Julie Codell
Codell is professor of art history at Arizona State University. She was director of the School of Art from 1991-2001 and interim chair of Film and Media Studies from 2010-11. She is currently a senior consultant to the School of Art Director and a faculty affiliate in English, Film and Media Studies and the Asian Research Center. Her areas of specialization are 19th-century visual culture in the UK and the US, the art press, Indian culture under the British Raj, life writings (autobiographies and biographies), travel narratives, representations of race and gender, material culture, the art market, the history of collecting and world film.
Her course topics include the art market; the history of art collecting; culture and empire; the self in 19th-century culture (autobiography and portraiture); the portrait; gender, race and world cinema; artist biopic films; the body in 19th-c. art; critical theory and global art history. She served on dissertation and thesis committees at Oxford University, Yale University, The University of Sydney, The University of Ghent in Belgium, Queen's College, Ontario, Nehru University in Delhi, and several ASU departments—School of Art, English, History, Religious Studies.
Education
Ph.D. Comparative Literature (Comparative Arts) and Certificate in Renaissances Studies, Indiana University
M.A. Art History, Indiana University
M.A. English, University of Michigan
B.A. English, Vassar College
Expertise Areas
Area of study
Publications
Books and Edited Projects
2020 Editor, Victorian Artists' Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Patronage and the Art Market (Routledge).
2018 Co-editor (w/ L. Hughes), Replication in the Long 19th Century: Re-makings and Reproductions (University of Edinburgh Press).
2018 Editor, "Domesticity and the Victorian Press," special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review51/2 (Summer)
2016 Co-editor (w/ J. DelPlato). Orientalism, Eroticism & Modern Visuality in Global Cultures (Routledge).
2012 Paperback ed., The Victorian Artist: Artists' Life Writing in Britain (Cambridge UP; orig. pub. cloth 2003)
2012 Editor, Transculturation in British Art, 1770–1930 (Aldershot: Ashgate).
2012 Editor. Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Durbars (Ahmedabad: Mapin).
2011 Guest Editor, Special Issue of Visual Resources, 27/1 (March), vol. 2 on collecting and iconography.
2010 Guest Editor, Special Issue of Visual Resources, 26/3 (Sept), vol. 1 on the art press and photography.
2008 Editor, The Political Economy of Art (NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson U P/Associated University Presses).
2007 Editor, Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema (Oxford: Blackwell's).
2004 Co-editor (with L. Brake). Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers (London: Palgrave).
2004 Guest Editor. The 19th-Century Press in India. Special issue, Victorian Periodicals Review, v. 37 (Summer).
2003 The Victorian Artist: Artists’ Lifewritings in Britain, ca. 1870-1910 (Cambridge U P).
2003 Editor. Imperial Co-Histories (NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson U P/Associated University Presses).
1998 Co-editor (with D. S. Macleod). Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture
(Aldershot: Ashgate).
1991 Guest Editor. "Victorian Art and the Press." Two special issues, Victorian Periodicals Review, 24 (Sum & Fall).
1988 Images of an Idyllic Past: Photographs of Edward S. Curtis. Exhibition Catalogue (Miles City, MT). Venues MT, Texas, Nevada.
Chapters in books
2020 “The Relativity of the Past: Pre-Raphaelite New Histories of British Culture,” Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century: Historicism, Postmodernism, and Internationalism. ed. Matthew Potter (London: Routledge), in press.
2020 "Convergences: Art History, Museums and Scholar-Agent Martin Birnbaum's Transatlantic Art for the Public," Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Modern Europe, eds. Susan Bracken and Adriana Turpin (Bloomsbury), 316-27.
2019 “Orientalism in Art,” A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art. Ed. M. Facos (Wiley-Blackwell), 121-38.
2019 "William Morris and the Intersection of the Histories of Design and Art," Teaching William Morris, eds. Elizabeth Miller and Jason Martinek (Fairleidgh Dickinson UP, 2018), 235-48.
2018 Co-authored, "Introduction: Replication in the Long 19th Century-Re-makings and Reproductions," Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century: Re-makings and Reproductions (U of Edinburgh Press), 1-20.
2018 "Transatlantic Autograph Replicas and the Uplifting of American Culture," Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century: Re-makings and Reproductions (University of Edinburgh Press), 46-66.
2017 "Dress and Desire: Rossetti's Erotics of the Unclassifiable and Working-Class Models," Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925, ed. J. De Young (London: I. B. Tauris), 91-119.
2016 "Going Native/Going British: Victorian Mimesis, Alterity and Repetition," Civilization and Nineteenth-Century Art: A European Concept in a Global Context, ed. David O'Brien (Manchester UP), 178-202.
2016 "Art Periodicals," The Routledge Handbook to 19th-C. British Periodicals and Newspapers, eds. King, Easley and Morton (London: Routledge), 377-89.
2016 "Nationalizing Abject American Artists: Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner & Jean-Michel Basquiat," Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity, eds. Epstein and Palmer (SUNY Press), 161-80.
2016 "Victorian Artists' Autobiographies: Transgression, Res Gestae, and the Collective Life," A History of English Autobiography, ed. Adam Smyth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 221-36.
2016 "The Conceit of Burton's Scar: Orientalism as Identity and Transgression," Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures, eds. Julie Codell and Joan DelPlato. Ashgate/T&F, 115-40.
2014 "The Art Collection and Museum of Baroda," Jews and the Indian National Art Project, eds. K. Robbins and M. Tokayer (New Delhi: Niyogi), 37-58.
2014 "Artistic," Blackwell Companion to Victorian Literature & Culture, ed. Tucker. 2nd ed. (London: Blackwell), 284-98.
2014 "Exotic, Fetish, Virtual: Visual Excesses in Victorian Painting," Uses of Excess, ed. Skelly (Ashgate), 89-109.
2013 "International Exhibitions: Linking Culture, Commerce, and Nation," A Companion to British Art and Architecture. Eds. Arnold and Peters Corbett (London: Blackwell’s), 220-40.
2013 "Displaying Aestheticism’s Bric-a-Brac: Rossetti’s Material and Virtual Goods," Palaces of Art: Whistler & the Art Worlds of Aestheticism, eds. L. Glazer and L. Merrill (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution), 119-31.
2013 "Gender, Genius and Abjection in Artist Biopics," The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture. Eds. T. Brown & B. Vidal (London: Routledge), 159-75.
2012 "The Art of Transculturation," Transculturation in British Art, 1770–1930, ed. Codell (Ashgate), 1-17.
2012 "Photographic Interventions and Identities: Colonising and Decolonising the Royal Body," Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Durbars. Ed. Codell (Ahmedabad: Mapin), 110-39.
2012 "Photography and the Delhi Coronation Durbars: 1877, 1903, 1911," Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Durbars, ed. Codell (Ahmadabad: Mapin), 16-43.
2011 "Blackface, Faciality and Colony Nostalgia in 1930s Empire Films," Postcolonial Cinema Studies. Eds. Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller (London: Routledge), 32-46.
2011 "Domesticating Empire," Empire & Film, eds. Grieveson & MacCabe (London: Palgrave Macmillan), 189-203.
2011 "The Art Press and the Art Market: The Artist as 'Economic Man,'" The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London, 1850–1939. Eds A. Helmreich and P. Fletcher (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 128-50.
2010 "The Ideological Adventure of The Man Who Would Be King," John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director. Eds. Tony Tracy and and Roddy Flynn (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press), 33-46.
2010 "The Sacred Celebrity Body: Swami Vivekananda’s American Tours," Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Power & Representation in Colonial & Postcolonial Cultures. Ed. R. Clarke (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars), 55-72.
2009 "From Rebels to Representatives: Masculinity, Modernity and National Identity in Histories of Pre-Raphaelitism," Writing the Pre-Raphaelites, eds. Barringer & Giebelhausen (Aldershot:Ashgate), 53-79.
