Isabella Galdone

Isabella Galdone studies nineteenth-century British art and material culture, focusing primarily on women makers associated with the Pre-Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts movements. Her dissertation project concerns the intersection of painting, needlework, and amateur science in the work of Rosa Brett, Elizabeth Siddall, and Joanna Mary Boyce. Her other areas of interest include gender and sartorial self-fashioning in Victorian Britain, nineteenth-century scrap albums and commonplace books, and relationships between painting and material culture in the early-modern Atlantic World. She holds a BA in Art History and French Studies from Smith College, and an MA in Art History from the University of York. At Yale, her dissertation research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the British Association for Victorian Studies, the Decorative Arts Trust, the Huntington Library, and the Yale MacMillan Center.