Madeleine Reynolds
Programme:
History of Art - MPhil/PhD/MSc by Research
Start date:
Sep-20
Mode of study:
Full time
Biography
Madeleine is a PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, funded by a College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Award and an Edinburgh Global Research Scholarship. Her research considers material culture - manuscripts, printed books, portrait engravings, ritual objects and performances - to investigate alchemy as a tool of self-fashioning in sixteenth and seventeenth century England.
She received her BA from Saint Anselm College in 2016 and an MSc in Collecting and Provenance with Distinction from the University of Glasgow in 2018. She is co-organiser of the Material and Visual Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries Seminar series at the University of Edinburgh. Her research has been supported by grants from Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh), Funds for Women Graduates (Theodora Bosanquet Bursary), and The British Society for the History of Science.
Pre Honours:
History of Art 1A: Art and Belief in Europe, 500 to 1700 (2021-2022)
Research
Research
Research interests:
- Visual and material culture in 16th and 17th century Britain
- History of Science
- Collecting, collecting practices
- Object afterlives
Conference paper(s):
Title TBD, paper given for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Postgraduate Seminars, University of Manchester (online), 14 April 2023
'The Alchemical Self-Fashioning of Mary Sidney Herbert', paper given for 'Chemistry Outside the Laboratory', Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (online), 13-14 May 2022
'The Alchemical Self-Fashioning of Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke', paper given at the Northern Early Modern Network Conference, Newcastle University and online, 20-21 January 2022
'Protecting Libraries in Times of Conflict: toward building a sustainable framework for safeguarding written cultural assets', paper given at War and the Book: Book collections, libraries, publishing houses, and authors during armed and political conflicts, Poland, 13-15 November 2019