Suzanne Bailey, Trent University
"Galton's Composites, Victorian Scientific Photography, and the Decomposition of the Real"
Friday, May 3
1:00 pm
HC 2-15
Suzanne Bailey will present a version of her work on Galton's composite photography, placing this material in the context of contemporary medical imaging as well as developments in Victorian scientific photography. The lecture will link Galton's decomposition of the human face to other modes of decomposing the body in scientific discourse and will argue for these developments as one source for modernist experiments with the human form.
Dr. Bailey is Associate Professor of English at Trent University. She is the author of Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning's Poetry (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of P.K. Page's Brazilian Journal (Porcupine's quill, 2011), in addition to dozens of articles and talks on Victorian literature and science.