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Dr Nicholas Robbins

Biography:

Nicholas Robbins teaches the history of art and visual culture in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. His research focuses on the ecological and scientific significance of art, with particular attention to histories of landscape, photography, and racial formation. His current book project examines how climate emerged as a central subject of scientific observation and aesthetic experimentation in the nineteenth century.

Research Projects:

  • Oceans of Air: Landscape and Climate in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, book manuscript in progress (working title).
  • 鈥楻uskin, Whistler, and the Climate of Art in 1884鈥�, in Ruskin鈥檚 Ecologies, eds. Kelly Freeman and Thomas Hughes (Courtauld Books Online, forthcoming in 2021).
  • 鈥楻ock-Bound: Fitz Henry Lane in 1862鈥�, Oxford Art Journal (forthcoming in 2021).
  • 鈥楾he Aerial Image鈥�, conference organized with Emily Doucet, Matthew Hunter, and Jennifer Raab, Yale History of Art Department/Yale Environmental Humanities, April 2019.
  • Co-author, Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole鈥檚 Trans-Atlantic Inheritance (Thomas Cole National Historic Site; Yale University Press, 2018).

Teaching:

  • HART0080: 鈥楥hanges in the Landscape: Empire, Industry, Environment鈥� (currently offered)
  • HART0081: 鈥楢rt and Science in Britain, 1750鈥�1900鈥�, (currently offered)

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