Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Research Interests:
Art and the sacred / devotional art, esp. in late 16thC-18thC
empire, colonialism and art
Thinking and writing architectural history in non-conventional ways
Baroque art
Baroque Theory
Architectural Theory
gender sexuality art and architecture
materiality, art, redemption
silver & trauma
17thC Italian painting, sculpture, architecture, urbanism
Early modern silver
Co-supervision of PhD students outside York:
I co-supervised with Dr Ben Quash (Kings London) Josephine Niall's PhD on 'Visual Apophaticism and its Visual Implications'. April 2012-2018. PhD awarded.
External positions
Editorial Board, Open University
2005 → …
Keywords
- NA Architecture
- theory
- writing architectural history in non-conventional ways
- film & architecture
- gender and architecture
- baroque
- religious devotion & architecture
- social class, gender & architecture, esp. in relation to religious questions
- excess
- ornament & decoration
- southern Italian baroque architecture
- relics and architecture
- urbanism
- materiality
- spirituality
- silver
- colonialism and culture
- empire and art
- early modern capitalism
- NB Sculpture
- sculpture
- painting
- architecture
- dress
- ND Painting
- NK Decorative arts Applied arts Decoration and ornament
- NX Arts in general
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Nomadic Silver: Refinement, Transaction, Transformation
Hills, H., 16 Mar 2023, The Matter of Mimesis. Bol, M. & Spary, E. C. (eds.). Brill, p. 135–155 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Those who flee and those who see: Poussin’s drawing and withdrawing
Hills, H., 5 May 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Textual Practice . 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Colonial Materiality: silver's alchemy of trauma and salvation
Hills, H., 5 May 2022, In: MAVCOR JournalPublished by the Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University. 5, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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VQR: Valutazione della Qualita della Ricerca 2004-2010 GEV Area08
1/08/12 → …
Project: Other project › Consultancy (unpaid)
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The forms of holiness in Baroque Naples
12/01/09 → 11/04/09
Project: Research project (funded) › Research
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The Matter of Silver: Substance, Surface, Shimmer, Trauma
Helen Hills (Organiser), Allison Bigelow (Invited speaker), Thomas B. F. Cummins (Invited speaker), Kris Lane (Chair), Timothy Ingold (Invited speaker), Spike Bucklow (Invited speaker), Timothy Schroder (Chair), Jane Mangan (Invited speaker), Sergius Kodera (Invited speaker), Lisa Voigt (Chair), Elena Phipps (Invited speaker), Marlen Bidwell-Steiner (Invited speaker), Claire Farago (Chair), Wim Nys (Invited speaker), Michele A. Feder-Nadoff (Invited speaker) & Margaret Bolton (Invited speaker)
26 Jul 2021 → 28 Jul 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Symposium
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‘The Matter of Silver: Substance, Surface, Shimmer, Trauma’,
Helen Hills (Advisor)
24 Jul 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Symposium
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Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme (External organisation)
Helen Hills (Advisor)
2020Activity: Membership › Council
Prizes
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Millard Meiss Publication Award for The Matter of Miracles
Hills, Helen (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Scouloudi Historical Award publication grant £1,000 from the Scouldoudi Foundation in association with the Institute of Historical Research for The Matter of Miracles
Hills, Helen (Recipient), Jul 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best Book Prize, 2004, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (USA) awarded to Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents
Hills, Helen (Recipient), 2004
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)