Celeste-Marie Bernier

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• 2024

  Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives in Britain and Ireland

  Bernier, C-M. (ed.) & Murray, H-R. (ed.), May 2024, Edinburgh University Press. 560 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Nineteenth-Century African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland

  Bernier, C-M. (ed.) & Murray, H-R. (ed.), May 2024, Edinburgh University Press. 496 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Introduction

  Bernier, C-M., 9 Jan 2024, Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial. Jenkins, E. L. (ed.). New Haven: Yale University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Revolutionary Liberator: The Anna Murray Douglass Family Biography

  Bernier, C-M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Duke University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• 2023

  Lessons of the hour: Isaac Julien in conversation with Celeste-Marie Bernier

  Bernier, C-M., 27 Apr 2023, Isaac Julien: What freedom is to me. London: Tate

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Battleground: African American Art, 1985-2015

  Bernier, C-M., 31 Mar 2023, University of Georgia Press. 352 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • African American art 100%
  • Artwork 50%
  • Digital 50%
  • Painting 50%
  • Intellectual History 50%
• 2022

  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written By Himself

  Douglass, F., Bernier, C-M. (ed.) & Taylor, A. (ed.), 28 Jul 2022, Oxford University Press. 640 p. (Oxford World's Classics)

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

  • Abolition 100%
  • Autobiography 100%
  • Battle 100%

• We had to learn surviving: Imaging slavery and imagining freedom in ‘black lexicons of liberation'

  Bernier, C-M., 2022, The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things: Art from an African-American South. Herman, B. (ed.). University of North Carolina Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 2021

  Ten Thousand Agonies: Isaac Julien’s Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass paint pictures of ‘War and slavery'

  Bernier, C-M., 2021, Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour. Frederick Douglass. Julien, I. & Gilroy-Ware, C. (eds.). Delmonico Books

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 2020

  'Any leadership would have to be the type of Frederick Douglass': Black history, Black heroism, and Black resistance in Jacob Lawrence’s Frederick Douglass Series (1938-39)

  Bernier, C-M., 5 Nov 2020, In: KALFOU: A JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE AND RELATIONAL ETHNIC STUDIES.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Workers + warriors: Black acts and arts of radicalism, revolution, and resistance past, present, and future

  Bernier, C-M. & Willson, N., 4 Nov 2020, In: KALFOU: A JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE AND RELATIONAL ETHNIC STUDIES. 7, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • era 100%
  • bondage 100%
  • Warrior 100%
  • Radicalism 100%
  • Edinburgh 33%

• Strike for Freedom: Acts and Arts of Liberation in the African Atlantic Imaginary (1818-2018)

  Bernier, C-M. (ed.) & Willson, N. (ed.), Mar 2020, In: Slavery & Abolition. 41, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

• We were brave. We were strong. We survived. Acts and arts of liberation in the African Atlantic imaginary

  Bernier, C-M. & Willson, N., 2020, In: Slavery & Abolition. 41, 1, 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• “A thought of home”: Memorialising slavery and narrativising war in Horace Pippin’s Domestic Interiors and Exteriors

  Bernier, C-M., 2020, In: Slavery & Abolition. 41, 1, p. 149-166

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • African American Woman 100%
• 2019

  Frederick Douglass: My Bondage and My Freedom

  Bernier, C-M. (ed.), 20 Nov 2019, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 448 p. (Oxford World's Classics)

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

• Inside the Invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom in the Life and Works of Lubaina Himid

  Bernier, C-M., Rice, A., Himid CBE, L. & Durkin, H., 19 Nov 2019, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 360 p. (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery; vol. 14)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Psychological Reality 100%

• “Feeling for my people”: Visualizing resistance, radicalism, and revolution

  Bernier, C. M., 12 Nov 2019, The Routledge Companion to African American Art History. Chambers, E. (ed.). Taylor & Francis, p. 350-358 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • paintbrush 100%

• Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015

  Bernier, C-M., Jan 2019, 1 ed. Oakland: University of California Press. 344 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Artwork 100%
  • Cultural Production 100%
  • British art 100%
  • Visual Culture 100%
  • video artist 100%

• Bookmakers Not Bootblackers: African American Atlantic Works Volume 1: Narratives

