Alex Round

Thesis title:

Sisters in Art: The Pre-Raphaelite Women�s Network

Research Area

Art History
Visual Arts

Publications

Book Chapters:

• (Forthcoming) ‘Unearthing the life and works of Rebecca Solomon (1832- 1886)’ in Forgotten Sisters: Overlooked Pre-Raphaelite Women

Essays:

'The Subversion of Pre-Raphaelite Gender in Rebecca Solomon’s The Governess’ (PRS, Summer 2021)
Rebecca Solomon: The Social Activist, Victorian Web (September 2021)
Rebecca Solomon: Gender and Class Prejudice, Victorian Web (September 2021)
‘Transcending Boundaries’: Rebecca Solomon and Racial Prejudice, Victorian Web (September 2021)
‘A Fluidity of Meaning’ – The Subversions of Pre-Raphaelite Gender in William Holman Hunt’s ‘The Awakening Conscience’ in The Victorianist (April, 2020)

Other Contributions:

Contributed an article on recent archival findings to the International Centre for Victorian Women Writer’s (ICVWW) newsletter (September 2022).
Contributed an entry on Rebecca Solomon for Professor Lindsay Katzir’s Victorian Jewish Writers Project (August 2022) https://victorianjewishwritersproject.org/

Reviewing and Peer-reviewing:

I am a regular peer-reviewer for the British Association for Victorian Studies and The Pre-Raphaelite Society’s Review.

A review of Azelina Flint’s Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti for the BAVS newsletter (March 2022)
A peer review of ‘Chronotopic Sub-Creation: Space and Time in Visual Works of Fantasy’ in Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research, Vol 2, Winter 2022.
A review of Anna Wooley’s The Poems of Elizabeth Siddal in Context for the Pre-Raphaelite Society Review (Autumn 2022).
A review of Glenda Youde and Robert Wilkes's Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Art, Poetry and Agency in Victorian Britain (Summer 2023)

Conferences

‘The Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite’ – Unearthing the life and works of Rebecca Solomon (1832-1886) for the ‘Inclusion and Exclusion’ conference, Victorian Popular Fictions Association (July 2021)
‘Sisters in Art’ – The Pre-Raphaelite Women’s Network for the ‘Communities, Relationships and Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century’, LNCSSGS (30^th April 2022)
‘Sisters in Art’ – The Pre-Raphaelite Women’s Network for the ‘Political Bodies: Silent and the Voiceless’, The University of Worcester (4^th May 2022)
‘Transcending Boundaries’: Race and ethnicity in Rebecca Solomon's ‘The Young Teacher’ for BAVS 2022 (1-3 September 2022)
'Sisters in Art' – Reassessing the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood for the Twentieth Annual AHNCA/Dahesh Museum Graduate Symposium in Nineteenth Century Literature in New York. (25-26^th March 2023)
'Epistolary Sisterhoods and Communities in Bessie Parkes's Summer Sketches (1854)', for the 'hidden Histories/Recovered Stories' conference, Victorian Popular Fictions Association (July 2023)

Public Engagement & Impact

I am a trustee of the Birmingham & Midland Institute, where I have helped facilitate partnerships between the BMI and the education community. I am also a member of the Library committee and the Community engagement committee.

I was a regular contributor to the CLiC Fiction series in association with the BMI and the University of Birmingham. My articles are titled:

‘CLiC as a virtual teaching resource: Exploring the paradoxical role of women in the 19^th century’, CLiC Fiction, University of Birmingham: CLiC Fiction Blog. (July 2020)

‘Using CLiC and the BMI resources: Restrictions of passion and effects of convention in Hard Times’, CLiC Fiction, University of Birmingham: CLiC Fiction Blog (July 2020).

I featured as a guest blog speaker for the BCU ADM alumni blog. I also featured as the guest interviewee for the International Centre for Victorian Women Writer’s newsletter (May 2022).

I am co-creator of the first Pre-Raphaelite podcast in association with the Pre-Raphaelite Society, inviting guest speakers to come in to discuss members of the PRB, their works, upcoming exhibitions and events and anything else concerning Pre-Raphaelitism.

As of 2022, I am a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Society’s Graduate Network.

The winner and recipient of the $1000 Dahesh Museum Art Prize for 'Best Paper', after presenting my research at the AHNCA/Dahesh Museum's 15th Annual Graduate Symposium (25-26th March 2023).

Other Research Interests

Poetry and prose of the Long Nineteenth-Century

Psychology and Literature

The Gothic

Memberships

Trustee of the Birmingham and Midland Institute

I belong to a number of societies, including AHNCA (Association of Historians of Nineteenth Century Art), The Birmingham and Midland Institute, The Pre-Raphaelite Society, The British Association of Victorian Studies and the Victorian Popular Fictions Association, all which I am a member of.