publications include her edited book, co-edited with A.-M. von Bonsdorff, T. Bauduin and J. Baetens, Gothic Modernisms – Enchanted Spaces of Art and Modernity, 1880-1930s (forthcoming, Peter Lang: 2023), and articles on Ferdinand Hodler’s Cosmopolitanism (2019),
‘Re-imagining the Northern Gothic Art Tour’ (2021), ‘Lucas Cranach between Nation and Alterity’( 2020), ‘Baudelaire’s Uncanny Urban “Spirituel”’ (2022) and forthcoming her special issue, co-edited with Gabriele Rippl on ‘Emotional Objects: Northern Renaissance Afterlives in Objects, Images and Texts’, Journal of the Northern Renaissance (spring 2023). Awards include from the UKRI, AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, Paul Mellon for Studies in British Art, CNRS, Paris, the Royal Netherlands Academy and the German Research Foundation (DFK). Professor Simpson has held a Visiting Professorship (by award) at the University of Amsterdam-Rijksmuseum (2017-18), and Visiting Fellowships at Wolfson College, Oxford and most recently at the Warburg Institute, University of London (2019-22). She is Guest Curator and Principal Lead for the international scholarly exhibition and research publication, Gothic Modern, 1875–1925: Munch to Kollwitz in partnership with Ateneum (Finnish National Gallery), Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin and Nationalmuseum, Oslo (Helsinki, Ateneum-Oslo, Nationalmuseum-Berlin Alte Nationalgalerie, 2024-25). Professor Simpson is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts and Royal Historical Society, UK. She is Advisory Partner for the British Council (Venice Fellowships Programme); she sits on the International Review Board and as Co-Chair for the Swiss National Science Foundation Starter and Consolidator Grants programme, and the International Editorial Board of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide.