
Julia Lum,
Assistant Professor of Art History; Interim Chair, Art Conservation
Art History
Academic History
Ph.D., Art History, Yale University M.A., Art History, Carleton University B.A., Art History, English Literature, University of British Columbia
Academic Focus
British art; landscape; photography; visual and material histories of empire; Pacific art
Interests
Art and visual culture of the eighteenth century to present in Britain and the (former) British empire, with an emphasis on cross-cultural exchange and entanglement in Oceania and North America. Current research centers on landscapes at the intersection of Indigenous and colonial cultural practices.
Courses Taught
- Art & the British Empire
- Art of the Pacific Voyage
- History of Photography
- Core III: Photography and the Archive
Work
- “Our Transporting Antipodes’: Panoramic Views of Australia and the Works of Augustus Earle,” in On the Viewing Platform: the Panorama Between Canvas and Screen, ed. Tim Barringer, Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 120-140.
- Co-authored with Gabrielle Moser, "The Invisible and Inalienable Wind," in "The Arts, Environmental Justice, and the Ecological Crisis", British Art Studies, Issue 18.
- Co-authored with Kailani Polzak, “The Time of Captain Cook: A Conversation,” Journal18 (April 2020).
- Co-authored with Kaitlin McCormick and Gerald McMaster, “The Entangled Gaze: Indigenous and European Views of Each Other.” Editors' Introduction to ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples’ Cultures 2:3 (2018), 125-140 (Special Issue on The Entangled Gaze, co-edited with Gerald McMaster).
- “Fire-stick Picturesque: Landscape Art in Early Colonial Tasmania,” British Art Studies 10 (2018)
- “Familial Looking: Chinese Canadian Vernacular Photography of the Exclusion Period (1923–1967),” Visual Studies 32:2 (2017), 111-123.
- “Iqaipaa / I Remember: Spatial and Temporal Constructions of Identity in the Museum,” SHIFT / Journal of Visual and Material Culture 1 (2008)
Awards and Honors
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2018-19
- Theron Rockwell Field Prize, Yale University, 2018
- Frances Blanshard Prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of the History of Art, Yale University, 2018
- Junior Fellowship, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2017
- Predoctoral Fellow, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (Annual Scholar Theme: “Art and Anthropology”), 2016–17
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, 2011-2015