Dr Alexandra Solovyev

I completed my DPhil in History of Art at the University of Oxford in 2024. My doctoral thesis, titled 'Art, Archaeology, Imperialism: Western Anatolia and Its Railways in the Victorian Imagination (1854-1877)', focused on the visual cultures of the British railways constructed in Ottoman Anatolia during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. My broader research interests include British Levantine communities in the Ottoman Empire; Orientalism and Orientalist art; late Ottoman visual culture; the intersections of art, archaeology, and tourism; and the rise and popularisation of 'Islamic-style' ceramics in Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.