Hannah Halliwell
Affiliation
Biography
I am a lecturer in nineteenth-century French art history, with a focus on representations of the female body, visualisations of addiction and alcohol/drug use, and the relationship between visual culture and the medical sector. I have presented my research to public and academic audiences around the world - across the UK, in the USA and in China. My most recent publication, out in January 2024, is my first monograph: Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870-1914 (McGill-Queen's University Press). My ongoing and future research continues to explore bodies, addiction, recreational and medical drug use, and feminism.
I am an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). I also hold the position of Reviews Editor for the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs journal (University of Chicago Press).
I have worked previously as a lecturer in art history and visual culture at the University of Exeter and held art history teaching fellow positions here at ECA at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Birmingham.
I graduated with a PhD in Art History in 2021 from the University of Birmingham. My PhD was funded by Midlands4Cities (AHRC DTP) and the Haywood Fellowship. I completed my Art History BA and MA also at the University of Birmingham. Before university, I attended a state school in Derby. I applied to study art history at university on a whim, having little idea of what it was ... and now, here I am!
Research Interests
- Nineteenth-Century Art
- French Art
- Medical Visual Culture
- Drugs and Addiction
- The Body/Nude
Current Project
My research looks at the gendering of addiction to drugs and alcohol in French visual culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, with a specific focus on the feminisation of drug use(rs) and the impact of feminism.
Publications
Book: Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870-1914 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024).