Madeleine Pelling
Research Associate

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Biography

Madeleine Pelling completed her PhD at York in 2018, and was the recipient of the History of Art Department doctoral scholarship. Her research focuses on material and visual culture in the eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the history of collecting. She is currently preparing a monograph, The Portland Museum: Collecting, Craft and Conversation, c. 1750 -1786, and has published work in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal 18: a journal of eighteenth-century art and culture and Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Madeleine has taught in the History of Art Department at the University of York, and currently sits as an ECR member on the editorial board for History, journal of the Historical Association. She has held a Georgian Papers Programme Fellowship, a British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies Early Career Researcher Visiting Fellowship and a Lewis Walpole Library travel grant.