Prof Linda Goddard
Director of Research
Professor
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 2408
- ljg21@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Research areas
Linda Goddard is a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French art and literature, and artists鈥� writings. She holds a BA in French and Italian language and literature from the University of Oxford and an MA and PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She joined St听Andrews in 2009 after a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Courtauld, and a fixed-term Lectureship at the University of Cambridge. From 2019鈥�2022 she was Head of the School of Art History at St听Andrews.
She has been a Member in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2014-15), and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC (2018).
Linda has recently begun a new project on the life writings of women artists in nineteenth-century France and beyond. She delivered a course on 鈥淲omen Artists and Life Writing around 1900鈥� in Amsterdam as the 2025 Van Gogh Museum Visiting Fellow.
Her most recent book,听听(Yale University Press, 2019) is the first book-length analysis of the artist鈥檚 wide-ranging literary output. Her first book,听听(Peter Lang, 2012) examined how the rejection of mimesis in painting affected literary responses to the visual arts. She has edited or co-edited two journal special issues devoted to the interpretation of artists鈥� writings:听听(Word & Image), including her essay, 鈥淎rtists鈥� Writings: word or image?鈥� and (with Natalie Adamson)听听(Forum for Modern Language Studies), both 2012. 听
At St听Andrews she teaches undergraduate modules including 鈥淲omen Artists and Autobiography鈥� and 鈥淪ymbolism, Decadence and Modernity鈥� and co-teaches the postgraduate modules 鈥淭he Image of the Artist鈥� and 鈥淲riting on the Visual鈥�.
She welcomes enquiries from potential PhD students with interests in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art 鈥� particularly its intersections with literature 鈥� women artists and artists' writings.
Recently completed PhD students
Eunjee Lee (co-supervised with Jeremy Howard), 鈥樷�淲hen East meets West鈥�: Emil Orlik, Helen Hyde, Elizabeth Keith, and Western printmakers in East Asia in the early twentieth century鈥�
Maria Golovteeva, 'Fernand Khnopff: Art and Photography in the Nineteenth Century'
PhD supervision
- Matthew听Yeats
Selected publications
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Goddard, L., 1 Oct 2024, PN Review, 51, 1, p. 7-8.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication 鈥� Article
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Goddard, L., 3 Oct 2024, Gauguin 鈥� unexpected. Benesch, E. (ed.). Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, p. 34鈥�39
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
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Goddard, L. J., 1 Apr 2023, Paul Gauguin: the other and I. Pedrosa, A., Oliva, F. & Cosendey, L. (eds.). S茫o Paulo: Museu de Arte de S茫o Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, p. 173-193 21 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
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Goddard, L. J., Jun 2020, Of Modernism: Essays in Honour of Christopher Green. Brockington, G. & Miller, C. (eds.). London: Paul Holberton
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
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Goddard, L. J., 2019, Gauguin: Portraits. Homburg, C. (ed.). Yale University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
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Goddard, L., 24 Sept 2019, London: Yale University Press. 208 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
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Goddard, L. J., 2018, Gauguin's Challenge: New Perspectives After Postmodernism. Broude, N. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, p. 15-40 26 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
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Goddard, L., 22 Aug 2017, The Cubism seminars. Cooper, H. (ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press, (CASVA seminar papers; vol. 3).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
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Goddard, L. J., May 2016, In: H-France. 16, 59
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Book/Film/Article review
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Goddard, L. J., Mar 2016, In: PN Review. 228
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Letter
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