Research output per year
Research output per year
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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I will consider supervising PhD topics on Renaissance and early modern visual and material culture (c. 1450-1650), especially Italian, with a focus on:
- gender and the body, the nude, sexuality
- imagery in medical and scientific texts;
- body modification - tattoos, cosmetics, shaping the body through diet and exercise;
- recipe texts, experimental history, remaking
- how Renaissance art and material culture, especially nudes, are displayed and contextualised.
Jill Burke is a historian of the body and its visual representation, focussing on Italy and Europe 1400-1700. She is on research leave until September 2023, as she is the Principal Investigator of a Royal Society funded project, 'Renaissance Goo', working with a soft matter scientist to remake Renaissance cosmetic and skincare recipes (see link below).
The Renaissance Goo project is part of Jill's wider investigation into how people in the Renaissance tried to look good - how they sought to change their bodies, faces and hairstyles to meet beauty ideals. Jill's next book, How to Be a Renaissance Woman, delves into the pressures Renaissance women felt to look a certain way and also how they subverted beauty ideals and used them to their own ends. It will be published by Profile Books in June 2023.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Jill Burke (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Jill Burke (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Jill Burke (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Jill Burke (Advisor)
Activity: Consultancy types › Consultancy
Jill Burke (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Roe, A., Burke, J., Bowd, S., Wells, A., Cockram, S. & Paul, C.
10/07/12 → 31/12/14
Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation
21/05/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
13/09/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
9/08/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
3/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research