Professor Julie Sheldon
Professor of Art History
Professor Julie Sheldon
Professor of Art History
Telephone: 0151 904 1179
Email: J.L.Sheldon@ljmu.ac.uk
Biography
Julie Sheldon studied at the University of Leicester, where she took her BA in Art History in 1987. She completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham in 1991. She has been a lecturer in Art History at Liverpool John Moores University since 1992.
Research Interests
Julie Sheldon’s research considers the consumption and critical reception of works of art through a nexus of governing cultures in the UK and USA. It explores the kinds of art-historical expertise represented by cultural managers and art institutions and examines, in particular, how they contributed to and reshaped exhibition culture. She is an experienced research supervisor and PhD examiner and welcomes submissions relating to her research interests.
Books
| 2000 |
Co-author with Pam Meecham, Modern Art: A Critical Introduction, First Edition, Routledge, London & New York. This book was translated: A Taiwanese Edition, Weber Publications, Yong Ho City, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan (2003) and Korean Edition, Sigongsa, Seoul (2004). |
| 2004 | Co-Author with Pam Meecham, Modern Art: A Critical Introduction, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded Routledge, London & New York. This edition was published as a Chinese translation by Peking University Press (2009). |
| 2008 | Co-Author with Pam Meecham, Making American Art, Routledge, London & New York. |
| 2009 | Co-Editor with Bryan Biggs, Art in a City Revisited, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool. |
| 2009 | The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool and distributed in USA by University of Chicago Press. |
| 2011 | Co-Author with Susanna Avery-Quash, Art for the Nation: The Eastlakes and the Victorian Art World, National Gallery Company and Yale University Press, London. |
| 2012 | Co-Author with Pam Meecham, A History of Curating, Liverpool University Press and distributed in USA by University of Chicago Press. [forthcoming 2012] |
Book and Journal Contributions
| 1996 | ‘Matisse and the Problem of Expression in Early Twentieth Century Art’, Investigating Modern Art, (ed. Liz Dawtry et al.) Yale University Press in Association with the Open University Press and the Arts Council of England, London & New Haven. |
| 2007 | ‘Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake’, Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth Century Photography, ed. John Hannavay, Routledge, New York, pp 1195-6. |
| 2007 | ‘Elizabeth Rigby and the Calotypes of Hill and Adamson: Correspondence from the John Murray Archive, 1843-1880’, in Studies in Photography, 2007, pp. 42-48. |
| 2009 | ‘Introduciton’, Bryan Biggs & Julie Sheldon (eds.), Art in a City Revisited, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, pp. 7-25. |
| 2009 | ‘Learning and Inclusion’, Bryan Biggs & Julie Sheldon (eds.), Art in a City Revisited, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, pp. 165-183. |
| 2009 | ‘‘In her own metier’: the Quarterly Review of Jane Eyre’, Women’s History Review, vol. 18, No. 5, November 2009, pp. 839-851. |
| 2011 | ‘His Best Successor: Lady Eastlake and the National Gallery’ in Kate Hill (ed) Museums and Biographies, Boydell Press, London. |
Catalogue Contributions
| 1997 | ‘Amrit and Rabindra K.D. Kaur Singh’ Fragile, Museo Contonale d’Arte, Lugano, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing & Liverpool John Moores University. |
| 2004 | ‘Parampara Portraits: Paintings By J Chuhan’, Parampara. Portraits By J Chuhan: New Perceptions of the British/South Asian Experience, Shisa, Manchester, pp. 20-25. |
| 2007 | ‘Practice by Protocol’, Underground, Centre for Art International Research (CAIR), Liverpool: pp. 29-36. |
Educational Publications
1994
Co-author, Exploring Modern Art (CD-ROM) Attica Cybernetics Ltd., New York & London. ISBN 1-873472-95-1
1995
Venus Re-Defined: A Resource Pack for Teachers, Tate Gallery Publications, Liverpool.
1996
Co-author, E556 Working with Modern Art: Study Guide, The Open University in Association with the Arts Council of England and Tate Gallery, London.
2000
Co-Editor, Virtual Revolutions, CD ROM, Audio Visual Research Editions & FACT, for Video Positive 2000.
2000
Co-Editor, Nedko Solakov: The Right One, CD ROM, Audio Visual Research Editions & FACT, for Video Positive 2000.
2000
Editor and contributing author, Working with Modern British Art: A Practical Guide For Teachers, Tate Liverpool
