Dr Susie Beckham
@susiebeckham.bsky.social
Temporality in Pre-Raphaelite art and visual culture + studying the evolution of the term “Pre-Raphaelite” from 1848 to today + Pre-Raphaelite fandom and semiotics.
Thrilled to be convening this panel — “Call for a New Pre-Raphaelite Studies” — at @forarthistory 2027 conference at the University of Exeter, 7-9 April. Please share widely with your students and peers! Deadline for paper proposals is 25 October 2026. forarthistory.org.uk/conference-2...
Now accepting paper proposals for my panel “Call for a New Pre-Raphaelite Studies” at AAH 2027 @forarthistory.org.uk at the University of Exeter ✨ Please reach out if you have any questions! forarthistory.org.uk/25-call-for-...
Call for Papers: Association for Art History 2027 Annual Conference Next year’s Art History Conference will be held 7-9 April 2027 in collaboration with the @exeter.ac.uk. We are now inviting paper proposals from members and non-members. ⬇️
Save the Date: Fan Studies at 35 After an 8 year hiatus the FSN conference is back! We’re thinking about the state of the field 35 years after the publication of Henry Jenkins’ Textual Poachers, Camille Bacon-Smith’s Enterprising Women, & Lisa the edited collection The Adoring Audience in 1992.
Have you written or marked a brilliant dissertation in art history or visual culture this year (2025 - 26 academic year)? If so, why not consider nominating it for our Undergraduate Dissertation Prize?
What a line-up! So glad to be part of this impressive project, with a stellar cast brought together by @susiebeckham.bsky.social & @hosmeriana.bsky.social - Pre-order now manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192998/ Lots for followers of @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social & @thevicsoc.bsky.social
So happy that the news is out!! Proud to say I have an essay in this volume - "'An idea of a rose-hedge': William Morris's Rose". (Image: Cooper Hewitt)
Dr Susie Beckham@susiebeckham.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo thrilled to FINALLY be able to announce my forthcoming edited volume (with the glorious @hosmeriana.bsky.social) of “Shaping nineteenth-century Art History: Objects and aspirations in Britain and beyond” — essays in honour of Prof Liz Prettejohn. Out Feb 2027 with @manchesterup.bsky.social.
So thrilled to FINALLY be able to announce my forthcoming edited volume (with the glorious @hosmeriana.bsky.social) of “Shaping nineteenth-century Art History: Objects and aspirations in Britain and beyond” — essays in honour of Prof Liz Prettejohn. Out Feb 2027 with @manchesterup.bsky.social.
Manchester University Press - Shaping nineteenth-century Art History
Shaping nineteenth-century Art History - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Shaping nineteenth-century Art History by Susie Beckham
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Incredibly proud of @susiebeckham.bsky.social and @hosmeriana.bsky.social for compiling 'Shaping Nineteenth-Century Art History', a magnificent volume of essays honouring Liz Prettejohn's work. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192998/
CFP: Pre-Raphaelite! Workshop – Tate Britain, 30 October 2026 (Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2026) buff.ly/mFNY34F
CFP: Pre-Raphaelite! Workshop – Tate Britain
Call for Papers: Pre-Raphaelite! Workshop Tate Britain, 30 October 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2026 Region: East of England Type: Conference Cost: Free We welcome students, early care…
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NAVSA is seeking nominations for the Donald Gray Prize for best essay published in the field of Victorian Studies in 2025. You can nominate yourself! The deadline (June 15) approaches. navsa.org/Donald-Gray-...
NAVSA - Donald Gray Prize
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, ate the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive him they were delicious so sweet and so cold
Check out navsa.georgetown.edu/outline-sche... for the full program for #NAVSA2025! See you tomorrow!
Program for the In-Person Conference - North American Victorian Studies Association
Please CLICK HERE for a PDF of the program for the in-person conference. Details for the digital presession are posted at the tab above; we hope you can join for the presession as well as the in-perso...
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Next time you visit the Pre-Raphaelite galleries at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, keep an eye out for more information about my project, Victorian Art & Design and the Global! More information available at: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/about/what-w...
Chickens, nakedness, and pre-Raphaelites - what more could you ask for in "Visuality and the Fine Arts" with Joanna Madloch, Don LePan, & Susie Beckham at #NAVSA2025
I beg of you, please let me get this extremely wordy paper for @navsa2025.bsky.social under 20 minutes. I swear it’s necessary for me to say “second phase Pre-Raphaelitism” this many times…
We are delighted to announce that the plenary speakers for our upcoming conference are Dr Sarah Jackson, Professor Peter J. Capuano and Caroline Seymour! Visit our website for more information: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference
It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
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CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185
CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 – BARS Blog
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Want to learn more about the fantastic artist Anna Alma-Tadema? Check out my piece for ArtUK! artuk.org/discover/sto...
Reminder that this is tomorrow - putting together the presentation now, and excited to be talking about Morris and the Thames again!
Sarah Mead Leonard@smeadleonard.bsky.social · last yr.I'm excited to say I'm taking part in the Totally Thames Festival 2025, presenting "William Morris's Thames: Inspiration and Resource" for the William Morris Society UK. The talk will take place online on Wednesday, September 24th, 6-7pm London time. thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/wil...
after a good research/writing day yesterday, we return to the “whyyyy is this so hard” and “no no no this is too long” stage of essay writing — jolly good
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Reminder to register for the social and intellectual highlight of the year!
Thrilled to be starting my first day at Delaware Art Museum as the 2025 Amy P. Goldman Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies -- archive time baybeeee delart.org/opportunitie...
Amy P. Goldman Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies - Delaware Art Museum
The University of Delaware Library, in Newark, Delaware, and the Delaware Art Museum are pleased to offer a joint Fellowship... Read More
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This was SUCH a great episode. The Coleridge quote about “seeing Kean is like READING Shakespeare by flashes of lightning” is so interesting. His son Charles would often be described as evoking Pre-Raphaelite art on the stage. So fun to think about theatre as embodiment of other art/literary forms
Edmund Kean with Greg Jenner
Podcast Episode · This Guy Sucked · 04/09/2025 · 1h 41m
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Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · last yr.I recently had the enormous pleasure of telling @ceaubin.bsky.social why the genius Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean was my fave problematic douchebag from history. Our podcast chat is a deep dive on a true fame monster — give it a listen here! @thisguysucked.com podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has become the first UK public collection to own a painting by the Impressionist Marie Bracquemond. Read Apollo’s monthly round-up for more details of this and other important museum acquisitions buff.ly/wg9Dcbe
Acquisitions of the month: August 2025
The first Marie Bracquemond in a UK collection and a group of Chinese prints are among the most enticing works to enter public collections recently
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