PUBLICATIONS // Dr Emma Merkling

• [in review] Emma Merkling, ‘The Sticky Sundew: Plant Carnivory and Queer Erotics’, in Sticky Films: Conceptual and Material Explorations, ed. by Kerim Doğruel, Fadekemi Olawoye, and Clara Podlesnigg (Lüneberg: meson press)

• [in press] Emma Merkling, Review of Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art: Scots, Spirits and Séances, 1860–1940, by Michelle Foot, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 87.4 (2024): 244–48
  

• [in press] Emma Merkling, ‘Living, “Quivering” Nudes: Annie Louisa Swynnerton (nee Robinson)’s Mater Triumphalis, 1892’, in Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920, ed. by Tabitha Barber (London: Tate Publishing)

• [in press] Emma Merkling, ‘Action, Ambition, Aestheticism: Evelyn De Morgan’s The Christian Martyr (Nauzarea), c. 1880–82’, in Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920, ed. by Tabitha Barber (London: Tate Publishing)

• Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling, ‘Queer Darwin, Plant-Human Entanglements, and Aestheticist Art’, in Queering Nature, special issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 63 (2024): 107–17

• Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling (eds), The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form (New York: Routledge, 2024)

• Emma Merkling, ‘Plant Subjects, Plant Erotics: Julia Margaret Cameron's Creeping Idyll’, in The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form, ed. by Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling (New York: Routledge, 2024), pp. 145–66
  

2023

• Emma Merkling, ‘Science, Spiritualism, Stereoscopy: The Spectacular Photographs of “Margery” Crandon’, Blog of the Institute for the Study of Science and Belief in Society

• Emma Merkling, ‘Physics, Psychical Research, and the Self: Evelyn De Morgan’s Spiritualist Portraits’, Art History 46.3 (2023): 458–83, DOI: 10.1111/1467-8365.12726

2022

• Emma Merkling, ‘“Symbols Bewitched”: Evelyn De Morgan’s Symbolic Logic’, in Evelyn and William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts and Crafts, ed. by Margaretta S. Frederick (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), pp. 129–39

2020

• Emma Merkling, ‘Eros, Thanatos, and the Throuple: Alfred Gilbert’s Mors Janua Vitae (1908)’, Gender and Sexuality Research Group Blog (The Courtauld Research Forum)

2019

• Emma Merkling, Review of Elizabeth Prettejohn. Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2017. 288 pp.; 130 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780300222753), caa reviews (2019). DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2019.129

• Emma Merkling, Review of ‘Annie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope,’ Manchester Art Gallery, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2019). DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.851
  

2018

• Emma Merkling, ‘The Sensate Body: Consciousness in Albert Moore’s Art’, immediations 4.3 (2018): 50-70