Octobre 2024

Juliet Simpson is Full Professor of Art History, Chair Arts and Cultural Memory and Research Director of the Centre for Arts, Memory, and Communities at Coventry University. Her main research interests include art and its publics; uncanny modernities; art and constructs of ‘nation’ and transnational ‘other’; re-imagining the medieval in modern and contemporary art, haunted urbanisms, art and the emotions, and capitals of cultures, in which she is a recognized leading international specialist. Key publications include, books with Carol Adlam, Critical Exchange: Art Criticism in Russia and Western Europe (2009), with Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff, Gothic Modern (2024), her special journal issue on Emotional Objects, JNR (14: 2023) and numerous articles, most recently, ‘Imagining the Uncanny Memory: the Isenheim Altarpiece and War’ (in Lerm-Hayes et al., 2023). Prof. Simpson’s distinctions and awards include Fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust; AHRC; British Academy; Royal Netherlands Academy of Art and Sciences as Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam-Rijksmuseum (2017–18); Visiting Fellowships at Wolfson College, Oxford, the Warburg Institute London and most recently, at Heidelberg University, Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (2022–23), funded by an award from the German Ministry of Research and Education. Professor Simpson has collaborated with world-leading museums and galleries. She is guest curator for the internationa, ground-breaking scholarly exhibition, Gothic Modern - Munch to Kollwitz (Helsinki-Oslo-Vienna, 2024–26). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Royal Historical Society, UK and sits on the international editorial and advisory boards of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, the international ‘Association of Women in the Arts and Culture’ (Rome), and the British Council UK, Venice Biennale Fellowships Programme.

Lecture "Gothic and the Metamorphic Modern in Belgian Art and Spaces of Art, c.1890s-1910s"