2009 "Vulgar India From Nabobs to Nationalism: Imperial Reversals and the Mediation of Art," Victorian Vulgarity, eds. Michie and Bernstein (Aldershot: Ashgate), 223-39.
2009 "Alexander Somerville's Rise from Serfdom: Working-Class Self-Fashioning through Journalism, Auto-biography and Political Economy," The Making of the Working-Class Intellectual in 18th & 19th c. Britain. Ed A. Krishnamurthy (Aldershot: Ashgate), 195-218.
2009 "Indian Crafts and Imperial Policy: Hybridity, Purification and Imperial Subjectivities," Material Cultures, 1740-1920: The Meanings and Pleasures of Collecting. Eds. Myzelev & Potvin (Aldershot: Ashgate), 149-70.
2009 "Imperial Exchanges of Goods and National Identities: Victorian and Swadeshi Views of Crafts under the Raj," Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence. Ed. J. Anderson (Melbourne U P), 311-15.
2008 "Transposing Travel Narrative: Irony, Ethnography and the Guest Discourse in Indian Travel Writing," Before Windrush: Recovering a Black and Asian Literary Heritage within Britain. Eds. Rastogi and Stitt (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press), 88-116.
2008 "Painting Keats: Pre-Raphaelite Artists Between Social Transgressions and Painterly Conventions," in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Topics Volume, Ed K. Darrow, v. 196 (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning), 131-44. RPT from Victorian Poetry, v. 33, no. 3-4, autumn-winter, 1995, pp. 341-370.
2008 "From Culture To Cultural Capital: Victorian Artists, John Ruskin, and The Political Economy Of Art," The Political Economy of Art. Ed. J. Codell (NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP/Associated Univ. Presses), 27-39.
2008 "Life Writings as Cultural Contexts for Meanings of Art and Artist," Teaching Life Writing Texts. Eds. Howes and Fuchs in Modern Language Association Approaches to Teaching Series (NY: MLA), 161-70.
2007 "Imperial Masculinity, Mimicry and the New Woman in Rhodes of Africa," Art and the British Empire. Eds. Barringer, Fordham, and Quilley (Manchester U P), 254-66.
2006 "Excursive Discursive in Gandhi's Autobiography: Undressing and Redressing the Transnational Self," Life Writing and Victorian Culture. Ed. D. Amigoni (Aldershot: Ashgate), 166-95.
2004 "Gentlemen Connoisseurs & Capitalists: Modern British Imperial Identity in the 1903 Delhi Durbar Exhibition of Indian Art," Cultural Identities and the Aesthetics of Britishness. Ed. D. Arnold (Manchester U P), 134-63.
2004 "Islam, Women, and Imperial Administration," Encounters in the Victorian Press. Eds. L. Brake and J. Codell (London: Palgrave Macmillan), 195-212. Co-authored introduction, "Encountering the Press," 1-7.
2004 "British and Indian Imperial Identities in the 1903 Delhi Coronation Durbar's Exhibition of Indian Art," Revisiting the Raj. Eds. Jharna Sanyal and Krishna Sen (Kolkata/Calcutta: Dasgupta and Co.), 139-76.
2003 "Introduction: Imperial Co-Histories" and "The Empire Writes Back: Native Informant Discourse in the Victorian Press," Imperial Co-Histories. Ed. Codell (Fairleigh Dickinson U P), 15-26; 188-218.
2001 "Empiricism, Naturalism & Science in Millais's Paintings," John Everett Millais. Ed. Mancoff (Yale), 119-47.
2000 "Victorian Artists' Family Biographies," Biographical Passages. Eds. Hughes & Law (U of Missouri), 65-108.
1998 "Resistance and Performance: Native Informant Discourse in Biographies of Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda," Orientalism Transposed. Eds. Codell & Macleod (Ashgate), 13-45.
1998 Co-authored with Dianne S. Macleod, "Transposing Orientalism: The 'Easternization' of Britain and Interventions in Colonial Discourse," Orientalism Transposed, 1-11.
