Catharina Nolin Professor
Kontakt
Namn och titel: Catharina NolinProfessor
Arbetsplats: Konstvetenskap Länk till annan webbplats.
Besöksadress Rum B 346Frescativägen 22B-26
Postadress Institutionen för kultur och estetik106 91 Stockholm
Om mig
Professor Catharina Nolin har undervisat i konstvetenskap sedan 1990-talet, sedan 2008 som lektor i arkitekturhistoria med undervisning på både grundnivå och avancerad nivå.
I am Professor of Art History. I received my PhD from Stockholm University in 1999 on a dissertation about Swedish urban parks in the Nineteenth century (Till stadsbornas nytta och förlustande. Den offentliga parken I Sverige under 1800-talet, Byggförlaget 1999). I have been lecturing and supervising at the department since the 1990s on all levels, mainly on architectural history and theory, landscape architecture and critical heritage studies. Between 2009 and 2018 I was the head of Critical Heritage Studies and programme director of the department’s Master's Programme in Critical Heritage Studies.
Research profile
My core field of interest is the history of gardens and designed landscapes in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, as well as the historiography of landscape architecture during this period. I have been the project leader for and active researcher in several major research projects with external funding. For the project “Women landscape architects c. 1900–1950. Towards a professional identity” I received research grants from Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. In 2001–2002 I worked on a research project on the sculptor Carl Milles and his home Millesgården, also with research grants from Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, published in Millesgården. Arkitektur och trädgård (Atlantis 2004, with Anders Bergström). I have conducted a research project on the architect Lars Israel Wahlman as a landscape architect with research grants from Vetenskapsrådet, published in En svensk lustgårdskonst. Lars Israel Wahlman som trädgårdsarkitekt (Signum 2008). I have participated in several international publications on green urban space, women landscape architects, historiography of landscape architecture in relation to architectural history and art history, as well as heritage issues (see list of publications).
Current research projects
In my research on women landscape architects in Sweden c. 1900-1950 focus is on interpreting women’s possibilities to establish themselves and work within the professional field of landscape architecture. I am interested in questions concerning the women’s different paths to reach establishment and legitimisation, covering training, work and commissions, authorship and publications, and how their professional roles were expressed as discursive practices.
Together with associate professor Åsa Ahrland I am also currently working on a large book project, a cultural history of Swedish gardens to be published in two volumes. This project is financed by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquity, The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, The Lagersberg Foundation and the C F Lundström Foundation. A future research project is the history of playgrounds as cultural heritage and examples of material culture.
Networks and commissions
Member of the Board of Skansen open-air museum
Member of the Board of Stockholms Skönhetsråd
Member of Forum för trädgårdshistorisk forskning, gardenhistoryforum.org
Founding member of Critical Heritage Studies Network at Stockholm University, www.erg.su.se/chsn