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Dr Emilie Oléron Evans

Emilie

Lecturer in French

Email: emilie.oleron@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 20 7882 2995
Room Number: Arts One 2.09B
Website: https://mla.hcommons.org/members/emilieoleronevans
Office Hours: Feedback and advice on Monday 11.30-12.30 and Thursday 10.30-11.30

Profile

I am an art historian specialising in cultural transfers, historiography (19th-20th century) and the interrelation of art and translation. I joined Queen Mary in 2017 as a Teaching Fellow in visual culture of the French-speaking world.
In 2014, I received my PhD from the Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle and Queen Mary. In 2015, I published my first book: Nikolaus Pevsner: Arpenteur des arts, in which I analyse the career of German-born art historian Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) as a pivotal moment in the progressive integration of questions of art and architecture into British culture.
In 2015-17, I held a postdoctoral fellowship in Historiography of Art at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Strasbourg, where I coordinated the Dictionnaire Culturel de Strasbourg 1880-1930 and contributed to the exhibition Strasbourg, Laboratoire d’Europe as an author for the catalogue and an expert on art and culture in the city at the turn of the 20th century.
I recently gave a paper on the history of the chair(s) of aesthetics and/or history of art (tldr: it's complicated) at the Collège de France in Paris (video available here).

Teaching

2019-20
Semester 1
Photography: The Self and its Image FRE/COM 6001
Art in France FRE/COM 5003
Semester 2
Surrealism FRE/COM 6029
French Foundations block 4: ‘Images of France’ FRE 4201

 

Past postgraduate supervisions include

‘Hermann Muthesius au Royaume-Uni’, Master 2 Transnational History, École Normale Supérieure (co-supervisor, 2017-2019)
‘La fortune critique de J.M.W. Turner en France au XXe siècle’, Final Year Dissertation, École du Louvre (co-supervisor, 2016-2017)

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
I am currently a convenor on the following projects:

Publications

Book

2015 Nikolaus Pevsner, arpenteur des arts, Paris, Démopolis

Reviewed in:

 

Peer-reviewed Articles 

 

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

Supervision

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

Cultural and artistic transfers (19th-20th century)
Transnational art history (France, Germany and Britain)
Women in art history
Text and image relationship

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)

Interview on architectural history for the Global Lab podcast (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).