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 widely on British art and its relation to politics, religious identity, and empire. Mr. Fordham earned his doctorate at Yale University under the direction of Tim Barringer, and then completed a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University before teaching at UVa. Mr. Fordham teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses including European art and empire, religious art, art and national identity, graphic satire, portraiture, and the historiography of art.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Allegiance and Autonomy: British Art and the Seven Years’ War. Forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
“George Stubbs’s Zoon Politikon,” forthcoming in the Oxford Art Journal.
“New Directions in British Art History of the Eighteenth Century,” Literature Compass 5 (2008): 1-12.
“Costume Dramas: British Art at the Court of the Marathas,” Representations 101 (Winter 2008): 57-85.
Tim Barringer, Geoff Quilley, and Douglas Fordham (eds), Art and the British empire (Manchester University Press, 2007).
“Scalping: Social Rites in Westminster Abbey,” Art and the British empire, 99-119.
“Allan Ramsay’s Enlightenment; or, Hume and the Patronizing Portrait,” The Art Bulletin 88, no. 3 (2006), 508-524.
“William Hogarth’s The March to Finchley and the Fate of Comic History Painting,” Art History 27, no. 1 (2004): 95-128.
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