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Stephanie O'Rourke is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews, affiliated with the School of Art History and multiple interdisciplinary centers including the St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity and the Centre for Energy Ethics. Her research focuses on European art from the 18th to 19th centuries, emphasizing connections between artistic production and resource extraction, scientific knowledge, and media technologies. Notable works include her forthcoming book Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction (2025) and her award-winning first book Art, Science and the Body in Early Romanticism (Cambridge UP, 2021), which won the BARS First Book Prize.
Education: BA from Harvard University (2008), PhD from Columbia University (2016). Her research has been supported by grants from the Leverhulme Trust, the Social Science Research Council, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She collaborates with artists, curators, and geologists to explore contemporary visualizations of extractive processes.
Recent publications analyze topics such as landscape painting’s portrayal of industrialization, Caspar David Friedrich’s engagement with deep time, and race/gender in Enlightenment knowledge systems. Awards include the Saltire Early Career Fellowship (2022) and the Richard Stein Article Prize (2020). She is currently an invited professor at the Sorbonne (2024) and serves on the editorial board of Journal18.
