Current Employment
Incoming Oct 2023. Interdisciplinary Research Fellow (Tenure Track)
Centre for Environment and Biodiversity. School of Divinity, History, Philosophy, and Art History, University of Aberdeen.
Nov 2022-ongoing. Group Coordinator.
Oxford-Penn-Toronto International Doctoral Cluster in the Environmental Humanities, School of Environment, University of Toronto.
Principal Investigators: Prof. Sherry Lee (Musicology) and Dr. Alexandra Rahr (Munk School)
Sep 2021-ongoing. Postdoctoral Fellow.
Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Art History, University of Toronto.
Junior Fellow of Massey College.
Member of the University College Senior Common Room.
Project: (In)Visible Landscapes: Gender, Indigeneity, and Environment in the North American Arctic, 1850-present.
Supervisor: Prof. Mark A. Cheetham.
Professional Experience
March 2022. Visiting Scholar, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Centre, Augustana College, Illinois, U.S.
2021–ongoing. Referee Tasks. Environmental History, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Material Culture Review/Revue de la culture matérielle
Sep 2020-Aug 2021. Research Affiliate, Department of Drawing, University of Seville. Member of: The Inhabited Doñana Research Group and HUM 554 Morphology of Nature Research Group. (H2020-MSCA Seal of Excellence & Juan de la Cierva-Formación reserva).
Jan 2020-Feb 2021. Research Affiliate, Department of History of Art, University of York.
Current & Forthcoming Publications
Book
I. Gapp. A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930. Lund Humphries. Northern Lights Series. (In Press, forthcoming 2023).
Edited Works
M. A. Cheetham and I. Gapp. Eds. 2022 & 2023. “Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part I and II,” NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment).
Book Chapters
I. Gapp. “All Aboard the Nascopie: Image-Making, Colonial Modernity, and Coastal Memory in the Eastern Canadian Arctic.” Canadian Coastal Histories (L.R. Wilson Rethinking Canada and the World Series with McGill-Queen’s University Press). (Under Review)
I. Gapp. “Map-Making, Materiality, and Identity in Disko Bay.” In The Material Legacies of Nordic Empire, edited by Bart Pushaw and Thor J. Mednick. (Under Review)
I. Gapp. 2021. “An Arctic Impressionism? Anna Boberg and the Lofoten Islands.” In Mapping Impressionist Painting in Transnational Contexts, edited by Emily C. Burns and Alice Price. New York/London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003044239
I. Gapp. 2019. “A Swedish Landscape? Nature and Identity in the Painting of Gustaf Fjæstad and Helmer Osslund.” In The North as Home: Proceedings from the Nordic Research Network 2017, edited by Stefan Drechsler, Beñat Elortza Larrea, Deniz Cem-Gülen and Heidi Synnove Djuve, 94-107. London: Norvik Press.
Journal Articles
I. Gapp. “Looking South: Women Making Monuments to the British Antarctic Expedition.” Sculpture Journal. (Under Review)
I. Gapp. “Coastal Narratives and Baltic Ecotones: Painting Beaches and Boulders at the Water’s Edge.” (Under Review)
I. Gapp. “Ice in Motion: Panoramic Perspectives and Moving Pictures.” ARCTIC – Journal of The Arctic Institute of North America. (Accepted).
I. Gapp and B. Pushaw. “Mobility, Materiality, and Memory: Silas Sandgreen and Constructing Kalaaleq Cartography, ca. 1925.” Konsthistorisktidskrift Special Issue. (Accepted).
I. Gapp. 2021. “Water in the Wilderness: The Group of Seven and the Coastal Identity of Lake Superior.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes 55, no.3. DOI: 10.3138/jcs-2020-0049
I. Gapp. 2021. “A Woman in the Far North: Anna Boberg and the Norwegian Glacial Landscape.” Kunst og Kultur 104, no.2: 82-96. DOI: 10.18261/issn.1504-3029-2021-02-02
Book Reviews
I. Gapp. 2023. “Book review of Thinking like an iceberg, by Olivier Remaud (2022). Stephen Muecke, trans. Medford, MA: Polity. 180 pp. ISBN 978-1-509-55148-4.,” Polar Research 42. DOI: 10.33265/polar.v42.9249
I. Gapp. 2022. “British Art and the Environment: Changes, Challenges, and Responses since the Industrial Revolution, eds. Charlotte Gould and Sophie Mespléde,” CERCLES Reviews.