1998 "Giotto's Peruzzi Chapel Frescoes," Giotto, Master Painter and Architect. Ed. A. Ladis (NY: Garland), 149-77. RPT: from Renaissance Quarterly, 41 (1988), 583-613.
1997 "Charles Fairfax Murray and the Pre-Raphaelite 'Academy'," Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites. Ed. M. F. Watson (Aldershot: Ashgate), 35-49.
1995 "The artist colonized: Holman Hunt's 'bio-history', masculinity, nationalism & the English school," Re-framing the Pre-Raphaelites. Ed. E. Harding (Aldershot: Scolar), 211-29.
1995 "Artists' Professional Societies: Production, Consumption and Aesthetics," Towards a Modern Art World. Ed. B. Allen (London: Yale U P), 169-87.
1992 "Decapitation and Deconstruction: The Body of the Hero in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac," The Arthurian Revival: Essays on Form, Tradition and Transformation. Ed. D. Mancoff (NY: Garland Press), 266-82.
Articles in Refereed Journals
2021 "Multiple Versions, Multiple Markets, Multiple Meanings: The Global Trade in British Autograph Replicas," Art History
44 (Summer), in press.
2020 "Empire and the 'Closed' Periodical: Aurobindo Ghosh and the Indian Press," Victorian Periodicals Review 53
(Summer), in press.
2018 "Dismantling the Canon: The Pre-Raphaelite List of Immortals," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies ns 27 (spr), 1-17.
2018 "Introduction: Domesticity, Culture and the Victorian Press," Victorian Periodicals Review51.2 (Sum), 1-21.
2017 "The Picturesque, Portraiture, and the Manor House: The Social Functions of Art in Mary Augusta Ward’s Marcella," Victorian Literature and Culture 45.4, 857-80.
2015 "From English School to British School: Modernism, Revisionism and National Culture in the Writings of M. H. Spielmann," Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, www.19thc-artworldwide.org (Summer).
2012 "Victorian Portraits: Re-Tailoring Identities," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 34/5 (Fall), 493-516.
2011 "Nationalizing Abject American Artists," a/b: Auto/biography Studies 26/1(Dec), 118-37.
2011 "The Art Press and Its Parodies: Unraveling Networks in Swinburne’s 1868 Academy Notes," Victorian Periodicals Review, Special issue on networks, guest ed. Alexis Easley, 44/2 (Summer), 165-83.
2010 "The Recovery of William Holman Hunt," J of Pre-Raphaelite Studies ns 19 (Spring), 89-105.
2010 "'Second Hand Images': On Art's Surrogate Means and Media," Visual Resources, 26/3 (Sept), 214-25.
2009 "Decentering & Doubling Imperial Discourse in the British Press: D. Naoroji & M. M. Bhownaggree." Special issue, Media History, Print Culture & Imperialism, guest ed. C. Kaul, 15 (Fall), 371-84.
2008 "Rethinking Pre-Raphaelitism—Global, Virtual, Modernist and Interdisciplinary Possibilities," Pre-Raphaelite Society of the US Newsletter #20 (Fall), 1-2.
2007 "Interdisciplinarity, Visual Culture and Victorian Art History," Victorian Review 33/1 (Spring), 14-17.
2007 "Reversing the Grand Tour: Guest Discourse in Indian Travel Narratives," The Huntington Library Quarterly, 70/1 (March), 173-89.
2006 "Imperial Differences and Culture Clashes in Victorian Periodicals' Visuals: The Case of Punch," Special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. Guest ed. T. Magnum, 39 (Winter), 410-28.
2006 "Playing Doctor: François Truffaut’s L'Enfant sauvage and the Auteur/Autobiographer as Impersonator," Autobiography and Film: Special Issue of Biography. Guest ed. Linda Rugg, v. 29 (Winter), 101-22.
2004 "Getting the Twain to Meet: Global Regionalism in East and West: A Monthly Review," The 19th c. Press in India: Special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. Guest ed. J. Codell, v. 37 (Summer), 214-32.
