Dr Richard Brown
The main focus of Dr Richard Brown's research and teaching interest is modern literature and especially the work of James Joyce and selected contemporary British novelists. As well as a wide variety of articles and conference papers in these and other areas, he has published four books on Joyce: Cambridge, 1985), James Joyce: A Postculturalist Perspective (Macmillan, 1992), Joyce, "Penelope" and the Body (Rodopi, 2006) and, most recently, the 450-page Companion To James Joyce from Blackwell (2008), which combines new readings of Joyce's texts with essays placing his work in various cultural contexts around the world. Since starting it in 1980, Dr Brown has been co-editor of The James Joyce Broadsheet, a journal which continues to publish articles, book reviews, illustrations, news and other material connected to the work of Joyce, three times a year. Full academic profile.
Caro Verbeek
Caro Verbeek is an art historian of the intimate senses. She did an MA in Olfactory art and an MA in Tactile art at the University of Amsterdam and is currently working on her PhD ‘In Search of Scents Lost: Reconstructing the Aromatic Heritage of the Avant-garde’ at VU University. Her aim is to (re)construct a more sensory history of art by collecting and (re-)creating historical scents and tactile impressions. She teaches the preliminary course ‘The Other Senses’ at the Royal Academy of Arts (The Hague) and designs olfactory tours for art museums, such as the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. www.caroverbeek.nl.
Dr Christina Bradstreet
Dr Christina Bradstreet has researched smell in Victorian art for the past ten years, and is currently in the process of publishing her completed manuscript Scented Visions: Smell in British Art 1850-1910. Her publications on smell include Wicked with Roses: Floral Femininity and the Erotics of Scent in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, March 2007 and ‘A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes: Sadakichi Hartmann’s Perfume Concerts’ in di Bello and Koureas, Art, History and the Senses, Ashgate, 2009. Her PhD thesis on this topic was awarded Birkbeck’s Anne Humphrey’s Prize for nineteenth-century studies, and in 2009 she held a Paul Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on her monograph.
She co-lead multisensory tours of the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition at Tate with perfume expert Odette Toilette in 2012 and contributed her research and ideas to the A Trip To Japan in Sixteen Minutes perfume concerts held at the Hammer Museum in L.A. in 2014. In 2012 she was an Emerging Clore Leader and since graduating her art history career has spanned academia, schools, the charity sector, museum education and the art market. Currently, she organises and teaches adult learning events and courses at the National Gallery and serves as Honorary Secretary of the Association of Art Historians.
She co-lead multisensory tours of the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition at Tate with perfume expert Odette Toilette in 2012 and contributed her research and ideas to the A Trip To Japan in Sixteen Minutes perfume concerts held at the Hammer Museum in L.A. in 2014. In 2012 she was an Emerging Clore Leader and since graduating her art history career has spanned academia, schools, the charity sector, museum education and the art market. Currently, she organises and teaches adult learning events and courses at the National Gallery and serves as Honorary Secretary of the Association of Art Historians.