I. Gapp. 2021. “Antarctica, Art and Archive by Penny Gould.” caa.reviews. DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2021.36
M. Boden and I. Gapp. 2018. “’Whether you can affect the signs of the sky or not, you can the signs of the times’: Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud.” Journal of Victorian Culture, vcz031. DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcz031
Public Humanities
M. A. Cheetham and I. Gapp. 2023. “An Introduction to Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North – Part II,” NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment).
M. A. Cheetham and I. Gapp. 2022. “An Introduction to Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North,” NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment).
I. Gapp. 2022. “Franklin Carmichael. Grace Lake. 1931.” CanadARThistories (Open Educational Resource) through Open Art Histories and Smarthistory.
I. Gapp. 2022. “Anna Boberg and the Lofoten Fishing Industry, dedicated to International Women’s Day,” Arctic Economic Council News, March 8th, 2022.
I. Gapp. 2022. “Galvanizing Glaciology: Thoughts on an Ecocritical Art History.” Environmental History Now Blog.
I. Gapp. 2022. “Water in the Wilderness? Rethinking the Canadian Group of Seven.” NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment).
I. Gapp. 2021. “Anna Boberg: Artist, Wife, Polar Explorer.” Guest post for the Art Herstory Blog.
I. Gapp. 2021. “The Boundaries of Arctic Map-Making: Exploration, Environment and Marginalia.” Borders and Boundaries series, guest edited by Heather Green and Jonathan Luedee. NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment).
I. Gapp. 2017. “Imagining Ice – Glaciers and Icebergs in Mid-19th Century Norwegian Landscape and Hull Maritime Painting.” In Turner and the Whale, edited by Jason Edwards. History of Art Research Portal, University of York.
Selected Grants & Awards
2022 International Commission of the History of Oceanography (ICHO) Travel Fellowship.
2022 Kungliga Patriotiska Sällskapet Publication Grant, Sweden. For A Circumpolar Landscape book manuscript.
2022 Association for Art History (AAH) Scholarly Research Grant. For A Circumpolar Landscape book manuscript.
2022 Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. For the Visual Cultures in the Circumpolar North Working Group.
2022 Fridtjof Nansen’s Fond, Norway. Co-recipient alongside Tonje H. Sørensen and MaryClaire Pappas.
2022 Fritt Ord Foundation, Norway. Co-recipient alongside Tonje H. Sørensen and MaryClaire Pappas.
2022 L. Meltzers Høyskolefond, University of Bergen. Co-recipient alongside Tonje H. Sørensen and MaryClaire Pappas.
2021 Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. For the Visual Cultures in the Circumpolar North Working Group.
2021 Juan de la Cierva-Formación, Convocatoria 2020. FJC2020-044613-I. Reserve List.
2021 Association for Art History (AAH) Scholarly Research Grant.
2021 Seal of Excellence. Certificate delivered by the European Commission for the project proposal COSTERA, submitted under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions call H2020-MSCA-IF-2020. (Score: 91.4%, Certificate available upon request).
2020 The Dagmar and Nils William Olsson Visiting Scholar Award, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, U.S.
2020 Scheuerle-Zatlin International Travel Award, Nineteenth Century Studies Association, U.S.
Collaborations & Networks
2021-ongoing. Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North, Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group, University of Toronto.
Leads : Isabelle Gapp, Mark A. Cheetham, and Ivana Dizdar
Internal Group Members: Rowan Red Sky, Yasmin Nurming-Por, Matthew Farish, Melissa Gniadeck, Alexandra Rahr, Alison Smith, Rebecca Woods, Charles Stankievech
External Group Members: Amanda Boetzkes, Allison Morehead, Carmen Victor, Margaryta Golovchenko, Judith Ellen Brunton, Adam Bateman, Grace King, Hana Nikčević, Haylee Glasel
2021-ongoing. Member of International Doctoral Cluster in the Environmental Humanities, University of Toronto, University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania
Leads: Sherry Lee and Alexandra Rahr
Teaching Experience
Winter Term 2023. Course Instructor, Department of Art History, University of Toronto. Undergraduate seminar course (FAH4461) – Arctic Anthropocene? Image Cultures of Arctic Voyaging.
