Associate Professor Amelia Yeates
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ART HISTORY
Fine Art and Design
0151 291 3645
yeatesa@hope.ac.uk
I am Associate Professor in Art History and have overall responsibility for the delivery of Art & Design History at Liverpool Hope Previously, I ran the MA Art History & Curating. I specialise in nineteenth-century British art and contemporary visual culture. My research focuses on nineteenth-century representations of reading practices (especially women's), Pre-Raphaelitism, representations of Pygmalion in the nineteenth century and feminist theory in relation to contemporary visual culture.
Prior to taking up post at Liverpool Hope University, I worked at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery as a researcher on their major award-winning online resource for Pre-Raphaelite studies - http://www.preraphaelites.org/ - and have taught at the University of Birmingham, Coventry University, Birmingham City University and the Open University.
I have edited two important essay collections: firstly Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities: Constructions of Masculinity in Art and Literature (with Serena Trowbridge, 2014) and secondly Picturing the Reader: Reading and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century (with Beth Palmer, 2022).
I have reviewed articles for journals such as Nineteenth Century Studies, 19 and Journal of Victorian Culture, and book manuscripts for publishers such as Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan, as well as applications to research funding councils.
Teaching Specialisms:
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and my teaching specialisms include: nineteenth-century art; early twenty-century European art; American and European act c. 1945-1975; contemporary British art; critical theory; and gender theory. At Liverpool Hope I teach across all three levels of the undergraduate Art & Design History curriculum and am responsible for co-ordinating Level 3 research project supervision. Previously, I ran the MA Art History and Curating for ten years.
Externally, I have acted as External Examiner for the BA and MA Art History/Museum and Gallery Studies programmes at Aberystwyth University, as an external panel member for programme revalidations (at Arts University Bournemouth) and am an Executive Committee member of BAVS (British Association of Victorian Studies). I have extensive experience of curriculum design, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as serving as an external advisor for curriculum development at other institutions.
School Roles:
Unit of Assessment Co-ordinator for Art & Design REF Submission
Curriculum Co-ordinator for Art & Design History
School Research Committee member
Partnership and Accreditation Committee member
Boards/Networks:
I am a member of the editorial board for The Journal of Gaskell Studies and am a member of the reviews team for the Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society. In 2019, I established the research group British Narrative and Genre painting 1750-1870, a subgroup of the British Art Network (run by Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art).
Publications
Edited Books
Picturing the Reader: Reading and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Beth Palmer and Amelia Yeates (Peter Lang, 2022)
Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities: Constructions of Masculinity in Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature, ed. Amelia Yeates and Serena Trowbridge (Ashgate, 2014)
- 'A challenging and intriguing volume, which poses fresh questions, opens up new paths and adds an important strand to the analysis of Victorian masculinity as a whole.' (Burlington Magazine)
- An 'excellent edited collection' which 'paves the way for many future studies and provides an excellent archival and theoretical foundation for them' (Victorian Review)
- 'This collection offers fascinating arguments about the range of facets, many of them contradictory, of Pre-Raphaelite masculinities... This volume should be particularly useful to scholars working on gender, aesthetics, and the ways in which constructions of masculinity impact the culture of this period more extensively.' (Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies)
- 'a thoroughly welcome contribution to the debates surrounding men, manliness and masculinities in the mid-Victorian artistic world... [a] rich and remarkable collection' (Journal of Victorian Culture)
- 'a distinguished and serious contribution to nineteenth-century studies. It offers new views of Pre-Raphaelitism in general and fresh ways of reading both masculinity and femininity in Pre-Raphaelite work' (Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society)
Book Chapters
'No happy wearing of beloved leaves': Women and not Reading in Nineteenth-Century Art'', in Picturing the Reader: Reading and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Beth Palmer and Amelia Yeates (Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 135-162
'Space and Place in Nineteenth-Century Images of Women Readers', in The Edinburgh History of Reading (vol. 3), ed. Mary Hammond and Jonathon Rose, Edinburgh University Press (2020), pp. 96-115 (reviewed here https://bookhistorynetwork.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/book-review-the-edinburgh-history-of-reading-4-vols-eds-mary-hammond-and-jonathan-rose-edinburgh-up-2020/)
'Poetic Narrative in William Morris' and Edward Burne-Jones' Pygmalion project', in Poetry in Painting: The Lyrical Voice of Pre-Raphaelite Paintings, ed. Sophie Andres and Brian Donnelly (Peter Lang, 2018), pp. 107-120
'Manliness and Health in the Reception of Edward Burne-Jones's Work' (chapter in Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities: Constructions of Masculinity in Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature, ed. Amelia Yeates and Serena Trowbridge (Ashgate, 2014), pp. 81-100
Contributions to peer-reviewed journals
Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Sisters exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London (17 October 2019 - 26 January 2020), 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, May 2020 (https://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/2946/)
'A Slave in Leyland's Back Parlour: The Male Artist in the Victorian Marketplace', in special issue of Visual Culture in Britain on Visualising Identities: The Male Artist in Nineteenth-Century Britain, ed. Amelia Yeates, 16.2, June 2015, pp. 171-185 (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvcb20/16/2)
'Queer Visual Pleasures and the Policing of Male Sexuality in Responses to Images of David Beckham', Visual Studies, 28.2, 2013, pp. 110-121 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1472586X.2013.801632#.U4hIx1RwYdU)
'Women's Reading and Space in Robert Braithwaite Martineau's The Last Chapter', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 34:2, April 2012, pp. 117-133 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08905495.2012.674306)
'Recent Work on Pygmalion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Blackwell Literature Compass, 7.7, July 2010, pp. 586-596 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00718.x)
Guest co-editorship, including co-written Introduction, of special issue of Critical Survey (Victorian Masculinities), 20:3, December 2008 (https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/critical-survey/20/3/critical-survey.20.issue-3.xml)
'Ruskin, Women's Reading, and Commodity Culture', special issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose on John Ruskin (Guest Editor: Professor Sharon Aronofsky Weltman), 35:1, Spring 2008, pp. 135-160
Contributions to Non Peer-Reviewed Journals and other publications
Don't Ask for the Mona Lisa: How to Propose, Prepare and Organise an Exhibition (co-edited with Heather Birchall), Association of Art Historians, January 2012 (http://www.aah.org.uk/publications/museums)
Entry for Charles Rossiter and Frances Rossiter, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published online 26 May 2011 (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/101041?docPos=2)
'I get all fluttery and birdlike': Desperate Romantics and the Re-writing of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood' Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society, Spring 2010, pp, 52-59
'Robert Braithwaite Martineau: Pre-Raphaelite Associate', Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society, Spring 2009 (Winner of the John Pickard Essay Prize 2008), pp. 16-26