果冻影院

PhD supervisor:听Dr. Mechthild Fend
Working title for PhD:听'Translation, Sensation and Colonial Landscapes: A Visual History of the Danish West Indies, 1780-1855'

My research focuses on representations of landscape and place in the Danish-Norwegian West Indies between 1780-1850, including maps, paintings and prints. In this, I am interested in the ways in which contact zones between the Afro-Caribbean and the European and Danish emerge in these images, particularly through media and techniques. These contact zones are characterised particularly by the struggle between slave resistance and the imposed order of colonialism. From mapping with its hybrid use of images and text, and harbour views, my project will eventually consider Camille Pissarro and Fritz Melbye鈥檚 encounters with the Caribbean, confronting Eurocentric narratives of the development of nineteenth century painting. As a conceptual model to rethink representations of place, my project explores landscapes as visual metaphors for bodies: as sites of conflict and sensation, vulnerable to damage and transformation.
My PhD is funded by the 果冻影院 Graduate and Overseas Research Scholarships.

Publications:

• 鈥楾ouching Difference: Race and Portraiture in Danish Colonial Space鈥�, in A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery, Vol. 1. Edited by Mads Anders Baggesgaard, Madeleine Dobie and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing) [forthcoming]
• 鈥楥utting the contact zone: race, temporality and history in Peter Lotharius Oxholm鈥檚 map of St. Croix (1799)鈥�, Object 21 (2020), pp. 7-30.听
• Review of Charmaine Nelson, Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica (Routledge, 2016), Object 20 (2018)听

Conference papers and presentations:

• 'Imaging colonial conflict in the Danish West Indies, 1801鈥�1806: delay and the dis-continuous line', in the seminar series Encounters, London Group of Historical Geographers, Institute of Historical Research, 11 February, 2020.听
• 鈥楥utting the 鈥渃ontact zone鈥�: bodies, temporality and history in Peter Lotharius Oxholm鈥檚 map of St. Croix (1799)鈥� presented at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Brighton, 6 April, 2019.听
• 鈥楽hivering marks: Cartographic Violence in the Danish West Indies鈥�, presented at the panel discussion 鈥楲and and Confinement鈥� at the Past Imperfect seminar at 果冻影院, 28 January, 2019.
• 鈥楽ensation and the disruption of colonial order 鈥� landscapes in the Danish West Indies, 1780-1855,鈥� presented at 鈥楿nfinished Histories: Art, Memory, and the Visual Politics of Coloniality,鈥� University of Copenhagen, 30 November 鈥� 1 December, 2017.

Teaching:

• PGTA on the BA course 鈥極bject Lessons鈥� in the Arts and Sciences department, 果冻影院, January-April 2021.
• 2018-2019: PGTA for HART 0001, History of Art and its Objects
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