Reimagining the Ballet des Porcelaines (The Teapot Prince) Contributors

Collaborators for this project:

 

 

Meredith Martin, Associate Professor of Art History at NYU

Meredith Martin

Associate Professor of Art History, New York University and the Institute of Fine Arts
 

Meredith Martin is associate professor of art history at NYU and the Institute of Fine Arts. A specialist in eighteenth-century French art and architecture, she is the author of Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie-Antoinette (Harvard University Press, 2011), and a co-author of The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Gallery Slavery in Louis XIV’s France (Getty Research Institute Publications, 2022); Meltdown: Picturing the World’s First Bubble Economy (Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2020), which accompanies an exhibition she co-curated at The New York Public Library; and Reimagining the Ballet des Porcelaines: A Tale of Magic, Desire, and Exotic Entanglement (Brepols, 2022). Martin is a founding editor of Journal18.

 
 
Phil Chan, co-founder of Final Bow for Yellow Face

Photo by Eli Schmidt

Phil Chan

Co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface

 
Phil Chan is a co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, and most recently served as the Director of Programming for IVY, connecting young professionals with leading American museums and performing arts institutions. He is a graduate of Carleton College and an alumnus of the Ailey School. As a writer, he served as the Executive Editor for FLATT Magazine and contributed to Dance Europe Magazine, Dance Magazine, Dance Business Weekly, and The Huffington Post. He was the founding General Manager of the Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival, and was the General Manager for Armitage Gone! Dance. He served multiple years on the National Endowment for the Arts dance panel and the Jadin Wong Award panel presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance. He serves on the International Council for the Parsons Dance Company, and the Advisory Board of Dance Magazine. He is the author of Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing between Intention and Impact, and was a 2020 New York Public Library Dance Research Fellow, and is ‘21/’22 “Citizen Artist” at Manhattan School of Music and Visiting Scholar at the A/P/A Institute at NYU.
 

 

Mia Jackson, Curator of Decorative Arts at Waddesdon Manor, smiling, wearing a turquoise cardigan.

Mia Jackson

Curator of Decorative Arts at Waddesdon Manor

Following a BA French and Philosophy at St Hilda’s College Oxford, Mia did a Masters in Eighteenth-Century French Decorative Arts at the Courtauld Institute in London, and a PhD at Queen Mary, University of London, entitled ‘André-Charles Boulle and Paper: Print and Drawing in the Workshop of an ébéniste du roi’. Before coming to Waddesdon, she worked at the British Museum, the Wallace Collection and English Heritage. She is on the committee of the French Porcelain Society.

 

 

Kate Tunstall, Professor of French at the University of Oxford

Kate Tunstall 

Professor of French, Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones Fellow in Modern Languages, Worcester College
Fine Art Organizing Tutor, Worcester College

Kate Tunstall is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College. She works on eighteenth-century French literature, with particular expertise in the work of Diderot and notably his writings on art. She is the author of Blindness and Enlightenment (2010) and the translator (with Caroline Warman) of Diderot's Le neveu de Rameau and (with Katie Scott) of Diderot's Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre. One of her current projects is entitled 'Diderot's Dressing Gowns'. She is General Editor of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JECS), and she served as Interim Provost of Worcester College between 2019 and 2021, overseeing the College's response to the global pandemic and the issues of educational inequality that it made all the more visible and crucial for an Oxford College to address.

 

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