Autumn Term 2021. Guest Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Toronto. Graduate seminar – GeoAesthetics: Arctic Voyaging (FAH1921H) course, led by Prof. Mark A. Cheetham.
Spring Term 2021 Guest Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Toronto (Virtual). Undergraduate seminar (Feb 10th) for the Arctic Anthropocene, Arctic Voyaging course, led by Prof. Mark A. Cheetham.
Autumn Term 2020 Guest Lecturer, Department of Art History, McGill University, Montreal (Virtual). Undergraduate virtual lecture (Oct 19th) on Arctic Impressionism for Global Impressionisms course, led by Dr. Elizabeth Doe Stone.
Autumn Term 2018 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History of Art, University of York. 1st year undergrad. module, Materials of Art and Architecture.
Event Organisation
April 2023. “NiCHE-JHI Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Virtual Roundtable.” ASEH Environmental History Week. Chaired and organised alongside Mark A. Cheetham, Jessica DeWitt, and Sara Spike.
February 2023. “Landscape and Ecology in Nordic Art, 1850-1930.” Conference session, CAA 2023 Annual Conference, New York City, 15-18th February. Proposed and chaired alongside Tonje H. Sørensen (Univ. of Bergen).
October 2022. “Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North.” Conference session, UAAC-AAUC Annual Conference, University of Toronto, 27-29th October. Proposed and chaired alongside Mark A. Cheetham (Univ. of Toronto).
June 2022. “Nordic Nature: Art, Ecology, Landscape,” Three-day conference (16-18 June), University of Bergen. Organised in collaboration with MaryClaire Pappas (Indiana Univ.) and Tonje Haugland-Sorensen (Univ. of Bergen), and in partnership with KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, the University Museum of Bergen, and The Greenhouse at Univ. of Stavanger.
March 2021. “Art + Anthropocene: Culture, Climate and our Changing Planet,” Virtual Seminar Series, University of York. A four-day event across the month, organised in conjunction with the Glaciology Research Group, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York. (Originally 26-27th March 2020).
May 2019. “Nordic Art // Global Contexts,” Conference Stream, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS) 2019, Madison, WI. Organised alongside Elizabeth Doe Stone (Univ. of Virginia) and MaryClaire Pappas (Indiana Univ.).
October 2018. “The Circumpolar World, 1850-1940: From Scandinavia to North America,” University of York. Interdisciplinary workshop encompassing speakers and research from Universities of York, Leeds and Warwick.
Invited Presentations & Talks
March 2023 “Crysopheric Collaborations around the Circumpolar North,” Confronting Coloniality: Trans-Cultural Connections in the Faroe Islands and Beyond, seminar, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. In-person.
March 2023 “Galvanizing Glaciology: An Ecocritical Art History of the Cryosphere,” Remote Sensing: Ice, Instruments, Imagination Research Network, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK. Online event.
Feb 2023 “All Aboard the Nascopie: Image-Making and Coastal Memory in the Eastern Canadian Arctic,” Environmental Empires: Aesthetics, Art and the Making of Territories Lecture Series, University of Guelph, Canada. In-person.
Oct 2021 “Latitudinal Landscapes: Art and Environment in the Circumpolar North,” Changing Ideas of North seminar series, Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts, Toronto, Ontario. Online event.
Sep 2021 “Icy Peregrinations and Polar Panoramas in the Arctic,” Ice (St)Ages Symposium – Play with Senses: Aesthetic Communication and the Performativity of Ice, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald/Australian National University, Canberra. Online event.
May 2021 “The Myth of Wilderness and Ecology of Lake Superior’s North Shore,” Magnetic North. Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940 Exhibition. SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany. Online lecture series.
May 2021 “The Cartographic Arctic: Exploration, Empire and Environmental History,” Global British Art Studies: New Directions & Early Career Perspectives Workshop, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Online event.
