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Yale in London
Yale in London continues to offer rich and varied courses taught by distinguished academics from Yale, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and from around the United Kingdom. The programme has continued to accept applications from Yale’s sister campus, Yale-NUS (National University of Singapore).
Spring Term
There were six students enrolled in the Spring term, two from Yale-NUS and four from Yale. They were housed in flats near Euston. Four courses were taught during the Spring term: British Art and Landscape by Martin Postle, Deputy Director for Collections and Publications at the Paul Mellon Centre; Chaucer and Medieval London and Medieval Biography by Ardis Butterfield, Yale University; and Modern British Drama by Sheila Fox, freelance critic and BBC producer. The Spring term also saw the students participate in a wide variety of activities and trips, including visiting key London destinations as part of their studies. As a component of the British Art and Landscape course, they visited various locations in Wales, such as Mount Snowdon, Cader Idris and Tintern Abbey. The students also saw many performances as part of the course on British drama, including War Horse (National Theatre), Hangmen (Wyndhams), Uncle Vanya (Almeida), and many other dynamic shows.
Summer Session One
There were twelve students enrolled in Summer Session One. They were housed in flats in Clerkenwell. During this session the students undertook two courses. Victorian Fiction was taught by Andrew Sanders, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Durham University. A course called Looking at Multicultural London: Ethnographies and Archives was supposed to have been taught this summer by Jafari Allen. However, due to unforeseen circumstances this course could not be offered, and in its place Modern British Drama was taught by Sheila Fox. Victorian Fiction focused on key works of fiction that shed light on life and culture during the Victorian period. The course included works by the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Bram Stoker. The students visited Castle Howard and Scarborough in order to inform their reading of
Dracula. They also saw many performances as part of the course on British drama, including Threepenny Opera (National Theatre), People Places Things (Wyndhams), Wild (Hampstead Theatre), and various other shows.
Summer Session Two
There were ten students enrolled in Summer Session Two, and they were housed in flats on North Gower Street. During this session the students took two courses: Photography in Victorian Britain: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics by Sean Willcock, Yale in London Lecturer; and History of British Gardens, Landscape Parks, and Country House Architecture 1500–1750, taught by Bryan Fuermann, Yale School of Architecture.
Photography in Victorian Britain examined the creation and development of photography as an art form. As part of the course, the students visited relevant collections, archives and exhibitions in London, such as the Painted by Light exhibition at Tate Britain. They also went to the National Media Museum in Bradford. History of British Gardens was very much a site-based course with students being taught at various gardens both in and outside London. A residential trip was taken as part of this course and the students visited Oxford, Stowe, Rousham and Blenheim.
Publications July 2015–June 2016
George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
July 2015
July 2015
July 2015
August 2015
Elain Harwood
Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975
September 2015
David H. Solkin
Art in Britain 1660–1815
October 2015
British Silver: State Hermitage Museum Catalogue
November 2015
On Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence at the Stuart Court
January 2016
Edgar Peters Bowron
Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
February 2016
Eric Shanes
Young Mr Turner: The First Forty Years, 1775–1815
April 2016
Kathryn A. Morrison, John Cattell, Emily Cole, Nick Hill, Pete Smith
Apethorpe: The Story of an English Country House
May 2016
Susan Rather
The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era
February 2016
Linda Gertner Zatlin
Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné
April 2016
Mark Hallett, Nigel Llewellyn, Martin Myrone
Court, Country, City: British Art and Architecture, 1660–1735
May 2016
Patricia McCarthy
Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland
May 2016
