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Areas of research

• Early Modern European art and material culture, including cross-cultural connections 
• Home and the material culture of the Early Modern Italian domestic interior
• Cultural representations of the life stages and old age 
• Gender and aging
• Aging and aesthetics
• Materiality and object studies that explore interconnections between art history, anthropology, and sociology
• Word & Image
• Art theory and Criticism of Early Modern Europe

Brief biography

 

An award-winning teacher and researcher, Erin studies the Early Modern Italian domestic interior, focusing on the artworks and objects that surrounded families during one of the most tumultuous periods in European history. Her research appears in a number of journals and essay collections, including Renaissance Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Journal, Word & Image, Journal of Art Historiography, The Cultural Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Porcelain (Ashgate: 2010), To Have and To Hold: Marriage in Premodern Europe 1200-1700 (Toronto, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies: 2012), The Senses in Interior Design (Manchester University Press: forthcoming); Patriarchy, Honour, and Violence: Masculinities in Premodern Europe (Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies: forthcoming),  Making Space in Early Modern Europe (Bard Graduate Center: forthcoming). She is editor and contributing author of Erin J. Campbell, Stephanie R. Miller, and Elizabeth Carroll Consavari, The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticities (Ashgate: 2013) and Growing Old in Early Modern Europe: Cultural Representations (Ashgate: 2006). Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Domestic Interior, which was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, was published by Ashgate in 2015 and Routledge in 2016. She is also co-editor of A Cultural History of Furniture (General Editor, Christina Anderson), vol. II, The Middle Ages And Renaissance, 500-1500, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. She is especially proud of the recent exhibition Life Stories, at the Legacy Art Gallery and the co-edited special issue of RACAR: Approaching Home: New Perspectives on the Domestic Interior, RACAR  45.2 (Fall 2020). Her current SSHRC-supported project focuses on art and the stages of life in the early modern domestic interior in Bologna.

Selected professional achievements

Awards, grants, and fellowships

2016-2026 — SSHRC Insight Grant
2013-2014 — University of Victoria Internal Research Grant
2013 — Learning and Teaching Curriculum Development Grant
2011— Nelson Prize: Best ms submitted to Renaissance Quarterly in 2010
2010 — Faculty of Fine Arts Excellence in Teaching Award 
2009-2012 — SSHRC Standard Research Grant                                        
2009 — Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, Faculty Fellowship

Books

A Cultural History of Furniture. General Editor, Christina Anderson, vol. II, The Middle Ages and Renaissance 500-1500. Co-editor. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. 

Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Domestic Interiors. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2015; Routledge, 2016.

The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticities. Editor and contributing author. .

Growing Old in Early Modern Europe: Cultural Representations. Editor and contributing author. Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2006.

 

Special Journal Issues

Approaching Home: New Perspectives on the Domestic Interior. Guest editors Erin J. Campbell and Olivier Vallerand. RACAR 45.2 (Fall 2020).

Articles and book chapters

“The Ecology of Devotion in the Early Modern Domestic Interior,” in Colin Murray, Tianna Uchacz, and Sophie Pitman, eds, Making Space in Early Modern Europe, Bard Graduate Center. Forthcoming.

“Heated Bodies: Fireplaces and the Senses in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior,” in John Potvin, Marie-Ève Marchand, and Benoit Beaulieu, eds, The Senses and Interior Design, 17-32. Manchester University Press.

“At Home with Men: Place and the Making of Masculinities in the Early Modern Domestic Interior.” In Jacqueline Murray, ed.  Patriarchy, Honour, and Violence: Masculinities in Pre-Modern Europe, 267-295. Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2022.

“‘Multum in Parvo’: Scale and Agency in the Thorne Miniature Rooms.” In John Potvin and Marie-Ève Marchand, eds, Design and Agency, 83-95. Bloomsbury Visual Arts: 2020.

"Listening to Objects: An Ecological Approach to the Decorative Arts," Journal of Art Historiography. 11 (December 2014): 1-23.

“Art and Family Viewers in the Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Domestic Interior,” in Erin J. Campbell, Stephanie R. Miller, and Elizabeth Carroll Consavari, eds, The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticities, 107-123. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2013.

"Good Housekeeping: Objects and Agency Within the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior," in The Challenge of the Object, 45-48. Congress Proceedings, edited by G. Ulrich Grossmann and Petra Krutisch. Nuremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2013.

“‘Old Wives’ and Art in Early Modern Bologna,” in Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds, To Have and To Hold: Marriage in Premodern Europe 1200-1700, 257-278. Toronto: The Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2012.

“Prophets, Saints, and Matriarchs: Portraits of Old Women in Early Modern Italy.” Renaissance Quarterly. 63.3 (Fall 2010): 807-849. 

“Balancing Act: Displaying Imported Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Venice,” in Michael Yonan and Alden Cavanaugh, eds, The Cultural Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Porcelain, 107-118. Ashgate Publishing Ltd: 2010.

“‘Unenduring’ Beauty: Gender and Old Age in Early Modern Art and Aesthetic Theory,” in Erin Campbell, ed., Growing Old in Early Modern Europe: Cultural Representations, 154-167. Ashgate Publishing Limited: 2006.

“Creativity Across the Lifecourse? Titian, Michelangelo and Older Artist Narratives,” co-authored with Stephen Katz (Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Trent University), in Stephen Katz, Cultural Aging: Essays on Lifestyle, Lifecourse and Senior Worlds, 101-117. Broadview Press: 2005.

“Old Age and the Politics of Judgment in Titian’s Allegory of Prudence.” Word & Image 19 (Oct.-Dec. 2003), 261-270.

“The Art of Aging Gracefully: The Elderly Artist as Courtier in Early Modern Art Theory and Criticism,” Sixteenth Century Studies Journal XXXIII (Summer 2002), 321-331.

“The Gendered Paragone in Late Sixteenth-Century Art Theory: Francesco Bocchi and Pontormo's S. Lorenzo Frescoes,” Word & Image 16 (July-September 2000), 227-238.

 

Exhibitions

Life Stories. Legacy Art Gallery, Dec. 3, 2020 – April 3, 2021. Lead curator, Erin J. Campbell. Co-curators, Jaiya Anka and Holly Cecil. Exhibition of painting, photographs, textiles, ceramics, and furniture from the UVic collections; an installation by artist Elly Heise (MFA Visual Arts); four films with artists, curators, and academics from across UVic; and a website. Included a webinar with Orion Visiting Lecturer filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, an alumni engagement evening created by the Alumni engagement office, and a program of public engagement and interactive visitor engagement station, created in dialogue with Legacy staff.

Recent conference presentations

 

“The Social Life of Storage: Cupboards, Cassoni, and Credenze in the Bolognese Domestic Interior.” Renaissance Society of America Conference, Boston, March 2025.

“Portraiture, Placemaking, and Decorum.” Sixteenth Century Conference, Toronto, October 2024.

“Placemaking and Things in the Early Modern Domestic Interior: Lavinia Fontana’s Portrait of a Newborn.” Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2024.

“Gendered Viewing, Placemaking, and the Early Modern Domestic Interior: Lavinia Fontana's Portrait of a Newborn in a Cradle.” College Art Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 2024.