Jennifer Marine

PhD Student


Jennifer Marine is a doctoral student in the History of Art program working under the direction of Professor Douglas Fordham. She studies nineteenth-century British art, with a focus on late Victorian painting and visual culture. Her research questions center around intersections of the history of science, technology, media studies, and gender. She is also interested in Digital Humanities and served as a Praxis Fellow in Digital Humanities in the Scholars’ Lab in the University of Virginia Library in 2021-2022. 

Before arriving at the University of Virginia, Jennifer received her M.A. with distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her dissertation engaged nineteenth-century ideas of physiological psychology with the materiality of George Frederic Watts’s portraits. She received her B.A from the University of Arizona in 2018 with a double major in Art History and French and a minor in Mathematics, graduating summa cum laude.