Bénédicte Myamoto - Visiting Research Fellow 2024-2025


Assistant Professor in British Studies
benedicte.miyamoto@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
Research | Bio | Medias | Publications | Articles
Research
Research themes
- British Early modern and modern studies
- Material culture
- Circulation of knowledge
- Book History
- Art Market Studies
Current Project
- Drawing and Painting manuals
- Mapping the 18thc. London Art World
- Artistic pedagogies
- Print and Manuscript knowledge
- Cultural Market and the Law
Bio
- 2022: Resident Scholar at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology
- 2019: Folger Shakespeare Library Short-term Fellow
- 2012 – , Associate Professor, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
- 2011, Ph.D., Université Paris Diderot. Dissertation Title: «A Pretty General Taste for Pictures: The Construction of Artistic Value in Eighteenth-Century London, 1685-1805»
- 2000-2005, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Media
Publications
Articles
Selected Publications
- Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688 – 1832, dirigé par Louisiane Ferlier et Bénédicte Miyamoto. Library of the Written Word – The Handpress World (Leiden: Brill, 2020) https://brill.com/view/title/57908
- « Colour-Coded Manuscript Maps in the Military Enlightenment: The Circulation of Map-mindedness », XVII-XVIII, 78, 2021. doi:10.4000/1718.8039. ⟨hal-03818587⟩
- « Introduction. Hidden Figures: Agents of the Eighteenth-century Art Market » in Art Markets, Agents, and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Europe and the USA, 1550-1950 dirigé par Adriana Turpin et Susan Bracken, (London : Bloomsbury, 2021). 87-101. ⟨hal-03818032⟩
- « The Influence of Drawing Manuals on the British Practice and Reception of Fancy Pictures » in Fancy in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture, dirigé par Melissa Percival et Muriel Adrien, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020), 87-104. ⟨hal-03818011⟩
- « Directions to Know a Good Picture: Marketing National School Categories to the British Public in the Long Eighteenth Century » in Art Crossing Borders: The International Art Market in the Age of Nation States, 1760-1914 dirigé par Jan Dirk Baetens et Dries Lyna, Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 64-98. ⟨hal-03817947⟩