Rebecca Marks, Peterhouse

Biographical Information

I studied English Language and Literature at Exeter College, Oxford, from which I graduated in 2019 (Distinction) with a Waugh Scholarship and three prizes. In 2020 I completed a MA in History of Art at the Courtauld institute (Distinction) specialising in the Italian Renaissance. I passed my viva with minor corrections in January 2025.

Research Interests

My PhD focuses on the reception of Michelangelo in visual culture in William Blake's lifetime, 1757-1827.

Selected Publications

 Articles

‘A William Blake Drawing Relocated, Dated, and Sourced’, The British Art Journal (forthcoming, 2025)

‘Organs of Embodied Sentiment: Contextualising William Blake’s Sistine Studies c.1770-1790’, The Cambridge Quarterly, 52.3 (2023), 270-289

 

Reviews

‘The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Freidrich's Journey Through Time by Florian Illies, translated by Tony Crawford', Eighteenth Century Studies (forthcoming, 2025)

‘William Blake’s Visions: Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia by David Worral’, Romanticism (forthcoming, 2025)

‘Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness by Jason Whittaker’, Romanticism, 30.1 (2024), 103-105

‘Painting With Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Object by Matthew C. Hunter’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 57.1 (2023), 134-136

‘Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism by Stephanie O’Rourke’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 56.3 (2023), 505-508

 

Conferences and Public Talks

‘Canova’s Eros & Psyche’, Aphrodite’s Archer: an evening with Eros and Psyche, Cosi’s Odyssey (2025)

‘Blake’s Last Judgement as History Painting’, Justified Sinners, Romancing the Gothic (2024)

‘Blake and the Old Masters’, William Blake's Universe, Fitzwilliam Museum, (2024)

‘The Belvedere Torso: A Romantic Reception’, Classical Reception Seminar, University of Cambridge (2023)

‘Organs of Embodied Sentiment: Blake’s Sistine Studies’, Global Blake, University of Sheffield (2023)

‘Blake and “Michelangelo’s Torso”’, Influence: 50 Years On, Magdalene College, Oxford (2023)

‘William Blake, Engraver’, Prints and Drawings, Fitzwilliam Museum  (2022)

 

Prizes and Scholarships

Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize, University of Cambridge (2023)

Wilmot Jenkins Prize, University of Oxford (2019)

Fitzgerald prize, University of Oxford (2016, 2019)