Jan 2020 “Latitudinal Landscapes: Art and Environment in the Circumpolar North,” TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series, University of Oxford.
Public Talks & Press (featured)
2022 “NiCHE Conversations 3.2: Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North with Isabelle Gapp,” Nature’s Past: Canadian Environmental History Podcast – NiCHE Conversations, S03E02.
2022 “Isabelle Gapp on Ecocritical Art History,” Environmental History Now (EHN), July 29, 2022.
2022 “Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Working Group,” Jackman Humanities Institute Newsletter, April 13, 2022.
2022 “Grappling with Colonial Arctic Art History with Isabelle Gapp,” The Arctic Institute Bookshelf Podcast, S02E01.
2022 “NiCHE Conversations 2.13: Isabelle Gapp,” Nature’s Past: Canadian Environmental History Podcast – NiCHE Conversations, S02E13.
2022 “Sunlight and Showers, article courtesy of the AGO Insider,” London Art Week Digital, March 10th, 2022.
2022 “Sunlight and Showers,” AGO Insider, March 9th, 2022.
Selected Conference Presentations
March 2023 “Northern Environments and Northern Borderlands,” Roundtable with Glenn Iceton, Heather Green, Finis Dunaway, Mica Jorgensen, Mark Stoller, Andreas Womelsdorf, and Philip Wight, American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), Boston, U.S.A. In-person event.
Feb 2023 “Exploration, Exhibition, and Ephemera: The Arctic Panorama in the Nineteenth Century,” Tracing Arctic Voices in Art, Literature, Visual and Material Culture, c.1750-1914, University of Tromsø. Online event.
June 2022 “Looking South: Memories, Monuments, and the Terra Nova Expedition,” The Worlds of British Sculpture: Sculpture and Empire at St Paul’s Cathedral, c.1796-1916. Virtual event.
June 2022 “Mobility, Materiality, and Memory: Constructing Kalaaleq Cartography, ca. 1925,” co-presented with Dr. Bart Pushaw (Univ. of Copenhagen), Mediated Arctic Geographies Conference, Tampere University, Finland. Hybrid event.
March/April 2022 “Icy Peregrinations and the Performative Arctic Panorama,” in Polar Humanities: Ice, Time, Media, Indigeneity at the C19: Reconstructions biennial conference, Coral Gables, U.S.A.
March 2022* “Landscape and Labour: Anna Boberg and the Lofoten Fishing Community,” Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) Annual Conference, Rochester, New York. *Cancelled due to Covid-19, originally March 2020.
Oct 2021 “Ice in Motion: Panoramic Perspectives and Moving Pictures,” University Art Association of Canada (UAAC/AAUC) Annual Conference. Online event.
Aug 2021 “A Wilderness Experience: Art and Identity on Lake Superior’s North Shore,” STREAMS: Transformative Environmental Humanities, KTH Stockholm, Sweden. Online event, originally August 2020.
June 2021 “Anna Boberg and Arctic Landscapes,” Breaking the Ice Ceiling Webinar Series, The Arctic Institute: Centre for Circumpolar Security Studies, U.S. Online Event.
April 2021 “An Arctic Impressionism: Anna Boberg and the Lofoten Landscape,” in Provincialising Impressionism panel at the Association for Art History (AAH) Annual Conference, UK. Online event.
March 2021 “Mapping and Materiality: Inuit Cartography in Greenland,” in ID:75 – Arctic Voices in Art and Literature panel at Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW), Portugal. Online event.
March 2021 “Chicago 1896: Swedish Art in the Midwest,” in Scandinavia on the World Stage: International Exhibitions and Reception in the 19thCentury panel at Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) Annual Conference. Online event.
Committees & Affiliations
2021-ongoing Member of the Editorial Committee for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)
2020-2023 Member of Web and Publicity Committee, Nineteenth Century Studies Association
2019-2020 Committee Secretary for the York-Anglo Scandinavian Society
Other Qualifications
2021 Indigenous Canada, University of Alberta (MOOC) – Passed (90% course average). Certificate available upon request.
Languages
English (mother tongue), Swedish (fluent or bilingual proficiency), German, Norwegian and Danish (reading).
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