Dr Emma Merkling

I am an art historian working on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art and history of science. My focus is on women artists, alternative science, spiritualism, and occultism. I am a 2023/24 Wallace Fellow at I Tatti, Harvard University; and Deputy Associate Director of Research at Durham University’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International.

You can find Drawing Blood, my podcast about visual culture, the history of science and medicine, and the macabre, in all the usual places.

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