2004 "Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century News from India," The 19th-c. Press in India: Special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. Guest Ed. J. Codell, v. 37 (Summer), 106-23.
2003 "Ironies of Mimicry: The Art Collections of Sayaji Rao III Gaekwad, Maharajah of Baroda, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern India," Journal of the History of Collections, v. 15, 127-46.
2003 "Pre-Raphaelites in the Desert: The Special Collection at Arizona State University," The Pre-Raphaelite Society Newsletter, 3 (Spring), 1-2.
2002 "Visual Culture beyond Consumption & Finding Post-Colonial Victorians," J of Vict Culture, v. 7, 125-32.
2001 "Artists’ Biographies and the Anxieties of National Culture," Victorian Review v. 27, 1-35.
2000 "Constructing the Victorian Artist: National Identity, the Political Economy of Art, & Biographical Mania in the Periodical Press," Victorian Periodicals Review, v. 33, 283-316.
2000 "Righting the Victorian Artist: The Redgraves’ A Century of Painters of the English School and the Serialization of Art History," Oxford Art Journal, v. 23, 93-118.
2000 "Serialized Artists’ Biographies: A Culture Industry in Late Victorian England," Book History,v. 3, 94-124.
1998 "Ford Madox Brown, Carlyle, Macaulay, Bakhtin," Art History, v. 21, 324-66.
1996 "Public Images of Victorian Artists: Family Biographies," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, v. 5, 4-29.
1995 "Painting Keats: Pre-Raphaelite Artists Between Social Transgressions and Painterly Conventions," Victorian Poetry: Special issue on Word and Image. Guest Ed. D. Macleod, v. 33, 341-70.
1992 "Sentiment, the Highest Attribute of Art," Dickens Studies Annual v. 22, 233-52.
1991 "The Dilemma of the Artist in Millais's Lorenzo and Isabella," Art History, v. 14, 51-66.
1991 "The Aura of Mechanical Reproduction: Victorian Art and the Press," Victorian Periodicals Rev, v. 24, 4-10.
1991 "High and Low Seriousness: Humor Against the Avant-Garde in Victorian Art Periodicals," Beloit College Museum's Occasional Papers, v. 1, 19-28.
1990 "Fine Arts Quarterly Rev & Artpolitics of the 1860s," Victorian Periodicals Rev, v. 23, 91-97.
1989 "Horne's Botticelli: Pre-Raphaelite Modernity, Historiography and the Aesthetic of Intensity," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Studies, v. 2, 27-41.
1989 " ‘The Artist's Cause at Heart’: Marion Harry Spielmann and the Late Victorian Art World," Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, v. 71, 139-63.
1989 "M. H. Spielmann & the Press in the Professionalization of Artists," Victorian Periodicals Rev, v. 22, 7-15.
1989 "Murphy's Law, Robocop's Body, Capitalism's Work," Jump Cut, A Rev of Contemporary Media v. 34, 12-19.
1988 "Giotto's Peruzzi Chapel Frescoes: Wealth, Patronage, and the Earthly City," Renaissance Quarterly, v. 41, 583-613. Winner, Nelson Award for best manuscript, 1986.
1988 "Sir Isumbras, M.P.: Millais's Painting & Political Cartoons," J of Popular Culture, v. 22, 29-48.
1987 "Moderate Praise: Art Criticism of The Portfolio," Victorian Periodicals Rev, v. 20, 83-93.
1987 "William Cave Thomas," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, v. 7, 25-40.
1987 "After the Fall: New Domesticity in Works of N. Erickson," Surface Design J, v. 11, 26-31.
1986 "Expression Over Beauty: Facial Expression, Body Language and Circumstantiality in the Paintings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood," Victorian Studies, v. 29, 255-90.
1983 "The Century Guild Hobby Horse: 1886-94," Victorian Periodicals Rev, v. 16, 43-52.
1981 "Women's Art and Art History: Challenging the Great Tradition," Giltedge, v. 2, 90-94.