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Biography
Education
Ph.D. – University of Cambridge, 2005
M. Phil. – University of Cambridge, 1999
M.A. – St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 2001
B.A. – St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 1998
Current Departmental Service
Graduate Education Committee (Professional Development Chair, Prospectus Workshop Chair)
Interests and Research
Emma Winter , assistant professor, specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and Germany and, to a lesser extent, France and Italy . She is particularly interested in the concept of taste, processes of taste-making, and the role of tastemakers; cultural change, intercultural transfer, and trans-national exchange; nationalism and the construction of national cultures; state promotion of the arts, aesthetic approaches to governance, and the interaction between art, politics, and religion.
Affiliations
Visiting Fellow, Cultural Transmission and Disciplinary Change, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge
Teaching
Courses
ON LEAVE
Other Courses
COCC 1101 – Contemporary Western Civilizations I
COCC 1102 – Contemporary Western Civilizations II
HIST G8311 – Intro to the Literature of Modern European History
HIST W4322 – German History, 1740-1914
HIST W3312 – British History, 1760-1867
HIST W4336 – Art and Politics in Early Victorian England
HIST W4308 – Nations and Nationalisms in 19th century Europe
Awards
Nominated for Van Doren Teaching Award (2006-7)
Selected Publications
Books
Art and Taste, State and Nation in Europe, 1797-1857 (forthcoming)
Scholarly Articles
“Between Louis and Ludwig: from the culture of French power to the power of German culture,c. 1789-1848” in H. Scott and B. Simms, eds., The Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 348-68.
“German fresco painting and the new Houses of Parliament at Westminster, 1834-51” in The Historical Journal, 47, 2 (2004), pp. 291-329.
“Prince Albert, fresco painting, and the new Houses of Parliament” in J. Davis and F. Bosbach,eds., Prinz Albert – Ein Wettiner in Großbritannien – Prince Albert – A Wettin in Great Britain (Munich, 2004), pp. 147-158.
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