  Murray, H-R. & Bernier, C-M., 2019, (Accepted/In press) Edinburgh University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Time of Freedom: African American Atlantic Works Volume 2: Speeches

  Murray, H-R. & Bernier, C-M., 2019, (Accepted/In press) Edinburgh University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• 2018

  If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection

  Bernier, C-M. & Taylor, A., 1 Sept 2018, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 860 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • era 100%
  • 21C 100%
  • Afterword 100%
  • Historical Context 100%
  • Social Context 100%

• A UK–US “Black lexicon of liberation”: A bibliography of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art-making traditions

  Bernier, C-M., 28 Jun 2018, In: KALFOU: A JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE AND RELATIONAL ETHNIC STUDIES. 5, 1, p. 172-210

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave: A 2018 Bicentenary Edition

  Douglass, F. & Bernier, C-M. (ed.), 23 Feb 2018, Toronto: Broadview Press. 280 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • scholarly edition 100%

• Our Bondage & Our Freedom: Frederick Douglass & Family - their struggles for liberty 1818-2018

  Bernier, C-M. & Willson, N., 2018

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

  • Research Councils 100%
  • Neglect 100%
  • Education Program 100%
  • Liberty 100%
  • Research Centre 100%
• 2017

  Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018

  Bernier, C-M. (ed.) & Lawson, B. (ed.), 11 Dec 2017, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 368 p. (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery ; vol. 12)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Visual Culture 100%
  • Imagining 100%
  • Imaging 100%
  • Scholars 50%
  • Painting 50%

• Tracing Transatlantic Slavery: In Kimathi Donkor's UK Diaspora

  Bernier, C-M., 1 Nov 2017, In: Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. 41

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
• 2016

  To preserve my features in marble: Post-civil war paintings, drawings, sculpture, and sketches of Frederick Douglass. An illustrated essay

  Bernier, C-M., 1 Oct 2016, In: Callaloo. 39, 2, p. 372-99 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Introduction inside the invisible African diasporic artists

  Bernier, C-M. & Durkin, H., 10 Mar 2016, Visualising Slavery : Art Across the African Diaspora. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, p. 1-16 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• “‘X is for X Ray, X Slave, X Colony:’ A ‘Lexicon of Liberation’ versus ‘My Slave History’ in the Paintings, Installations and Sketchbooks of Donald Rodney.”

  Bernier, C-M., 10 Mar 2016, Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora. Bernier, C-M. & Durkin, H. (eds.). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, p. 218-48 30 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth Century American Letters and Letter-writing

  Bernier, C-M., Newman, J. & Pethers, M., 1 Mar 2016, Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. 752 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Nineteenth Century 100%
  • LETTER WRITING 100%
  • Edinburgh Companion 100%
  • Scholars 50%
  • Genre 50%

• Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora

  Bernier, C-M. & Durkin, H., 1 Mar 2016, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 291 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • African diaspora 100%
  • Visual Arts 100%
  • body of work 100%
  • Trans-atlantic Slavery 100%
  • Scholars 50%

• “‘Frederick Douglass, the freeman’ versus ‘Frederick Bailey, the slave:’ Private versus Public Acts and Arts of Letter-Writing in Frederick Douglass’s Pre-Civil War Correspondence.”

  Bernier, C-M., Feb 2016, A Companion to Nineteenth Century Letters and Letter-Writing. Bernier, C-M., Newman, J. & Pethers, M. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Epistolary studies and nineteenth-century American letters and letter-writing

  Bernier, C. M., Newman, J. & Pethers, M., 2016, The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing. Bernier, C-M., Newman, J. & Pethers, M. (eds.). Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

• “No more ‘poisonous, disrespectful and skewed images of Black people:’ Barbara Walker’s Louder than Words (2006-9) and a Call to Arms.”

  Bernier, C-M., 2016, In: Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. 38-39, p. 122-133 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2015

  Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin

  Bernier, C-M., 15 Nov 2015, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 552 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Suffering 100%
  • World War I 100%
  • Life Stories 66%
  • Intellectual History 33%
  • canvas 33%

• Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American

  Bernier, C-M., Trodd, Z., Stauffer, J., Morris, K. & Gates Jr, H. L., 1 Nov 2015, New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 320 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Nineteenth Century 100%
  • Legacy 100%
  • Biography 100%
  • Picturing 100%
  • Visual Aesthetics 100%

• ‘“The burial and unburial of women:” Thin Black Line(s) (2011-12) and Tracing “Moments and Connections” in Black British Women Art Histories.’

