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Programme:

History of Art - MPhil/PhD/MSc by Research

Start date:

Sep-21

Mode of study:

Full time

Research title:

Tartan and colonial identities in the circum-Atlantic British Empire c.1745-1822

Biography

Emma Pearce is a final-year History of Art PhD Candidate funded by the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her project examines tartan in the British empire during the latter half of the eighteenth century, and how the textile was used to construct various colonial identities. Emma’s wider research interests lie in the global interconnections of textiles and people, and the development of identities during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Emma received her MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2021, graduating with a Distinction, specialising in Circum-Atlantic Visual Culture 1770-1830 under the supervision of Dr Esther Chadwick. She completed her BA in History of Art from the University of York in 2020.