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Dr Rosemary Barrow

Senior Lecturer

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 5789
Email : R.Barrow@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Humanities
Office location : Howard 201

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Qualifications

MA, PhD King's College London

Research Project Undertaken

I am a specialist in the classical tradition in nineteenth-century British art with research interests in the reception of ancient art in the traditions of painting from the Renaissance to Modernism and in the modern popular cultural medium of film. My academic training is grounded in classical art and archaeology while my approach is interdisciplinary and draws on art history, cultural studies, social history, gender theory and film theory.


Research Supervision: 
Secondary Supervisor, The Open University: Text & Image, illuminated manuscripts of 

Virgil's 'Aeneid' - Awarded: Summer 2008 
Secondary Supervisor, KCL: The Reception of South Italian Red-Figure Vases 
-Awarded:Summer 2008 
Joint Supervisor, Roehampton: The reception of Sparta in modern media. 
Joint Supervisor, Roehampton: Cavafy, diaspora and Queer Theory 

Consultancies Undertaken

DNArt Fondation, Milan (Alma-Tadema) 
BBC books (Victorian Pictures)

Teaching Interests

Greek and Roman art 
Gender 
Myth 
Pompeii 
Classics & cinema 
The classical tradition in western painting.


Examining Experience

2007, Department of Classics, University of Manchester 
Topic: Alma-Tadema and Pompeii 
2008, Department of Classics, University of Bristol 
Topic: Nineteenth-century Italian classical-subject painting

Publications

Michael Silk, Ingo Gildenhard (2012) (Forthcoming) The Classical Tradition: Art, Thought, Literature, Blackwell, Oxford.
(2010) co-authored with C. Behr, S. Deacy, F. McHardy, K. Tempest, ‘Embedding Employability in the Classics Curriculum’, Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, vol. 9.3, 339-352.
(2007) The Use of Classical Art & Literature by Victorian Painters 1869-1912: Creating Continuity with the Traditions of High Art, The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston NY.
(2001) Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Phaidon, London, 203 pp.
(1999) Sculpture, Drapery and the Praxitelean Ideal, Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity, ed. T Barringer, E. Prettejohn, 49-65.
(1996) catalogue entries in Becker, E, ed., Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Waanders, The Netherlands, Rizzoli, New York.
(2010) Toga Plays and Tableaux Vivants: Theatre and Painting on London’s Late-Victorian and Edwardian Popular Stage, Theatre Journal , 64, 209–224..
(2008) ‘Il regno della seduzione: Le donne e l’acqua nei dipinti Vittoriani' in L'anima dell'acqua: Simboli, sogni, visioni, DNArt Fondazione, Milan, 228-35
(2008) The Many Lives of the Venus de Milo: Classical Sculpture and Contemporary Art, Iris, Autumn, 18-21.
(2007) ‘Arte, Archeologia e Antichità: Alma-Tadema e Pompei’ in V. Béliard, Alma-Tadema e La Nostalgia Dell ’Antico (Mondadori Electa, Milano, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli, 243-68.
(2006) Review: K Jewel, The Art of Enigma: The de Chirico Brothers & The Politics of Modernism (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004), International Journal of the Classical Tradition , Fall 2006, 323-25. 
(2005) Praxiteles to de Chirico: Art and Reception, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 11.3, 344-368.
(2002) Review: C Holmlund, Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies (Routledge, 2002), P Lehman, ed., Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture (Routledge, 2001), Journal of European Area Studies, 10, 315-17.
(2001) Mad about the boy: Mythological models and Victorian painting, Dialogos: Hellenic Studies Review, 7, 124-42.
(2001) Painting Virgil: Victorian Choices, Proceedings of the Virgil Society, 24, 81-101.
(1998) The Scent of Roses: Alma-Tadema and the Other Side of Rome, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 42, 183-202
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