Curriculum Vitae
Katrina-Eve Nasidlowski Manica
Education
University of York
Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art, Viva February 2022. Pass, no corrections.
Embodied Beauty: Making Intersectional Meanings in Imperial Aestheticism, 1857-1900
Supervisor: Dr. Jason Edwards
Specialties
1. Nineteenth-century Aestheticism
2. Material and Visual Culture of the British Empire
3. Global/Cosmopolitan Networks of Trade/Trafficking (human trafficking, material cultures, resource extraction/exploitation) in British context
University College London
Master of Art. History of Art. September 2014.
Supervisor: Dr. Natasha Eaton
Queen’s University
Master of Arts. History. September 2013.
Supervisor: Dr. Harold Mah
Queen’s University
Bachelor of Arts (Honours). History (Major) and Art History (Minor). June 2012.
Professional Appointments
Arts and Science Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, 2023-2025
Toronto Urban Fellow, City of Toronto, 2022-2023
Teaching
University of York, Department of History of Art
➣ HOA00008C — The Art of Describing (Course Instructor), Section 1, 2018-2019
➣ HOA00008C — The Art of Describing (Course Instructor), Section 2, 2018-2019
JAYA International High School
➣ Grade 10 English (Course Instructor), 2015-2016
➣ Grade 10 English as an Additional Language (Course Instructor), 2015-2016
Queen’s University
Department of History: Teaching Assistant, September 2012-2013
➣ The Holocaust (Teaching Assistant) 2012-2013
➣ Cultural History of Modern France (Teaching Assistant) 2013
Writing Centre
➣ Tutor, 2012-2013
Publications
➣ Refereed Contributions
BOOKS
Manica, Katrina-Eve N. Embodied Beauty: Imperialism, Settler-Colonialism, and Slavery in British Aestheticism, 1857-1900 (monograph in submission).
BOOK CHAPTERS
Manica, Katrina. “The Death of the Last Pharaoh: Classical Bodies Seen in Ancient Egypt,” (forthcoming).
ARTICLES
Manica, Katrina-Eve N. “Imperial Canada as Training Ground for an Empire,” Sculpture Journal 33 no.2 (Spring 2024): 169-191. https://doi.org/10.3828/sj.2024.33.2.04
Manica, Katrina-Eve N. “An Arab Room With a View: William Burges at Cardiff Castle”, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth-Century (Accepted: forthcoming 2025).
Manica, Katrina. “A Touch of Empire: Joseph E. Boehm’s Monument to Charles George Gordon (c.1887-1889).” The Journal of Victorian Culture (2022). https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcac028
SPECIAL EDITIONS
Manica, Katrina-Eve N. (ed.), Material Worlds: Transcultural Histories of Art and Material Cultures in, and Beyond, Empire(s) | Mondes matériels : Histoires transculturelles de l'art et des cultures matérielles dans, et au-delà, des empires, Special Edition, RACAR, 2027.
POLICY DOCUMENTS
Lead author, “City Planning’s Indigenous Engagement Staff Committee’s Summary Report,” City Planning, City of Toronto, 2023.
Author, “Towards Decolonizing the Parkland Strategy,” Parks, Forestry and Recreation, City of Toronto, 2023.
➣ Non-Refereed Contributions
BOOK REVIEWS
Manica, Katrina-Eve. “Review of Painting Antiquity: Ancient Egypt in the Art of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Poynter and Edwin Long by Stephanie Moser.” ASTENE (2020). >>https://static1.squarespace.com/static/602a846faeefe23588adeae1/t/60521ddc399dca3568650104/1615994333679/ASTENE_Bulletin_82-contents.pdf
Manica, Katrina-Eve. “Review of Elegant Bodies: Movement, Expression, and the Human Figure in Gothic Sculpture by Jacqueline E. Jung.” Aspectus (2020) >> www.doi.org/10.15124/xzky-y3722019
Manica, Katrina-Eve. “Review of Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c.1770-1830 by Ryan Hanley.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, Issue 4 (2019), 559-560. >> https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12637
Conferences
PANELS ORGANIZED
North American Conference on British Studies, Chicago, USA (2024)
Live, Look, Loot: British Cosmopolitan Identities and Material Culture
Universities Arts Association of Canada, London, Canada (2024)
”Living in a Material World”: Transcultural Histories of Art and Material Cultures in, and Beyond, Empire” | “Vivre dans un monde matériel”: Histoires transculturelles de l'art et des cultures matérielles dans, et au-delà, des empires
North American Conference on British Studies, Chicago, USA (2022)
Problematics of Philanthropy: Generous Objects/Subjects
PANELS CHAIRED
2024
Descent/Dissent, Eleventh Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, University of Toronto, Toronto
Protest through Humour and Joy
PAPERS GIVEN
2024
North American Conference on British Studies
“Concealed Weapons and Glissando Trumpets: Producing the Image of an Empire”
2023
Universities Art Association of Canada, Banff, Canada
“Monkeys in the Library: Pleasure in the Doorway at Cardiff Castle”
Burges & Friends, Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford, UK
“An Arab Room With A view: William Burges at Cardiff Castle”
Society of Architectural Historians, Montreal, Canada
“Queer Erotics on, and Beyond, Tite Street: Oscar Wilde’s Cosmopolitan Designs”
2022
Means and Materiality in the Zoom Age, Princeton University
“Embroidery Fans: Digital Engagement with Objects Meant to be Handled.”
