Dr Gursimran Oberoi
Academic and research departments
Mobilities in Literature and Culture Research Centre, School of Literature and Languages, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.About
Biography
Gursimran Oberoi is a published art historian who specialises in the international reception of Victorian art. Her upcoming monograph, Global Watts: Symbolism, Fame and Activism (1880-Present Day), examines the display and appropriation of symbolist artworks by George Frederic Watts in the International Women’s Rights, Indian Independence and African American Civil Rights Movements. She has also published on Victorian art, gender, race and activism in various publications. Gursimran is an Associate Teaching Fellow at the University of Surrey, KCATO Manager at King’s College London and a Trustee at Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village.
Biography
Gursimran Oberoi is an AHRC, TECHNE and NPIF funded PhD student at the University of Surrey and Watts Gallery - Artists' Village where she studies under the direction of Dr Constance Bantman, Dr Nicholas Tromans, Dr Cicely Robinson and Prof Patricia Pulham. Her research project entitled ‘Global Watts: Allegories for All (1880-1980)’ provides a comprehensive assessment of the international importance and influence of British artist George Frederic Watts (1817-1904). Gursimran is Chair of the Doctoral and Early Career Research Committee (DECR) for the Association For Art History. She was previously the Assistant Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London.
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ResearchResearch interests
- Transnational Art History
- Victorian Art, Literature and Culture
- Mobilities Studies and Material Culture
- Art Object Circulation
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Networks, Collecting and Exchanges
- Art and Activism
- Social History
Research projects
TECHNE and BAVS funded project 'In/visibility and Influence: G. F. Watts’s Artistic Networks and Circuits of Expertise', Getty Research Institute (October-November 18)
Research interests
- Transnational Art History
- Victorian Art, Literature and Culture
- Mobilities Studies and Material Culture
- Art Object Circulation
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Networks, Collecting and Exchanges
- Art and Activism
- Social History
Research projects
TECHNE and BAVS funded project 'In/visibility and Influence: G. F. Watts’s Artistic Networks and Circuits of Expertise', Getty Research Institute (October-November 18)
Teaching
- Undergraduate Dissertation Supervision: topics of literature, art, culture, gender, race and sexuality.
- Fin-De-Siècle Literature: Decadence, Aesthetics And The Occult.
- Theories of Reading.
- Histories of English Literature.