Dr. Elisabeth Ansel

• 10/2024–03/2025 Interim Professor of the History of Art at the TU Dresden
• 2023/24 Fellowship at the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study GreifswaldExternal link, Fellow project: 'Translating Images: Visual Circulation Processes in Romanticism'
• since 03/2021 Postdoctoral research associate within the research group ‘European Romanticism or Romanticisms in Europe de’ at the Department of History of Art and Film Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 2021 PhD on constructions of national identity in Irish modernism exemplified by the artist Jack B. Yeats, his work, and its national and international reception: 'Jack B. Yeats. Nationale Identitätskonstruktionen in der irischen Moderne' ('summa cum laude')
• 2016–2017 Degree programmes coordinator, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, Technische Universität Dresden
• 2012 Guest lecturer at University College Cork, History of Art, Ireland
• 2010–2016 Assistant lecturer with increased teaching load, TU Dresden, Department of Art History
• 2010 Provenance research assistant, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen
• 2008–2009 Exhibition assistant, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, exhibition: Carl Gustav Carus. Nature and Idea
• 2010 M.A. in Art History, TU Dresden

International Research Stays

• 02/2019–03/2019 Morgan Library & Museum, New York and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
• 07/2018 Manuscripts and Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin; Summer School Irish Art and Language, University College Dublin, Ireland
• 08/2017–09/2017 New York Public Library and Taminent Library & Wagner Archives, New York University, New York, USA
• 02/2015–03/2015 Yeats Archive, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

• Modernism
• Art, Politics and National Identity
• Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies
• Art, Science and Nature
• Translatibility of Images in Transnational Contexts
• Aesthetics of Blindness
• Gender and Romanticism

• 2023–2024 Fellowship at the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study GreifswaldExternal link
• 2023 German Research Foundation (DFG), Funding for international scientific events
• 2022 Dissertation Prize, Dresden Kulturstiftung Foundation of CommerzbankExternal link 
• 2022 Printing costs grant, Siblings Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for the Humanities
• 2017–2021 Doctoral scholarship holder of the Free State of Saxony
• 2019, 2018, 2017 Travel Grants, Graduate Academy, TU Dresden (Dublin, New Haven, New York)
• 2013 DAAD, Conference Grant
• 2012 ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility

Rethinking British and European Romanticisms in Transnational DimensionsExternal link, part II, joint workshop, Friedrich Schiller University Jena & University of York, King's Manor, York, 19–21 September 2023. Together with Johannes Grave, Richard Johns, Christin Neubauer, Elizabeth Prettejohn.

Rethinking British and European Romanticisms in Transnational Dimensions de, part I, joint workshop, Friedrich Schiller University Jena & University of York, 28–30 March 2023. Together with Johannes Grave, Richard Johns, Christin Neubauer, Elizabeth Prettejohn.

Reflections on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts: State of Research and Future Perspectives de, international conference, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 14–16 September 2022. Together with Johannes Grave, Christin Neubauer and Mira Claire Zadrozny.

Romanticism and Curatorial Practice, Young Researchers Workshop, Research Centre European Romanticism, Deutsches Romantik-Museum in Frankfurt am Main, 9 July 2022. Together with Christin Neubauer.

