Art History welcomes Professor Mary Roberts as Senior Global Fellow

Professor Mary Roberts (University of Sydney) is visiting the School of Art History in January 2024 as a Senior Global Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Professor Roberts specializes in nineteenth-century British and Ottoman art with expertise in Orientalism, artistic exchanges between the Ottoman Empire and Europe, and cultures of travel. Her books include: Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (University of California Press, 2015), Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature (Duke, 2007) and four co-edited books: The Poetics and Politics of Place (Pera Museum, 2011) Edges of Empire (Blackwells, 2005), Orientalism’s Interlocutors (Duke, 2002) and Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried (Power Publications, 2000). She is completing her next book, Four Thresholds: Orientalist Interiors, Islamic Art, the Aesthetics of Global Modernities (forthcoming, The University of Chicago Press). Events coinciding with Professor Roberts’ visit will be announced soon.