Caroline Anjali Ritchie
Graham Reynolds Curatorial Fellow in British Art
Caroline Anjali Ritchie is Graham Reynolds Curatorial Fellow in British Art. She is the author of two books on the work of William Blake: an academic monograph, entitled William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination: Maps, Diagrams, Networks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), and an introductory guide to Blake's art for the series 'Tate Artists,' entitled William Blake (Tate Publishing, 2024).
Caroline’s research interests include images of the terrestrial globe in eighteenth-century art and literature, small-press publishing, and the reception of Romanticism in contemporary culture. She is also working on John Constable’s engagement with literary sources, as well as working with the Fitzwilliam Museum's collections of prints and drawings more broadly.
Caroline is the Editor of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Review.
Email: cr803@cam.ac.uk
William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination: Maps, Diagrams, Networks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).
‘“Where is earth?”: Reading Global Vision and the View from Nowhere in Edward Young’s Night Thoughts and William Blake’s The Four Zoas,’ The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 64 (4), 2025 (forthcoming, 2025).
‘“An album, a miscellany, a sort of patchwork”: “Curiosity,” Genre, and Literary Quality in Early British Reviews of The Dutt Family Album (1870),’ Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, 4 (1), 2025, pp. 1-15.
‘“Symbols of Embodied Agency’: The Reception of William Blake’s Engravings for John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative (1796) in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture,’ Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, 58 (3), 2025, 30 pars.
‘London Blakeans: The Legacy of William Blake in Contemporary Small-Press and Independent Publishing Networks in London,’ Publishing History, 89, 2025, pp. 29-73,73A.
Tate Artists: William Blake (Tate Publishing, 2024).
‘Mapping Bunyan, Mapping Blake: William Blake’s (Anti-)Cartographic Imagination,’ Literary Geographies, 9 (1), 2023, pp. 69-100.
‘Diagrammatic Blake: Tracing the Critical Reception of “The Mental Traveller,”’ Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, 54 (4), 2021, 30 pars.
‘Dangerous Disorder: “Confusione” in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art Treatises,’ Journal of Art Historiography, 23, 2020.
‘Gainsborough’s Signature Style: Imitating the Master’s Strokes,’ Collections Magazine (Melbourne University), 22, 2018, pp. 75-78.
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