• [in preparation] 'Race, Colonialism, and Romanticism: Carl Gustav Carus’s Pictorial Oeuvre in a Global Context', conference proceedings on Romanticism’s Colonial Legacies in and Beyond Europe: Critical Perspectives on Art and Visual Culture, ed. Mechthild Fend, Miguel A. Gaete, Frederike Middelhoff (to be published in Neue Romantikforschung (New Research on Romanticism).
• [in peer review] 'It's a Woman’s World: Gender and Visual Ossianism in Elizabeth Harvey'.
• [in peer review] 'The Aesthetics of Blindness and the Sublime in the Works of J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Girtin, and John Sell Cotman’, in conference proceedings on Evoking the Incommensurable: Painting the Sublime, ed. Johannes Grave, Arno Schubbach, Sonja Scherbaum (to be published in Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, 2025).
• [peer review accepted] Picturing the Romantic: New Perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts, together with Johannes Grave, Christin Neubauer und Mira Claire Zadrozny (Manchester: Manchester University Press, expected publication, Spring 2025).
• [peer review accepted] 'Ossianic Images and Visual Translation Processes in J. M. W. Turner and Carl Gustav Carus', in Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave, Christin Neubauer and Mira Claire Zadrozny (eds): Picturing the Romantic: New Perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, expected publication, Spring 2025).
• [peer review accepted] (together with Johannes Grave, Christin Neubauer und Mira Claire Zadrozny), ‘Introduction: on the charged interplay between Romanticism and Europe’, in: Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave, Christin Neubauer and Mira Claire Zadrozny (eds), Picturing the Romantic: New Perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, expected publication, Spring 2025).
• Jack B. Yeats. Nationale Identitätskonstruktionen in der irischen ModerneExternal link [Jack B. Yeats: Constructions of National Identity in Irish Modernism], Köln: Böhlau 2023. Awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Dresden Kulturstiftung Foundation of CommerzbankExternal link
• Review: Róisín Kennedy: Art and the Nation State. The Reception of Modern Art in Ireland, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2021, in: sehepunkte 22 (2022), Nr. 4External link
• 'Little Women'; 'The Father', in 100 Movies of the 2010s, ed. Jürgen Müller (Cologne: Taschen 2022), 704–711, 766–773.
• 'The Father', in 100 Movies of the 2010s, ed. Jürgen Müller (Cologne: Taschen 2022), 766–773.
• 'I Don’t Regret Going to New York a bit. Transnationaler Kulturtransfer am Beispiel der New York-Reise des irischen Künstlers Jack B. Yeats', in Künstlerreisen. Fallbeispiele vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Birgit Ulrike Münch, Birgit Ulrike, Andreas Tacke et al (Petersberg: Imhof 2020), 212–225.
• 'Emancipated from Provincial Myth. The Irish Artist Louis le Brocquy in the Context of National Debates and European Modernism', in Rethinking Postwar Europe: Artistic Production and Discourses on Art in the late 1940s and 1950s, ed. Barbara Lange et al (Köln: Böhlau 2020), 213–233.
• 'Ein irischer 3. Mai? Jack B. Yeats’ Funeral of Harry Boland (1922) im Kontext der Stilkonstruktion einer irischen Moderne', in Ars delectat semper. Essays zur Kunstgeschichte für Henrik Karge zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Susanne Müller-Bechtel, Susanne et al (Dresden 2019), 91–93.
• 'Let There Be No More War. Jack B. Yeats’s Anti-War Painting Grief in Context', in The Eye on War. Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914, ed. Ann Murray (New York/London: Routledge 2018), 204–213 (peer-reviewed).
• 'The Art Which Is True Is as Lively as Life. Jack B. Yeats’s Modern Aspects of Irish Art reconsidered', in William Butler Yeats 1865–1939. Yeats 150, ed. Declan Foley (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2016), 377–386.

