Prof David Peters Corbett

Job Title	Contact	Location
Professor of Art History and American Studies	D dot PetersCorbett at uea dot ac dot uk Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2793	East Mezzanine SCVA

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Biography

David Peters Corbett is Professor of Art History and American Studies. He has written widely on British and American painting between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, most recently in An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters (exhibition catalogue, National Gallery, London, 2011), in articles on Charles Sheeler in the Journal of American Studies (45:3) and on Frederic Church and Theodore Winthrop in The European Journal of American Culture (30:1), and, as co-editor with Dr Sarah Monks (UEA), in Anglo-American: Artistic Relations between Britain and the US from Colonial Times to the Present, a special issue of the journal Art History (31:3). He is currently working on a book, ‘Urban Painting and the Landscape Tradition in America, 1850-1930’, which deals with the relationship between the mid-nineteenth century landscape tradition and the painting of the cities which came to form a central strand of US modernism later in the century.

David has supervised many PhD’s to successful conclusion: his students now teach at universities in the UK and US and versions of their theses have been published by Yale, Ashgate and MUP. He would welcome applications to work on the history of British or American art between c.1850 and c.1950. He would also be interested to receive interdisciplinary proposals, particularly those concerned with word and image relationships, and those which take a comparative approach. There is an active and growing research group in British art at UEA and current PhD students are working on topics including aspects of the 1920s and 30s, drawing in the 1950s, masculinity and domesticity in the 1950s and comparative British and American landscape.

Career

Before coming to UEA in 2010, Professor Corbett was Professor of Art History and founding Director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Modern Studies at the University of York, where he was also Head of Department 2003-7. He has been a Visiting Professor at Yale and the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and has held a number of grants and fellowships, including from the Smithsonian Institution where he was Terra Senior Fellow in 2009-10, and at the Clark Art Institute and the University of Rochester. He was a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow in 2008-10. Between 2007 and 2012 he was Editor of Art History. At UEA he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities (2010-12).

Academic Background

Universities of East Anglia, Cambridge and Manchester (PhD, 1987), UCL.

Teaching Interests

Student Research Supervision

Awarded

Lara Perry, ‘Facing Femininities: Women in the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900’, DPhil (York), awarded 1999 (Commonwealth Scholarship). Dr Perry is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton and Ashgate published a version of her thesis in 2006.

Simon Faulkner, ‘A Cultural Economy of English Art, 1958-1966 ‘, PhD (Manchester Metropolitan University), awarded 1999. Dr Faulkner is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at MMU.

John Gledhill, ‘A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Matthew Smith’, DPhil (York), awarded 2000. Dr Gledhill was York University’s Tutor in Art 1998- 2002 and Lund Humphreys published a version of this thesis in 2009.

Michael Walsh, ‘The Career and Work of C. R. W. Nevinson to 1924’, DPhil (York), awarded 2001. Dr Walsh is an Associate Professor at Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus. He published a version of his thesis as C. R. W. Nevinson: This Cult of Violence, Yale University Press, 2002 and has published 2 further books.

Jonathan Shirland, ‘Masculinity and Popular Culture: Walter Sickert, James McNeill Whistler, Wyndham Lewis, 1880-1920’, PhD at University College, London (co-supervised with UCL), (British Academy Scholarship and Paul Mellon Centre Doctoral Research Fellowship), awarded 2002. Dr Shirland was Head of Public Programmes at the Royal Academy and is now tenure-track Assistant Professor of Art History at Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts.

Ariane Mildenberg, ‘Marks, Buttons and Notes: Phenomenology and Creative Production’, PhD (York) (jointly with Department of English), (Danish Government Scholarship), awarded 2004. Dr Mildenberg is a Lecturer in English at the University of Kent.

Karin Hiscock, ‘The Axis Group’, PhD (York), awarded 2006. Dr Hiscock is a Lecturer in Art History at UWC, Cardiff.

Imogen Hart, ‘The Aesthetic Interior and its Meanings’, PhD (York), awarded 2006 (AHRB funded). Dr Hart was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art, 2007-2010 and is now Assistant Curator for Exhibitions and Publications there. MUP published a version of her thesis in 2010 and she has also published an edited collection.

Philip Kerrigan, ‘Darwin and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture’, PhD (York), awarded 2008. Dr Kerrigan was an Associate Lecturer in the department at York and a post-doc on my ‘Anglo-American’ project; he now works in university administration. Two articles from this thesis have appeared in peer-reviewed journals.

Olivia Chapman, ‘Luminism and the Self in C19th American Painting’, PhD (York), full-time (AHRC funded), awarded February 2010. Dr Chapman is pursuing a curatorial career in the US.

Samuel Shaw, ‘William Rothenstein and his Circle’, PhD (York), full-time (AHRC funded), awarded October 2010. Dr Shaw is writing a biography of Rothenstein.

