Dr Emilie Oléron Evans

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Teaching

Past postgraduate supervisions include

Research

Research Interests:

• Cultural transfers, circulations of people, objects and thoughts
• Art and translation, art in translation
• Transnational history of art museums and collections, with a focus on the interactions between France, Germany and Britain
• Women in art history: Translators, mediators, scholars and curators
• History of the Modern Movement in art, architecture and design

• the Queen Mary Visual & Material Forum
• the Visual culture section of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations

Examples of research funding:

2019 - I was involved in two projects supported by Paul Mellon Centre Educational Programme grants:

Reconfiguring Relationships: Britain and the Bauhaus (Tate Britain, October 2019)

Innovation and Acculturation: the Émigré Art Historians and Britain (with the Leo Baeck Institute, November 2019)

Publications

Book

2015 Nikolaus Pevsner, arpenteur des arts, Paris, Démopolis

Reviewed in:

• Lectures, May 2016
• Revue de l’art, n° 192, 2016, pp. 84-85
• Kunstchronik 9/10, Oct-Nov 2016, pp. 499-503
• Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales 71/2, Apr-Jun 2016, pp. 542-544
• Angermion, 11/1, November 2018

Peer-reviewed Articles 

• 2018 (Commissioned) ‘Art Practice and Art History in Fin de Siècle Alsace: the Art Journal Das Kunstgewerbe in Elsass-Lothringen’, Journal of Art Historiography (special issue on ‘Art History for Artists’ edited by E. Vratskidou).
• 2018 ‘Housing the Art of the Nation: The Home as Museum in Gustav F. Waagen’s Treasures of Art in Great Britain‘, Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide.
• 2017 ‘A Cultural Constellation: burckhardtsource.org’, Open Library of Humanities: Special Issue on  Visual Culture, 3(1), 2, p. 1–12.
• 2015 ‘Gustav Waagen et l’institutionnalisation des “trésors de l’art” en Grande-Bretagne’, Revue Germanique Internationale 21, 2015, pp. 51-64.
• 2015 ‘Historien, guide, pédagogue: le discours architectural novateur de Nikolaus Pevsner’, Cahiers Thématiques 14, 2015, pp. 16-25.
• 2014 ‘Transposing the Zeitgeist ? Nikolaus Pevsner between Kunstgeschichte and Art History’, Journal of Art Historiography 11, Dec 2014.
• 2012 ‘Réception et perception de la Renaissance burckhardtienne dans l’Angleterre du XIXe siècle’, Comparatio. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, 4/1, 2012, pp. 1-24. 

Book Chapters

• 2019, co-authored with C. Foucher Zarmanian, ‘Figures de l’ombre? Maggie Rutten (1898-1984), Madeleine-Paul David (1908-1989) et Rosa Schapire (1874-1954): traductrices et historiennes de l’art en Europe’, in: 'Dire presque la même chose': L'histoire de l'art et ses traductions (XIXe-XXe siècles), edited by A. Sotropa & M. Métayer, Bordeaux, Esthétiques du divers.
• 2018 ‘Vers une discipline? Les discours sur l’art au Royaume-Uni pendant la Première Guerre mondiale’, in: A. Frenet, M. Passini, S. Combescure (ed.), Hommes et patrimoines en guerre, l’heure du choix, Dijon, Presses universitaires de Dijon.
• 2017 (Commissioned) ‘Illustres et inconnues: pour une histoire des femmes à Strasbourg, 1880-1930’ and (with R. Recht) ‘Aby Warburg, étudiant à Strasbourg’, in: R. Recht, J. Pijaudier-Cabot (ed.), Strasbourg, laboratoire d’Europe, 1880-1930, exhibition catalogue, Strasbourg, Musées de la ville de Strasbourg.
• 2017 (Commissioned) Dictionary entries: ‘Affaire Spahn’; ‘Blochmann, Elisabeth’; ‘Clemen, Paul’; ‘Heuss-Knapp, Elly’; ‘Hipp, Johanna’; ‘Koch, Hans’; ‘Kraus, Franz Xaver’; ‘Kunstgewerbe in Elsass-Lothringen, Das’; ‘Leitschuh, Franz Friedrich’; ‘Maugain, Gabriel’; ‘Muller, Dorette’; ‘Mündel, Curt’; ‘Polaczek, Ernst’; ‘Rau, Jacqueline’; ‘Schmarsow, August’; ‘Schneegans, Friedrich Eduard’; ‘Springer, Anton’; ‘Trübner, Karl’; ‘Verbindung deutscher Kunstvereine für historische Kunst’; ‘Wolff, Paul’; ‘Wust, Emma’, in: R. Recht, J.-C. Richez (dir.), Dictionnaire culturel de Strasbourg 1880-1930, Strasbourg, PUS.
• 2014 ‘“Bringer of Riches”: Nikolaus Pevsner et le patrimoine britannique’, in: T. Le Hégarat, A.-C. Bondon, J. Delassus (ed.), Faiseurs et passeurs de patrimoine XIXe-XXIe siècle (Workshop Proceedings).

