Dr Rosie Dias
About
Rosie joined the History of Art department at Warwick in 2005, following a teaching fellowship in the History of Art department at the University of York and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She works on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British art, with particular interests in painting, printmaking, exhibition culture and colonial art in South Asia. Her monograph, Exhibiting Englishness: John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and the Formation of a National Aesthetic was published by Yale University Press in 2013 and informed a 2016 exhibition at Compton Verney, "Boydell's Vision: the Shakespeare Gallery in the Eighteenth Century". She is a member of the University of Warwick's Eighteenth Century Centre and Global History and Culture Centre.
Research interests
Eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British art and visual culture; colonial art, particularly in India; British artists in Venice.
Teaching and supervision
Modules taught include:
- East meets West: The Visual Arts in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
- The Spaces of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting
- Prints
- The Aesthetic Legacy of Venice, 1700 - the present
- Introduction to Art History: The Natural World and the Arts of Modernity
Selected publications
- “Governing from the Country House: Landscape and the Aesthetics of Colonial Rule in India, 1780-1830” in Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire, ed. Ve-Yin Tee (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
- British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940, eds. Rosie Dias and Kate Smith (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
- Exhibiting Englishness: John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and the Formation of a National Aesthetic (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013)
- "Memory and the Aesthetics of Military Experience: Viewing the Landscape of the Anglo-Mysore Wars", Tate Papers, Issue 19 (Spring 2013)
Qualifications
- BA; MA; PhD (York)
Reader
On research leave 2024-25
Contact:
Tel: +44 (0)24 765 23005
Email: Rosemarie.Dias@warwick.ac.uk
F5.67, Faculty of Arts Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7HS
Teaching
Undergraduate modules
HA3C4 East Meets West: The Visual Arts in Colonial & Post Colonial India