  Bernier, C-M., 1 Nov 2015, In: KALFOU: A JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE AND RELATIONAL ETHNIC STUDIES. 2, 2, p. 255-75 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Burial 100%
  • Art History 100%
  • Exhibition Space 100%
  • Women's Arts 100%
  • British art 50%

• A visual call to arms against the “Caracature [sic] of My Own Face’: From fugitive slave to fugitive image in Frederick Douglass’s theory of portraiture

  Bernier, C-M., 1 Aug 2015, In: Journal of American Studies. 49, 2, p. 323-57 34 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Portraiture 100%
  • racist 100%
  • Soul 50%
  • revisionist 50%
  • Generic 50%
• 2014

  “The slave ship imprint”: Representing the body, memory, and history in contemporary African American and Black British painting, photography, and installation art

  Bernier, C-M., 17 Oct 2014, In: Callaloo. 37, 4, p. 990-1022 32 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Slave ship 100%
  • Installation Art 100%
  • Body Memory 100%
  • British painting 100%
  • Visual Culture 25%

• Narratives of enslavement and emancipation

  Bernier, C-M., 2014, Princeton Companion to Atlantic History. Miller, J. (ed.). New Jersey: Princeton University Press, p. 299-304 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• 2013

  Unseeing the unspeakable: Visualizing artistry, authority and the anti-slave narrative in Bill Traylor's drawings (1939-1942)

  Bernier, C-M., 1 Aug 2013, In: Slavery & Abolition. 34, 2, p. 266-280 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • artistry 100%
  • Drawing 100%
  • Narrative 100%
  • Visual Culture 33%
  • Works of Art 33%

• Slavery and memory in black visual culture: Introduction

  Bernier, C-M. & Trodd, Z., 2013, In: Slavery & Abolition. 34, 2, p. 197-201 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• “the houl intir batel feel were hell”: “Suffering”, “Sunset” and Aesthetic Experimentation in Horace Pippin’s World War I Manuscripts and Paintings

  Bernier, C-M., 2013, Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-garde. Sweeney, F. & Marsh, K. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 169-191 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• 2012

  Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination

  Bernier, C-M., Dec 2012, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 464 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Public monuments 100%

• ‘“Save our Shit. Save our Souls. Save our Struggle:” Politics, Protest and Aesthetic Experimentation in The BLK Art Group Exhibition’ (2011-12).

  Bernier, C-M., 9 Jul 2012, In: Slavery & Abolition. 34, 3, p. 515-523 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• A “Typical Negro” or a “Work of Art?” The “inner” via the “outer man” in Frederick Douglass’s Manuscripts and Daguerreotypes.

  Bernier, C-M., 2012, In: Slavery & Abolition. 33, 2, p. 287-303 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Response: When “nothing is said of black heroes”

  Bernier, C-M., 2012, In: African American Review. 45, 4, p. 518-526 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• ‘The face of a fugitive slave’: Representing and reimagining Frederick Douglass in popular illustrations, fine art portraiture and daguerreotypes.

  Bernier, C-M., 2012, Life Writing and Political Memoir : Lebenszeugnisse und Politische Memoiren. Brechkten, M. (ed.). Gottingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, p. 11-34 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• 2011

  “His Complete History”? Revisioning, Recreating and Reimagining Multiple Lives in Frederick Douglass’s Life and Times (1881, 1892).

  Bernier, C-M., 25 Oct 2011, In: Slavery & Abolition. 33, 4, p. 595-610 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2010

  “You can’t photograph everything”: The acts and arts of bearing witness in Joseph Rodriguez’s Still Here: Stories After Hurricane Katrina (2009).

  Bernier, C-M., 2010, In: Journal of American Studies. 44, 3, p. 535-552 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Bearing Witness 100%
  • Hurricane Katrina 100%
  • Documentary 50%
  • diary entries 50%
  • Reflexive 50%