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Dr. Stephanie O’Rourke is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on 18th- and 19th-century European visual culture, particularly intersections with scientific knowledge, spectatorship, media technologies, and environmental themes like climate, pollution, and resource extraction. She explores how artists depicted landscapes within global extractive networks and colonial contexts.
Her work includes a forthcoming book, Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction (University of Chicago Press, 2025), and her prize-winning first book, Art, Science and the Body in Early Romanticism (Cambridge University Press). She organizes conferences (e.g., ‘Painting in Steam: Pollution, Climate, and Combustion in British Art’, 2024) and hosts podcast series like Enlightenment Rocks and Ireland’s Landscape Histories and Futures.
Her articles analyze artists such as John Martin, Caspar David Friedrich, and Girodet, linking art to themes like industrialization, deep time, and scientific discourse. She collaborates with contemporary artists addressing energy, geology, and natural phenomena.
