Dr Lydia Hamlett
Murray Edwards has a wonderful atmosphere, intellectually, socially and artistically: its collection of art by female artists is unrivalled and displayed on every wall!
Degrees and honours
BA, PhD
Biography
Dr Lydia Hamlett is Associate Professor at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.
Before coming to the Institute of Continuing Education, Lydia was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of History of Art at Cambridge. She was Programme Curator for the University of Cambridge Museums, when she co-curated 'Discoveries: Art, Science and Exploration' (2014), and a post-doctoral researcher on 'Court, Country, City: British Art 1660-1735' (AHRC), based at the University of York and Tate, where she curated 'Sketches for Spaces: History Painting and Architecture 1630–1730' (2013-14). Before this, she was on the research team for 'The Art of the Sublime' at Tate (AHRC). Lydia was a curator at the National Trust from 2008-9, and also at The Fitzwilliam Museum where she worked on exhibitions including 'From Reason to Revolution: Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain' (2008) and 'Paul Mellon: A Cambridge Tribute' (2008). She has taught History of Art at Cambridge since 2003.
Research Interests
Current research interests in British visual culture, classical reception, gender and patronage.