Dr Keren Hammerschlag
Keren Hammerschlag
Keren Hammerschlag is a Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the 'Case Studies of Medical Portraiture' strand in the Centre for the Humanities and Health. Her research interests focus on the intersections between art and medicine in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, specifically in relation to group portraiture and patient self-portraiture. From September 2013, she will be a Postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. She completed her PhD in Victorian Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2010 (thesis title: ‘Death and Violence in the Art of Frederic Leighton’). She holds a Menzies Australian Bicentennial Fellowship to write a book on Australian and Irish expatriate artists in London in the early twentieth century.
Publications
‘The Gentleman Surgeon-Artist in Late Victorian Group Portraiture,’ Visual Culture in Britain (forthcoming July 2013)
‘Identifying the Patient in George W. Lambert’s Chesham Street,’ Medical Humanities, (forthcoming June 2013)
‘The Deathly Sleep of Frederic Leighton’s Painted Women,’ Women: A Cultural Review, vol.23, no.2, 2012
‘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, exh. cat., Courtauld Gallery, 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, vol.9, no.2, 2010
Contact Details
Email: keren.hammerschlag@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)207 848 1454
Address: Centre for the Humanities and Health, Floor F, East Wing, King's College London, Strand Campus, London, WC2R 2LS