Émilie Du Châtelet Award Winner 2019:
Freya Gowrley
“Collage before Modernism? Periodization, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Women’s Collage”
Dr. Freya Gowrley is a Visiting Lecturer in the History of Art Department at the University of Edinburgh. Her specialties are in the visual and material culture of Britain, North America, and the British Empire in the 18th-19th centuries. Project description: Dr. Gowrley’s project, entitled “Collage before Modernism? Periodization, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Women’s Collage,” focuses on the one hand on mapping out a history of collage as practiced and consumed by 18th century British women and at the same time challenges the notion of collage as a modern art form “invented” by the likes of Picasso and Braque with Synthetic Cubism circa 1912. Art History’s traditional focus on periodization and on the boundary between before and after Cubism are broken down when one invokes a more fluid timeframe, looking at collage as a continuous medium stretching from the 18th century forward. How a long-standing women’s amateur art form, a craft involving scraps and cuttings, came to be completely detached from male high art practice of early 20th century modernism is part of her historiographical aim. This project on collage as a genre and medium explores the discursive tensions between art and craft, professional and amateur, high art and material culture, male and female producer. Her larger project examines artistic and gendered identities in the amateur realm of female accomplishment in relation to the masculine character of the professional artist from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
Freya Gowrley
“Collage before Modernism? Periodization, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Women’s Collage”
Dr. Freya Gowrley is a Visiting Lecturer in the History of Art Department at the University of Edinburgh. Her specialties are in the visual and material culture of Britain, North America, and the British Empire in the 18th-19th centuries. Project description: Dr. Gowrley’s project, entitled “Collage before Modernism? Periodization, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Women’s Collage,” focuses on the one hand on mapping out a history of collage as practiced and consumed by 18th century British women and at the same time challenges the notion of collage as a modern art form “invented” by the likes of Picasso and Braque with Synthetic Cubism circa 1912. Art History’s traditional focus on periodization and on the boundary between before and after Cubism are broken down when one invokes a more fluid timeframe, looking at collage as a continuous medium stretching from the 18th century forward. How a long-standing women’s amateur art form, a craft involving scraps and cuttings, came to be completely detached from male high art practice of early 20th century modernism is part of her historiographical aim. This project on collage as a genre and medium explores the discursive tensions between art and craft, professional and amateur, high art and material culture, male and female producer. Her larger project examines artistic and gendered identities in the amateur realm of female accomplishment in relation to the masculine character of the professional artist from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
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Émilie Du Châtelet Award
Deadline for submission: January 15, 2020 The Émilie Du Châtelet Award is an annual prize of $500 made by the Women's Caucus of ASECS to support research in progress by an independent or adjunct scholar on a feminist or Women's Studies subject. The award is open to the members of ASECS who have received the PhD and who do not currently hold a tenured, tenure-track, or job-secure position in a college or university, nor any permanent position that requires or supports the pursuit of research. Faculty emeritae are not eligible. The award is meant to fund works in progress, commensurate in scope with a scholarly article or book chapter, for which some research is already under way. To be eligible for the prize, projects must advance understanding of women's experiences and/or contributions to eighteenth-century culture or offer a feminist analysis of any aspect of eighteenth-century culture and/or society. Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a 1-3 page research proposal outlining the project and the candidate's plans for using the funds, and any evidence of progress on this project (i.e. an accepted conference paper, a related publication, an essay submitted for publication, etc.).The winner will be asked to submit a brief written report on the progress of the project one year after receiving the award, and wherever possible, will serve on the Award committee in the following year. The winner will be announced at the Women's Caucus Luncheon and during the annual meeting. The prizewinner will be announced at the ASECS annual meeting. Submissions for the Émilie Du Châtelet Prize must be sent directly to the ASECS office and be received by January 15 for consideration. Send FIVE COPIES of eligible proposals to: ASECS (Emilie Du Chatelet Prize) SUNY Buffalo State College 1300 Elmwood Avenue Ketchum Hall 213 Buffalo, NY 14222 asecsoffice@gmail.com 716-878-3405 |
Past Winners
2018: Kristin O'Rourke, Toilettes 2017: Nicole Garret, "'Alter'd Courses of Action': Maternal Grief and Radical Change on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage" 2016: No prize given. 2015: Dr. Anna Ezekiel, Karoline von Günderrode 2014: No prize given. 2013: No prize given. 2012: A. L. Gust, “Portraits of Exile: ‘civilisation’ and the conceptualization of belonging, c. 1765-1830” 2011: Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, “When Fashion Sets Sail: Maritime Modes in Pre-Revolutionary France” 2010: No prize given. 2009: Emily Bowles-Smith, "Mixed-gender Bodies and Mixed Genders: The Role of the 'Female Husband' in Eighteenth-Century Prose Narratives by Women" 2008: No prize given. 2007: Olga E. Glagoleva, "Women's Honor, or the Story with a Pig: Everyday Life of Noblewomen in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Provinces" 2006: No prize given. 2005: No prize given. 2004: Susan B. Iwanisziw, "Interracial Concubinage in the Long Eighteenth Century: Two Exemplary Women" 2003: Kathleen M. Oliver, "'The Intended Heroine of this Work': The Adolescent Female in Georgian Society, 1714-1830" |
