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Prof Linda Goddard

Director of Research

Professor

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2408

Email

ljg21@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Linda Goddard is a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French art and literature, and artists’ 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 ����logo 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 2019–2022 she was Head of the School of Art History at St ����logo.

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 “Women Artists and Life Writing around 1900” in Amsterdam as the 2025 Van Gogh Museum Visiting Fellow.

Her most recent book,  (Yale University Press, 2019) is the first book-length analysis of the artist’s wide-ranging literary output. Her first book,  (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’ writings:  (Word & Image), including her essay, “Artists’ Writings: word or image?” and (with Natalie Adamson)  (Forum for Modern Language Studies), both 2012.  

At St ����logo she teaches undergraduate modules including “Women Artists and Autobiography” and “Symbolism, Decadence and Modernity” and co-teaches the postgraduate modules “The Image of the Artist” and “Writing on the Visual”.

She welcomes enquiries from potential PhD students with interests in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art – particularly its intersections with literature – women artists and artists' writings.

Recently completed PhD students

Eunjee Lee (co-supervised with Jeremy Howard), ‘“When East meets West”: Emil Orlik, Helen Hyde, Elizabeth Keith, and Western printmakers in East Asia in the early twentieth century”

Maria Golovteeva, 'Fernand Khnopff: Art and Photography in the Nineteenth Century'

PhD supervision

• Megan True
• Matthew Yeats

Selected publications

• Goddard, L., 31 Aug 2026, La Piccioletta Barca, Online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Goddard, L., 1 Oct 2024, PN Review, 51, 1, p. 7-8.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Goddard, L., 3 Oct 2024, Gauguin – unexpected. Benesch, E. (ed.). Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, p. 34–39

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Goddard, L. J., 1 Apr 2023, Paul Gauguin: the other and I. Pedrosa, A., Oliva, F. & Cosendey, L. (eds.). São Paulo: Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, p. 173-193 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 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 › Chapter

• Goddard, L. J., 2019, Gauguin: Portraits. Homburg, C. (ed.). Yale University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Goddard, L., 24 Sept 2019, London: Yale University Press. 208 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• 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 › Chapter

• 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 › Chapter

• Goddard, L. J., May 2016, In: H-France. 16, 59

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review