Translations

• 2019 (Commissioned, in preparation with M. Galland-Szymkowiak) A. Schmarsow, L’Architecture, configuratrice d’espace – essais, Marseille, Parenthèses.
• 2019 (Commissionned, under review) N. Pevsner, Géographie de l’art anglais (The Englishness of English Art), Strasbourg, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg.
• 2014 A. Sacks, ‘Migration et musique chorale: deux facteurs d’émancipation et de succès pour les Juifs allemands dans le Berlin d’avant-guerre’, in: L. Guillon, H. Knörzer (ed.), Berlin et les Juifs XIXe-XXIe siècles, Paris, Éditions de l’Éclat.

Reviews

• 2019 'Ute Engel, Stil und Nation: Barockforschung und deutsche Kunstgeschichte (ca.1830–1933)', Regards croisés 9 (online), published 16.12.2019.
• 2019 Migrating histories of art - Self-translations of a discipline, ed. Costa, Maria Teresa and Hans Christian Hönes, 2018, Appareil (online), published 18.09.2019.
• 2015 ‘The Voice of Art History: Nikolaus Pevsner’s Work for the BBC’ (Review of Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pevsner: The Complete Broadcast Talks. Architecture and Art on Radio and Television, 1945-1977, ed. by S. Games, Ashgate, 2014 and S. Games, Pevsner: The BBC Years. Listening to the Visual Arts, Ashgate, 2015), Journal of Art Historiography 13.
• 2014 ‘Rütten, Raimund, Republik im Exil. Frankreich 1848 bis 1851: Marie Cécile Goldsmid, Citoyenne und Künstlerin, Olms, 2012’, Romantisme. Revue du XIXe siècle, 4/166.
• 2014 ‘Sutton, Katie, The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany, Berghahn, 2012’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies 22/4.

Supervision

I welcome applications from candidates wishing to undertake doctoral research in visual culture, including the following areas:

Public Engagement

'Moving Memories' - a series of talks and activities organised at Tate Exchange as part of the Queen Mary Arts and Culture residency on the topic of 'Ideas in motion' (11-16th June 2019)

Public talk on the history of the chair(s) of aesthetics and/or history of art at the Collège de France in Paris: video available here.

Interview on architectural history for the Global Lab podcast: 'Seeing Cities' (2019)

Literature workshop for Books@Work, Steelcase, Strasbourg (Jul 2017).

Interview for a video presentation of writer and translator Denise Naville in the exhibition Strasbourg, laboratoire d’Europe, Strasbourg (sep 2017-feb 2018).

Guest Talk, “Nikolaus Pevsner, a Kunsthistoriker in Britain”, Inauguration of the exhibition Germans in Britain organised by Migration Museum Project, QMUL(Jan 2015).

Contributor to the exhibition catalogue Les frères Humboldt: l’Europe de l’esprit, Observatoire de Paris, curated by Bénédicte Savoy and David Blankenstein (May-Jul 2014).