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Research interests

Keren is a Wellcome Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the Humanities and Health, working with Ludmilla Jordanova on the 'Case Studies of Medical Portraiture' strand. Her research project is concerned with the relationship between Royal Academy artists and anatomists/ surgeons during the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain.

Biography 

Keren recently received her PhD in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled 'Death and Violence in the Art of Frederic Leighton.' Before that she completed a Masters with distinction in Victorian art history at the Courtauld Institute (2007). She also holds a Bachelor of Art History and Theory with first-class honours, and a Bachelor of Arts (English) from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2005).

Keren has taught nineteenth-century British and French art history at graduate and post-graduate levels in Sydney and London, most recently tutoring on the inter-disciplinary Masters course, 'The Aesthetic Body: Science, Aestheticism and the Image of the Body in British Art 1860-1900,' at the Courtauld. She is offering a MA history module on 'The Body in the Nineteenth Century' in second term at King's.

Publications

‘Life Drawings for Dead Subjects by Edward Poynter and Frederic Leighton’ in C. Arscott and E. Prettejohn (eds.), Life, Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, exhibition catalogue, Courtauld Gallery, February 2011, pp.16-19

“Nature straight from God” or “galvanised mummy”?: Resurrecting Classicism in Frederic Leighton’s And the Sea Gave Up the Dead Which Were In It, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2010 <http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/autumn10/frederic-leightons-and-the-sea-gave-up-the-dead-which-were-in-it

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(Forthcoming) 'Poynter and Leighton's Life Drawings for Dead Subjects,' Victorian Drawings, exh. cat., November 2010