Research

My DPhil research examines the etchings made by Jules and Edmond de Goncourt alongside their work as novelists, art critics, and art historians. Using an interdisciplinary approach to text and image, my thesis explores the different ways in which the Goncourt brothers’ work as etchers, or aquafortistes, influenced their writing.

My research interests include 18th and 19th c. print culture, Diderot’s Salons, and the history of collecting. 

Prior to the DPhil, I completed a BA in French and Art History at Princeton University, and an MSt in Modern languages (French & Enlightenment Studies) at the University of Oxford.

 

Publications

"The Needle and the Pen: Etching and the Goncourt Brothers' Novels." Article forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century French Studies 

"Manette Salomon" The Literary Encyclopedia. Vol 1.5.2.05: Nineteenth-Century French Writing and Culture, 1800-1900. 

"Re-Fashioning the Monument du Costume: A New Examination of the 1793 edition" Vol no. 48, Les Etudes Rétiviennes.

 

Talks & Conference Presentations

"Prints and Process: Intersections between Literature and Printmaking in Nineteenth-Century France" Perlego Research Seminar, University of Oxford (June 2019)

"Revival & Revolution: Printmaking in Nineteenth-Century France" Public Lecture, Wolverhampton Art Gallery (May 2019)

“Out of Line: Unruly Etching in Eighteenth-Century France”  Oxford-Cini Foundation Study Day, Venice, Italy (October 2018)

"From Lithography to the Lorette: Gavarni's Les Lorettes Vieillies and the Goncourts' La Lorette" Society of Dix-Neuvièmistes Annual Conference, Newcastle (April 2018)

"Making their Mark: Works by Female Printmakers" Ashmolean Museum Print Room Talk, Oxford (April 2018)

"Collecting Chaos: Edmond de Goncourt's La Maison d'un Artiste" Medieval & Modern Languages Graduate Conference, University of Oxford (June 2017)

"Une Imagination Reglée": The Role of Imagined Paintings in Diderot's Salons" French Graduate Seminar, University of Oxford (November 2016)

"Rotating Dial Clocks and the Visualization of Time in Eighteenth-Century France" Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar, University of Oxford (May 2016)