Anna Myers
Programme:
History of Art - MPhil/PhD/MSc by Research
Start date:
Sep-18
Mode of study:
Full time
Research title:
‘We are such stuff’: Shakespeare and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
Biography
Anna is a PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh funded by an ECA PhD Scholarship. Her research examines material and visual culture connected with Shakespeare and his plays in the long eighteenth century. Anna's thesis probes the relationship between Shakespeare and English national identity by analysing Shakespeare's material integration into English society and culture.
Anna holds a MA (Hons) in Art History from the University of St Andrews and a MSc in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies from the University of Edinburgh. She is co-founder of the Material and Visual Culture Seminar series and the Material Culture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Research Cluster. Her research has been supported by grants from Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh) and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Yale University in London).
Research interests
- Visual and material culture of 17th and 18th century Britain
- Shakespeare’s afterlives and reception
- Adaptation
Pre Honours:
Tutor for 'History of Art 1A' (2019-2020)
Tutor for 'History of Art 1A and 1B' (2021-2022)
Tutor for 'History of Art 1A and 1B' (2022-2023)
Honours:
Tutor for 'Analysing Art History' (2022-2023)
Research
Research
Publications
'David Garrick and the President's Chair', in Shakespeare’s Afterlife in the Royal Collection, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Conference Papers
"'Within this monument': George Cooper's 1769 Shakespeare Tea Chest", paper given for the Material and Visual Culture Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh (online), 23, November 2022.
"Beyond Celebrity: English Society and Material Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Richard III", paper given at Modern Visuality and Nineteenth-Century Performance, University of Exeter and Online, 31 August - 3 September, 2021.
"Material legacies of 'The Seven Ages of Man': Shakespeare at home in eighteenth-century England", paper given at the British Shakespeare Association 2021 Conference, Sheffield Hallam University (Online), 5-7 August 2021.
"David Garrick and the President's Chair: Embodying Shakespeare Through Intermedial Adaptation", paper given at Finding Shakespeare in the Royal Collection, Kings College London/Royal Collection Trust (Online), 17-19 June.
"Female Agency in eighteenth-century material adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays", paper given at The Intermedial Eighteenth Century: Textual and Visual Arts, 1660-1832, Northumbria University (Online), 14-18 September 2020.
"'Hung up for monuments': The material legacy of Shakespeare's Richard III", paper given at the Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh, 19 February 2020.
“’Our toil shall strive to mend’: Material culture and the social processing of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet”, paper given at the 2019 International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) Congress, Edinburgh, July 2019.
"‘Shot through the Sticks of a Fan’: A perilous afterlife of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII”, paper given at Annual PhD History of Art PhD Conference, University of Edinburgh, May 2019.
“’Devices on their shields’: the gendered afterlife of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII", paper given at the Paul Mellon Centre Doctoral Research Network Summer Symposium, London, May 2019.
“Catching Their Conscience: The Early Modern Experience of Hogarth’s Satire”, paper given at the CEMS Postgraduate Conference, University of Exeter, June 2017.