• Race, Colonialism, and Romanticism: Carl Gustav Carus’s Visual Ossianism in a Global Context, at the international conference Romanticism’s Colonial Legacies in and Beyond Europe: Critical Perspectives on Art and Visual CultureExternal link, Goethe University Frankfurt, 12.10.2024.
• Caspar David Friedrich und die europäischen Romantiken, Guest lectureExternal link at the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institut, University Greifswald, 02.07.2024.
• 'Ich sehe aber keine Harfe': Ossianische Bilder als visuelle Störmomente, at the interdisciplinary conference Medien der Romantik: Malerei, Musik, Literatur at Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, 31.05.2024.
• Translation und Bildlichkeit. Zur Frage visueller Zirkulationsprozesse in der Romantik, Fellow LectureExternal link at the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study Greifswald, 22.01.2024.
• Transcultural Perspectives. Rethinking Yeats and Irish Modernism in a Global Context, Guest lecture at the Research Lecture SeriesExternal link at the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin, 02.10.2023
• Heroic Femininity and the joy of grief in Elizabeth Harvey’s 'Malvina Lamenting the Death of Oscar' (1806), at the binational workshop Rethinking British and European Romanticisms in Transnational Dimensions, Part IIExternal link, University of York, 20.09.2023
• 'Most magnificent and sublime': Ossian, Blindness, and the Sublime in the Visual Arts, at the international conference Evoking the Incommensurable – Painting the Sublime de, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 26.07.2023
• 'The spell of the feminine idiosyncrasy': Gender and Visual Ossianism, at the binational workshop Rethinking British and European Romanticisms in Transnational Dimensions de, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena & University of York, 28.03.2023
• Die Vermessung der Nacht. Adam Elsheimers 'Die Flucht nach Ägypten' (1609), together with Lars Zieke, at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Schillers Gartenhaus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 25.11.2022
• '[…] you misunderstand. It’s the ocean': Ossianic Images and Visual Translation Processes in European Romanticism, at the international conference Reflections on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts: State of Research and Future Perspectives de, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 14.09.2022
• Transcultural Romanticism. Ossianic Images in the Work of J.M.W. Turner and Carl Gustav Carus, at the international conference British Romanticism and Europe, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, 25.06.2022
• Gender Trouble. Das Unbehagen vor der Macht der Frau in der Kunst um 1500, Guest lecture in the context of the lecture series Die Genremalerei. Ihre Theorie und Geschichte at the Institute of Art and Music, TU Dresden, 16.12.2021
• The Life of the Artist Jack B. Yeats. Paradigms of Artistic and Cultural Identity Formation in Irish Modernism at the International Conference The Lives of Artists in the Globalized World, École du Louvre, Faculdade de Arqui-Tetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, 04.11.2021 (Zoom-PresentationExternal link)
• Jack B. Yeats. Nationale Identitätskonstruktionen in der irischen Moderne at the Members Meeting of the Forum Art History of Britain and Ireland (FAHBI), 22.10.2021 (Zoom-Presentation)
• New Ways of Seeing: On Paradigms of National Canon Formation in Irish Modernism at the interdisciplinary PGR/ECR Symposium Reading the Label: Periodisation, Style, and the Humanities, University of York, UK, 15.10.2021 (Zoom-PresentationExternal link)
• 'I don’t regret going to New York a bit'. Transnationaler Kulturtransfer am Beispiel der New York-Reise des irischen Künstlers Jack B. Yeats at the Kunsthistorische Forum Irsee, VII. Frühjahrsakademie 2019, Wir sind dann mal weg. Die Künstlerreise als Medium des Kulturtransfers, 14.04.2019
• Identities in Transformation. Regarding the Shifting Perceptions of Louis le Brocquy’s Œuvre at the 7th International Congress of Art History Students, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia, 15.11.2018
• 'No more war': Jack Butler Yeats on War and Conflict, Guest lecture at the Department of History of Art, University of York, UK, 21.05.2018
• 'Emancipated from provincial myth': Irish Modernism and Its European Reception between the Poles of Art and Politics at the Conference Rethinking Europe: Artistic Production and Discourses on Art in the Late 1940s and 1950s, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 15.02.2018
• 'The rise of the national school'. Diskussionen und Positionen zum irischen Nationalstil im Kontext der Moderne at the 34th Congress of German Art Historians, Art Local – Art Global, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, 09.03.2017
• Visualizing War and Conflict in Modern Ireland at the 5th International Congress of Art History Students, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia, 28.10.2016
• Envisioning Independence – Visualizing Ireland: Framing the National in Irish Art at the Beginning of the 20th Century, at the International Conference Art and Politics in Europe in the Modern Period, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia, 30.06.2016
• Jack B. Yeats’ Anti-War Painting Grief in Context at the international, interdisciplinary conference War in the Visual Arts, University College Cork, Ireland, 12.09.2013
• The Artist Jack B. Yeats and Modernism, Guest lecture, University College Cork, Ireland, 08.03.2012

• Panel Discussion on the subject Das Politische der Romantik – Historische und Aktuelle Perspektiven [Politics and Romanticism], together with Stefan Matuschek, Stefanie Middendorf and Tilman Reitz, im Rahmen des Zweiten Romantik-Kolloquiums  de Das Politische der Romantik, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 13.06.2024.
• Introduction to the ceremonial address by Kilian Heck and Christian von Savigny on the subject 'Caspar David Friedrich interdisziplinär, oder was Physik und Kunstgeschichte voneinander lernen können', Dies AcademicusExternal link, Universität Greifswald, 29.05.2024.
• Panel Respondent, Logan Sisley, Action Head of Collections, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane on the subject Displaying Irish Art, Forum Art History of Britain and Ireland (FAHBI): Displaying British and Irish Art: Images of the Nation, Place and Space, 37. Deutscher Kongress für Kunstgeschichte 2024, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, 13.03.2024.
• Introduction to the international workshop Rethinking British and European Romanticisms in Transnational Dimensions de, together with Christin Neubauer, Friedrich Schiller University Jena und Universtity of York, 28.03.2023.
• Introduction to the international conference Reflections on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts: State of Research and Future Perspectives de, together with Johannes Grave, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 14.09.2022.
• Chair, Panel 3, international conference Reflections on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts: State of Research and Future Perspectives de, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 15.09.2022.