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Euan defended his Ph.D. dissertation at 果冻影院 in 2019, where he has also lectured for the past five years. He was named the winner of the 2020 David R. Tashjian Award for the 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. His work is currently being supported by a Research Continuity Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. He holds an MLitt in Early European Art and Architecture from the University of Glasgow, for which his thesis on so-called "speaking" and cephalophoric reliquaries was awarded a distinction and the 2010 Robert. E. Cummings Prize. Before joining 果冻影院, he worked in research and education, most recently as a Librarian and Archivist at Christie鈥檚, following two years as a pre-doctoral Research Assistant to the Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Thesis
A Cathedral Encountered: Stories and Storytelling in Medieval Durham
Research into reception and the affective agencies of historic objects and images has developed swiftly in recent decades. As in other disciplines, medievalists working with a variety of subjects, methods and goals have followed the broad path first laid by the Konstanz school鈥檚 work on 搁别锄别辫迟颈辞苍蝉盲蝉迟丑别迟颈办, literary criticism and reader-response theory. This thesis contributes to this larger ongoing project, but it is also an attempt to address a particular deficit of such analyses in the field of Anglo-Norman (or English Romanesque) studies. The cathedral complex at Durham (begun 1093) is a primary case study, but this research is also global by nature, interdisciplinary, and of value potentially to a broad spectrum of academic interests. In an attempt to consider, on a par, both object and subject, both cause and effect, evidence for the analyses it pursues is sought out in 鈥渟tories鈥� and 鈥渟torytelling鈥�. How art and architecture thrilled, attracted, persuaded, frightened or even annoyed, these (and more) functions are all corroborated in medieval sources. Just as critical, however, is the historically-contingent medieval viewer, for whom, in her particularity, such impressions neither sprang consistently, nor without mediation. Building throughout on the innate political and cultural alterity of the medieval world, a plurality of viewing communities is therefore emphasised along regional, social, professional and gendered lines. Over and above the conclusions provided, these embodied perspectives are key: not just insofar as they might differ from, but ultimately complement and augment, existing scholarship.
Supervised by Professor Robert Mills and Professor Alison Wright, funded by a 果冻影院 Stipend and Studentship.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Forthcoming 鈥� 2022 A Cathedral Encountered: Stories and Storytelling in Medieval and Early Modern Durham (under initial submission/review process)
2020 鈥楽pace, it鈥檚 about Time too: Architecture and Identity in Late Medieval Northumbria鈥�, Northern Lights: New Directions in Late Medieval Insular Sanctity, ed. by Christiania Whitehead, Denis Renevey and Hazel Blair (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming)
2019 鈥�A Storied Cathedral鈥�, Stories and Storytelling in the Medieval World: Multimedia and Multitemporal Approaches, ed. by Simon Thomson, Francesca Brooks, and Emily Klimova (Turnhout: Brepols, in press)
2019 鈥楽trangers in the Cathedral鈥�, Strangers at the Gate: The (Un)Welcome Movement of People and Ideas in the Medieval World, ed. by Simon Thomson (Leiden: Brill, in press)
2017 鈥楢 Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe鈥�, Object: Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, 19, 124-5
2016 鈥楥elts, Art and Identity鈥�, Object: Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, 18, 77-9
In Preparation
2022 A Cathedral Encountered: Stories and Storytelling in Medieval and Early Modern Durham (under initial submission/review process)
Upcoming/Recent Conference Papers
2020 鈥楤uilding in Stories: Construction and Community in Late Medieval Durham鈥�, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, USA
2020 鈥楤ooks, Bodies and Buildings: Triangulating Early Medieval Meanings鈥�, Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages XI Annual Conference, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2020 鈥楽pace, Place and Early Modern Gender鈥�, Gender and Feminism Research Network, Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), UK
2019 鈥楻eusing the Cathedral: Space, Ritual and Community in Late Medieval Durham鈥�, Northern Lights: Late Medieval Devotion to Saints from the North of England, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2019 鈥楾he 鈥淎udacious鈥� Presence of a Medieval Woman鈥濃��, The Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium 2019, De Montfort University, UK
2019 鈥楤rexit: A Shakespearean Tragedy?鈥�, In Shakespeare鈥檚 Footsteps: Early Modern Drama, May Term London Program, University of Redlands, USA
2018 鈥楾he Power of Images: Time Covers and President Trump鈥�, Access and Widening Participation, The Elmgreen School, UK
2017 鈥業magining the Cathedral: The Invention of a Tradition in Symeon of Durham鈥檚 Libellus de Exordio鈥�, Strangers At The Gate: The (Un)Welcome Movement of People and Ideas in the Medieval World, Ruhr-Universit盲t Bochum, Germany
2017 鈥楶erforming the Cathedral: Space, Ritual and Imagination in The Rites of Durham鈥�, Mobility & Space In Late Medieval And Early Modern Europe, University of Oxford, UK
2017 鈥楢 Multi-Story Cathedral: Power, Place and Persuasion in Symeon of Durham鈥�, Medieval Settlement Research Group Spring Conference 2017: Power and Place in the Middle Ages, Newcastle University, UK
Teaching
2020 PGTA/Additional Marker, Advanced Lecture in the History of Art: The听Making of Early Modern Visual Urban Culture (HART0035), 果冻影院
2019 Instructor of Record, Architecture in Medieval London (HART0024), 果冻影院
2019 PGTA/Additional Marker, Foundation Course: Renaissance to Modern (HART0006), 果冻影院
2019 PGTA/Additional Marker, Foundation Course: Classical to Renaissance (HART0005), 果冻影院
2018 Instructor of Record, Architecture in Medieval London (贬础搁罢0024),听果冻影院
2017 Invited Speaker, Professional Development Programme, Christie鈥檚听Education
2017 Instructor of Record, Art in London (HART1701), 果冻影院
2015 PGTA, Undergraduate Core Course: History of Art and its Objects (HART1001), 果冻影院
2011 Instructor of Record, Introduction to Sculpture (HART165), University of Redlands, USA
2011 Instructor of Record, Fine Art Studio: Contemporary Sculpture (ART165), University of Redlands, USA
2010 Teaching Assistant, Early European Art and Architecture, Christie鈥檚听Education
Other/Awards
2020 Winner, David R. Tashjian Award, International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute and the Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research, Western Michigan University, USA
2020- Tutor, Talent Bank, City Literary Institute (City Lit), UK
2017- Board Member/Editor, Digital Rolls and Fragments Project听(DEMMR), Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale听University, USA
2016听 Volunteer Speaker and Coordinator, Access and Widening听Participation, 果冻影院, UK
2014-17 Board Member, Object: Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, 果冻影院, UK
2016-17 Student Academic Representative (StAR) [elected], Art History Department, 果冻影院, UK
2016 Recipient, Summer Conference Scholarship, Romanesque Art, Oxford: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage, British Archaeological Association (BAA) Romanesque Conference, University of Oxford, UK
2014-15 Student Academic Representative (StAR) [elected], Art History Department, 果冻影院, UK
2010 Winner, Robert. E. Cummings Essay Prize, University of Glasgow,听UK
2009 Recipient, Scholarship and Student Bursary, University of Glasgow听Trust, UK
Research Interests
Anglo-Norman Architecture; Space and Place; Critical Theory; Thing Theory; Political Science; Visual Culture; Nostalgia.
Research Themes
Thoughts, Beliefs & Philosophy; Language, Linguistics & Literature; Heritage, Histories and Cultures; Art, Design & Architecture; Medieval Visual Culture; Saints.
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