Dr Rosalind Hayes

My research and teaching consider the subjects and production of nineteenth-century art and visual culture through the lens of human-nonhuman history to address questions of materiality, landscape, mechanical reproduction, British colonial histories, and museum studies. More broadly, I analyse how fundamental the ‘species divide’ between humans and nonhumans was to European modernity and its visual manifestations. My work is interdisciplinary, drawing on a range of fields and examining varied media. I am particularly interested in the culturally contingent nature of ‘vision’ and, further, how the categories of ‘human’ and ‘nature’ are applied with Western traditions of knowledge production.

I am currently completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship with funding from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

My office hours are Tuesdays 12-1pm and Thursdays 9-10am (on Teams). Please email me in advance to arrange.