Ariel Kline specializes in modern art in Britain and the United States. Her work examines the relationship between art and the ideologies that subtend imperial power, attending in particular to how paintings mediate systems-based and materialist histories of global relations in the nineteenth century. Her book manuscript, Of Monsters and Mirrors: Art and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain, argues that paintings of monsters generated monstrous doubles, which made visible the contradictions and instabilities of British imperial ideology. Other interests include queer historicism, Aestheticism, and Zionism and anti-Zionism in British and American art.
She received her PhD from Princeton University and MA from Williams College. Before joining the faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at Georgetown, she taught courses at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University. Her work has been published in British Art Studies and The Art Bulletin and has been supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and the Clark Art Institute.
contact: ariel.kline@georgetown.edu
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Professor, College - Department of Art & Art History