Dr Linda Goddard
Position: Lecturer
Email: ljg21@st-andrews.ac.uk
Tel: 01334 462408
Linda’s research focuses on relations between word and image, particularly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France. Her forthcoming book, Aesthetic Rivalries: word and image in France, 1880-1926 (Peter Lang, 2011) explores how the hierarchy between literature and visual art was both maintained and challenged during this period. Interactions between the arts are also central to her new book project, on the writings of Paul Gauguin, and to a collection of essays that she is editing on artists’ writings (to be published in Word & Image), developed from a conference that she organized on this theme at The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2009. Her interests in word-image relations include the visual and literary cultures of travel and colonialism; inter-European cultural exchange; the connections between visual art and autobiography and the writing of art’s histories. She is also currently co-editing with Natalie Adamson a special issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies on ‘Artists’ Statements: origins, intentions, exegesis’.
Linda completed her PhD at The Courtauld in 2004, and subsequently held a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge and a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship at The Courtauld and at St Andrews School of Art History.
She currently teaches courses on ‘Gauguin and Primitivism’ (AH4161) and ‘Cubism and its Legacies’ (AH4165) and is preparing further courses on Symbolism and on word-image relations in nineteenth-century France.
Linda is Second Arts Coordinator (semester 2), Disabilities Co-ordinator, Library Liaison and Users’ Group Representative, and Student-Staff Consultative Committee Co-ordinator.
Publications
‘“Following the Moon”: Gauguin’s Writings and the Myth of the “Primitive”’ in Belinda Thomson (ed.), Gauguin: Maker of Myth, Tate Publishing / Princeton University Press, 2010
‘Gauguin’s Guidebooks: Noa Noa in the context of nineteenth-century travel writing’, in F. Orestano and F. Frigerio (eds), Strange Sisters: Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford; New York: Peter Lang, 2009
‘The Writings of a Savage? Literary Devices in Gauguin’s Noa Noa’, The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. LXXI, 2008, pp. 277-293, view article via Ingenta
‘Mallarmé, Picasso and the Aesthetic of the Newspaper’, Word & Image, vol. 22, no. 4, Oct.-Dec. 2006, pp. 293-303
‘Birds of a Feather? Gauguin’s Ambivalent Relationship with Literary Symbolism’, Immediations: The Research Journal of the Courtauld Institute of Art, vol. 1, no. 2, 2005, pp. 54-72
Jane Munro and Linda Goddard (eds), Literary Circles: artist, author, word and image in Britain, 1800-1920, exh. cat., Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2006
‘Allegorising on their own hook: Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites’, in Jane Munro and Linda Goddard (eds), Literary Circles: artist, author, word and image in Britain, 1800-1920, exh. cat., Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2006
Forthcoming
Aesthetic Rivalries: Word and Image in France, 1880-1926, Oxford; New York: Peter Lang (2011)
‘Scattered Notes: Authorship and Originality in Gauguin’s Diverses Choses’, Art History, special issue on ‘Creative writing and art history’, 2011
Activities
Conferences organised
‘Artists’ writings, 1850-present’, The Courtauld Institute of Art, June 2009
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/2008/artistswritings
‘Literary Circles: word, image and theatre in Britain, 1800-1920’ (co-convenor), Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, 2006
Forthcoming and recent talks
‘Artists writings: word or image?’, in the session ‘Word and image studies: past, present and future’ at the College Art Association, New York, February 2011
‘Artists’ writings’, moderator of two discussion sessions at study days on ‘Paul Gauguin and John La Farge in the South Pacific: two fin-de-siècle artists in paradise’, Yale University Art Gallery / Princeton University Art Museum, November 2010
‘Ceci n’est pas un livre: Gauguin’s anti-literary rhetoric’, ‘Making in Two Modes’, Crawford Art Gallery and University College Cork, September 2010
‘Scattered Notes: Authorship and Originality in Gauguin’s Diverses Choses’,
conference on ‘Writing Art History: readers and writers’, The Courtauld, November 2009
‘Aesthetic Hierarchies: simultaneity in word and image in France, 1912-20’, Conference on ‘Sublimely Visual: The Art of the Text’, University of Bristol, September 2008
‘Gauguin’s Guidebooks: the impact of travel literature on his tales of the “exotic”’, Modern French Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, March 2007
‘Moxon’s Tennyson and Victorian Illustration’, Public Lecture, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, November 2006
‘The Writings of a Savage? Literary devices in Gauguin’s Noa Noa’, Conference on ‘The Exotic in the Modern’, Tate Modern, London, December 2005
‘The Artist as Author in fin-de-siècle France: Gauguin’s literary strategies’,
Art History Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, November 2004
Selection of books
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Literary Circles: Artist, author, word and image in Britain 1800-1920 |
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