Dr Emma Winter
Columbia University
Emma L Winter is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Columbia University in New York. She was educated at Cambridge, from where she received her BA (1998), M.Phil (1999), and PhD (2005). Emma specialises in the cultural, political and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. She is particularly interested in the concept of taste, processes of taste-making, and the role of tastemakers; cultural change, intercultural transfer, and trans-national exchange; nationalism and the construction of national cultures; state promotion of the arts, aesthetic approaches to governance, and the interaction between art, politics, and religion. Her PhD thesis, entitled The Transformation of Taste in Germany and England, 1797-1857, was on the rise of interest in early Italian art. Her publications include German Fresco Painting and the New Houses of Parliament at Westminster, 1834-51, The Historical Journal, 47 (2004), pp 291-329 and Between Louis and Ludwig: from the Culture of French Power to the Power of German Culture, c 1789-1848 in H Scott and B Simms, eds., Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 2007), pp 348-68. While a visiting fellow at CRASSH, Emma will be completing her book Italia, Germania and Britannia, a study of art and taste, state and nation in Europe, c 1789-1868.