North American Conference on British Studies, Chicago, USA
“Philanthropy at Home, Empire Abroad: The Curious Shift of Imperial Sculpture”
University Art Association of Canada, University of Toronto, Canada
“A Personal Prayer Lamp on Tite Street: Oscar Wilde’s Collections and Homi Bhabha’s Third Space”
2021
AAANZ Restless Objects and Collections in a Global Nineteenth Century, Postgraduate and Early Career Research Intensive, University of Sydney, Australia
“For Fans of Oscar Wilde: Sharing Indigenous Art as Aesthetic Practice”
Worlds of Faith: Sculpture and Faith at St Paul’s Cathedral, c. 1796-1916
“Monument to Major General Charles George Gordon: An Agent of Empires”
Eighth Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium: Matrix of Mobility: Networks of Objects and Exchange, U of T
“How to Catch a Parrot; or, Art in the Age of Imperialism(s)”
2020
Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars, University of Edinburgh, UK
“What does it mean to touch?: Inter-racial touch and the affect of imperial contact” (Paper accepted, cancelled due to Covid-19).
2019
Eastern Questions, Guildford, UK
“‘The Crystal Palace and the Grammar of Cleopatra’s Ornament”
Orientalism at 41, York, UK
“‘Istanbul was Constantinople/Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople’: Rethinking Edward Said’s Orientalism Forty-One Years Later”
ASTENE, York, UK
“Training Egypt and Artists: Owen Jones’s Ornament and the Aesthetic of Cleopatra”
2013
Intellectual History Graduate Conference, Ideas at Work, Aarhus, Denmark
“The British East India Company: From the Political Economy of the British Empire to the Reverse- Anthropomorphization of Tipu Sultan”
McGill-Queen’s Graduate History Conference, Kingston, Ontario
“Confronting Illiteracy: Rassundari Devi’s Devotional to Emancipation through the Act of Reading”
Conferences Convened
2021 — “Sensorial Fixations: Orality, Aurality, Opticality, and Hapticity” at the University of York, Department of History of Art.
2019 — “Afterlives” at the University of York, Department of History of Art.
Working Groups
➣ Critical Race Humanities: Nineteenth-Century Worlds
Founder, 2022-
➣ Decolonial Network at the University of York
Member, 2020-2022
Service to Profession
➣ Pro bono Writing Tutoring, 2020-2021
Pandemic relief effort.
➣ Graduate Teaching Assistant Representative, 2018-2019
Department of History of Art, University of York, UK (elected role).
➣ Volunteer Astene Conference, 2019.
Convened by Dr. Madeline Boden at York, UK.
➣ Volunteer Writing Tutor, 2012-2013
Queen’s University Writing Centre.
Public Workshop
“Femininity in Art” for Mary Doesn’t Just Wear Blue, York Explore Library, York, UK (2019)
Conducted research and produced educational material and activities for a public audience for community outreach at the public library which engaged them in discussions and visualizations of femininity historically, Black femininity and feminisms, femme culture, and transfemininity generally.
Used a fun, engaging, and professional style to encourage participates to be involved throughout the workshop, using popular culture references like Beyonce, Alok Vaid-Menon, and Janelle Monáe to make the workshop a space for positive discussions about notions of “femininity.”