Dr Kate Nichols
Henry Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Phone: +44 (0)117 928 8891
Email: kate.nichols@bristol.ac.uk
Research interests
Kate is interested in the cultural significance of classical antiquities in nineteenth-century Britain. Her recently completed PhD thesis 'Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace' assesses how classical statuary figured in debates over design reform, taste, beauty and morality, and race. As a Henry Moore Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Bristol's Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition, she will be preparing the thesis for publication.
Wider research and teaching interests include the reception of classical art in later periods, the relationship between ancient and modern empires, nineteenth-century British painting and sculpture and its historiography, museum studies, and the historiography of ancient art.
She is currently working on her book: Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace, 1854-1936 (under contract with OUP, due 2011)
Teaching in 2009/10
- Picturing the Past: Victorian paintings and the classical tradition (BA History of Art)
- Art and antiquities on Show (MA Classics and Ancient History, MA History of Art)
Publications
- 'Art and commodity: sculpture under glass at the Crystal Palace' in J. Welchmann (ed.) Sculpture and the Vitrine (Ashgate, forthcoming 2011)
- 'Marbles for the Masses; the Elgin Marbles at the Crystal Palace' in V. Coltman (ed.), Making Sense of Greek Art (Exeter University Press, forthcoming 2010)