Rachael Grew

Dr Rachael Grew - ()

Job title: Lecturer in Art History, School of Humanities and Performing Arts (Faculty of Arts)
Address: Room 102, 6 Portland Villas, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Email: rachael.grew@plymouth.ac.uk

Qualifications & background
PhD, History of Art (University of Glasgow) June 2010
MPhil, History of Art (University of Glasgow) Sept 2006
MA , 1st Class Honours, English Literature and History of Art (University of Glasgow) June 2005

Professional membership
Association of Art Historians (AAH)

Teaching interests
Courses taught:
Introduction to Art History
Art and its Audiences
Late 19th Century Art
Studies in 20th Century Art

Courses contributed to:
MRes

General interests:
European art c. 1800 - 1950, particularly Surrealism
Gender
Women Artists
'Alternative' sites of art

Research interests

Surrealism, especially women artists such as Leonor Fini, Remedios Varo, Claude Cahun and Leonora Carrington
Surrealist costume
British and French art of the late 19th / early 20th century, including Symbolism, Aubrey Beardsley and the Glasgow Four
Gender issues
Iconography
Occult imagery in art

Conferences organised
InterActions, 5th Annual Graduate School of Arts and Humanities Conference, University of Glasgow, 2006 (committee chair)
DisPlacements, 1st Annual Postgraduate History of Art Conference, University of Glasgow, 2008, AHRC funded, (committee chair)
Arts to Enchant, 2nd Annual Postgraduate History of Art Conference, University of Glasgow, 2009, AHRC funded, (committee member)