Dr Shona Kallestrup

Senior Lecturer

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2416
Email: sk61@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

My research focuses on Central and East European art of the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly Romania, as well as 20th-century Scandinavian architecture and design. From 2018–2021 I was Senior Research Fellow for the ERC-funded project Art Historiographies in Central and Eastern Europe. An Inquiry from the Perspective of Entangled Histories, hosted by New Europe College, Bucharest (Starting Grant 2018-21). This explored theoretical and methodological aspects of relationships between the art histories produced from 1850-1950 in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia.

I hold an MA and PhD from the University of St Andrews, and an MA from the Warburg Institute, London. I was formerly a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, and have also taught at the Universities of Copenhagen and Edinburgh.

PhD supervision

Stefania Duricova
Cicely Farrer
Anne Renahan

Selected publications

Open access
Review of Hilary J. Grainger, Designs on Death: The Architecture of Scottish Crematoria
Kallestrup, S. M., 3 Jun 2025, In: Architectural History. 67, p. 178–179
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Carmen Sylva și Dora Hitz: cuvânt și imagine
Kallestrup, S. M., 1 Sept 2024, Sinaia: Muzeul Național Peleș. 116 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Catalogue entries
Kallestrup, S. M., 1 Dec 2024, Dora Hitz: Aus Franken nach Rumänien in die Welt. Gutgesell, N. & Kallestrup, S. (eds.). Halle (Saale): mitteldeutscher verlag, 44 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other contribution
Dora Hitz: Aus Franken nach Rumänien in die Welt
Gutgesell, N. (Editor) & Kallestrup, S. M. (Editor), 1 Dec 2024, Halle (Saale): mitteldeutscher verlag. 432 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Dora Hitz and Pierre Loti's Pêcheur d'Islande
Kallestrup, S. M., 1 Dec 2024, Dora Hitz: Aus Franken nach Rumänien in die Welt. Gutgesell, N. & Kallestrup, S. (eds.). Halle (Saale): mitteldeutscher verlag, p. 132-139
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Dora Hitz as the first female Romanian court painter and Carmen Sylva's artistic patronage of women
Kallestrup, S. M., 1 Dec 2024, Dora Hitz: Aus Franken nach Rumänien in die Welt. Gutgesell, N. & Kallestrup, S. (eds.). Halle (Saale): mitteldeutscher verlag, p. 94–103
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Dora Hitz in Peleș Castle
Kallestrup, S. M., Gutgesell, N., Oproiu, M., Oliver, I. A., Oles, K. & Miller, A. H. D., 3 Sept 2024
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Dora Hitz in Peleș Castle, Sinaia
Kallestrup, S. M., Oles, K. (Designer), Oliver, I. A. (Developer) & Miller, A. (Developer), Sept 2024
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
Dora Hitz's paintings for Castle Peleș
Kallestrup, S. M., 1 Dec 2024, Dora Hitz: Aus Franken nach Rumänien in die Welt. Kallestrup, S. & Gutgesell, N. (eds.). Halle (Saale): mitteldeutscher verlag, p. 104-113
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Royal, socialist, orthodox, secular: the contested space of Carol I Park, Bucharest
Kallestrup, S. M., 1 May 2024, Zwischen Ordnungswille und Freiheitsdrang: Europäische Gärten der Vormoderne - Neue Forschungen . Gutgesell, N., Juranek, C. & Ziegler, H. (eds.). Wettin-Löbejün: Verlag Janos Stekovics, (Edition Schloss Wernigerode; vol. 24).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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