Sebastian Adam Marshall

Sebastian Adam Marshall

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  • KY16 9AL

    United Kingdom

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Research overview

My research brings together approaches from cultural geography, the history of art and archaeology, and classical reception to study the rich corpus of sources produced by European travellers to the Mediterranean in the long nineteenth century. Above all, I am interested in the ways that powerful touristic discourses which continue to romanticise countries like Greece can be traced back to these visual and textual accounts. With a particular focus on representations of landscapes, my work revisits travellers’ publications, archival papers, sketches, and photographs, to understand how their attempts to apprehend the Mediterranean past were mediated by the Mediterranean present.

My PhD approached this subject by exploring the depiction of Greece and Anatolia in British illustrated books between 1832 and 1882. At St Andrews, my Leverhulme Fellowship project asks what sources produced by outsiders to Greece tell us about human-nature relationships, in a time when ancient modes of land use and claims on the continuity of ‘ancient’ natural beauty came head-to-head with efforts to transform the country into a ‘developed’ European nation. The first part of this project examines the phenomenon of foreign residents who purchased estates in Greece in the 1830s, tracing their investment – fiscal and cultural – in these landscapes.

Academic/Professional Qualification

I graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge in 2018 with a degree in Classics, then pursued an MPhil where I specialised in classical reception in British art. Following a year working in London as an art market researcher, I returned to Cambridge to undertake a PhD supervised between the Faculty of Classics and Art History Department. Since completing my PhD in 2024, I spent 4 months at the British School at Athens as a recipient of the Cary Studentship, then 5 months at the School of Advanced Study in London as the inaugural William St Clair Fellow. In January 2025 I began a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at St Andrews held between the Schools of Classics and Art History.

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, Beyond the Classical Landscape: Representing Greece and Anatolia in British Illustrated Books, 1832-1882, University of Cambridge

1 Oct 20206 Jun 2024

Award Date: 19 Jul 2024

Master of Philosophy, University of Cambridge

1 Oct 201830 Jun 2019

Award Date: 26 Oct 2019

Bachelor of Arts, University of Cambridge

1 Oct 201530 Jun 2018

Award Date: 28 Jun 2018

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