Douglas Fordham
B.A., Wake Forest University Assistant Professor, 18th and Early 19th-Century European Art Specializing in European art of the long eighteenth century, Douglas Fordham has published articles on the prints and paintings of William Hogarth, the sculpture of Robert Adam and Joseph Wilton, the portraiture of Allan Ramsay, and the paintings and drawings of James Wales and Robert Mabon in western India. A common thread running through many of these essays has been the relationship of fine art to imperial expansion, which constitutes a dynamic new field as elaborated in Tim Barringer, Geoff Quilley, and Douglas Fordham, eds., Art and the British Empire (Manchester University Press, 2007). Mr. Fordham regularly teaches courses on the art of the French Revolution, British fine art and graphic satire, European art and religion, and critical theory. Mr. Fordham’s current research interests include British artists working in western India, southern Africa, and China in the 1790’s. He is also completing a book manuscript entitled Raising Standards: British Art and Imperial Politics, 1745-1776. Prior to teaching at the University of Virginia, Mr. Fordham completed a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. Mr. Fordham earned his doctorate at Yale University under the direction of Tim Barringer and Thomas Crow. His complete c.v. can be found here.
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