Peripheral Horizons: Reinterpreting Orientalist visual culture through a comparative study of women's Orientalism in Australia, the USA and Europe, 1855-1914

我的项目将通过比较研究19世纪末和20世纪初澳大利亚、美国、英国和欧洲大陆对中东的艺术反应，为了解澳大利亚在世界上的地位做出重要贡献。现在比以往任何时候都更迫切需要了解这一历史背景，以了解澳大利亚对中东的文化看法。这个项目是此类比较艺术史研究的第一个项目，也将对我们理解澳大利亚在这一地区的做法与其西方盟友的相似和不同之处做出重要贡献。

My project will make a crucial contribution to understanding Australia's place in the world through a comparative study of artistic responses to the Middle East in Australia, the USA, Britain and continental Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Now more than ever is there an urgent need for an understanding of this historical context for Australia's cultural perceptions of the Middle East. This project, which is the first comparative art historical study of its kind, will also make a vital contribution to our understanding of the similarities and differences between Australia's approach to this region and that of her western allies.