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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Masculinity -- Baroque in Naples

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H. Hills, Professor of History of Art, studied History at Oxford University before turning to History of Art at the Courtauld (MA with Distinction) & PhD.

Her doctorate study of inlaid marble decoration in Sicily later became her first book. She taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA and at the University of Manchester, UK before joining the History of Art Department at York in 2005.

Hill's research focuses on the relationships between architecture, urbanism, religious devotion and spirituality, and gender and social class, with particular interest in baroque Naples. Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents, a study of the architecture and urbanism of aristocratic female convents in Naples was published by Oxford University Press in 2004, and was awarded the Best Book Prize in 2004 by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, USA. Rethinking the Baroque (Ashgate, 2011) offers essays by leading scholars from art history, philosophy, literature studies to reconsider the potential of ‘baroque’.

Hill is currently working on a book focused on the Treasury Chapel of San Gennaro in Naples.

In 2008 Hill was Visiting Professor in the Department of History of Art, University of Stockholm. She is co-founder of the Neapolitan Network which developed from an AHRC-funded Network and was established in 2010. It is an exchange and meeting point for scholars of Neapolitan culture from all over the world.

Recent awards include: AHRC-funded series of workshops focused on Neapolitan cultural history: Topography and History in Neapolitan Culture: Visual and Literary Representations of Naples c.1500-present (2008-9); AHRC-funded Matching Research Leave Scheme Award for 'Forms of Holiness in Baroque Naples' (2008- 09); British Academy Research Readership (2005-7); Balsdon Fellowship at the British School in Rome (Spring 2003); and a Getty Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities.

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