Morna O'Neill (University of Notre Dame, B.A.; Yale, Ph.D.) teaches courses in nineteenth-century European art and the history of photography. Her research addresses the conjunction of art, design, and politics at the end of the nineteenth century. She was curator of the exhibition 'Art and Labour's Cause is One:' Walter Crane and Manchester, 1880-1915 (Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, August 2008-June 2009) and author of the exhibition catalogue (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2008). Walter Crane is also the subject of her forthcoming book from Yale University Press, Walter Crane: The Arts and Crafts, Painting, and Politics, 1875-1890. Other research projects include the display of decorative arts at international exhibitions (1889-1911) and the importance of biological evolution (especially as popularized by Herbert Spencer) on the theorization of design and ornament in the Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Jugendstil. She is the co-editor, with Michael Hatt (University of Warwick), of The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910 (Yale University Press, 2010). Professor O’Neill has received fellowships from the Frick Collection and Art Reference Library, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and the Huntington Library. Her work has appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, The Journal of Design History, and Garden History. |
