Isobel Elstob

I specialise in modern and contemporary art history and theory in Britain and America. I am particularly interested in how the historical past has been visualized by artists working in the 1980s and beyond. My research also often applies analytic models derived from historiography, narratology, and literary theory to its study of the visual arts.

Research interests:

Neo-Victorian studies, with a particular interest in the visual arts

Connections between literary and art theory

Histories of how art and science interact

Contemporary art and memory studies

Modern and contemporary Black art histories

Histories of display