Rosalind Hayes

Rosalind Hayes is a Career Development Fellow (classified as Research Fellow) at Durham University's School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Her interdisciplinary work critically examines the relationship between visual culture and animal history, focusing on animal materials in art and human-animal interactions from modernity to contemporary contexts. She investigates how the 'species divide' fundamentally shaped European modernity and Western knowledge production frameworks.

Her core research interests include:

• Visual Culture
• Animal History
• Art History
• Photography
• Print Culture
• Materiality and Media
• Animal-Derived Materials
• History and Theory of Meat Eating
• Modern British History

Dr. Hayes is currently completing her book Animals, Meat and Media in Victorian Art and Visual Culture, which argues that industrial meat production transformed 19th-century British image-making and circulation. This project analyzes works by Edwin Landseer and Thomas Sidney Cooper alongside pastoral photography and abattoir blueprints, contextualizing them within British imperial structures. Her methodology bridges art historical analysis with critical animal studies and media theory to expose how visual representations reinforced human-animal hierarchies during industrialization.