Tim Buck, ‘British Art and India, 1918-1940’, PhD, (AHRC funded), 2008-. UEA (transfer from York), awarded 2011.

In Progress

Ian Neal, ‘Reverie and Abstraction in C19th British Painting’, PhD (York), , 2004-. Mr Neal is a Lecturer at the University of Derby. To be submitted 2011.

Kate Aspinall, ‘Art and Exile: Felix Topolski’, PhD full-time (Faculty full scholarship), 2010-, UEA

Rosanna Eckersly, ‘Winifred Knights and her work’, part-time, 2010-, UEA

Kitty Hudson, ‘Artists as Writers; Writers as Artists: British Art of the 1920s’, PhD, 2010-, UEA

Greg Salter, ‘Masculinity in the work of Francis Bacon, John Bratby and contemporaries’, PhD (School AHRC Block Grant scholarship), 2010-, UEA

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Number of items: 23.

Article

Corbett, David Peters and Monks, Sarah (2011) Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA. Art History, 34 (4). pp. 630-651.

Corbett, David Peters (2011) ‘Art, Morality, and the National Interest: Theodore Winthrop, Frederic Church, and Martin Johnson Heade at the Tenth Street Studios in 1859’. European Journal of American Studies, 30 (1). pp. 57-72.

Corbett, David Peters (2011) ‘The Problematic Past in the Work of Charles Sheeler, 1917-1927’. Journal of American Studies, 45 (3). pp. 559-580.

Corbett, David Peters (2011) Camden Town and Ashcan: Difference, Similarity and the ‘Anglo-American’ in the Work of Walter Sickert and John Sloan. Art History, 34 (4). pp. 774-795. ISSN 01416790

Book Section

Corbett, David Peters (2012) Camden Town and Ashcan: Difference, Similarity and the 'Anglo-American' in the Work of Walter Sickert and John Sloan. In: Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA. Wiley-Blackwell. (In Press)

Corbett, David Peters and Monks, Sarah (2012) Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA. In: Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 630-651. (In Press)

Corbett, David Peters (2012) ‘Sporting Life: Boxing 1907-1909’. In: George Bellows. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Washington DC. (In Press)

Edwards, Paul (2009) "It's Time for Another War": The Historical Unconscious and the Failure of Modernism. In: Wyndham Lewis and the Art of Modern War. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 124-53. ISBN 9780521107907

Corbett, David Peters (2009) ‘Nineteenth Century American and British Art and their Historiographies: A Comparison’. In: National and International Perspectives on American Art before 1945. Penn State Press, College Park, PA, pp. 67-89.

Corbett, David Peters (2009) ‘“Not Material Enough for the Age”: Pre Raphaelite Words and Images’. In: Writing the Pre-Raphaelites: The Textual Formation of a Victorian Avant-Garde. Ashgate Publishers, London .

Corbett, David Peters (2009) 'Symbolism and the Audience in British Little Magazines: The Dome (1897-1900), The Pageant, and The Dial (1889-97)’. In: Modernist Magazines: A Critical and Cultural History, 1880-1945. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 101-119.

Corbett, David Peters (2008) ‘Le Symbolisme dans les petites revues britanniques: The Dome et The Dial’. In: Les Revues illustrées en Europe entre deux siècles 1880-1920. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, pp. 337-353.

Corbett, David Peters (2008) ‘Modern Themes in Camden Town Painting’. In: Camden Town. Tate Publishing, London, pp. 27-37.

Edwards, Paul (2002) Wyndham Lewis and the Rappel à l'ordre: Classicism and Significant Form, 1919 - 21. In: The Geographies of Englishness: Landscape and the National Past 1880 - 1940. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, pp. 141-68. ISBN 978-0300094886

Book

Corbett, David Peters and Monks, Sarah, eds. (2012) Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA. Wiley-Blackwell. (In Press)

Corbett, David Peters (2004) Edward Burne-Jones. Tate Publishing, London.

Corbett, David Peters (2004) The World in Paint: Modern Art and Visuality in England, 1848-1914. Reconfiguring Modernism . Manchester University Press & Penn State Press, Manchester & University Park, PA.

Corbett, David Peters (2002) The Geographies of Englishness: Landscape and National Identity in English Art, 1880-1940,. Studies in British Art . Yale University Press, London & New Haven, CT.

Corbett, David Peters (2001) Walter Sickert. Tate Publishing & Princeton University Press, London & Princeton, NJ.

Corbett, David Peters (2001) English Art 1860-1914: Modern Artists and Identity. Barber Critical Perspectives in Art History . Manchester University Press, Manchester.

Corbett, David Peters (1998) Wyndham Lewis and the Art of Modern War. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Corbett, David Peters (1997) The Modernity of English Art, 1914-1930. Manchester University Press, Manchester.

Other

Corbett, David Peters (2011) An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters. National Gallery, London & Yale University Press, London & New Haven, CT.

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